[Rick Lee]

I know this story is nothing compared to many others, but I had a cross-country flight yesterday. Of course, AA canceled my flight from PHL to PHX a few hours before we had planned to leave for the airport. Calling them to rebook required a 90+ minute wait, so I entered the option for them to call me back. We took the only flight we could find seats on online, which left us with about five minutes to pack and get to the airport about 90 minutes away. No time for shower or anything else I had planned to do in the next few hours. AA called me back just before we got to the airport. Gee thanks. Of course, my AA credit card has never once worked in one of their damned check-in kiosks. None of my other cards did yesterday either, so off to stand in line to get our checked baggage tagged. Thank God, I had a good Tom Clancy book to keep me occupied. Mrs. Lee and I couldn't sit together. And, as always, once home in PHX, the baggage delivery carousels were a clusterfook. I can't recall the last time my bags actually came out on the carousel displayed on the screen as the one for my flight. I hate everyone.