littleone87

The parents and I were coming back from our vacation in Greece…
The plane from France that picked us up in Athens was 3 hours late. So..we missed our connecting flights from Paris to Atlanta, and then Atlanta to St. Louis. It was like 4am, and we’re stuck in this airport.

I get run around for about an hour trying to find an open ticket counter to get a transfer ticket…everything is closed either for renovations, or because it’s 4am…or because they saw me coming.

Finally get a guard to help me find one and get someone to help me. I speak politely, say hello and thanks and please in French…the lady at the counter takes my old tickets, types up a bunch of things, asks me all my info and such, and hands me an envelope with Air France all over it. Smiles, tells me to have a good day, and goes back behind her glass panel.

I open the envelope to see what gate I need to wait at, and inside are 3 expired coupons for free breakfast croissants at the AeroCafe. Along with my old tickets.

I go back, and tell the woman in english that I cannot get to the US on a flying crossaint, and to please do her job and print out my tickets. The guard laughed at me. Lady scoffed and printed my tickets and mumbled something in French. I thanked her, went and bought a coffee with 4 shots of espresso and extra whipped cream, and napped through the 4 hour layover.

...got yelled at by the same guard later for sleeping across a few chairs. He also yelled at my mom for smoking in the waiting area while there was a french couple smoking right near us that he didn’t say a word to. I kinda want to go back just to mess with him a bit. =P

Don’t piss off the guards.

.....Don’t…piss off the guards. They have big guns, and they yell real loud. Throw away the sandwich, and get behind the yellow line. Wait until the attendant tells you to step forward. ...Don’t sneak pictures of the guards yelling at you either. They don’t like it. They’re stuffy.

Giant Ketchup Bottle. ...no shit.