i'm in an airport

My goodness, haven't you people heard of Eurostar!

Carbon neutral and running into Europe at 186 mph!

Not to chicago it isn't

I am a climate criminal, I know this.

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.

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.

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.

(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)

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.

http://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gifBOARDING PASShttp://www.abovethelaw.com/images/entries/drudge%20siren.gif

WOOOOOO!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

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.

by the way in case anyone is wondering, the current terror alert level is:

ORANGE

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.

also yay for gr8080's boarding pass

Indeed, this has been by strategy. xpost

That's a brilliant strategy, and one I may try in future, to the wrath of everyone else in the queue. There is nothing more embarrassing than being the last person on a plane when everyone else is settled though, and everyone glaring at you because they know fine well they'd have got an early take-off slot if you hadn't been fannying around elsewhere.

so jetlagged

I'm in an airport, waiting for the Delta Shuttle, and there's this weird lounge filled with Apple computers and no one is in here and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be in here.

I'm not in an airport, I am in a tent just outside and airport waiting to get let into an airport.

An hour and a half to drop bags and then a last minute gate change from one end of the airport to the other. We'll be at least an hour late departing and there is no catering within quater of a mile of this gate, bah.

i'm in an airport

how's that itch?

I'm on year airplane, preparing fr takeoffs

how's that itch?

-- omar little, Thursday, December 27, 2007 9:11 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

ehh.

HI DERE.

Chilling at LAX. No earlier OC flight home than 6:11 pm, so I'm considering Encounter for a bit.

isn't encounter like a spiderwork of iron death right now?

what the hell is encounter??

LAX's semi-esteemed ca. 1970s Jetsons-inspired eatery/bar

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-11/33744084.jpg

there were eleven types of scaffolding up around the pylons i flew out on the 17th

encounter looks cool!

Encounter is very very cool. (Ended up not going, but while the outside's still being redone, the bar itself is open again.)

the name is so... touchy-feely.

I wouldn't go that far.

http://thecia.com.au/reviews/c/images/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-4.jpg

i'm going to be in an airport tomorrow, but not to fly.

http://www.jfkiat.com/header/header_7.jpg

I like the open-air building style of OGG (plus the fact that the airport code is OGG)

Checked out Encounter a couple weeks ago and am glad to see that it's back in business (and that the food has improved too!)

i'm at laguardia. and it sux. but i won't be here for long.

i'm in an airport

i had a breakfast burrito and O.J.

then i bought vitamin water and some ricola because i think i'm getting sick.

i'm in an airport.

i'm drinking bourbon.

i'm about to ride a prop plane for my first time.

where u go?

lanai! the smallest island you can actually visit.

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/bar.jpg

in hawaii do they give u bourbon w/ an umbrella?