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"New" Delta Still Blames "Old" Weather {Gadling}
Aug 8th 2007 9:27PM I had a similar experience last week. I dropped friends off at the Newburgh NY airport for their Delta flight home. They didn't see the flight listed on departures and called Delta, only to be told it was cancelled (perfectly fine day, mid-afternoon.) After rousting a ticket agent, they were told nothing could be done and they could sleep in the airport...this to two women in their sixties.
This didn't go over well and eventually they were booked on a flight out of La Guardia and given cab vouchers. All may be well that ends well, but they complained to me about the exceptionally rude and indifferent treatment they got from Delta. However, I'll recommend Bob's Taxi's and Joe the Jamaican driver if your're ever stuck in Newburgh. He took care of their incomplete paperwork, calmed them down and saw them off to NYC just fine.
Cool or Lame: Get Your Passport for Canada? {Gadling}
Jun 19th 2006 7:44PM After a week at a "great books" college workshop and another weekend writing workshop, I spontaneously decided to visit Campobello Island to see the Roosevelt summer home. Oy vey, big mistake!
First, let me describe myself. I wear industrial strength bifocals, have a gimpy knee, have inhaled a few too many Whoppers and will retire (if not expire!) next year. I drive a Camry, for God's sake. Secondly, my car was packed with a bunch of unusual things needed for dorm room living- pillows, towels, a floor fan, iron, etc. - in addition to luggage, maps, books, notebooks, purchases, remnants of breakfast and lunch, etc. All of this had to be emptied from the car and gone through, as well as my purse, tote bag (I don't think terrorists use tote bags; back packs are de rigeur), glove compartment, beverage holder and so on. It took about 2 hours as my carload of stuff was slowly spread out on a big sorting table. This to enter an island where trees must outnumber people 10:1.
Maybe there should be a place for profiling.
Anyway, the irony is that US immigration just flagged me through on my return to the states. I don't even think they looked at my ID.
