Blame It On the Pretzels

Original Post: 8.26.08

so… i was sitting in the airplane today.

[wait. we're already off to a bad start. let me clarify. "today" in my typing terms means monday. but "today" in your reading terms means tuesday.]

[let's try this again.]

so… i was sitting in the airplane yesterday.

[better? you're welcome]

and came up with a GREAT question to ask y’all this morning.

[oh - why was i in the airport, you ask? because i snuck in a quick trip to my parents' this weekend. but don't tell anyone.]

[why not tell? because i didn't get to see a LOT of people that i wanted to see. stupid hurricane.]

[anyway, quit interrupting so i can get back to my story.]

so the whole day was filled with traveling that should’ve been taken care of on sunday. stupid hurricane. stupid rain. stupid weather delays.

my sunday travels got bumped to monday travels. plus a rental car. plus a MASSIVE layover in the Atlanta airport, which is the size of a small city.

so, FINALLY i am in the airplane. h.u.n.g.r.y. so the stewardess flight attendant was nice enough to give me FOUR whole bags of pretzels.

[i think she just felt sorry for me - cause of all the travel drama. did i mention the hurricane?]

while eating my pretzels, i came up with a GREAT question for y’all…

but, see, here’s the thing… i think all the salt from the pretzels, on top of the whole “don’t drink anything or else i’ll have to crawl over sleeping passengers to get to the bathroom because i have a tiny bladder and the flight is over 2 hours but i still got a window seat and now i don’t know why” thing comes in to play so i don’t drink enough water when i travel, caused my brain to shrink due to slight dehydration.

plus all the confusion from flying: “due to increment weather, the Atlanta airport has shut down… translated: we ain’t goin’ nowhere, people, so start praying now, or else beg for another flight so you won’t have to spend the night in that massive airport, ’cause we’ll get there eventually, but who knows if you’re connecting flight will be waiting on you when you arrive” or there’s “not boarding now – there’s a weather delay again but we’ll keep you posted …. the weather has cleared and we can leave BUT we have no flight attendants because they couldn’t fly in due to the weather delay – no wait we’ll be boarding the plane in 30 minutes or sometime next May – we know you’ve been here for four hours already and there’s nowhere to sit, so we’ll keep you posted – thankyouforyourpatience.“

…means that i forgot the question i was going to ask.

don’t you hate it when that happens?