When I Missed My Flight
Comments(3) I was thinking about the one time I traveled and got stranded in the Atlanta airport. It was a great time if you can believe it. We made the best of a terrible situation.
I had a flight from Miami to a connection to Atlanta. I had made the connection in plenty of time but due to thunderstorms rolling up the East Coast, we were delayed. The gate lady for the airline kept announcing that the flight was delayed and finally after 2 hours sitting at the gate waiting for boarding to begin I met a few people that were also from Philly and getting pissed at all the delays.
Finally, the pilot came off the plane and I overheard him talking to the gate lady that according to radar, the storms are moving slowly and we are stuck for at least another hour.
The gate keeper then announced that it was going to be at least an hour before the plane would board and that if we wanted to get something to eat we could but don’t stray far. So this girl I was talking to and I went to the Wendy’s just 3 gates down and ate some lunch. When we returned - 45 minutes later - the plane had boarded and taken off. Without us.
Needless to say, the girl and I were pissed. We were not the only ones either. There were about 5 others that did the same thing as us and went to get a meal. Then the gate lady stated that we should not have left the gate area. The group of us of course went nuts. After much protest, the airline was able to get us all on the next flight - 8 hours later.
So what was one to do?
The seven of us decided that since we had until 10PM until our next flight, we would make the best of it and we decided to play a game and have at least one drink in every bar in every terminal in the Atlanta airport.
By the time it was boarding time the seven of us were blasted. Looking back I am surprised that they even let any of us on. By this point we were drunk, obnoxious and boisterous.
The two hour flight home was uneventful but when we arrived in Philly we decided that we should go out some more and hit a few bars around town. I met a few great people, unfortunately, after that night we never kept in contact with each other.
