I just got back from a trip down South through Tennessee, Alabama (for about 20 minutes), Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas. I can’t believe TMFTML beat me to the punchline. Can’t I even experience my own life without someone else beating me to publication?
Anyway, I’m stuck making fun of Orbitz. I used Orbitz to purchase my tickets and asked for Orbitz Customer Care to call me if there were any changes to my itinerary. I received two calls.
The first call told me that my departure would be delayed. This would have been helpful had I not actually been sitting on the plane twenty minutes past my scheduled departure waiting for Delta to resolve an unspecified fuel issue. (It sure sounded like “My younger brother borrowed the car and returned it with an empty tank,” but who knows. We all chipped in for gas and the plane took off.)
On the return trip I was standing at the baggage carousel when Orbitz called to tell me that my plane arrived early.