A word of advice: Never let Sue help alleviate family stress by suggesting taking a train to the airport. Especially when you have 5 fifty pound bags, 3 huge carry ons and 3 purses stuffed to the max and only one Colombian valet to help carry some of those bags through 5 different subway transfers during rush hour in New York City. The adventure starts at 4:26 p.m. as we board the Suffern train..not realizing that we have to change trains in Seacacus. While aboard the train, we have some laughter and fun banter. Then, we began to look for an energy source. The Colombian being familiar with the train, shuffles to the back of the car but goes to far. BANG! The train abruptly comes to a halt and the Colombian, while in a squatted in position finds his head colliding with the metal door. Simultaneously, our bags decide they miss us and quietly creep over to their loved ones. So of course, we explode into uncontrollable giggles. The man on his iPhone, however, did not like this and rebuked us. Asking us to show "some respect for the people on the train". FInally arriving to Seacacus, and looking for the gate to Penn Station, Sue's card decides not to work, not letting her into the gate with us. After she leaves to find assistance, the gate opens a few times. After yelling obnoxiously for her to come back, the assistance tells us that it was the Colombians fault for standing too close to the sensors. So Sue sprints, her 40 pound rolling carry on in tow, to catch it, and it closes a final time. The Colombian moves away from the sensors, the assistant places his card in the card reader and the gates open. Sue is FREE! We are on our way to Penn Station. After 3 train transfers and 4 hours of traveling, we finally arrive at JFK for our 7 hour flight to Paris.
BLANKET WARS:::::::
It was 11:50 when we were awakened by threats of police.The cause of arrest at landing; a stolen blanket. One woman, two flight attendants is all that we saw. The woman was a repeat offender, she was threatening and demanding her window seat. Forcing an innocent older couple to get up and move over. The older woman, who was apparently quite chilly, had wandered up to first class and STOLE a blanket off what she thought was an empty seat but was actually a seat reserved for the crew. We found this out after the police threats. The male flight attendant, after asking for the blanket to be returned threatened the elderly woman with the common french threat; DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? Apparently the male flight attendant was not the flight attendant at all, HE WAS THE CAPTAIN! who had witnessed theft!! He had caught the woman FUZZY handed, in the act of blanket robbery. After this threat, and power struggle, the woman complained and stated her case : "It is so cold in this plane, I asked several flight attendants for another blanket and they did not have any extras; i need another blanket! I am very upset, very upset." To which the flight attendant AND the CAPTAIN said that there will be police waiting to arrest the woman when the plane landed. We thought the ordeal was over, until the female flight attendant stormed back over, leaned into the woman's face and said "HE SAW YOU TAKE THE BLANKET!" Then…. it was all over, by 11:57 pm (New York time, since there's no internet in flight world to update Chelsea Burt's computer clock)
NOOK ATTACK!
Finally arriving at the French Airport, we suddenly are not allowed through security because there is something suspicious in Ali Bee's bag. The French man asks her to take out her iPod which she does, but the bag still does not go through. Security keeps asking her to remove her iPad, laptop or whatever she has, but she insists there is nothing in her bag. Meanwhile Sue bag goes right through we iphone, ipod, and an external hard drive. When she begins to take everything out of her bag she finds it…the Nook. After holding up the line, we are finally let through, Nook in hand. As we begin to collect all of our belongings, the man stops us again. This time he shows us the baggage scan display screen that there was a revolver in Ali Bee's bag… we all stop in shock. Why the heck would there be a gun in there, Ali Bee?! Maybe the blanket lady threw her weapon in there when she heard the cops were coming after her…but then the gun disappears from the screen and the man begins to laugh. What a silly Frenchman, what an adventure.
And now, after trudging up five flights of stairs with 4, rather than 6 fifty pound bags because the airport stole Chelsea's bag, we arrived at our apartment. Stay tuned, more to come!
-Chelsea Bee, Ali Bee and Sue Vee <3
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