F finally saw her car last weekend. Her car was in the ICU.
the original plan was for me to drive my car to tucson and,
coming back to san diego with her car. that did not happen
since her car was not feeling too good and she decided to
leave it at the workshop in tucson. it's good that she did that
since it is a bad idea to be stranded in the middle of the
desert in the month of july.

finally on last friday, i flew in to tucson and we planned to
drive back to san diego in her car with the rest of her stuff.
i left my office on friday at 5.20pm and it took me 1 hr to
get to the airport. traffic was bad esp on a friday evening.
ok....by the time i got to the terminal, it was 6.30pm and
my departure was 8pm. hmm...pretty good timing this time;
no rush, no hassle and lots of time to kill.

at 7pm, the departure time was set to 8.15pm. this is the last
flight of the day and usually, they get delayed. fine......at 7.15pm,
the departure time was readjusted to 8.30pm. i have more and
more time to kill. that's no good.

at 7.30pm, the departure time is now 8.45pm. wow!! i have never
experienced this much of a delay with southwest airlines. they are
the best low-cost carrier in the US and thru the 9/11 incident,
southwest airlines continues to make profit when all other airlines
lost money and filed bankruptcy. i forgive them!!

my flight finally took off at 9pm.

as we approached tucson, the pilot said it was a heavy downpour.
the plane tried to kill some time since we are not allowed to
land. by then it was 10pm.

at 10.15pm, the pilot said we have to go to phoenix to get some
fuel since the rain is still very bad in tucson. yeah, the summer
monsoon.

all of us we unhappy and we started to make some noise. well,
there is nothing all of us could do since landing is prohibited
and it's dangerous.

we touched down phoenix and it was 10.30pm. we cannot leave
the plane and all we did was, wait. it was annoying!! kids were
making a lot of noise and people talking, it was just .... noisy!!

we managed to depart at 11pm and by the time we touched down
in tucson, it was 11.40pm. i was tired, hungry and moody. my last
meal was 1pm. i had pho and some peanuts and some milk and some
apple juice and that's it.

nevertheless, i was glad that everyone arrived safely.

****
the crew at southwest airlines are just cool and fun. most of the
time, the crew will crack jokes and making everyone enjoy
themselves. here is one of the lines from them and i find it
very hilarious.

marry one of us and u fly for free.

the ticker symbol of southwest airlines is LUV at the NYSE.