GET YOUR FOOT... OUT OF THE DOOR...
But... -weeze- umm... -gasp-... here... our flight... tickets... we just ran... - breathe - ... here...
... YOUR TICKET WAS GIVEN AWAY... YOU WERE LATE...
...BANG... - SECURITY DOOR -... SLAM... s shut...
... closes in my face... I’ve just been through some sick, sick trick of American injustice... (American injustice... I add... like getting the wrong cup of coffee and then not getting a refund... not any real world injustice which I don't deserve to even talk about except to say that I'm not gonna talk about)... but my injustice... 7 minutes early... not early enough for a Delta flight... on a delayed flight... running down the concourse... ... ... 10 minutes or your seat is given away... even thought the clock on the door says 11 minutes...
... MUST BE SLOW...
And I’m not the only one... while pacing... as Danelle in her infinitely superior powers of patience is talking to the gate agent... I see all sorts of people running... bags loaded... to flights already given away... I see those incredulous looks... that spark of injustice still burning a hole... I see the anger... and no direction for it...
In fact... I’m not the only one so much that... once you miss your flight... once they give it away to someone else... they have machines at every gate for quick booking on future flights...
And in such a twisted, messed up chance of fate... as we’re escorted on to a flight 1 hr 15 minutes later I see people run up to our flight... my kind of people... regular people that in some other lifetime if we were both cats we could be friends... ... ... they were late for this flight... and their real tickets for real seats... were given away... so... in fact... their seats... denied because they were late... are now our seats...
... and as the door slams behind me... and in their face... what am I supposed to think... why am I so happy at their expense because I get to go home tonight!?...
...but... what I really mean to say is... I have to applaud the standards of a company to accept this as normal?... applaud the marketing division to keep this under wraps..
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