1. LTI travel curse:
Picture the scene....I get up really early, get to station really early, only to be told that airport train running late, go get the (v slow) Manchester train and connect. OK, that shouldn't be too bad. Ring Kay (who is catching train at Dore) "get on the next train the one for picadilly". Kay does....I'm sat on Manchester train just outside Sheffield when Kay rings me from airport train - speeding across the pennines. Then ticket guy says "this train is going to be late getting to Manchester cos we stopped outside Sheffield to let the airport train past" grrrrrrrrr
So I get to airport 40 minutes after Kay to find that the baggage carousels are broken and checkin is several miles long grrrrrrrrrrr
Everything after that goes fine - and even though we checked in 45 mins apart spookily our luggage found each other and came out side by side (and hand in hand) in Chicago ahhhhhhhhh
Snowy Chicago, we acted out several scenes from Tom Hanks' Terminal then we try to get out of Chicago but United Airlines staff had other plans. Can't do automated checkin (no record of our reservation), go to manual checkin, where all staff have their special award for indifferent customer service, Kay's luggage label breaks the printer, I'm called Mrs Lousy and we have to wait whilst the 4 techies reboot the label printer. So 25 mins checkin (an all time record). We get sent to the front of the security queue cos our boarding passes are marked "SSSS". We thought this meant we'd been "Specially Selected for Superior Service" but actually it turned out we'd been "Specially Selected for Strip Search" This took even longer because they feared either my sunglasses or my hairbrush were deadly weapons....
Flight to San Antonio was fine, although plane was very very small and at times thought it was a rollercoaster, and once again I got the extra leg room that I so desperately needed, unlike the 6' Texan folded into the seat in front.
Finally arrived in San Antonio about lunchtime (a balmy 66 deg)
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