The Flight From Hell

All of my good friends, please read carefully. THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU!

I wake up on the day of my transcontinental flight, and head over to the airport a few hours early only to find out that it was delayed for 1 hour. I thought it wouldn't be a problem since my flight out of Chicago left at 1:20 PM Central Time, and the approximate running time of the RDU to O'Hare flight is 1 and a half hours. The flight was supposed to leave at 12:20, so I should have been able to catch the flight...except for the fact that as soon as we got on the plane and they wouldn't let us use phones, the captain came on the PA and told us that the flying time was going to be 2 and a half hours. Needless to say, I missed my flight out of Chicago.

I found another flight out at 6:35 PM Central, so I waited in Chicago for 5 hours in order to board the plane. When I was finally called, the flight suddenly stopped boarding and everyone was pulled off of the aircraft. Apparently, there was something wrong with the aircraft. So, they first delayed the flight until 6:50, then to 7:35. At 7:05 they were ready to board the plane again. They opened the doors...then immediately closed them. The attendants informed us that due to inclement weather in San Francisco, the flight was going to be delayed another hour to 8:35 PM Central. We did managed to leave at that time and I got to San Francisco at 11:05 Pacific.

The flight that I missed due to the delays out of RDU was supposed to get to SFO at 3:50 Pacific.

Needless to say, I had a rough travel day last week.