What goes around at Sucky Airport International (SAI) comes around.
Last week, I was, through what some thought was divine intervention, 15 minutes early into my interview airport. I was not fooled. This was not God's work. More like a Faustian agreement, for the Airport Commandments thus state:
If thee have a good travel experience out of SAI, then your return trip will be full of troubles.
I mistakenly thought that my return trip last week was the payback. I should have known that a mere 20 minute delay on the tarmac followed by a 40 minute crop duster delay was not sufficient retribution for an early SAI flight.
So today, after a very pleasant interview at Far Away state, I drove myself to the airport (~2 hours), only to find that my flight to SAI had been cancelled (still, this is not quite payback). I did get rebooked on flights that will put me in the general vicinity of LargeUtown (if "general vicinity" to you means a three hour drive). Then I got earmarked for "special screening." The pat-downs were so extensive (seriously, my boobs got felt up at least five times), I half expected the TSA officer to request me to sit back and put my feet up in the stirrups.
Still, this was not enough payback for the 15 minute early flight.
My first leg of the trip went pleasantly enough. Until I arrived at the gate and saw that my flight was delayed. By two hours. Leaving after midnight. Potentially stuck here in a Really Far Away state.
Now I think that I am even with the SAI flight gods.
Please?
