HouCuseChickie
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I still find this so interesting. I would assume this is for a variety of medical and personal matters and not just this particular vaccine?
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I still find this so interesting. I would assume this is for a variety of medical and personal matters and not just this particular vaccine?
HouCuseChickie
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Good morning. I didn't get to work out yesterday. I got a text around dinnertime about some birthday stuff for one of my younger one's friends. The gift we ordered isn't going to arrive on time, so we went to the mall in hopes we could find something locally. I didn't really think of it as a workout, but we did walk around the mall for over an hour and my legs were achy later on...so I guess it's something.
Waiting to hear back from family on how they're feeling today, but they were sounding pretty good yesterday afternoon. We're now starting to get worried about FL in general. This was never meant to be a Disney trip to FL, but it's looking like Elsa may rain on our parade. We're going to be in Zone A when it comes to storm evacuation, so this should be interesting.
Waiting to hear back from family on how they're feeling today, but they were sounding pretty good yesterday afternoon. We're now starting to get worried about FL in general. This was never meant to be a Disney trip to FL, but it's looking like Elsa may rain on our parade. We're going to be in Zone A when it comes to storm evacuation, so this should be interesting.
Stay safe my friend
Sans Souci
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Hello-
I promise to catch up with everyone tomorrow. I’m on my phone and I fat finger everything.
I’m at PHL waiting for my husband to rebook our flights. Our flight went from 9 pm to 10 pm to 11:47 to 12:30 AM. My husband has been up since six and I’ve been up since 5. Neither one of us wants to wait for luggage at O’Hare and get on a monorail to wait in line to get our car. Our hotel is a 35 min drive. I know it doesn’t sound like a long drive, but we’re not confident we can do it safely.
He’s going to try to get vouchers to cover us for a future flight. But we are going to be out on our rental car and hotel.
my husband tried to ask the rental car co if he could pick it up sometime tomorrow morning after we got some sleep and they said no, he would be considered a no show.
I have a feeling they are not going to be generous with the vouchers since a storm caused these delays.
the CS line is looong. They’ve been sending me texts today asking me to reconsider our flight, but they don’t seem to be interested in helping the pax.
Btw, this airport looks like it hasn’t had an overhaul since the LBJ administration.
I promise to catch up with everyone tomorrow. I’m on my phone and I fat finger everything.
I’m at PHL waiting for my husband to rebook our flights. Our flight went from 9 pm to 10 pm to 11:47 to 12:30 AM. My husband has been up since six and I’ve been up since 5. Neither one of us wants to wait for luggage at O’Hare and get on a monorail to wait in line to get our car. Our hotel is a 35 min drive. I know it doesn’t sound like a long drive, but we’re not confident we can do it safely.
He’s going to try to get vouchers to cover us for a future flight. But we are going to be out on our rental car and hotel.
my husband tried to ask the rental car co if he could pick it up sometime tomorrow morning after we got some sleep and they said no, he would be considered a no show.
I have a feeling they are not going to be generous with the vouchers since a storm caused these delays.
the CS line is looong. They’ve been sending me texts today asking me to reconsider our flight, but they don’t seem to be interested in helping the pax.
Btw, this airport looks like it hasn’t had an overhaul since the LBJ administration.
Good luck
MinnieM123
Premium Member
Ugh! Sorry to hear this. What a nightmare.
(Curious -- did they say any of this was weather-related delays/cancellations of flights?)
Songbird76
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It's interesting, isn't it? Where does this misinformation coming from? E really wants to get vaccinated. She was really happy when it was announced that she can. She was wearing a mask before it was mandatory, too. She has one friend who keeps telling her masks are bad for you, they make you breathe in CO2, which has been debunked I don't know how many times, but she still believes it. Her dad won't let allow her to even get tested because he believes there are "nano particles" or something that get released into your brain every time you get tested and they change your brain or your DNA or something. Her parents are divorced and the parents have joint custody, but she's 15 and allowed to decide for herself who she wants to live with. I guess she told her dad a few weeks ago that she's not comfortable at his house. His new wife is awful to her, I guess, and they are always fighting, and that plus all the misinformation stuff just makes her really uncomfortable. I guess he got really mad at her for saying she wasn't comfortable there and yelled at her so she hasn't seen him for the last month, nor her little half-sister. (She has a whole bunch of siblings from her parents' various relationships) I feel bad for her that it's obviously a volitile situation, but I'm kind of surprised she chose her mom because she's always spouted the stuff her dad believes as though it's true, but her mom is the opposite. But E's friend is anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-testing, etc. I had never even HEARD of the theory of nano-particles and I'm not sure I understand what exactly they are supposed to do. It's either something with altering your brain or your DNA, or it's like spyware that it gives the government access to information about you, like tracking your movements, or maybe it's both? Same with the vaccines. But my experience is the same.....most of the people who are against the vaccines are also against masks, and most of them are against any measures whatsoever.
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Songbird76
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No, I think it's for pretty much all medical stuff. Your parents can't force you one way or the other. Even testing. When E had symptoms and I called to get an appointment to test her, they had to get her permission to make the appointment for her.
It IS kind of strange that they can make decisions like that themselves, but then there is no choice when it comes to school. They HAVE to go to school until they are at least 18, or they have a higher education diploma. So a kid who finishes high school at 16 is still required to go to college for at least 2 years. They aren't allowed to decide not to go to college. It won't affect my daughter at all because she's doing the highest level of school that takes 6 years, so she'll be 18 when she finishes. But A, for all intents and purposes, skipped a year, so he's a year younger than all the kids in his class, AND he's doing the 2nd highest level of school, which is only 5 years. He'll graduate the same year E does, but he'll only be 16. So he'll HAVE to go on for 2 more years. He'll get to choose whether he wants to go on and complete 2 more years of high school to get the highest level diploma like E, or go on to a junior college, but he won't be able to decide he's done with school, even though he has a high school diploma. So it's kind of weird that they give kids control over potential life or death matters, but not their education.
Songbird76
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This is for softball, right? So you can't just postpone the trip until the storm isn't a threat and the family is over the crud? Did your mother end up getting a positive test, too?
HouCuseChickie
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It really is mind boggling to me. People are obviously free to choose, in most cases, and can use whatever information they please to form their decisions. Still, some of the stuff I've heard is really out there. It's like a bad game of telephone. I know it's what's scared my kids and had them on the fence. At this point, it is what it is and we can only do what we think is best for our respective families.
HouCuseChickie
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On one hand, I think it's great to see such an emphasis put on education, but you'd like to see similar care put into matters of health.
HouCuseChickie
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Yes, it's softball. So, we're bound by tournament schedules. Not that I like seeing anyone have to deal with this kind of weather, but I'm hoping the forecast track keeps it to our east.
Sans Souci
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Thanks.
When is your trip to WDW? It's hot, but I find it some what tolerable, because you can dip into cooler buildings when you get hot, or watch a show. The heat typically doesn't bother me, but I find the sun is what gets me. I get this weird sensation, like my skin is too tight and that means I've reached my max for the day. I ignored this "sensation" once and I felt so ill.
Sans Souci
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I'm glad your family sounds like they are doing better. It sounds like the vaccine is working if they are only getting mild cases.
This is for your girls' softball with some time with your family mixed in, rt? Can you cancel or is that up to the softball team/organization? OK, never mind. I see you were asked that.
What would it take for them to cancel this tournament?
If they don't cancel will it affect travel? Is there any chance it can be rescheduled?
Sans Souci
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Ugh! Sorry to hear this. What a nightmare.
They never told us why we kept getting delayed. They only info the gave was over the app and that was updated flight times. We didn't even know they'd changed gates until I looked at my phone. Nobody announced anything at the gate. There was a lot of poor (none, really) communication last night.
When we got the the CS desk, she never told us what the problem was. She never said it was our weather, weather at another hub or what. Lots of people were very angry and I felt badly for the CS agents. They don't create this mess. I guess people haven't heard the saying that you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. I'm not going to lie, the agent we were working with really didn't care, it was a lot of "uh, huh", "yes", "Mm hmm" while not really engaged. She was just waiting for us to stop talking. She wasn't going to give us anything, but my husband really pushed the fact that they messed with our return flight and that we paid more money to fix an issue they created. She tapped some keys and nodded her head. She gave us what we paid minus the $76 pp exit row cost. She also told us that they could get our suitcase for us, we just needed to go to to Luggage Claim office. That was the first thing we asked about. Well, after waiting 45 minutes in line, the agent there said she was wrong and that our suitcase was going to Chicago.
He did flag our suitcase for us and it should be coming back today or tomorrow. He said they might courier it to our home or we might have to pick it up. I am hoping they will deliver it, but I have the feeling since we backed out, we'll have to pick it up. Honestly, I am hoping it doesn't get lost. (Personally, from a safety point of view, I was surprised they let a bag without its owner go on a flight. I am pretty sure terrorists have done this with a bomb in the suitcase.)
My husband said he felt badly for this guy. He was trying his best to help people, but he kept getting phone calls from other employees inquiring about luggage and he kept calling other agents to come down and help him. They are so stretched so thin and it shows. I don't think it's right to expect front facing employees to bear the brunt of operational decisions made by someone who never sees the consequences of their decisions.
And because we would have landed after midnight, the rental car company would have considered us a no show and charged us. Then we would have had to pay for another rental. My husband was shocked about that. People are on delayed flights all the time.
Sans Souci
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The misinformation comes from entities that know a divided nation is a weak nation. What makes it dangerous is when you get a significant proportion of a country believing the misinformation.
My son just thinks it's "too new," which is more comforting to me as a mother than nano-particles (although this mRNA technology has been while). Funnily enough, he kept that mask bolted on his face last night at the airport. He ordered a milk and didn't even fully take his mask off to drink it. We even went outside to wait while my husband waited to talk to an agent, he kept it on.
That is awful about your daughter's friend. Hopefully staying with her mom will be a more calming supportive presence in her life. Nobody needs a step-parent agitating things in the house.
Both vaccines should have full FDA approval before the end of the summer. Maybe that will persuade him? They've also been in development for well over a decade. Maybe that will help him understand the process more? Good luck
HouCuseChickie
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I have heard so many flight and airport horror stories of late. For the bag, I have had so many instances of our bags flying ahead of us. We often arrive early and if it's a destination with a lot of flights, we've had our bags leave on one of the earlier flights. They still go through all of the security protocols...they just don't fly with their owners. Either way, I hope your bag arrives. We've had at least one or two instances of having a courier bring us ours.
The rental car matter is interesting. I don't pay for my rentals until check in and don't usually have to put a credit card on file for it, but I'd still be livid if I were delayed and they had no rental car for me at 2am. Wow.