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Ärende: reunion trip 671
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US1193 BOS PHL 0715 0852 321 3C
was    1735 BOS PHL 0930 1100 733 2F

I had this plan. I was on the 0930 flight, but having woken
at 3 and checked to find the earlier flight still had room in
first class, I decided to take the 0510 bus, which doesn't go
where I want, walk half a mile to the subway, and get to the
airport about 0615, when there should still be seats. Well,
this wonderful bus showed up at 0530 and kept getting
behinder and behinder, so the next bus (which went to
Wonderland) caught up with it; I was too lazy to switch
buses but stuck with what I had, a mistake. I was barely at
West Lynn at 6, so I decided to bail in favor of the bus
that was supposed to leave there at 0608 and get me to the
airport at 0626. How wonderful it is to have so many choices
in public transport. How icky to have them all not work on
the same day. Anyhow, this airport bus showed up half an
hour late, and I got to Terminal C at 7. Walked as fast as
my little legs could take me to US Air, checked in, went
into the priority security, and, despite making way for a
pilot or two, was at the gate at 0710. There was still room,
yay. In fact, the flight left with two empties in first.

A bit of a snooze and a tiny delay (flow control as usual),
and here we were, beautiful Filthydelphia.

US3121 PHL IAH 1005 1301 175 3F
was    3257 PHL IAH 1405 1650 175 2A

Got to the gate in plenty of time to stand by for the early
flight, and the grumpy agent said, "it'll cost ya." I
pointed out I was Gold, so she warmed up a bit and
acknowledged that there was room, and I could get it for
free. Onto the little regional jet: why they are running
humongous half-empty planes up and down the east coast and
these little guys halfway across the country I can't figure.

I got one of the few seats with an empty next, but at some
point a woman vacated 4A to sit by me. This was not because
of my undeniable charms, but because 5A was noisy and kept
kicking her seat (it was a child of some sort). I told her
I was happy to have her sit by me, but I was going to ignore
her and go to sleep. This was fine with both of us.

It got extremely bumpy half an hour before landing, and I
woke a little prematurely, so my seatmate and I perforce
started chatting, first about bumpy flights and noisy
children, and then about Houston - it turns out that she
knew some faculty at my high school (whose reunion I was
attending), plus she gave me a useful tip about the Central
Market, which she said was just down a few blocks from it.
I like food shopping and so promised to check it out.

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