Luck of the Numbers
Wow, so as a repeat of last year this time. I am once again waiting here in the munich airport and can you believe it, i'm almost back... almost.
Have you ever hear the phrase "tired out of your mind:? I don't know, maybe you have, but that seems to be the best phrase to use right now even if i ddi make it up. I started today out of tulsa of course and i was planning on taking at 1030 am flight to chicago. Rumor had it that there were some sick nasty storms there. Like really freakin sick nasty, so my flight was delayed and therefore i missed my flight from chi-town to munich (my first scheduled transatlantic flight of the day). So my flight was delayed about 2 hours.... as time went by, they continued to delay this flight... so much actually that i missed my next flight out of chi-town, my 1st rescheduled flight this one being to frankfurt . so, i also missed this one (2nd missed transatlantic flight of the day). I chatted it up with the desk dude for a bit and he rerouted me to denver (yea, that's the opposite direction) in hopes of getting on a flight out of there. (i was scheduled to arrive at prague at 8 am monday morning, and this flight (my 2nd rescheduled transatlantic flight of the day and my 3rd overall was to get i Prague at 5pm on monday. with a 5 hour layover in denver.
Now, i love the wonderful airport in Denver as much as the next guy, but dernit, I wasn't really looking forward to it. So I got to Denver no problem and started walking around. I wanted to see if there was another option for me there to get over here earlier a bit more. So I walked around and saw, to my bewildered eyes, a flight that left 3 hours earlier than my frankfurt flight that flew to Munich (my original destination mind you). Yes, this would be my 3rd rescheduled transatlantic flight and 4th overall). I went and asked the lady if this would be a possibility and she said, "Ok, pick a number between 1 and 354." So i immediately, without hesitation blurted out, quite loudly mind you, 159." She was absolutely stupified because that's the exact number that she was thinking of. So I was able to get on the flight. The flight was 10 hours and a big ball of suck. And now I am in Munich with my lucky number 159 (it's never failed me to this day), waiting for my flight. And can you believe it that I only missed my original flight to Prague by like half an hour. That's pretty awesome actually, considering the ordeal they put me through. So... i'm gonna get home only about 4 hours later than i had originally planned at the beginning of the day on sunday. So... that's cool, and no problem, except that I slept about 5 minutes on my 10 hour flight and now I am tired out of my mind. That's really all i got to say about that right now. I hope your flights turn out to be more relaxing.
ps.Oh yea, and when i got to munich, i definitely gave the lady at the information desk the "You too" phrase when she wished me a good flight. I'm tired. I'm gonna take a small nap now. And I hope i wake up before my plane boards. Bye
ok, made it home safe. thanks
Have you ever hear the phrase "tired out of your mind:? I don't know, maybe you have, but that seems to be the best phrase to use right now even if i ddi make it up. I started today out of tulsa of course and i was planning on taking at 1030 am flight to chicago. Rumor had it that there were some sick nasty storms there. Like really freakin sick nasty, so my flight was delayed and therefore i missed my flight from chi-town to munich (my first scheduled transatlantic flight of the day). So my flight was delayed about 2 hours.... as time went by, they continued to delay this flight... so much actually that i missed my next flight out of chi-town, my 1st rescheduled flight this one being to frankfurt . so, i also missed this one (2nd missed transatlantic flight of the day). I chatted it up with the desk dude for a bit and he rerouted me to denver (yea, that's the opposite direction) in hopes of getting on a flight out of there. (i was scheduled to arrive at prague at 8 am monday morning, and this flight (my 2nd rescheduled transatlantic flight of the day and my 3rd overall was to get i Prague at 5pm on monday. with a 5 hour layover in denver.
Now, i love the wonderful airport in Denver as much as the next guy, but dernit, I wasn't really looking forward to it. So I got to Denver no problem and started walking around. I wanted to see if there was another option for me there to get over here earlier a bit more. So I walked around and saw, to my bewildered eyes, a flight that left 3 hours earlier than my frankfurt flight that flew to Munich (my original destination mind you). Yes, this would be my 3rd rescheduled transatlantic flight and 4th overall). I went and asked the lady if this would be a possibility and she said, "Ok, pick a number between 1 and 354." So i immediately, without hesitation blurted out, quite loudly mind you, 159." She was absolutely stupified because that's the exact number that she was thinking of. So I was able to get on the flight. The flight was 10 hours and a big ball of suck. And now I am in Munich with my lucky number 159 (it's never failed me to this day), waiting for my flight. And can you believe it that I only missed my original flight to Prague by like half an hour. That's pretty awesome actually, considering the ordeal they put me through. So... i'm gonna get home only about 4 hours later than i had originally planned at the beginning of the day on sunday. So... that's cool, and no problem, except that I slept about 5 minutes on my 10 hour flight and now I am tired out of my mind. That's really all i got to say about that right now. I hope your flights turn out to be more relaxing.
ps.Oh yea, and when i got to munich, i definitely gave the lady at the information desk the "You too" phrase when she wished me a good flight. I'm tired. I'm gonna take a small nap now. And I hope i wake up before my plane boards. Bye
ok, made it home safe. thanks
posted by Zach Barnes at 11:18 PM
1 Comments:
"You, too"?! Hahahaha, that is great! Glad you're back in CZ and enjoying some yeller accentuation. :-) Welcome back time in Norman has gone well and I'm enjoying all the festivities and new people. But man writing a dissertation sucks. It's no fun at all. Well, maybe a little, but it's still a grind. That's about all from here. My advisor keeps pushing back my finish date (probably b/c I am writing so slow...) Now we think mid-Oct. So I'm thinking Europe is out this fall. Maybe in summer? Or maybe there'll be this really cheap flight from Prague to Santiago. You know. You could come to me. Ok, enjoy the next few days b/f your classes start back again. Peace!
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