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Survival tips from “I Love Lucy”
October 5th, 2009
Sometimes it’s just not your day. That’s how I felt a while back when I was overseas and learned my flight to the States was delayed. Yes, the desk agent told me, you will miss your connection. No, he said, there’s not another flight out of JFK tonight. Yes, there’s a flight out of La Guardia. Well, I suppose you could take a taxi. You’ll have about half an hour to clear customs, get across town, and make your flight. No, that’s not a lot of time, but … excuse me? You want a what??
A helicopter. After being stranded thanks to other delayed flights with this carrier, I thought it only fair that this time the airline should comp me a helicopter to La Guardia. And I wanted transportation from customs to the helicopter pad at JFK and then from the helicopter pad to the gate at La Guardia. It took a lot of polite persistent persuasion, but the airline finally granted the requests. Not bad maneuvering for a nearly broke recent college grad. But, hey, I was just channeling Lucy Ricardo.
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