Abbreviated Chronology of US Airways Travel Nightmare

• Fly HYA-BOS no problem, check bag in HYA, check in for PHL
• PHL closed, circle over atlantic, arrive late
• RDU flight delayed 4 hours because of no inbound a/c, then canceled
• wait 60 minutes in rebooking line, get on 5:20 RDU flight
• 5:20 RDU flight departs at 8:20, circles on taxiways for 90 minutes, crew times out
• returns to gate shortly after 10, cancels
• in rebook line from 10:30pm to 2am
• secure Quality Inn Reservation over phone
• get CLT/GSO rebooking for 9am, but no boarding pass available. Representative says bag will be forwarded to GSO.
• Take ride from bitching, ripoff cabdriver who drives in a giant circle to rip me off (FUCK ALL PHILADELPHIA CAB DRIVERS. ALL OF YOU. FUCK YOU. UNPROFESSIONAL GARBAGE.)
• Quality Inn lobby is closed and locked, must talk to woman through plate glass window in side of building. People appear to be living in the parking lot.
• Screaming woman informs me that no rooms were left when my reservation was made and my credit card charged
• Sent to Econo Lodge next door with 50-year old man in Barbra Streisand t-shirt who received a voucher but was sent to the wrong hotel
• Get room, sleep 4 hours
• Eat Uncrustable (TM) sandwich, take free shuttle 2 minutes to airport
• Check in kiosks do not work
• Wait 30 minutes in service line, get boarding passes.
• Agent says I will miss connection in Greensboro and that she's booking me on multiple flights.
• Also says my bag will be there.
• CLT flight is 2.5 hours late, miss connection.
• Eat bad cheesesteak. Why would I want to have a bad cheesesteak in PHL?
• Fly to CLT
• Agent in CLT says woman in PHL never actually booked me to GSO and that my bag is going to RDU
• Get boarding pass for GSO flight
• GSO flight leaves gate one hour late, immediately breaks down on taxiway, then sneaks out of the departure line and sits on tarmac
• waits 30 minutes for a gate, then returns to gate.
• Flight sits at gate while eerily hot flight attendant named Contessa laughs loudly
• passengers asked to deplane, then flight is canceled
• No luggage available in CLT.
• I ask for number of RDU baggage office and they say we can't give that out, you have to go there.
• Rent $500 one way car, only "small SUV" class available, attempt to drive 1hr to Greensboro
• interstate at standstill due to accident
• drive 21 miles in 3 hrs on interstate
• make phone calls from gas station payphone, eat sour patch kids, attempt tp wait out traffic nightmare
• still doesn't work
• attempt to drive to raleigh to retrieve luggage
• start falling asleep behind wheel in hour 4 of driving
• retire at holiday inn express in asheboro
• drive 30 miles to greensboro next (tues) morning
• arrive 8:43am for 9am presentation