https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:11:14 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-574056 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:24:07 +0000 cciele 574056@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, poor Una :/ I hope your feet have warmed up, your mind more at peace, and your friend, well, what can I say? Bleh... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573973 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:57:50 +0000 Scarlet 573973@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una, I hope you and your poor feet are recovering I would have been in tears. That definitely sounds like perfect conditions to come down with something too, so please try to take it extra easy on yourself this week! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573930 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:57:05 +0000 Astrid 573930@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm so sorry for your troubles... </p> <p>I was once at 2 a.m. in the outdoor loot of an airport and couldn't find the car where my father had told me it was. I was 18 and alone and there was a creepy guy there that followed me around the whole time. Seriously, I've never done this again! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573919 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:51:22 +0000 lyn67 573919@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my, so sorry for that Una! :-(( </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573570 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:34:40 +0000 Sara L. 573570@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow, you poor thing! I think I would have been in tears by then. I hate flying places with major temperature differentials. I hope your feet have recovered and your friend makes it up to you somehow. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573558 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:25:52 +0000 teri 573558@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>oh wow.... so sorry for your troubles. Hope your friend treats you to something great for your trouble. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573539 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:16:58 +0000 Mochi 573539@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>God, Una! Are you going to remain friends with this person? I'm really sorry for this horrendous episode. Though I hate to say it, but it's almost starting to sound like the norm for travel experiences these days. Glad you made it back in one piece. Glad you cursed out the guy at the gate. (Seriously!) Glad you did have fun during the trip itself. </p> <p>Arrgh, deep breaths (I'm talking to myself, not you....) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573532 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:12:50 +0000 Suz 573532@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OMG, Una! That is so horrible! I hope your poor feet have warmed up by now. It certainly has been a week for eventful travels (or cancellations...see Manidipa for her story!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573475 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:12:20 +0000 Mander 573475@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow. I would be absolutely livid, and I would definitely write to the airline whose staff refused to inform the next flight that you were coming! That is just inexcusable when the flight has delays. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573411 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:13:09 +0000 christy 573411@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love going places, I just hate having to fly to get there! Yikes...what a miserable experience. I'm so sorry!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573401 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:50:58 +0000 velvetychocolate 573401@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yikes! This week sure seems to be one filled with travel woes. Ack - nothing worse than umpteen stopovers and then to have your car in the worst possible place. </p> <p>Egads. </p> <p>In the meantime, you've reminded me of "Into the Wild" - a movie and story that I don't think I'll ever forget. </p> <p>Glad you're home safe and sound, and here's hoping you've got your car back. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573377 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:24:15 +0000 ManidipaM 573377@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ok, that is just bizarre!!!!! Times 20!</p> <p>Una, hugs to you. Hope you're sitting with your feet in a basin of warm water or something! Poor, poor you after an exhausting BUNCH of flights. </p> <p>Is this some new travel trend I need to write up? There was a time when airlines had code-share arrangements precisely so that connecting would be easier when you have no direct flights. Now it seems it is okay to instead shuttle you (at considerable cost to self and stratosphere) back and forth like a chess piece till you can be bumped off the board --- with no reference to geography. I mean, BIRD brains have better sense, for Pete's sake!</p> <p>As for the 'friend's friend' --- well, I'd be making the friend's ears ring, if s/he was the one who recommended this person as reliable! There might even be NO TALKING for a while. Hope s/he has the grace to collect your car keys and come hand them over in person, with apologies --- and cake! (And never lend her/him a thing again!)</p> <p>Oh my! I'm still shaking my head in disbelief!</p> <p>You did good, you hear? I would be pleading temporary insanity for all my actions for several days to come, with your ordeal. (Man, you make me glad to be sitting at home, after my own cancelled trip!) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573331 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:36:10 +0000 ironkurtin 573331@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is a horrible story.</p> <p>I would have bitched out way more than one guy, BTW. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573324 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:23:16 +0000 modgrl 573324@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! Hugs! Major, WARM hugs!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573322 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:20:54 +0000 Anonymous 573322@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OMG I think you win the award for the worst trip ever only to be greeted by the worst senario at home! That is horrible! What is NOLA? Your friend owes you "Princess Parking" (airport drop off and pick up) for the rest of your life! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573321 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:19:33 +0000 Jem 573321@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! That sounds terrible! I'm glad you are home safe now! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573311 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:09:15 +0000 Jaime 573311@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hope your friend is kissing your frost bit feet and begging forgiveness! Seven hours and no snacks? Wow, you are a trouper! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573306 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:05:18 +0000 christieanne 573306@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Flight plan was insane! Phoenix has really bad connecting airports I have discovered lately. </p> <p>After a long long day, to discover you can't find the key to car would have put me in tears - airport hassles are the worst. </p> <p>I hope your friend remembers this and does you favors for life! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573194 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:55:56 +0000 Carole 573194@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Between you and Claire, I'm afraid for my upcoming trip. I can only imagine your frustration and disappointment in your friend. She owes you BIG TIME! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573187 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:47:21 +0000 Sunita 573187@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh no! Claire and Suz have also had travel-related mishaps lately...</p> <p>I hope that friend makes it up to you somehow and you are not suffering from any ill-effects from a romp through ice &amp; snow in sandals! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573183 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:46:08 +0000 Anonymous 573183@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>She should take you out for lunch and treat you to a deluxe pedicure! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573177 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:42:10 +0000 Transcona Shannon 573177@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh Una - that's horrible! Are you feet ok? I mean seriously....no frostbite? What is wrong with people - is there no common sense anymore?</p> <p>We're glad to have you back though! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573168 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:35:42 +0000 Sveta 573168@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Una, this is awful! I hope you did not catch a cold after this. I really hope she feels bad about this and makes it up to you.<br /> Rae, I am right beside you strapping those bars! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573159 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:29:18 +0000 rachylou 573159@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ohmigosh, I'd cry. I would so cry and make heads roll... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573143 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:15:28 +0000 Traci 573143@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Wow! I hope she makes it up to you in some indulgent way. That's frustrating AND scary! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573124 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:43:06 +0000 Janet 573124@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh NO! That sounds thoroughly miserable. I am so sorry! Did you retrieve your car yet? I'd say your friend owes you big time! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573122 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:41:28 +0000 Makrame 573122@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh my, that's bad. I usually try to bring a spare car key with me "just in case". I also hate flying back to the frozen snow belt from a nice sunny destination. I am glad you decided to take a cab, and hope your feet have recovered. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573119 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:39:43 +0000 rae 573119@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, UNA! At least you didn't have to smoke moose meat or eat poisonous leaves...? Did you ever find your car key? Are your poor feet okay after being exposed to snow? </p> <p>I cannot believe the planes had no snacks for you... That's it, I'm taping Cliff bars to my shins when we fly from now on! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-tale-of-travel-woes#post-573104 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:22:20 +0000 catgirl 573104@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Though the trip itself was fab, the traveling was not. I was routed from Anchorage - Pheonix - Charlotte - NOLA on the way there. No logic whatsoever. On the way back, NOLA - Denver - Phoenix - Anchorage. Even WORSE. When I got to Phoenix we sat on the runway forever before deplaning. I had 10 minutes to run 22 gates. Asked the guy at the arrival gate if he could let them know I was on the way. He said no! I cussed him out (I was really tired) and sprinted, carry-on, purse and bag with cool masks in tow. Just made the flight home which took an extra hour due to turbulence and headwinds (so 7 hours!). Had no time anywhere to get food, and two of the flights were out of snack boxes.</p> <p>This is where it gets bad.</p> <p>I had let a friend of a friend borrow my car and left it at the airport for her. I expected her to leave it for me where I'd parked it, in the nice warm sheltered indoor lot, with the key in the same place. This was specifically because I'd left my coat in the car, worn sandals, and packed my heels. No boots or anything to take up space. </p> <p>Well, I arrive in Anchorage at 1:30 a.m to find she's parked the car in the OUTDOOR lot. I drag my suitcase all the way across the parking lot through ankle-deep snow wearing sandals, only to find that the key wasn’t where it was supposed to be. I couldn’t find it anywhere, and after 15 minutes of shivering, searching and trying unsuccessfully to call her at 2 a.m., I decided that rather than perish in the car like the guy from “Into the Wild”, I would walk back to the airport and take a cab home. So I did. By that time I was nearly hysterical and my feet were frozen.</p> <p>The moral of the story is: Never trust your friends, and always bring your boots! </p>