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Odds & Ends Stories

Enraged Over Earbuds

March 17, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

This happened to me a few years ago while flying from DC to Atlanta. After the airlines quit handing out free earbuds, I got in the habit of throwing a decent, but not expensive, set in my laptop bag.
I was listening to the music channels where you plug into the armrest, but I had been [...]

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Return From Paris Is A Nightmare

March 10, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

A while back, my wife (then my girlfriend) and I were in Paris on vacation. We had a wonderful time (even managed to get “bumped” to 1st class on the flight over the pond from MSP 10 days earlier). Well, we reported to CDG in plenty of time for our return flight to Detroit (MSP [...]

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Disabled But Charged To Sit Up Front

March 3, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

I don’t have any long horror story about my fellow passengers, just about the airline itself. Recently when I checked into my United flight, I found that we had been assigned seats in the very last row. As I am in a wheelchair, I called the airline to request something a little closer to the [...]

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So Many Stories. Where To Begin?

February 19, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Reno, Nevada. United Airlines. 1989. This airport is in the middle of the city and the flight path is surrounded by hotels. There is a severe windstorm but the pilot decides to land anyway. I have a window seat and am watching in disbelief as the runway veers from left to right as the pilot [...]

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The Family Of Fourteen

February 14, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

I was recently on a flight to San Diego to see my fiancee who is stationed there. With the airline’s budget the way it is now, our flight was completely booked. I had a seat towards the rear of the plane, and that is where a new cultural experience started.
A Middle Eastern family of 14 [...]

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Voice In Dream Warns Of Plane Problem

February 8, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Can a flight where nothing bad happened be a flight from hell?
Several years ago, I was flying UA from Burbank.  At this point, I don’t even remember where I was going.  I just remember that it was a two-plane trip – it had a stop where I had to change planes.  The night before the [...]

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Runny Nose & Trading Seats

February 8, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Flying home to Detroit from LA. If that wasn’t bad enough, sat next to a mother and child, roughly 7-8 yrs old. Kid was really too sick to fly as he coughed, hacked, sneezed while strings of mucous dripped from his nose. Did his mother wipe or blow his nose? No. Did the kid wipe [...]

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Left Holding The Bag

January 31, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

A few years ago, I boarded a flight on AA and took my window seat in coach.  As I sat, I felt a lump in the seat under my rear, so I reached and encountered something large, paper and squishy.  I stood back up to look, and found that someone had stuffed a barf bag [...]

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Bummed Out Over Paying For Blanket

January 31, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

I was travelling from San Francisco to Vancouver, BC to visit family and I was 6 months pregnant. I was flying alone, and although I was having a good pregnancy I would easily get cold, hungry, etc. I would carry granola bars, etc. in case I got hungry, but I got cold on the flight [...]

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Ordeal Over Wheelchairs

January 25, 2010 Odds & Ends Stories

Started off real nice. I was going from California to Oklahoma City on United Airlines. I have C.O.P.D. and can hardly walk and breathe now. Requested wheelchair ahead of time at each airport. Going was real great. Wheelchair at each airport and even at the door to the plane.
Now the return trip was a different story.
Oklahoma [...]

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