The good news is TSA didn't grope my scurviness

[struggle4progress]

In fact, TSA was polite and professional

The bad news is that after three hours of sleep I got to my east coast airport at 6:30A for an 8:30 flight to the west coast, scheduled to arrive at 1:30P, after a one hour layover in the midwest (but with the same seat on the same plane) --- but the 8:30A plane had a dead battery and the airline didn't have another one on hand, so they flew one in from elsewhere, and the 8:30A flight didn't leave until 11:30A; when I arrived in the midwest, the airline said I could continue on the same flight but I had to go to gate X to board; when I got to gate X, they said no, the flight left an hour ago, and sent me to gate Y; at gate Y, they said, no, I'd been rebooked on a late afternoon flight to the confederacy and then on another flight from there to the west coast, and sent me to gate Z; there was nobody at gate Z, so I finally went somewhere else and talked to somebody else who said go to gate W and we'll put you on a flight to the southwest and then on a connecting flight to the west coast, so I went to gate W and they put me on a flight to the southwest and waited another 3 hours for my connecting flight to the west coast and then there's the story of trying to get my baggage and trying to get ground transportation around midnight to a place 25 miles from the airport and oh well never mind because it was supposed to be 7 hours of flying plus a one hour layover with a midday arrival and instead I sat in my original airport nearly five hours then flew a few hours then ran around a second airport for about two hours then flew a few more hours then sat in a third airport three hours then few a few more hours still then ran around the final airport for like another two hours so it was like 22 hours from the time I left home on the east coast until I was in my hotel room on the west coast

Going through the TSA stuff was like 5 minutes of that day

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. I would PAY someone to grope my scurviness...

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...but first I have to figure out where and what it is.
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Nononono, don't tell me.
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I like a challenge.
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[kentauros]

2. I thought you just liked a chalet?

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. No WAY, chalet!!!!

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I like a chablis...
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...a chamois...
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...a charcuterie...
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...a cha-cha...
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...a chambermaid...
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...a chalupa...
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...and some REAL change... but not a chalet.
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OK, OK... ... ... ... ... ... ... I like a chalet, too.
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Geez, you know... having to admit that... just imagine my...
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...chagrin.
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Chucklehead.
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[kentauros]

4. I gots yer Cha-Cha here, chowderhead

Tico-Tico-Cha-Cha

:P