You Gotta Love Traveling

Sorry I skipped out on yall the end of last week. Got busy in Denver then United Airlines managed to send my blood pressure through the roof. Now, normally I don't fly United, I am an AA sort of gal, but United has a hub in Denver and you damned near can't get other flights in and out. So I was in on AA but out on United.

So I finished class early and thought I'd head to the airport and see if I could get on an earlier flight. So I go to the electronic checkin (I never check a bag for a two-day trip!) and it won't check me in. So I pick up the phone as instructed and the attendant tells me they need to ID me. Okay, I say, then send someone over. OH NOOOOOOOOOO, I've got to stand in line. Huh??????? YOU have the problem and want to ID me so I have to stand in line - something I never, EVER do when I'm flying AA??????? So a live attendent sends me to a line where I wait an hour before reaching the counter for the person there to tell me I'm in the wrong line.

I am now waaaaayyyyyy more than annoyed, but hey, you can't complain in an airport (God forbid) or no one will let you fly. It's like the Travel Mafia. So I stand in yet ANOTHER line for 30 minutes to find out that the entire mess is because they are looking for a terrorist with the same birthdate as mine - a middle-eastern MALE. Oh, I can see where the confusion might be. After all, middle-eastern males and blonde-haired, blue-eyed German women with D cups are confused for each other every day.

So of course, by the time I had to wait in all the lines, the seats on the earlier flight were all gone and I got to hang out in the airport for three more hours. To add insult to injury, there wasn't even an internet connection in United's cheap-ass terminall and no T-Mobile either. Have I mentioned that I hate United Airlines??????

Now, mind you, I don't have a problem with them looking for terrorists - by all means, please do. However, if one has the misfortune to be born on the same day as a terrorist, shouldn't an attendent come out and ID them? Why should customers have to wait through ridiculous lines over something they can't control. Not to mention that there's a HUGE problem with their tactic. Do you really think the terrorist would have waited in line??????????