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[spike]

I think we’ve had a delayed flight and missed a connection a few times, but that’s not very interesting as it’s the airline’s fault and they sort it out. Only bad one was my first trip to Australia years ago, the flight out of Chicago was delayed so I missed my connecting flight from LA to Melbourne, which meant I had to chill in LA for 24 hours since there’s only one flight a day on that route. Comped hotel and meals, but no wheels so I just hung around the hotel and watched TV.

My wife has some crazy ones related to work travel. I remember once she booked a ticket while in the security line just so she could get through to the terminal and sort some other flight out. Some details missing there, but thought it was next level stuff.

[bodysnatcher]

Please tell me about the last time you missed a flight. What happened?

It was before smart phones, so I just had a basic flip phone tucked away in my bag for emergencies. But I was on a layover in an airport where I had no idea I was in Mountain Time Zone (I thought it was Pacific), so I missed my connection by an hour while just casually drinking a beer at the bar a few gates away.

[Jorge]

Hahaha

The time I came closest to missing a flight was when I misread a ticket that said "18:00" thinking it meant 8:00 pm

Figured it out just in time though

[spike]

It’s baffling that people can’t comprehend military time. It’s not that hard.

[tree_]

maths are more difficult for some than others

[doug rr]

I don't think I have ever missed one..plenty of cancelled ones but rebooked right away

[Jorge]

It’s baffling that people can’t comprehend military time. It’s not that hard.

It's not hard at all, but I was young and not accustomed to it.

Argentina uses 24 hour time as the standard. I like it

[spike]

maths are more difficult for some than others

You’d think Jorge would be better at it counting all that money.

[Ello Sailor]

Jorge pretending he can read 24 hour time but we all know it was his butler notifying him that the chauffeur was waiting outside lmao gottem.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Please tell me about the last time you missed a flight. What happened?

Two but both due to delayed flights to connection. With the last one the ticket counter assh*le tried to deny me getting on a rebooked flight. Long story don’t want to revisit.

[spike]

[bodysnatcher]

Been thinking about this all evening and have no answer

[The Argonaut]

[BurtReynolds]

You ever notice how everything is getting a little worse every day?

[E.H. Ruddock]

You ever notice how everything is getting a little worse every day?

Depends on what you mean by "everything"

[tree_]

got to admit it's getting better, all the time

[spike]

You ever notice how everything is getting a little worse every day?

Maybe you’re just getting better, changing your perspective.

[JuanHamm]

You ever notice how everything is getting a little worse every day?

Depends on what you mean by "everything"

Waistline and hairline, probably

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Bi_3]

You ever notice how everything is getting a little worse every day?

Depends on what you mean by "everything"

Waistline and hairline, probably

half right.