Well, mom's doing well. Heh.
New topic/rant.
My father has been planning to move to California for a while now for various reasons, but is putting it off until after Christmas, now. So I have to find a plane ticket. Fair enough.
Except that Expedia says the cheapest flight I can get is $700, and it's a 13 hour flight with a transfer in Boston. That's through JFK. If I fly through LaGuardia, it's $740 at 11 hours. This is to fly to Montana, I should mention. I didn't bother checking Newark as it's simply to far for me to bother.
So now I have two evils from which to choose. I've had horrible experiences with both, so I'm really in the mood to rant now >_>
JFK is interesting in that it's accessable only from the MOST GODAWFUL ROAD EVER: The Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, NY. More like Van Shyte Expressway. But anyway, I was six years old flying to Dublin by myself. Taxi got stuck in a traffic jam that lasted for several ****ing hours, making me late for my flight. I get to the airport hours late for the flight. "Go back home and come back tomorrow when the next flight leaves." "Can I make a transfer at London or something?" "No, go home." I knew this was BS as I had flown with the parents at least once per year prior to this and was very airport-savvy for a 6 year old, but whatever. Bah. Didn't have a cell phone either - 'twas 1992. So then I started crying since I couldn't get their ****ing payphone to work, but thankfully a stranger made it work for me and I had my parents pick me up.
The next time my family flew, we naturally flew through LaGuardia. This was from New York to Montana. Except it was winter. We were caught in a "snow storm" that "dumped" a whopping two inches of snow. The airport literally shut down. WTF. Apparently, their de-icing equipment wasn't working fast enough or something. So they kept on delaying our flight an hour at a time, for a total of 10 or 11 hours. I kid you not! We did get out of there that day, which was better than JFK.
This next incident was, once again, at LGA flying to Montana. Flight was delayed for an hour or so, but that's ok. Grab a breakfast with mom to kill time. Get backa half hour later to find the plane had already left. WTF LAME OMFG. I specifically remember mom KILLING the poor guy at the desk, so we actually got a couple hundred WHOOP DEE DOO FREQUENT FLYER MILES OMG!!!! We ended up staying with my aunt in Seattle for a night (delay caused us to miss connection from Seattle to Montana).
Then, I moved to Montana. So all flights were from Montana to New York. Maybe I'd have better luck? No.
I was flying into JFK with a transfer in Atlanta. Apparently, there was a security scare at JFK, so all incoming flights were cancelled. Spent a night in Atlanta. At least the airline paid for the hotel and even gave me a lovely food voucher, but that had nothing to do with JFK. Really, it was Delta picking up JFK's slack.
So now, I have to choose between these two awful airports and pay an arm and a leg for the pleasure. Ugh.
!!!!!!!!!! Then I packed some clothes. After that I was bored so I looked at myself in a mirror and marveled over my beauty. Then I went online and did some unsavory things and then started my routine of flipping through NS forums in my favorites mindlessly. Good day.
After that I had lunch, which for me was cereal without the milk. Then I went on NS, played with myself, etc. I began to feel hungry later in the day. I think I had hamburgers but I'm not sure. Now I'm hungry again so I might fix myself sherbert later tonight. Notice how I never said I got dressed.
