last night's post (camping...) was created at Max & Erma's in the Detroit airport. I was on my way to Milwaukee. For financial reasons, it made more sense to leave Sunday night, so, left Lansing at 5 pm. Got into Detroit and saw that the flight to Milwaukee was delayed about an hour...that's a good thing, I could have dinner and watch most of the US Open.
They start boarding the plane right as Tiger and Westwood are teeing it up on the 18th, so, I'm left to getting updates off the blackberry and in a phone call to Suzanne. Taxi back and out about 9 pm.
Taxi back into the gate at 10:20. I always seem to be the one to do the Detroit tarmac tour. We're heading out to take off, the flight attendants have done thier spiel, everyone's sitting down, and over the intercom, the one flight attendant says "Ma'am, you have to sit down"....."Maam, we're on a live runway, you have to sit down"......I was reading, so, never saw the woman get up, but, she did, and went to the lavatory......and stayed there. So, we pull over and wait.....and wait.....and wait....and finally the pilot announces that we have go back for more fuel. We're greeted there by multiple vehicles with sirens on top, and 4 nice young men from the Detroit Airport police come on board, ask the woman to come out of the lavatory, and escort her, in handcuffs, off of the plane.
Of course, by this time, the flight crew has spent too many hours working, and the flight is cancelled. Rescheduled for 6 am Monday morning. Northwest hands out hotel vouchers (Days Inn Romulus...woo hoo!) and says we can take a shuttle over there. I've made friends with another guy who was watching the US Open with me (side note: he's on his way back from Paris; had his wallet stolen as he headed to the airport....) and we grab a cab instead of waiting for the shuttle. Good, but, pricy, move, as we check in right as the shuttle we wouldn't have made it onto arrives, and 12 people line up to check in. It's about midnight by now.
Wake up at 4:30 am, head back to the airport, arrive in Milwaukee at 6:30 am Central time...
Yoi!
Scott's current reading list (a lot of progress made here yesterday!). "The Sunne in Splendour" by Sharon Kay Pennman.....a re-read of a book about the War of the Roses (the trip to London and Paris has me going back to books set there) and "Better" by Atul Gawande, subtitled "A surgeon's notes on performance"
