Don’t Travel With Me
January 11th, 2010 | Categories: Travel | 10 CommentsI travel a lot. I fly back and forth between school and home during the academic year, and I’ve grown up in a jet-set type of lifestyle because I have family and friends all over the world. I am generally a good person to have around when traveling via airplane because I am the most experienced with that form of travel as opposed to cars, trains, etc. However, when flying to my school’s city yesterday, this belief of mine was proven wrong.
First, my flight was delayed, which wasn’t really a surprise as it’s not unusual for flight delays to occur in the winter due to weather. However, this delay actually wasn’t anything weather-related. It was caused by a broken lavatory on the plane, and one of the flight attendants informed all passengers that if they couldn’t fix the toilet, we’d have to be moved to another aircraft. I’ve never had a flight delayed because of indoor plumbing, but luckily, they fixed the toilet without major disruptions.
Next, I was at the baggage claim waiting to get my suitcase. Not even ten seconds after I arrived at the carousel, the carousel broke down and all of the luggage had to be shifted to a nearby carousel before any passengers could claim their suitcases. By the time the switch took place, three full flights were assigned the same carousel and claiming luggage was an absolute mess.
Last, I was taking the Metro to get from the airport to my school. After I got on the train, the doors open and shut no less than twelve times before the train was able to be fully operational and depart the station. When I was transferring train lines, all of the up escalators had broken down (the down ones were working just fine, however). I had to loop all the way around the platform with my gigantic heavy suitcase in tow before I could locate the elevator, and by some miracle, it was working, so I managed to get to the upper platform for my connecting train.
Thank God there were no mechanical issues with the shuttle I had to take from the Metro station in order to get to my campus. If there had been, I think I would have just about given up getting back to school in one piece!
Long story short: don’t travel with me. I seem to leave a trail of mechanical failures wherever I go!
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Hi, I'm Manda. I'm a college student studying communications and languages. I like to read, shop, bake, and travel. I have a tendency to listen to my favorite songs on repeat for hours on end. Sometimes I catch myself thinking in a language other than English. 
Wow, what a mess. Lots of things like this can go wrong when traveling. That’s one of the reasons I wouldn’t want to travel.
I love travelling and, other than the usual delays, nothing really goes wrong. Hopefully that string of bad luck was a one-time thing! :)
This is exactly the reason why I hate travelling to places with public transport. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll do it, I just prefer to go by bike when possible! :D
The exception being when I travel in the weekends, because then I get to travel for free with my student bus/train pass. Can’t very well complain if it’s free :P
That’s a crazy amount of bad luck! I always seem to find that travelling either goes perfectly or absolutely everything goes wrong – isn’t it weird?!
I haaate airplane travel. Like, as if my irrational phobia wasn’t bad enough, I hear all these horror stories that make me never want to fly again. Ever. (Too bad I have plans to go to London for the 2012 Olympics… maybe I’ll just swim! :D)
So, yep, makes me happy that I plan on going to university in a city that’s a 6-hour train ride away.
See, I love flying – for what I need, it’s the most efficient way of travel, and overall, it’s incredibly safe. It just so happened that yesterday, it was NOT my day to travel :P Could have been worse – my flight could have been canceled or I could have missed a connecting flight due to the delay (not that I had a connecting flight, but it’s happened before).
Wow that really sucks. well at least you made it? And you can’t expect to know EVERYTHING that could go down at an airport. There are so many weird things that have happened to delay my flights, I can’t even begin to say how normal your plane’s issue was.
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Anythewho! Sounds like you had a right bout of bad luck there! I swear, even time I fly, it’s like I’ve just walked under a ladder and crossed the path of 20 black cats, because EVERYTHING goes wrong. I’m always the one who gets the random ‘pat down’ at security, they always change my gate AFTER my ticket’s been printed and I’m scrambling all over the place… Ah, the joys of travel. :P
Oh jeez that’s unfortunate…
Hopefully that won’t happen to you again! :P
I hear you! On my flight from Shanghai to NY last year, I had to deal with a delay, a broken lavatory and misplaced luggage, just like you. Traveling can be quite the bitch. :(