{"id":90,"date":"2005-02-22T21:46:19","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T02:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/22\/flight-trouble\/"},"modified":"2005-03-08T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T03:04:56","slug":"flight-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/02\/22\/flight-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told a bunch of people that I was leaving at 3:30 for my 5:30 flight&#8230; I didn&#8217;t think too much of it&#8230; nobody said anything&#8230; I&#8217;ve done it lots of times before&#8230;.. right?  Hey, what&#8217;s all this fog doing in my brain?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>left home at 3:30 for a 5:35 flight<\/li>\n<li>made deposit at ATM<\/li>\n<li>mailed express mail package<\/li>\n<li>3:45, called sister from exit 30<\/li>\n<li>got on 287<\/li>\n<li>got on 24<\/li>\n<li>small tie up getting onto 78<\/li>\n<li>drove under &quot;Welcome to Newark Airport&quot; sign at 4:30, &#8220;An hour before the flight, a little tight, but no problem.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>got parking ticket at 4:37 (so says the ticket)<\/li>\n<li>parked<\/li>\n<li>walked into Terminal<\/li>\n<li>Peed<\/li>\n<li>Found &quot;Continental Elite&quot; checkin station<\/li>\n<li>Found &quot;All You Riff-Raff&quot; checkin station<\/li>\n<li>Got in line at 4:58<\/li>\n<li>Checked in at 5:05<\/li>\n<li>No wait, the flight is at 5:20. They had changed it a month ago and notified me but I hadn&#8217;t groked that.<\/li>\n<li>Fuck.<\/li>\n<li>Booked for 7am flight the next day<\/li>\n<li>Left parking lot at 5:25 in a crushed daze.<\/li>\n<li>5:45 Got in bizarro argument with mother where she kept trying to<br \/>\n  manipulate my unhappiness. Hung up on her.<\/li>\n<li>5:50 called sister<\/li>\n<li>5:55 called S.H. with change of plans<\/li>\n<li>6:00 ate greasy gross dinner at Popeyes Chicken, enjoying how much I<br \/>\n  disliked the food.<\/li>\n<li>6:30 moped in restaurant<\/li>\n<li>6:45 wandered Hudson Mall aimlessly (and realized that it had 2 Foot<br \/>\n  Locker stores less than 200 feet apart&#8230; that insanity got my mind off my problem  for a couple minutes)<\/li>\n<li>7:00 drove back to Bumpkettstown<\/li>\n<li>8:45 Got there after sucky sucky drive. I almost fell asleep on the<br \/>\n  highway&#8230; (which is why I can&#8217;t go to parties in NYC&#8230;. On 2 different<br \/>\n  occations I&#8217;ve taken &gt; 4 hrs to get home because I kept needing to pull over<br \/>\n  and nap.)<\/li>\n<li>9:45 bed time. I&#8217;ve got to leave for the airport at 4 am.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told a bunch of people that I was leaving at 3:30 for my 5:30 flight&#8230; I didn&#8217;t think too much of it&#8230; nobody said anything&#8230; I&#8217;ve done it lots of times before&#8230;.. right? Hey, what&#8217;s all this fog doing in my brain? left home at 3:30 for a 5:35 flight made deposit at ATM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}