Text 31817, 60 rader
Skriven 2015-10-10 12:05:28 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: australia 312
=====================
If I've posted this report before, let me know, please.

UA1509 BOS IAH 0700 1009 738 21C
was
UA 764 BOS IAH 1038 1343 320 21A

I tumbled a little late to the fact that the friendly
United agent had booked me with a 42 min connection in
unfriendly Houston, so I endeavored to get on the previous
flight at 0845. Lynne at the club prevailed on me to try
for the 0700 (it was 0600), and I said okay. I got the
last seat, the exit row window, so all was well, but it
turns out if I'd gone with the 0845, I would have been
upgraded, as there turned out to be extra seats on this.

We came in nearly on time. I thought of Popeye's, but at
the club they put out hummus (of which I am unaccountably
fond), so I noshed on that instead.

By the way, my originally-scheduled flight came in a
whopping 28 minutes early, so I'd have had no difficulty
making my connection, but what if it had come in 28
minutes late?

UA1757 IAH LAX 1425 1543 753 2F

They served lunch on this one - either chicken salad or
a cheeseburger. I expressed little enthusiasm to the cheery
FA but a modest preference for the cheeseburger.

As usual, shards of hot salty nuts with my Courvoisier.

The cheeseburger came, with garnishes of sweet bread and
butter pickles, whitish tomatoes, and a forlorn lettuce
leaf, on a pretzel roll squashed to somewhat less than 1/2"
on top and bottom. The cheese was your Velveetoid substance,
the patty squishy and meatloaflike. The taste was not
terrible but not very true to burgerdom. It filled you up.

As it was a totally full flight, the first FA spent bunches
of time in back, so I didn't get another drink with my meal.

The club Bourbon is Benchmark 8, for now. This is a pretty
smooth and pleasant tipple if a little punchless. I soon got
tired of it and decided to take the bus down to the AA
commuter terminal to see if I could catch my inbound on the
way in from Shanghai. Yes! we had to wait for it, but dummy
me, I didn't get Annie's camera out in time for me to snap a
shot almost right under the bird's belly.

I met up with Lilli, and we went to the Flagship Lounge for
drinks (supper was an array of unspeakably nasty-looking
and largely unrecognizable items), of which the Remy 1738
and Corzo tequila stood out. After which she went on to the
Qantas Club in the international terminal, a large step or
two above, and I to the temporary United Club above my gate,
a large step or two below. There was hummus, though, so I was
thankful for small favors.
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail  Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org  (1:123/140)