Okay Nortel is really cheap, they ask me on Thursday to fly to Atlanta on Sunday the 13th.. Okay I look via our internal travel site to book my flight (we have to use them, it is really AMEX travel services, they charge us 6.00 per booking session). Okay I call my boss a tell him the flight will be 680.00 round trip, I am told to find a cheaper flight. I find one on US Airways for 507. with 1 stop in Phoenix it leaves at 5:04 AM on Sunday morning.. Okay I have to do it. I get up and leave at 3:00 am for the airport (Jason my oldest give me a ride thank you Jason). My flight leaves SeaTac no problems (okay a gate change from one terminal to another it happens), We land in Phoenix on time (okay had a isle seat for this leg trip) I have a 3 hour wait. The Plane shows up with a broken seat that US Air fixes in a 1 hour and 50 mins.. They load us on the plane, we taxi out and the generator light come on so back to the terminal where we spent the next 2.5 hours waiting for hte plane to be fixed (while still on the plane in the Arizona heat!), They can’t fix the generator so they decide to run the APU instead, the pilot has to sign off some paperwork then we take off 3 hours late. While in the air Atlanta is having weather issue (okay it happens), but we are low of fuel and can’t be moved to the head of the line. The Pilot tells us we have 25 mins of fuel and they want to divert us to a airport 35 mins away, (he left out the part that it can’t handle a A320 airbus at is terminal), we reroute to South Carolina to a regional airport for fuel.. they don’t have a supply of jet fuel for A320, so we have to wait for it to be trucked in #.5 hours later the fuel truck shows up, we get fueled up (mean time they have no ice, water or anything to drink left on the plane or any food to buy either!) we finally take of at 11:00 pm local time to get to Atlanta (they did not let us off the plane!) It takes 40 mins to fly to Atlanta Hurray!. We land in Atlanta and have to wait 70 minutes for a gate! What the Crap is THAT! I finally get off the plane head to the taxi stand to get a cab to the hotel, (now past midnight!) Wait for 45 minutes more get a cab 35 min ride to the hotel, get to the hotel and find out the cabbie only takes cash unless you prepay at the airport.. Okay I took 40 dollars in cash plus I had like 3 dollars in lose change in my backpack. Wipes my cash out. Check in to the hotel, ask if room service is still serving ( have not eaten any thing since I left Phoenix, told yes I am good to go.. Head to my room pass the ATM machine (hurray!) pull out 60.00 for lunch and my cab fare back to the airport (jus tin case MARTA is not running at 5:00 am on Tuesday when I head back). Get in to my room. call room service place my order (soup is the only thing they have), wait 5 mins get a call telling me they are out of calm chowder (what I ordered of course), order something else they show up like 4 minutes later. Woo Hoo food at last!