Think you had a bad day?

[Chewbacca]

Originally posted by Memnoch: Hope all's been well with you - what's been happening?

Hey Great! We are officially neighbors! [img]smile.gif[/img] I'm across the street and less than mile down the way from Boston Scientific in the Sherwood Plaza. Let me know when you get settled. It's been a while since we hooked up. Definitley gotta do another IW gathering this summer. Good times I feel ya coming!

[T-D-C]

I tell ya mate that list made me cringe!

Its way worse than what happened to me last week

My wife and I flew upto Hamilton Island last week.

We chose to fly Jetstar (for the last time EVER)

basically it was a foggy morning in Sydney so i was expecting the flight to be delayed while the fog lifted. But the geniuses at Jetstar decided that they couldn't wait 20 minutes for the fog to lift so the CANCELLED the flight. I had to wat 8 hours for the next flight!

The flight was scheduled to leave at 6.55am so I had arrived at the airport at 5.45 so I was already grumpy from getting up early.

I saw many other flights taking off at 7.30 as well. Boy was I pissed!

[Memnoch]

basically it was a foggy morning in Sydney so i was expecting the flight to be delayed while the fog lifted. But the geniuses at Jetstar decided that they couldn't wait 20 minutes for the fog to lift so the CANCELLED the flight. I had to wat 8 hours for the next flight!

That sucks mate. Though be glad you weren't flying JetBLUE earlier this year - here's what happened to some poor buggers earlier this year:

Travelers Suffer "Jet Blues" on Valentine's Day JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU) tried to calm a maelstrom of criticism Thursday, after passengers were left waiting on planes at a New York airport for as long as nine hours during a snow and ice storm. . The airline said 10 incoming and outbound flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport were "significantly delayed" with customers on board during Wednesday's storm. Reasons included congestion, frozen equipment and an effort to keep planes ready to go in case the weather broke, said JetBlue spokesman Bryan Baldwin. . Calling the delays "unacceptable," the airline planned to offer the affected passengers refunds and free flights. To Cheryl Chesner, 26, "unacceptable" was hardly the word for the 11 hours she said she and her husband, Seth, 27, spent trying to take a JetBlue flight to Aruba for their honeymoon. . "It was the worst. It was horrific," she said. Baldwin said the Aruba flight, scheduled to leave at about 8 a.m. Wednesday, ultimately left late Wednesday night. But the Chesners went home to the Bronx. . While they waited to take off, John Farrell waited to arrive. His JetBlue flight from Fort Myers, Fla., landed at 10 a.m., but passengers didn't get off until nearly 7 p.m., he said. . "You gotta realize the frustration — you can look out the window and you can see, there's the gate, and if you let us off the plane, we can walk there," said Farrell, 48, of Brooklyn. . According to Baldwin, the jam arose as the airline sent outbound flights to the runway — so as to be ready to leave immediately if the weather let up — while incoming flights arrived and filled up the departure and arrival gates. The problem grew worse as some equipment used to tow planes away from gates froze to the ground, he said. . "We ended up with a gridlock situation where we couldn't move any of the aircraft at the gates," he said. .

[Harkoliar]

i went to the airport to fetch my parents last thursday, 17th of May. No one knew what was going to happen, and my parents arrival was around 6:45. Waking up and traveling there made me get out of bed at 5am in the morning. Now that I was in the airport, I ended up waiting for 6 hours because thier flight was diverted to Brisbane. I tell myself I would rather wait 6 hours than for something else bad happening.

I try and look at the bright side of things in these situations.

Still, same with everyone else Im not planning to beat your record Mario [img]tongue.gif[/img] .

[Callum]

I had to do some laundry today :S

[Memnoch]

Well, well, my dear snapperheads, my luck is finally CHANGING!

Since my last ill-worded note above, the following have happened:

1. I have bought a new car - a 2005 Audi A4 with 12K miles on the clock, for the bargain price of $29K US! Managed to offload my POS, 100K mile 2001 VW Jetta to an unsuspecting dealer!





2. I have found a new apartment with a covered attached garage (to make life in winter here so much easier)!

3. I have just come back from a brilliant holiday in Cape Cod!



4. I am going on safari to South Africa tomorrow!

The only bummer is that I have to start work on the 4th of June.

[ 05-24-2007, 12:50 AM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]