I had a day from hell yesterday. Here’s the short version
- do my civic duty and voted @ 9.
- was packing/getting ready for my flight to Canada when my sister called saying my Uncle (who’s in poor health) is in the hospital.
- 1 hour later I get the call that he passed away. I head to the airport. Go through TSA (surprisingly not bad), line for food is longer than the TSA one.
- work from the airport, and my flight keeps getting delayed and delayed.
- I look at my “rebook a connection” link on hopper. I paid extra for the missed connection protection. Never again. All my options were a minimum of 17 hrs ONTOP of the 5 I already put in Chicago. And I doubt they’d put me up in a hotel. It looked like a MF nightmare. I’m still in Chicago so honestly, my best bet is to not even get on the plane since it lands AFTER my next one boards (plus I have to go through customs in Toronto when I do land). If your asking why I didn’t just get a direct flight like I normally do, it’s because covid took away all directs. Only connecting flights available into Winnipeg now.
- get home to find out SIL was in the E.R. for bleeding (she’s pregnant), but baby is Ok and she was finally released. I asked if they wanted me to drive there and help out with the boys/house since I already had the days off. They said they’d call me in the morning to see how things looked. It’s 9:00 now and they still haven’t called, so I’m guessing no? I got my PTO days back and went into work anyway.
- fought with my Dad for a bit because he was insistant that westjet had to refund me or put me on a new flight. But westjet’s page AND the chat both said I had to go through hopper. And hopper’s like uber - no customer service #, just an online message system. Fun. And they wont do anything because it really was my decision to not go on the first flight. It still went out. Just 2 hours late. I would have been stuck in Toronto and then the nightmare on what to do next would have started. It’s $200+ for a hotel near the airport. I’d rather just be out the $177 for the flight instead of $317 for that and a room I don’t need.
- in bed early, after watching the shitshow election results. I’m to mad at the world to even eat dinner. #didImakegoalweightthen?