You know it's going to be a good flight when you look out the Gate window and are greeted by the warm, flashing lights of a police cruiser, ambulance and firetruck. Obviously, Logan has great confidence in the quality of the pilots flying in and out Boston's fair city. Luckily my gut acts as a personal flotation device in the case of a water landing. My flight doesn't leave until 8:05, though, so hopefully the emergency officials will have successfully pried the obese Southwest passenger out of his tiny seat by then. I hope they use butter!
Travel lesson of the day: never trust Peter Pan. Whether it's a sketchy dude in tights who offers to share his juice with you or a bargain bus line, you're going to end up feeling disappointed and slightly used. In the case of the latter, their website lies and their employees are snarky. I think I managed to find the only philosopher/ticket taker at South Station who insisted on telling me that she couldn't tell me when the bus would arrive at Logan. After five minutes of sustained protest and banging my head against the counter, she proceeded to inform me that she could only provide me with when the timetable said the bus would get in. The rest, she said, was up to God and traffic. I'm glad she got a kick out of that, because the aneurysm her wittiness caused took about a year off my life.
It's been pretty much smooth sailing since getting to Logan, though. The highlight of the check-in process was getting to go through the full body scanner. For some reason they make you put your hands over your head and turn your head while they take a picture of your business. I thought it was a bit much when the dude asked me to cough, though... I was only slightly insulted when the female scanner operator took one look at me and decided to take her 15 minute union break. Fail.
And here I sit, watching the rain and snow roll in to Boston and just waiting for the inevitable delays. At least there's a Dunkin on one side of me and a Starbuck's on the other. And most importantly, a Meg at the end!
