Actual conversations held between 8/31/12 and 9/10/12 between an unnamed, not- famous-but-should-be blogger (LBL) and various representatives of airlines and airport security: 8/31/12 Frankfort, Germany LBL: Why have we been sitting at the gate for three hours? Lufthansa Rep: We are on strike. LBL: But I flew from DC to Frankfort. LR: We weren’t on strike […]
December 30, 2011
(The following is the ninth in my new series, “Old Posts to Dredge out on Slow Weekends Because When I Posted Them Originally People Cared More About the Economy and World Peace Than My Blog.” Although nothing has changed, it’s the start of a really slow weekend, blogging-wise.) My tonsils have been gone since 1954. […]
December 5, 2010
I seriously hate beating dead horses. And I don’t know why anyone would want to do that anyway, but apparently there must have been a time in the past when people actually did beat dead horses, or the phrase never would have come into existence. Did they do it or fun on the farm? […]
November 12, 2010
I’m about to leave for London. Again. Because my three kids all live at a distance (three different distances, to be precise), I now do a fair amount of traveling. And, because I have enough metal in my body to build a washer/dryer, Airport Security is always a blast (Whoops, wrong choice of words.) I […]
September 12, 2012
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