Patience is a virtue... or so they say... My flight to Yellowknife on Feb 9 was an exercise in patience... to say the least!!! I was at the airport in plenty of time for the 8:35 am departure... happily reading a book while waiting for the flight to board. It looked like we might even leave early, but some last minute luggage was loaded and we ended up leaving about 10 minutes late instead of 10 minutes early. Those 20 minutes made a big difference! As we neared Edmonton (for to catch the connecting flight)... we were told by the pilot that Edmonton Airport had just been wrapped in fog... so no landings and no departures. We circled around for about 25 minutes and then the jet powered up and I knew we were in for a long haul! Yup, we were headed back to Calgary. We landed at around 10:15 am and were told to get our luggage and head up the Westjet charter counters. My luggage was almost the first pieces down the conveyor, so I moved quickly... but was still #20 in line... A line that took 1 hour for me to get to the desk... Where I was told that the next flight to Edmonton was at 12:00 pm and it was booked solid and there was no way I could make the Yellowknife flight... now due to leave Edmonton at 1:10 pm... Soooo... The next best thing was to fly out the next day, same time, same place...
That's the way it goes sometimes!! Luckily, two other workshop team members had made it into Edmonton from Winnipeg, just before the fog closed in so they were good to go up to Yellowknife... They'll just have to do Day 1 without me! While waiting in the interminable line-up to get "reaccomodated"... I eventually ended up sitting on my luggage on the luggage cart and reading a book. Other people were getting irate... but there really isn't anything that irate will get you... except a feeling of irateness... It doesn't make anything move faster... or make flights appear out of thin air... So... patience is the key... and there are lots of opportunities for patience in a day... or in an hour!!!
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