Crazy Girls
In the 2008-2009 season (our 10th anniversary season!) we'll be playing some tours for Live On Stage, a great organization that sends all kinds of performers around the country. http://www.liveonstage.biz/html/liveonstage.htm To help them promote our group, we agreed to do a showcase performance at their annual conference in Nashville. Seemed simple enough. We found cheap, direct flights the night before and the morning after. Booked a hotel. Reserved a car at the Nashville airport. Easy... we thought.
Showed up at LaGuardia (some of us earlier than others... nice to have a sister to breathlessly call from a stalled-out bus who will print your boarding passes and wait for you at the security line).
Scheduled to board at 7pm.
7:05 - flight cancelled
7:15 - all flights that evening to Nashville, Memphis, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Charlotte cancelled due to heavy thunderstorms
7:15 - airline rebooks us on a flight the next day arriving an hour after our showcase performance time
7:30 - call Avis, National, Dollar, Enterprise, and Thrifty LaGuardia locations - no cars
7:40 - miraculously, Hertz has a car
7:45 - American Airlines promises to refund the outgoing half of our tickets without cancelling the return tickets (update... 3 have been refunded, cello ticket refund is pending "review")
7:50 - get in line at Hertz (Friday night with tons of cancelled flights)
8:40pm - start driving
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enough Diet Coke and country music (yeah, TN radio...) to last a year
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11:10am - stop driving
Nap, eat, rehearse, perform. Life on the road.
posted by emily @ 11:55 PM
3 comments
3 Comments:
The NERVE of that airline delaying a refund for C.B. pending review! Well, somebody has to start crankin'em from a payphone by hitting some offensive chord progressions that reverberate woe to the eardrums of the receiving party. Then somebody else should crank'em at midnight with a violin dirge of some ritualistic sacrifice. Now, THAT is crazy, girls! BTW, could you pick me up a brick of firecrackers on your way home?
The Claremont Trio does it again! Neither snow nor rain nor act of God will stop the Claremont from showing up when scheduled! But what is this about being almost late for the airplane, Emily? I thought your parents taught you that being early for all events is the next thing to godliness! As for the Cello Bruskin refund, let me know if this continues to be a problem--I know a pretty good lawyer who may be willing to take this on for you for a nominal fee....
Paula
Air travel seemed to be especially non-functional this summer. A fellow DSG hosted me when my return flight from Boston to Baltimore was canceled. Anyway, I noticed that your route from NY to TN circumvented Baltimore, by a wide arc. What are you afraid of here, the second highest homicide rate in the nation?
Love & knishes. Liz
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