TX extended; airport hell

So TX was great, and I'll talk more about the fun stuff later. Right now I'm in the middle of airport hell after a cancelled flight yesterday... Long lines of similarly pissed off passengers just wanting to get the hell home.

After getting over my wave of disgust and anger, I looked around and tried to find the comical in the situation, which really wasn't too difficult... So this horribly disgusting fat lady wearing clothes much too tight for her build was behind me in line telling half of her mobile phone contact list that she was delayed in Texas while also trying to show everyone in line how goddamned important she was... and while slowly creeping up to the side of me in an attempt to budge. Well her greasy little plan slowly but surely worked. She gradually slipped past, leaving me to decide whether to make a scene and save two minutes out of about 120, or to just let the bitch pass. I opted for the latter. It did piss me off a little bit though.

The situation got even more funny when this big oaf of a human being behind me in line decided to start a conversation with the greasy budger woman that is now in front of me. Slowly but surely, this oaf really gets into a deep (well mostly retarded) conversation with this slob and begins taking short yet deliberate steps toward her, going for the complementary budge. He succeeds. I had to say something this time, saying do you realize you are the second person to budge past me but I don't care so much that I need my place back in line... and he acknowledged what happened but said he didn't care at this point as we were all in for a long wait anyways (which I agreed with).

Seriously, sometimes I just hate people. If it matters to you so much, FINE, whatever, I hope karma nips you back. You have to live with yourself... No thanks.

So anyways, after about two hours in line waiting to be re-booked (and after sitting on the plane for 90 minutes before cancellation and getting 75% through the in-flight movie), they gave us a hotel voucher and told about 100 of us to catch a 7 person shuttle to the hotel.

Let's assess this situation... One shuttle for 100 already pissed off people and a 20 minute round trip shuttle run -- yeah, that equals ridiculous and more anger. It was funny watching the first round of shuttle pick up, around 30 people scouting the shuttle names as they pulled up, recognition of our hotel shuttle, and finally a rush of mostly fat people hobbling toward this white van clunkily with their mostly generic black luggage. I opted for a taxi after shuttle round one.

As I made my way to the taxi line, I decided to ask this nice woman I had stood in line with earlier if she wanted to share a cab since it wouldn't cost me anything extra. She happily obliged. As we made our way over to the Taxi line, lo and behold, the greasy budging slob lady must have had her leech-radar on as she ended up slinking up beside us and conveniently inquiring about taxis. Thankfully we were both on the same page and just ignored her and left her to squabble about to find some other poor soul to mooch on. She seemed distressed, which made me crack a smile. KARMA, Bitch :)

One more funny observation this morning in the McDonalds line (hey it was the only thing open!)... The pair of dudes behind me are reading the menu and start discussing McGriddles. This is how their conversation progresses:

"Man, those McGriddles... Who would ever want that mix of sweet and sausage, ick.".
"Yeah man."

"You know, I guess that doesn't sound too bad, like pancakes and sausage."
"Hmm, yeah, I feel that."

"I'll have the number 7 McGriddles value meal."