I'm a Travelin' Man ... that's what I am

So I went on my first business trip last week … as it was it was a tough schedule … thursday evening flight to seattle, red eye back to columbus friday night. WELL that was just the beginning …

Thursday night, fly to seattle through Chicago (this is after working late to get ‘er done) crash for 5 or so hours at the W Seattle (it was gorgeous!) get up, drive 4 hours through a blizzard, across the mountains and through the desert to the client, and turn around two hours later to fly back. WELL America West was having none of that, we boarded the plane on time, but sat at our gate for an hour, missing our connecting flight by about 5 minutes. Its now about 11pm (2 am our time)
Cut to the sassiest America West employees trying to reschedule our flight (there weren’t any more flights out until the next day) so we finally get rescheduled, after and hour and a half, and they tell us we have to go wait for our bags for another 45 minutes, so we go wait, I check in with the team over @ bags, the guy gets sassy and says that since I have the transfer slip I don’t need to talk to him about my bags. So we wait. 45 minutes pass, and our PM goes to see about the bags, well same dude says ‘your bags are in phoenix’ !!! like he couldn’t have said something to me earlier. All the while, the guy who had been helping us @ the counter, comes to find us and say that he accidentally booked us for a Monday morning flight, but he had it all changed and arranged.

Off to the hotel, known as the Emerald Suites (way way off the strip) it was rented by the hour, there were dirty sheets & towels in the hall, and smelled like a skunk. So we agree to just stay up all night (our flight was in like 5 hours anyway) hanging out at The Orleans was super sweet …. And we made some great friends
The nest morning, we finally make it to the airport, and get on the plane. WELL this woman was P I S E D (pised?) because the flight attendants wouldn’t let her hold her coat on her lap. woman “this is a $30,000 coat, I am not going to stuff it in the overhead” flight attendant “ we are going to be 35,000 feet in the air, its not going anywhere” woman – says something sassy, flight attendant – kicks her off the plane.

But after all of our adventures, we made it back safe and sound … and I slept for like 14 hours, college style. It was fun no matter what …. I got broke in real good like.