The Real Bitch
Sunday, April 13th, 2008It has been such a not so great day today. I woke up way too early, after having done a great show the night before in Miami. I came down to the hotel lobby only to be verbally assaulted as soon as the elevator doors opened. As soon as I walked out, two men, presumably still drunk and just getting in from the night before got on the elevator, and one of them said, “BITCH!” I wasn’t doing anything but getting off the elevator so they could get on! Then another girl in our party said she had been accosted in the same manner by the same man in the lobby. That is so stupid! You can’t manage to get into a fight properly at the bar, and you stay out so late that it is then morning, so the only people left to fuck with are business travelers!
We then left for the airport for our 7:45 am flight on American, which was then delayed for 7 hours. We could have all stayed in bed and missed the altercations. Instead we all just missed our connecting flights back to Burbank. I’m now still on the plane to Dallas, hoping I don’t get stranded there on the way to LA, which is more than likely, because my connecting flight leaves before we land. All the delays are due to mechanical problems with their planes, which were supposed to be all better by today, but they are not. I am furious because Sunday is my only day off in the week – which isn’t really a day off but a travel day, and so it is extremely precious to me. It is the one day I have to spend with my family, to walk my dogs, to eat a proper meal sitting down. American Airlines has robbed me of my one day of peace. I am not sure what is going on, but air travel has been really different in the last several months. I am a frequent flyer, and have been for close to 20 years, and I have never seen it as bad as it is now. There are more canceled flights, mechanical issues, hours and hours spent on the runway – it has hit a new low, and no one has a worse track record than American. Because we don’t really have choices when it comes to air travel, passengers are stuck with what they get. It is very bad very very very bad. It is the real bitch, not I.




