Various Aspects of Why I Hate To Fly

Various Aspects of Why I Hate To Fly

1. Several of our connections were through San Francisco International, and the combination of brush fire smoke (some days) and a low cloud layer (today) meant that our flights kept getting delayed, with consequent connection problems.

2. This morning we arrived a little later than we should have for the flight out of Reno--and for the first time in memory, a United Airlines employee was rude. Maybe it's Reno. (More about that in a later posting.) The net effect was that they couldn't check our luggage, so we had to drag it through security--where my Swiss Army knife and a can of shaving cream were confiscated.

3. By the time we reached the gate, we were informed that because of the problems at SFO, our flight would be delayed a hour or so--meaning that there was time to get our luggage checked. But by then TSA had already put the Swiss Army knife into a locked disposal box to which they do not have the key. (I presume to make sure that employees didn't loot the good stuff for themselves.) If we didn't think our flight was about to leave, I would have gone back downstairs and arranged to have it mailed. I don't know why it is so hard for TSA to have some provision for victims to pay $10 to have everything stuffed into a Priority Mail box and mailed to your home.

4. Flying--almost as much fun now as dental surgery.