Random Rants
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@AdamC is already on it–these guys are good! thanks Adam!
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and it's here!!
thanks @AdamC you can release the one you had saved
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Thanks–me too. I really wanted a backup and a slightly larger one
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@mclaincausey Glad this had a happy ending! Was it just a driver error?
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simple mistake! just off by a house and nthe gentleman next store signed. I thought they usually ask for your name which is why I went to something nefarious but that was not the case
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Same here. A lesson, no matter how damning the circumstances may at first appear, there may be a simple, non-nefarious explanation.
I won't go so far as to say my (nonexistent) faith in humanity is restored, but that would've been the first shipping SNAFU in my IH journey, so I am very pleased it has worked out.
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Man…. United didn’t bother with Crisco, much less a reach around.
We’re flying to Dubrovnik, Croatia, on my wife’s dream vacation of many years to tour Dalmatia. We had a 3 hour layover built into our itinerary in Newark. There are only a couple of direct flights from there each week. We are traveling with a 20 month old. We did our part.
They had us on the tarmac for 3 hours. Second consecutive United leg I’ve been on where this has occurred. (I am being literal, return flight from Philly and outbound to Newark both 3 hours with a baby on a tarmac). I get it, weather happens, and don’t travel through these airports in the summer if possible.
I run across the concourse full speed, blistering my heel and rubbing a layer of skin off my lumbar as I’m carrying a bunch of bags on my back. Of course the arrival and departure gates are as far from one another as they literally could have been. Get to the gate and am looking at the plane with the jetway retracted for 20 minutes while they refuse to let us on.
Shitty service the whole time as a series of continued fuckups occurs, starting with the app indicating our bags were on their way to baggage claim, making us leave the secure area, where we learn our bags will in fact go to Dubrovnik per usual even though the app lied (getting someone on the phone or getting help in person is a several hour wait at this point). In the end this may have been a happy accident because we wound up getting in a much shorter line to rebook. That of course was a shit show, and took an act of Congress to get our daughter’s trans-Atlantic seats sorted without their trying to charge us for a seat we had purchased already (I’m still showing her as a lap baby so we’re not done with that battle in all likelihood).
Wind up getting to nyc midnight by train last night because we had no other options but to stay here as everything was booked in Newark. All told, a 24 hour travel day and not one hot meal, no clothes, god knows where our luggage is, no accountability from the airline that put us in this mess, and we’re flying through Frankfurt tonight, missing well over a day and paid-for lodging while having to pay out of pocket for lodging and travel expenses to make up for United sucking ass.
Not good, United. This is a trip we have had our eyes on for years and it got off unnecessarily to an unimaginably terrible start. We are going to rally and make the best of it, but this should not have happened, and you should have been remotely accountable and sympathetic instead of brusque, entitled, incompetent, and rude.
Not really many options in Denver, but they’ve left us no choice but to think about Delta or American (Southwest man here but we need an international airline and Brandi has standardized on these undeserving rats).
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That is indeed a hell of a rant @mclaincausey I hope that is the worst part of your dream trip by far, but I'll ask the question we're all wondering… How much Iron Heart is in that bag headed who knows where?
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@mclaincausey Here's hoping that it's all uphill from here. There's a reason I try to avoid US carriers when flying to the States.
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Thanks folks! I’m wearing 777N because I wear my heaviest stuff when I travel cos planes can be chilly and they take up space. I also have a gray mock twist work shirt for the travel:)
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There has to be a way for you to be compensated by the airline for all of that. What an awful experience.
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You’d think, but it’s United. They’re pretty brutal! Retail therapy. I was just going for socks and underwear since I don’t know where my luggage is, but I added some completely redundant (in light of having worn Vans slip ons) bluish charcoal gray Pumas to backfill my usual Sambas that got trashed.
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FFS, that's a rant and a half. Have you had the airline "Karen/Kevin" complain because your kid is fussy yet. I think that would be about the only other thing that could top that entire situation.
I got the old stink eye one time because our baby was crying…as how dare you even travel and ruin my experience with your child...
Fun times...
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Hattie has been a saint and an inspiration for her grouchy parents. My wife just snapped at some strangers. I winced.
Here we are about 3 hours in on the EWR tarmac yesterday when Hattie finally fell asleep. I failed to mention we were also 45 minutes on the Denver tarmac, guess that just faded into the suck
hat is from my wife, her client Crestron is a sponsor of an F1 team nbd. I’ll be on her trying to convert more significant privileges from that particular relationship
But lemons into lemonade, a great morning in Manhattan.
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There's an old photography adage…Take the picture the moment you see it,because the next moment it changes. The last picture of Hattie and your wife on the carousel is beyond precious. You 100% nailed the wonderful interaction between the two of them. What a great,great shot. You have to print it. @mclaincausey
