Thursday, August 02, 2007

The Terminal.

From 5:15 am until 8:28pm I have been in the airport. Not even one ... two. Damn those sumbitches of AirTran Airways...X-fare can be the best of times and the worst of times. Today was the sticky black stuff at the bottom of the barrell.

6:35am- after being at the airport realizing that I will be there for at least another 5 hours I decide to take a nap.

6:45am- a woman comes rushing toward the gate in a frenzy. the door is closed. she proceeds to BANG ON THE DOOR with all her might. people begin to stare. (Is this bitch crazy? don't she know that will lock her butt up? even if she is a white woman.) She is now crying- really hard.

6:48am- she proceeds to bust the terminal door open. (after I tried to tell her that the door to the plane was closed) after that all hell broke loose. the gate attendents were shocked and immediately called security. the police came.
Apparently, the woman's mother had just died. I felt horrible for her, but I wished she would've had someone traveling with her to knock some sense into her. I guess we all have a breaking point when we loose all sanity. This was hers and I am sure she will always remember the day she posed a threat to national security.

10:38 am- I wake up to the face of my youngest brother, Caleb. "hey Yasmine!" Turns out my grandfather, brother, and two cousins were on that flight. Too bad they weren't and I didn't make it.

After one more try at the 12:40 flight, DeMone the super friendly customer service agent for AirTran suggested that we (me and my newly found travel buddies) hightail it to Dulles for more favorable flights.

1:00pm- we were off. Me, Lindsay (an Aka who just graduated from Western Kentucky with a degree in anthropology), and Juliano (a Brazilian pro-tennis player who'll be in the US Open in few weeks and wore these obnoxious Gucci shades even in the metro)

1:05pm - on the blue line toward largo town center, off at Rosslyn, catch the A5 west to Dulles

2:30pm- finally at Dulles, to wait..................and wait ............................and wait.

I was drunk off of naps and too many sex tips from the Cosmo I was reading. Lowkey though, I hate Cosmo for that very reason and since I subscribe to the cool fashion mags there was no reason to buy them. So Cosmo it was.

6:37pm- I receive the golden ticket. A SEAT assignment! Too bad, it was two more hours of waiting.

10:00pm- I finally touch down in the A. My ears still haven't unpopped. I blow my nose and all of a sudden I feel a sharp pain in my ears. The room is spinning and I seriously think I may be laid out on the women's bathroom floor in terminal A of Hartsfield-Jackson. Poor Lindsay seemed more alarmed than me.

10:05pm- I pull it together and am finally in the comfort of this magical brand new white lincoln navigator my mother "rented" (it has paper tags).
I'm home. Finally.

Now Playing: any and everything Jazmin Sullivan
FYI: I added a playlist...hope you enjoy!

4 comments:

shani-o said...

kinda jammin' to that mya song on your playlist.

Your story reminds me of when I was going to NY last summer with my mom after we found out my grandmother was dying. We had to sit on the Tarmac for like 2 hours, and there was this white woman on the plane who started freaking out about how her father was on his deathbed and how she HAD TO GET OFF THIS PLANE!!

It was kinda like... dude, I understand where you're coming from, but your problems don't supersede anyone else's, and you never know what other people are going through.

Anyway, glad to see you update. How's the homecoming planning coming along?

Jameil said...

oh. NO!!!!!!!! That makes my head hurt just thinking about it. I get annoyed when I have a 15 minute wait. bratty, i know.

Charreah said...

Yeah that stand by is the WORST! I never had a bad experience with X-fares but those Delta Buddy Passes are the BLUES. Glad you made it homie! Wish you would have packed me in your suitcase:)

Anonymous said...

(sigh) I swear the worst part of traveling is getting there. Yet while most of us going through standby turmoil alone you get cute little caleb. Some ppl have all the luck...



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