I decided to leave work a little early that day and headed North. Nothing really worth noting happened on the drive up, I got there around 5:30pm and since I fly standby on American Airlines I was at the Detroit Airport with more than enough time to spare.
Then, that's where things started to go downhill...
Let me back up, this post isn't car related at all other than the fact that I dropped my car off and now I was attempting to head home.
Oh, the TSA check-in line. Yes, I got groped and personally scanned for metal. It always seems to happen to me, after I got through their area of antiterrorism, I was off to my gate.
As I'm walking I see a monitor showing my Chicago flight is delayed 30mins, okay that's fine I'm thinking to myself. I decide to eat Ruby Tuesdays since I have some extra time to burn.
After eating a chicken wrap, I go back to my gate with more than enough time to spare and I see their is a huge line at my gate for the plane. I'm happy, they must be boarding! Boy was I wrong.
The later flight into Chicago which was planning to leave an hour after my flight got cancelled, yes cancelled. You don't want to hear that C-Word if you fly standby. Needless to say, I didn't make my originally scheduled flight and the last flight out of Detroit didn't get to Chicago on time for my connection back to Columbus.
Yes, you guessed. I was screwed, dead in the water with no where to go to land back in Columbus to make work the next day. To top it all off, my cell phone battery was dying.
After making a quick call to Troy Walls, letting him know I was stuck in Detroit, he seemed to be more preoccupied with his dinner than my current situation. Yes, I just called you out! Lol. No worries though. I'll just get a rental car drive home.
Yep. It's that easy, go to a rental car place and drive home, except no place had any rentals available. It was a Tuesday! After literally running around for an hour trying to find a rental, I finally was told they had a van I could take. I had no other choice at this point.
So, I ride the bus to the lot. I walk-in and they point to the van I'll be taking. It's a 15 person passenger van! They ring up my preliminary total, $277.00! Are you kidding me! That's more than a flight.
I tell them I'll have to refigure my plans, so I call some people. By now, my phone is literally out of juice. After 10 minutes of making calls and attempting to convince my GF three hours away to come and get me at 10pm at night. The salesman walks and says we found you a car.
It'll be $50, I can do that. I walk up to it, it's a base, base Kia Soul. Whatever right? It's better than a passenger van. I hop in, I was told the car was on full, wrong. It was on E. I didn't even look til I got out of the airport. I'm glad I did or else I would have ran out of gas.
You better believe, I hot rodded that thing all the way home. My journey home ended at 1am, compared to my 930pm projected landing time back in Columbus, but I made it home. It was a complete mess, but way worth it.
Until the next time I fly! Which is right now, as I write this I'm in the terminal at Columbus Airport. I hope my flight schedule stays as originally planned, which as of right now isn't that case. Fun times flying standby, but all will be worth it once I get in that Fusion again.
Only a few more hours!
Part 3 of 3 to come soon.
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