So when you cancel my flight from Pensacola (I know, I should have known. Flights from dead-end, dead-beat cities are always cancelled) and put me into Minneapolis the next day, obviously I'm not going to be TOO upset. Not like I cared about this graduation. I mean, they happen all the time right? I know I was planning on graduating again someday, so really it's not a big deal. The Hilton Garden Inn was a nice respite from the hustle and bustle of the exciting and lively world of Pensacola, and getting to watch the entire World Cup Preview show on ESPN2 while I waited for the Celtics to beat the Lakers was pretty great, too. And those two $6 vouchers to feed me were awesome. Thanks for telling me that I needed to stay in the airport to eat dinner. Instead I went to the hotel to find that the hotel wouldn't feed me, they'd only give me a really nice bed and Neutrogena shampoo and let me watch 6 hours of their LG flatscreen TV programming. So I used the dinner voucher for breakfast when I caught my re-booked flight and then used the breakfast voucher in Atlanta at Starbucks and made sure to use as close to the full $6 as possible. I'm taking all I can get from you, Delta. The ladies at Starbucks don't like you anymore either, we all decided me missing my graduation because of your mechanical issues was not alright. Kesha at your Online Help Desk was great, though. I mean, I am only missing 1/2 of my graduation, so it only makes sense that when I ask for you to pay for my flights this weekend, you give me about 1/3 of what I paid to be able to be back to graduate. Yeah, that's totally fine. I've talked y'all into about $300 so far, and man is it far from over. I will spend my weekend getting everything I possibly can from you. Kesha did offer me a hotel in MSP, but I told her it's coo'. I will get your money somewhere else. Like by telling all my friends never to fly with you. And on my flight from ATL to MSP you were kind enough to seat me with two recent graduates who you screwed over, too. That makes sense. You wouldn't want our complaining about your company to infiltrate the rest of the world. We'll lock ourselves over here and whine about what you've done to ruin our weekend and not let anyone else know what you've done. Doesn't bother me, everyone else will know soon enough. It's really just too bad that you acquired or merged with Northwest because if I remember correctly they were actually one of the worst airlines in the world. They got rid of every convenient direct flight ever made and then charged at least $700 for a flight to one of their hubs. Yeah, you're on the track to success now and Northwest is definitely the one to take you there. Congratulations.
So, while I head back to school to beat my parents there by about an hour, I am just glad that I don't have to be in Sarasota right now. Oh wait, if I were there I could be helpful, mark a golf course, be outside, and possibly even help my team finish early so we could spend some time at the beach or something. ATL was cool, though. Nothing like spending your Friday morning in the busiest airport in the world, missing half of what you intended to be there for for your own graduation, and getting everything you can out of Delta... two $6 meals in airports where food costs twice that and a $100 voucher when you spent $300 under the impression you'd be home to graduate. No worries.
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