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Skriven 2012-02-03 11:31:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: back from Calif 176
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As I wanted to get my e-mail, I went back to the Continental
club, which couldn't help me resolve my seating issue; not a
big deal, anyway. As I suspected, the equipment had swapped
out to a 767, so I traded a pretty nice business seat for
what is probably the worst first-class seat in the air. Plus
when I got there, there was someone poaching my seat, so I
got just a little testy with her, which endeared me neither
to her nor to the cabin crew, but tough noogies.

United's Channel 9 feature was announced by the cockpit.

Being in row 1 I could hear the flight attendants moaning
about the trip - they were all high seniority and had bid
the route hoping to work a triple, which is pretty much
everyone's favorite aircraft, and were as irritated as we
were about the substitution. I commiserated with them,
and after that the staff started being quite nice to me.

Breakfast started with the customary Courvoisier, followed
by a tray that offered a harder than usual egg puck, a
patty of unbelievably bland and tasteless sausage with a
really nasty fibrous texture, a brick of scallopped potato
that was by far the best thing around. A fruit appetizer
was assorted trimmings of sour unripe stuff. The croissant
was fairly hideous as well. The crew, looking out for me.
kept me in Courvoisier, which was good. We landed a bit
early, so I caught an early bus to Rosslyn and then the
38B to Georgetown, where as it was early bird special time
I decided to treat myself to the prix fixe at Bistro
Francais, an old favorite in Georgetown that I periodically
visit when in search of comfort food, and between 5 and 7
and then again late at night one gets appie, main, and
dessert for $25, a glass of cheap wine included. Tonight
the comfort was pretty absent, though, as on Sunday night
maybe the A and B teams were both off.

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