Friday, October 26, 2012

Enough Already!

So, should I continue the sad tale or just drop it and just wrap-up?  The latter choice would be simply put, FUCK AMERICAN AIRLINES!!  I'll never WILLINGLY travel on any aircraft owned and operated by them or any of their damned affiliates...Whoa there!!!  Affiliates?  What AFFILIATES?  You know, the batch of Other Airlines that they belong to that go places they don't or for some other reason...supposedly keeping you in their family".  Like this plucked from the AA.com web page:

Code Share Partners:
British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, Airberlin, Alaska Airlines, Cape Air, China Eastern Airlines, Deutsche Bahn German Rail, El Al, Etihad Airways, EVA Air, GOL, Gulf Air, Hawaiian Airlines, Jet Airways, Jetstar and WestJet.

Affiliates

American Eagle – Operating more than 1,500 daily flights to over 160 destinations across North America, Central America and the Caribbean, American Eagle is one of the world’s largest regional airlines and a wholly owned subsidiary of AMR Corporation.
AmericanConnection – Chautauqua Airlines operates flights under the AmericanConnection brand, with almost 50 daily flights from its base in Chicago.

Quite a list to observe and obey my heart from...but I will do it!  Screw AA!  Bastards of The Air!!
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Now more news from the California environs:
Kelly broke her ankle in a certain way, a "chip fracture", 5 weeks in a damned cast!  What an ordeal she went through,  barely could get around the house.  Eventually she was able to drive and that was a big help. 
Me?  Oh...I had DOUBLE Cataract surgery last Wednesday, a painless 10 minute O.R. procedure that FIXED my erratic and troubled vision.  I now see better that ever before!  Clearer, brighter, correct colors and no eye strain!  Good ol' Kaiser came through BIG TIME!  I had Dr. Johnathan I. Diamant and his team, a fabulous result!  Amazing and I'm so very thankful to him and his staff and everyone at Kaiser Vacaville!  Wonderful!

On the Plane

Yes, this gets more interesting.  Soon the "purser" arrives to chat with us re:The Service Animal (Cat).  "You are the couple with The Cat", she asks.  I look up from the magazine, "Yes."  She whispers now..."I don't want to up-set you...but we have several staff who are allergic to cats".  I said, "Then they shouldn't touch them".  She grimmaced, "They swell up".  Hmmmm,  Kelly replies, "We KNOW...we will leave her in the carrier the whole time, we KNOW the rules". The purser whispers again, "I didn't want to upset you but..." Kelly says, "We know...she's under the seat, in her carrier, she's a Service Animal."  The purser says, "Our people are very afraid!"  I said "Reassure them." Kelly glared at her.  "Ok" she said as she turned to walk away.  The Captain announced "We have had a No Show ladies and gentlemen, so we've had to have the baggafor that passenger, it'll only be a few more minutes.  We have NOT taken off yet, it is now 1:30 and the plane is just now rolling back from the gate!  At 1:50 we are in the air at last!  One Hour and Thirty-Five minutes  we were supposed to be.  Oh well.  Kelly's IN her Kindle, deep in a read, mine is still in the overhead bin and it's just such a pain in the ass to get up and out into the aisle that I just sit and soon I'm eye's closed and nearly asleep when the Purser apears again with two small packages, "These are from 1st Class, just little somethings, I hope you'll realize how sorry I am all this has happened."  We take the little packages "Just some hand lotion, and other things", she says.  you" we reply and she rises and disappears towards the front of the plane. "Yea Gads, does it not end?! I say to Kelly and she rolls her eyes in response.