travel woes

I flew from Columbus yesterday through Chicago and on to Phoenix.

1. Flight was delayed leaving Columbus almost an hour due to the storm. Hasn't rained in almost a month, but when I am trying to fly out of town it storms
2. Flight leaving Chicago delayed 30 mins before boarding
3. Once boarding finally started we had to wait in the 90 degree, at least, Jetway, while the crew got a 95 year woman on her last leg settled in her seat.
4. As I was getting on I heard a yipping dog, I had a bad experience with dogs and planes once. I sat next to a lady with a dog that yipped for 4 hours!! She kept giving it these pills to relax it, she ended up giving it about 10 pills before it quieted down, hope the dog was OK.
5. Back to the story,
6. I am sitting right behind the elderly woman, the man who had the dog was the son-in-law of the elderly woman listed above, and he was sitting across the aisle from me, in the middle seat. The man between him and me was allergic to dogs and was making a BIG STINK about it.
7. Then a family gets on the plane, grandma, grandpa, mom and 2 little boys, all sitting apart from each other. Grandma sits next to me, grandpa was putting his crane in the overhead bin when he accidentally whacked the guy who was complaining about the dog, in the side of the head!!!
8. The guy gets even more upset, so now the flight attendant gets involved and musical chairs begins.
9. The guy with the dog switches places with grandma, so he is sitting on my right in the middle, with his wife, daughter of the old lady, right in front of him, dog under seat in front of him.
10. Grandma gets moved next to the guy complaining about the dog and getting hit in the head, and grandpa is now sitting right in front of her.
11. NOW the plane gets delayed for 2 hours on the runway due to a storm in Chicago! (see #1 above)
12. Finally, the plane takes off but only after the pilot comes back and checks the old lady out, I think he was seriously thinking about asking her to get off the plane, she looked that bad. Daughter got medicine and gave her some and she settled down.
13. Finally take off, dog is fine, old lady asleep, chair all the way back in my lap, bad guy finally calmed down, when 2 hours into a 3 hour flight the guy with the dog, gets out his cell phone and calls someone in Phoenix telling them they will be late!
14. Flight attendants come from both directions telling the guy he just broke federal law and telling him to turn it off. He does turn it off, claims ignorance and flight lands without a problem.
15. Get bag pretty quick, get to rental car fine, look at display on the car and it 8:00 PM and still 98 degrees outside!
16. Today coming back from the plant it was 109! Don't care if it is dry heat or not, 109 is HOT!
17. Gotta be an easier way to make a living!