RazCat

I decided I need to use this blog more often, and not just for updates on projects, that’s what filters are for. No, I want to get a bit more personal, without being too personal, because i feel that if I share a bit more than a few comps for a school project, it’ll show that I’m a person.

I like being a person. So I shall start sharing a bit of my life in wordpress. Do Employers like seeing people with personalities? i hope so.
Traveling to my parents house -

We, the other passengers and I, arrive from Rochester and hang out for awhile waiting for the back-up at the terminal to let us into a gate. I go in and find my gate, say okay, i’m going to get some coffee… tracked back down the terminal to a shop that has coffee when I hear an announcment: “attention passengers for 1109 to Raleigh-Durham, as soon as the connecting flight 33 from Rochester New York arrives we will start the boarding process…” I’m standing there looking at my arms thinking, I am here, right? I have been her for 5 minutes… what the hell? So I bought my snack ..there was no coffee…., and head back over to the gate, where, surprisingly, they haven’t opened the gate yet to board. So I ask another person waiting, “what are we waiting for.. i don’t think I heard the announcment clearly…”

“I think we’re waiting for a connecting flight from Rochester”

“Um…. flight 33? I’m from that flight… I got off the plane about 5 minutes ago.”

He shrugged, with an “I don’t know”, so I tuned my ears towards the lady beind the desk talking to an older woman who was about to serve hell, i don’t know… but I overheard that we were now waiting for the second flight attendant who wasn’t there yet. Then it became, a second flight attendant who was at the airport but isn’t here yet… finally, it’s 9:50, flight was supposed to leave 5 minutes before, we get an announcement saying “sorry for the delay, we’re still waiting on our 2nd flight attendant, who is now on her way with her supervisor. turns out this was a very last minute change for her and she was not aware that she had to come. She will be here shortly.”

so we wait, finally around 10 past 10 we board. we totally skip the boarding “process” and do a “we will just start boarding, have your passes ready”. meanwhile, people were getting confused because there was a gate change for another flight to go to our gate. while, we haven’t left yet. it was crazy. while the door was still open we heard some loud screaming through the gate. not sure what it was about exactly, I was trying to watch Law and Order…

I’m in the plane, and we’re waiting… had to wait for 10-15 more things of luggage to come over. finally got pushed back from that gate after waiting. the air filtering starts and we stop. a passenger goes up the flight attendant and she’s talking, talking, talking. attendant calls the captain, calls the gate, captain comes on the speakers, “attention passangers, a passenger has noticed what you are all probably noticing, is the smell of exhaust coming in through the vents. this is a very normal occurance, especially here because of all the planes taking off and landing, that it is only normal for a little smell to come through the vents while we’re still on the ground. However, she has requested to get off the plane so we are going back to the gate.”

so we wait to get clearance back to the gate, drop her off, talking to peoples from the terminals, have to get her luggage off the plane. finally waiting to get one of the carts to push us backwards. meanwhile, it is currently 11:45. we should be landing in NC by now. I knew this because I was watching law and order, then house, while in the air i was watching iron chef…

during all this I couldn’t take out my cell phone because the door was either closed, or i didn’t know how long it was going to stay open.

So mom and dad are at the airport since 11:45, and freaking out because the TV screens were showing that we were “on time” until around 12:15 when they took the flight off the screen… since,according to the computers, it was already “there” but wasn’t. no one updated the computers with our delays. and of course, being Raleigh, a smaller airport than, let’s say, JFK, no one was around. Security was there but they were useless apparently. the Jet blue and other plane offices and “info” stations were closed. My parents tried calling jet blue on their cell phone, and they were just as useless.

for awhile, we did not exist.

finally someone said out loud, “they are here!” and a minute or two later I came down the escalator. Yes.. I was drawn into a very large hug because apparently people thought the worst.

that is my amazing travel story. enjoy.