Alorrena's posts

so you know my first flight got canceled last night, fine, nbd, i rescheduled it. So the next available flight was way over booked because airlines do that on occasion, and because of the canceled flight, so i was pretty confident that i wasn't going to get on that one. I was correct. Unfortunately, that meant the rest of my itinerary needed to be changed too. So when they bump you to the next flight when you fly standby, usually it will automatically change the following flights.thaat.... did not happen, and i couldn't ask anyone about it because as soon as the gate is closed, the workers leave and do whatever else. so i had to wait at the gate for the next flight out of orlando to talk to someone, and that someone ended up not being very helpful. So, they said i would basically have to call the reservations line and talk to them to change it, but i only had 40 minutes until that flight would start to board. So i end up going oh w/e i'll deal with it in seattle. I got on that flight (thankfully), messaged my mom about an hour into that flight to tell her to call for me and get it fixed, which she did. So, i finally got to nap a bit on that flight, which was really nice cause i was and am so tired. So mom finally messages me and tells me that she was finally able to talk to a person to get it changed for me. Awesome. I should be all set, right? well, kinda. I found out that i was not checked into that flight, nor could i check myself in online or on the app. so again, i had to wait by the gate to talk to someone. And the someone was new, so he didn't really know what to do, but the person training him showed him how to check someone in, and gave me my temp boarding pass. i say temp because it did not have a seat assigned yet. SO. I wait for the plane to start boarding while constantly checking to see if i had been assigned a seat yet. the ENTIRE plane boards except for me and one other girl who was also flying standby. they go do a seat check and find out what seats are left (cause somehow they have to physically check? i don't get it. they scanned the boarding passes and that should have told them how many seats and which ones were available, but i digress. so i'm super anxious, toe tapping, trying to look as calm as i can. i'm so close. i know they had enough seats. they had 146 people book the flight with a capacity of 147, and only 141 people had checked in, including the stand by travelers.so i know they had room. but of course they didn't wanna tell me or the other girl that until literally the last moment. So we got our boarding passes, i'm so ready to go i forget to have them scan my boarding pass that i walk right past, and then remember (i was too tired to be embarassed by that point.) and go back. THen i get on the plane, ask for a seatbelt extender (it was a smaller plane. my butt barely fit in the seat, and i knew that ahead of time, at least.) put my carry on bag in the bin and squeeze past the two people in the row i was assigned to, and i just tried making myself as small as i could so not to bother the guy next to me. I'm pretty sure he kept farting too; it was not a comfortable flight, but at least it was only an hour long. so, FINALLY i made it. mom picked me up, took me to her house/grandma's house(they live together cause grandma is old.) i try to eat a little, but i'm so tired i don't eat a lot. And then i go unpack a little, and realize i lost my phone charger cord. it is possible it's in mom's car, but i'm not going to go look. but I made it! it just took basically 17 hours to get here.