schmidgall party of two
My sister is a flight attendent for United Airlines, so we took our chances on flying stand-by. The only thing that's guaranteed when you fly stand-by is that it's always entertaining. We waited until every passenger piled into the 777 headed towards Heathrow when we finally heard "Schmidgall, party of 2". I walked to the counter rather shocked that we got onto to a really full flight only to find out that there was only one more seat available in the entire airplane.
Reluctantly, Kate took it. I told her I'd see her on the other side, at some point.
As the gate was closing, they discovered they had miscounted seats and there was one available. They announced my name. When they announce you, it's the same feeling you get if you won something. My surname never sounded so good.
As I passed by my wife, who was sipping coffee with her legs stretched out in business class, I squeezed into a middle seat in economy next to a women who threw up 4 times. Not only that, the women next to her saw her spew projectile and it caused a chain reaction in my row. I held strong though.
Almost home.
posted by dcschmiddy at 7:18 AM
2 Comments:
Oh no! I had that on a flight recently and it took all that was in me not to hurl! You poor thing!
I completely understand the "I just won the lottery" feeling. My dad works for American Airlines ~ I have spent my entire life spending days at the airport trying to get a flight. Thankfully women can wear jeans now! Glad you made it on the flight!
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