Comments on Live-Blogging the 2007 Holiday Travel Nightmare

or you could have rented a car and been there in about 15 hours, give or take.

There were/are no cars to be had...but I could probably get a taxi...

Dave

Best food in on the K concourse: there's a Miller's Pub and a Wolfgang Puck. Good luck.

Bill

My dining suggestion - I know that Midway has a Harry Caray's. If O'Hare has one too, check it out as it was probably the only time I had a really good meal at an airport. It won't blow you away, but it's surely better than Wolfgang Puck's.

It's time for a great book, good music, headphones and people watching.
Headphones are to block out all the crappy music but don't blame Jesus I'm sure he would hate that music as much as you do...; )
Keep warm and I hope the time goes by fast for you.

My English is slipping.. Do you say headphones or earphones?

This is why I paid a few hundred more for my direct flight back east (the Red Eye Special leaving SeaTac late tonight), although I don't know if a non-stop from Seattle to Norfolk is possible. Last year I got delayed at O'Hare both ways and that was not an experience I wish to repeat.

Happy trails, Dave. Try to stay sane.

this is exactly why i never travel around the holidays. i did my family thang last weekend.

good luck!!!

David, you have excellent taste in movies. just you talking about OUATITW has that creepy harmonica sound going through my head. I leave for sea tac in 2 hours and I am not looking forward to it.

Ahh, I have spent many a holiday stranded at O'Hare... For future reference, avoid that place like the plague, even if it takes flying way out of the way, like through Denver or Atlanta. Chicago's a great town, but they have truly, profoundly shitty weather. It's worse at this time of year, but I've seen a summer rainstorm bring that place to a standstill. Good luck!

Cruel twist: This Chicago cancellation affected only me, as Jake took separate, uncancelled flights to Norfolk, where he’s now getting to spend some quality time with my extended family while wearing underpants borrowed from my brother.

OH MY GOD

I know that you're the one really suffering the most on paper here, but be sure to give him a very special BJ when you see him. This is my worst nightmare played out in someone else's underpants.

Never. Ever. Fly through O'Hare. Especially this time of year. It is practically an invitation to get stranded. If you absolutely cannot get a non-stop flight, then find a flight that changes somewhere with better weather. That dramatically reduces your chances of getting stuck in an airport for Xmas. I absolutely refuse to change planes in Chicago for holiday flights.

I know. Little consolation to you now, sitting there in the airport. Bummer.

Oh, and also, there are only two kinds of luggage: carry-on and lost. :-(

I can only barely feel sorry for you. See #12. What were you thinking? You brought it on yourself when you segregated the luggage. The O'Hare god laughed at your arrogance.

He is a cruel god. I will no longer tempt him with such a sacrifice.

@6: Both are correct. Earphones typically refer to the small buds that fit inside the ear.

"Hobo camp." Hee hee.

Odd...I've flown through O'Hare every solstice for years, and I've never even been delayed.

Wearing your boyfriend's brother's underwear. Now thats hot and kinky

I've officially decided I'm sticking with trains. Even though it takes longer. And even for going to Europe.

I've missed the "Dan Once Supported the War" troll. His pure unadultrated stupidity was a standard against which I could measure all other stupid troll posts. When he was gone, I had a hard time gaging how much I hated Ecce, issur, and unPC posts.

Thanks for coming back, "Dan Once Supported the War" troll!

Sorry to hear it - I must've barely made it out of O'Hare b/c my friday a.m. flight from Seattle landed in Chicago with the clouds down almost to the effin tarmac, but my flight out of O'Hare around 4pm departed without incident. I remember thinking, "wow, it's really foggy." I did hear some poor pissed guy complaining loudly on his cell phone that all Canadian (or was it Air Canada?) flights were cancelled.
Oh that sucks. I'm glad you can drink morning beers while walking around the large terminal. Good luck - and milk the airline for all you can!

Funny, A Non, Don Imus has been a good friend since about 1973 or so. And yes, I've been in the studio with him (and on the air with him). Regardless of what you may or may not perceive his public persona to be, he's a great guy.

@23 - Everything I know about Don Imus, I learned from Howard Stern.

Never met Howard Stern, so I can't comment on that. I did get really fucking ridiculously drunk with Hunter Thompson once, though. Does that count?

Oh, ironies. I am stuck in the Portland airport, waiting for my connection to O'hare (that's where I'm actually going, I'm not connecting to somewhere else). Apparently, there were really terrible winds so they shut down some runways and my flight was delayed four hours. So, O'hare can fuck you either way.

Hope you actually got out....

Hey Y.F. - do you have a life other than trolling?

Dave, I was feeling sorry for myself when I read this, and you made me laugh out loud all by myself in my mother's house, which is freezing and full of guilt traps. Thanks for that! Hobo camp. Ha.