Random Rants

[Graeme]

@goosehd thanks! I cleared check-in about half an hour ago. Luckily they had a seat for me.

Now I've just got to keep awake for a few hours until I board.

[goosehd]

@Graeme Safe travels and enjoy your trip.

[Graeme]

Thanks @goosehd. I landed a couple of hours ago, and am now on the train North to see my father.

[Matt]

I hate summer.

[goosehd]

@Matt Isn’t New Mexico 10 months of summer per year?

[Matt]

Its really nice here most of the time. 70s/50s and dry. June, July and August are hot but still dry. High desert. I’d like to move to Santa Fe or Taos. 10-15 degrees colder there with real winters.

[Jett129]

@Matt Currently in the process of planning a potential trip to your neck of the woods in October,after the Balloon Festival. Might want to ask for recommendations on places to stay,eat,and things to do etc.

[Matt]

Awesome. We should def get together.

[Jett129]

@Matt That would be really great. Also once my plans get solidified I was going to reach out to Adam,and see if our paths could finally cross.

[mclaincausey]

Fuck United Airlines with a bundle of rebar.

After going to the San Diego airport twice yesterday for flights that got cancelled, and I suspect they knew were unlikely to occur for various reasons I won’t get into, I book the only option fucking two days out and get on the standby they offer for a flight this morning. I’m second in line there. But I can’t get a boarding pass to get through security because my backup flight is >24 hours out. How does this happen? This is the third goddamn time they’ve made me go to the airport for nothing in two days. I had to book an emergency room last night. In what world is this sensible or acceptable cos it ain’t this one.

I have to work through a travel agent so the obvious move of refunding and choosing an alternative one way flight is in her hands while I wait.

[pechelman]

If there's one thing I don't miss about Denver it's United. They've gotten progressively worse to where they're about on-par with Frontier for me and I won't fly on them unless there are no other options. Really sorry about the headache getting home/out of San Diego.

[mclaincausey]

Thanks man. I was a Southwest guy but shifted for international flights. Those are kind of the only options here for flexibility if you prefer direct flights.

Both have shit the bed prodigiously of late.

I really miss Northwest when I lived in Minneapolis and wish Delta were viable in Denver.

[pechelman]

Yup. I feel your pain. Hope this gets sorted fast and you can get out successfully.
I suppose if it's still terrible out of SD, maybe your agent can get you a car to drive to LAX where there could be more options?
Had to do that once myself a long time ago to get back to Denver.

[mclaincausey]

Thanks—I got lucky and made a standby.

The far flung geography and limited public transit of SoCal are not ideal. I was checking airports all the way to LAX with no luck. I am so grateful to have been at the top of the standby list. What a shit show!

[ShaymenFX]

Just laughing at the fact that this thread has 11,857 posts! Nothing quite unites people of the world like a good old rant! Being a middle aged man I'm getting increasingly partial to a good old rant myself! My wife often refers to me as Victor Meldrew. For those from outside of the UK and partial to a good old rant look up Victor Meldrew and One Foot in the Grave. A brilliant sitcom about a grumpy old man.

[Giles]

I was possibly middle-aged when I created this thread.....

[Twistlock]

Want to post something but get error msgs all the time. Lets see if this one goes through.

[Twistlock]

It did, wtf...

[goosehd]

@Giles said in Random Rants:

I was possibly middle-aged when I created this thread.....

...judging from some of your antics and joie de vivre, I would have guessed you were still in your 30's.

[neph93]

@goosehd well played sir. Old skool burn