a terrible, horrible, no good very bad fourteen hours
whines, karma, the curse of the “middle” class
In list form, for (ha) minimal whining:
- Sick.
- Have upwards of 50 mosquito bites.
- Flight (Charlotte, NC to New York, NY) delayed due to bad weather; sit on runway in plane for two hours.
- Instead of being rerouted from La Guardia, which closes for four hours each night, flight is simply cancelled
- US Airways “not responsible for passenger accommodations,” spend 62$ at Ramada Inn for 4 hours sleep as am not allowed to stay in the airport overnight.
- Phone breaks.
- Arrive in New York; cab ride from LGA to Clinton Hill home takes ~40 minutes, including the first 4 during which cabbie yells at dispatcher, trying to get her to explain to him how to get to Clinton Hill, and final 2 during which cabbie yells at me for not tipping him more than 10% (I’m usually nicer, I swear).
- Arrive home to find hefty bill previously thought resolved actually totally unresolved
- and glass souvenir completely shattered in luggage, beyond repair
- and no one home to complain to.
In conclusion: I urge friends and readers (and even enemies) not to fly US Airways, at least not into New York.
Also: I am committed to doing some good deeds in the next few days to make up for what appears to be absolutely terrible karma on my part. If you need a good deed done, please e-mail me. I would be happy to assist. I’m nice, I swear!
Granted, this was the fourteen hours following a fantastic nine day vacation with my fantastic family in the Caribbean, which I will relive for you in words and pictures over the coming days. I feel it is best to work backwards like this, so I do not relive awful fourteen hours in a few days and feel bad all over again.
Some thoughts: this is repentance for great vacation? Or larger issue: generally charmed life, in comparison to world population? I mean, in times of trouble at least I have the dear, dear internet (TGFTI).
So, stay tuned. I know I’ve said I’ll be updating more frequently in the past and it’s turned out to be quite a bald-faced lie, but it’s true this time. Really, I wouldn’t lie – I don’t need that kind of karma.
respectfully posted by Susie Cagle at 7:56 PM
1 Comments:
hey dude. welcome back. feel better. get blogging. let's do lunch. etc.
-d
p.s.: oh wait, did i never tell you about the awesomely effective, amazingly simple, only vaguely painful home remedy for mosquito bites?
it sounds like bullshit, but i swear to you that it works:
(1) turn on the hot water in the sink/tub/whatever. wait until it gets steamy/scaldy.
(2) take the mosquito-bitten portion of your bod, and flash it under the rushing hot water for like one 14th of a millisecond.
(3) eat a cupcake.
step three is optional. anyway, that's it. you'll experience a very brief period of weird itchy, burny, redness, but then the redness and swelling disappears and takes most of the mosquito bite with it!
the only drawback with this remedy is that, if the mosquito bite is in not on your arm or leg, it can going to be difficult to flash it under scalding water without levitating.
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