Still Traveling...but alls well that ends well

DOG TIRED DEFINED The Dog and Cat Show

It has been a while since I posted anything of signifigance. I told you all I would be home Wednesday night. Well guess what... I lied. well not really. We landed at JFK in Pew York. yes I spelled the word correctly, at 3:35 PM Valentines Day. It was anything but a sweetheart of a time. It was looking good because we had cut 30 minutes off the trip from Prague to New York. Well 6:45 we were allowed to get off the plane. It was 8:45 when our bags came to the claim area, along with bags from nine other international flights. Customs officials were very nice. They told us to get our bags and keep moving and do not stop, just hand us your declaration form and move on. OK next time I want to smuggle something in I know to do it during an ice storm.



OK now it is about five and one half hours after we landed and two hours after my flight to ATL had taken off so I went to search for a Delta representative. Believe it or not I found one almost immediately and no one was in line. Oh great my luck is changing. NOT. She informed me she was closing and someone would open the counter the next morning at 8:00 AM. I asked what I was suposed to do since I just came in on an international flight. She told me where to go, not there Tony, but just as bad. I was in terminal 4 with three heavy suitcases of my dirty drawers and socks, two carry ons, a heavy coat and the begining of an attitude, after being informed to go upstairs catch the air train to terminal 3, then back down stairs to ticketing. Sounds easy enough, OK, but it is snowing and wind gust of just under 100 MPH, did I mention I lied occasionally? Well I got as far as the door when an irrate Delta agent informed me no one else was allowed in the building. I asked where to go, well to make a long story short, I visited four more Delta locations only to be told there was nothing they could do, in a very rude way and eventually Robin got an answer from one of the Delta Direct lines that all they could offer was standby since we missed our flight and there were no confirmed seats available until Sunday, which by the way is when the next snow storm is due to return. Not accepting this, we stood in yet another line until three employees anounced they were tired and going home, they had been on duty since 11:00AM. OK right I understand work rules and your shift ends and you have to do as you are told, but don't announce it to 200 people that have been traveling for 24 hours.



We were dog tired so we threw in the towel got a cab to a hotel and crashed. After getting some rest we rented a car and started driving home to ATL. Along about Baltimore I finally got through to Delta reservations. We had been calling for the last 12 hours and not getting through. I got lucky after 45 minutes on hold and a voice said may I help you. Well it scared me and I droped the phone but luckily I did not lose my connection. I was checking to see if by chance I could get a flight out of Richmond to ATL. None on Thursday but they had one on Friday at 6:45 AM, but there was a catch; first you went to Cleveland then Cincinatti, Nashville then ATL, well that would not work for two reaasons, one if I kept driving I would be home before that flight finally got to ATL, so we checked various cities and finally BINGO<>

Dog tired defined by the cat: