Maji's blog: "Life shtuff..."

Soo, to append my previous blog, I had bought tickets for zztop for the same day I was flying from cali.

I gave my friends my ticket just in case sumn happenned and I couldnt make it.

Usually when flying out of socal, I will go ahead and get to LA and bunk in by the airport.

This time I drove in from outta town, worked once before, thought it might again.

Left like 2am to catch a 615. Should have put me there like 4. Road's all mine right?...wrong.

4 bouts of night construction, with CHP zigzagging across 8 lanes in front of the pack 5 miles before the construction just to slow everyone down.

So this repeated scenario puts me in the morning LA crawl. Im still 15 miles out, and its 430am. I still have to turn in the rental, catch shuttle, offload, checkin bags, by 515. Im not seeing it.

So i figure its 730 back east, call the HR girl see if can catch the next. She didnt get in til nearbout 9.

Turns out theres a 0915, and its now 0645. Gonna be tight, but lets try it. Turns out was only a few cars pulling into Avis for return. The guy checks me pretty quick, prints reciept, and .......heres what never happens, the bus driver got off the shuttle and walked over and asked if I was goin to LAX, and that he would hold on a few mins so I didnt have to wait another 15 mins fro the next one. Fukin score...

Get checked in, & thru security. But this flight will put me home at 645pm, 77 mls from an 8pm show, so I call my buddy and let them know to go ahead and go, and i will drive myself.

Get to Detroit.....connecting flights delayed 1.5 hrs........fuk, well, nice try anyway right?

So now Im callin my bud again to break the news Im not gonna make it, when i see they have a flight goin to Richmond (where the show is at), but leaves in like 24 mins.

I run to the counter........guy looks it up "yea I got ya a seat, and I can get you there, but not your luggage". I procede to tell him my luggage needs to go on anwyay, and while Im talkin he's already printed the pass, and says "you have 4 mins, youre at B3, you need to be at B33"

So...shoooooooooooooooommm like a rocket thru the terminal, just in time...chic yellin down the tunnel "Hold up, we got one more!!".

So its back on again.....gonna make the show! Call my bud real quick "change of plans, pick me up at Richmond International"....."Cool! See ya there!"

Gate pulls away, we start backing up.......brakes.......................wtf *groans* Look out the left wondow, Five O everywhere. Now the doors coming down. They huddle for awhile, and three enormous cops come on and extract this guy. I hear the cargo door....fuk, theyre pulling his luggage.

Chic boards and gets on the com and tells us all that dude was observed dismantling/reassembling an electronic remote looking device in the terminal, and then again on the plane. I hear the grumbles of everyone sayin "wtf, why didnt ya confront him in the terminal? why wait til plane starts taxiing?" Cops get back on and tell everyone its all legit, dude was just tryin to fix his mp3 player or sumn while he was waiting. They let him back on.

Next thing ya hear is phones cueing up, ppl trying to call their rendevous to let them know we're late. Fukin gate manager chic barks at everyone to shut their phones down.

50 mins have passed. Im calculating I'll hit ground at 830, and my friends will be wondering what to do in the meantime.

Pilot comes on bout qtr way thru flight, says he's been given a shortcut over the mtns and clearance to (I swear he said "spank it"), and that we may hear the engines change sound etc, everythings cool, and he'd try his best to get us there close as possible to original 715 landing.

Touched down 735, call my friends, theyre still at baggage claim outside smokin, waitin. Turns out the theater is 7.2 mls away.

We hustle, get in, get drinks, and settled down bout 8 mins before showtime. Fuk yeaaaaaaa.

4 hr drive, 3000 ml flight, concert til midnight, 80 mls to pick up my car, 18 mls back to my house. 26 hrs awake........guess what I did Weds??? lol