Everyone knows that Thanksgiving is the WORST time to travel. Why? Several reasons: I'm not a fan of the holiday in general, it's the start of the worst music ever (Christmas music, sorry Andrea), it's a four day weekend which isn't really that much time to travel, and everyone is cranky because they've got seventeen crying kids in tow. Plus it's cold and snowy, which screws up the flights. But since I'm such a good friend, I decided to find my winter clothes, ignore my hatred of 24/7 Christmas music and go to Pittsburgh to see the Aloe family. Actually, in all honesty, visiting the Aloes makes all the bad parts go away, so it should be a great trip. So I used my credit card points and bought a ticket on August 9th like a responsible traveler. Great.
Today, September 8, I got an email from the credit card company saying that I needed to call because there was a change in my itinerary. Ok, well, that was at 11 and I was at work, so I figured I'd call when I got home. Then at 1 I got another email saying that my problems had been resolved and there was no need to call. Lovely, my to do list is long enough.
When I got home I checked my email and guess what I found? First of all my original ticket was for a departure on Wednesday and a return on Saturday. Stupid Frontier airlines (who canceled my mom's tickets twice in the past) decided to cancel their flights to Pittsburgh the day before Thanksgiving. Is that not the stupidest thing you've ever heard?! Ok, fine. But when I took a closer look, they'd also changed my return flight to Friday. Ok, in what world is it ok to make a 4 day trip an overnight? And in what world would you think that a person traveling the day before Thanksgiving would then want to travel on the holiday itself arriving in the afternoon?
Ok, so I call the credit card company and guess what they tell me? "Oh, sorry miss but it looks like everything is pretty much sold out on Wednesday." Oh really?! Of course it is! Because all the smart people like me bought those tickets. Ugh, ok, so forty five minutes later I'm still on the phone waiting for the woman to get approval from the airline for them to give me a refund (in points not dollars and that won't be credited to my account for a few days, so it's not like I can buy another ticket with points today). Fine, so finally I get it all squared away and then sit down to buy yet another ticket (oh how I love scouring the discount travel sites).
So here is my conclusion: we should all be traveling in tiny particles, instantaneously, only to be put together on the other side with as much luggage and liquids as we want. Don't you agree?!
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