btw: that pint of gin&tonic ended up costing me $12. at least it was tanqueray and not well.
― tehresa, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the only thing on this side of security is a starbucks and i think its closed now. i "landed" and got my luggage on airline A, but 12 hours late to catch my flight on airline B. Airline B's ticket desk isn't open till 5:30 AM, and even though they were there when i first got there, they couldn't get me standby for friday travel until friday.
airline A is the one that fucked up, but basically i fucked myself by trying to think this would work.
also, airline B is the expensive flight that work paid for and airline A was the cheap one i bought on my own.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
jesus christ. well, you live and learn, I suppose. I have had similarly extra-long standby layovers but never overnight.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I will use MINDWAVES to send you some MINDWINE
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
RED OR WHITE
i'd take a MINDBOARDINGPASS over mindwine.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
tomboto are you extracting the mindwine from your very own mindgrape?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
zing?
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
lol no 30 rock ref idk if tombot watches it tho
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
gr80 does o'hare have free wireless?
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 December 2007 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i'd probably take having a seat over both alcohol and not listening to jamiroquai, but the important thing is once you have a seat you can do both of those
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the worst is trying to stake out a spot for leg-resting and maybe lying down... hopefully you don't have to deal with tvs tuned to cnn every twenty feet since you're not past security? then again it's probably linoleum instead of carpet, yikes.
― strgn, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:23 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i am sitting on the ground at the bottom of the escalators that people arriving come down to the baggage claim area on.
wifi is $6/24hrs which i figure is worth it in this circumstance.
i think i might pack up computer and try and sleep for a little bit.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:31 (sixteen years ago) link
now my phone's fully charged again so i can move to a more comfortable spot, too.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't watch 30 rock but I am sad that MINDWINE is not my og idea
grady in your situation I would consider hitting up some free online games
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
doukutsu is pretty good
also the demo for weird world return to infinite space
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link
also N
seriously just google search for the letter N
― El Tomboto, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:36 (sixteen years ago) link
where you at gr8ee, newark?
― max, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm at o'hare, max.
my ipod is charged now too. i think i'm gonna try and find a safer/more comfortable spot to curl up for a few hours.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:45 (sixteen years ago) link
future tip for all fliers: if youre somewhere around a continental "president's lounge" you can get free wireless just by parking near there
― max, Friday, 21 December 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i got about 3.5 hours of sleep on a wooden bench.
the ticket desk that wasn't supposed to be open till 5:30 was open at 4:00. its a good thing too, because my situation required i get in a separate line being serviced by only two ticket agents. when i got in line there were only three or four people ahead of me but by the time i was at the front, there was a good 40 people in line behind me. apparently an entire flight to orlando got cancelled.
but i got on standby for the same flight i missed yesterday, and as of 30 mins ago i was the only one on the standby list.
i just had a breakfast bagel and i think i'm going back for another.
also, i'm at a little desk with a stool that looks like it used to have payphones at it as i type this. not slouched on the floor somewhere. life is so much better this side of security!
i just had a breakfast bagel and i think i'm going to have another.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that 2 or 3?
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
wow bagels are making my morning apparently.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ha
ed when do you get to chicago again?
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Tomorrow, I will be able to check in in 5 minutes, hopefully scoring my favorite seat on the plane.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I am celebrating going to america by spelling the american way
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
if all goes well i wont be here anymore, but can't say for sure yet.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Checked in, I shall be at the airport tomorrow. Heathrow T4 seems to have the worst bars even of the shit selection at Heathrow. They seem to franchise them out to the worst chain pubs and restaurants in Britain. At least in T1 they have a giraffe franchise and you can get an acceptable bloody mary. T4 has weatherspoons, EST EST EST and Garfunkles.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Will of course be hell tomorrow as half of Britain will be attempting to leave through Heathrow.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Wildcat cabin crew strikes/walkouts notwithstanding.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Indeed. Also, I was dismayed to see that my plane was over two hours late yesterday.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/931354.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 13:38 (sixteen years ago) link
My goodness, haven't you people heard of Eurostar!
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Carbon neutral and running into Europe at 186 mph!
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Not to chicago it isn't
I am a climate criminal, I know this.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Grady, you still in Chicago?
yes.
on standby for a flight that leaves in 90 mins.
if i dont make this flight it probably wont be till tomorrow morning that i get out of here.
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Good luck with that.
If not then you better plan some good eating to get you through the night. I recommend Tony Lao's down in china town. Get and order of Tony Lao's Chicken. It rocks.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Being on standby is the crappiest thing ever. Be thankful you aren't doing it at Gatwick which has the worst security queues ever when they check you onto your flight with 30 minutes to go until the plane pushes back off stance and there's still a two-hour security queue to get through when you're in a party of five, one of whom is elderly and cannot rush anywhere terribly effectively.
When we came back from Tampa earlier this year, there were the five of us on standby and only four standby places left on the plane, so my brother got left there for 24 hours while we just headed on home without him. He then got the only place on the next flight or would have been there for a further 24 hours. Your pain is being felt, gr8080.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
(disclaimer: I have no idea what the security queues are like at O'Hare, but they can't be as bad as Gatwick where all domestic and international passengers get herded through the same bottleneck)
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
O'Hare can be pretty horrific, at least in the international Terminal. However the bar is right by the security queue and you can sit and drink until it dwindles or your flight gets so close that they start pulling people out of the queue.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gifBOARDING PASShttp://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gif
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
WOOOOOO!
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ed, we will have to meet another time.
Indeed we shall. Find your local TV station and tell them to buy some software from me, then I can come and install it in Honolulu.
― Ed, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
My brother just approached a friendly looking queue-monitoring dude at the barriers and waved boarding passes at him and explained and the guy said he'd let us through. So my brother waved at me, I gathered up the parents and husband, and we walked down and the guy let us in, one at a time, into the front of different queues. Unfortunately (for them) the people behind us (queuing for a flight due to leave in about three hours or so) thought they'd got in on our wee game of queue-jumping and followed us down only to be told to get back in the queue upon production of their not-terribly-urgent boarding passes. The queue in which they'd now lost their places.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
by the way in case anyone is wondering, the current terror alert level is:
ORANGE
― gr8080, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
xposts
Can you just pretend you've not heard the call though, sit and drink, then go "whoops, silly me" and get let into the front of the queue though? We only did it because the silly mare on the BA check-in desk wouldn't check us in on standby seats until the check-in closed even though there were stacks of empty seats on the flight.
― ailsa, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link