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When I was at Ft. Lauderdale International yesterday waiting for my flight back to NYC, I was sitting by a gate that wasn’t being used because the airport was pretty crowded.

I was chillin on Facebook or playing Words With Friends on my iPhone or something (you know how I do) when this woman goes up to the attendant at this unused gate and asks to be put on standby for a flight to California or wherever she was going because she missed her flight.

The jetBlue lady told this woman that she needs to go talk to the attendant at the gate where she missed her flight, or something else that was completely reasonable. Instead of doing that, the lady goes on an unnecessary rant about how this has been the worst traveling experience of her life and that she’s never flying jetBlue again.

Yeah, lady, because it was jetBlue’s fault you missed your flight?

So anyway after arguing with the attendant lady for a good ten minutes she goes and talks to one of the airport cops and complains to him that she can’t get on the standby list. Again, smart move on her part, I’m sure the cop has full access to the flight databases.

With no luck she returns to her family and says “I’m so tired of being treated unfairly because I’m white.”

HAHAH.

Where is this lady from!? I’m sure if you were black/asian/italian/purple they would have put you right on the stand by list.

And that was my pre-flight entertainment.

PS. 200th post!

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It’s 7pm right now. Yesterday at this time I should have been taking off from JFK International Airport on jetBlue flight 47 to Fort Lauderdale. Long story short, I landed in the 954 at 1:30AM.

Let’s start from the beginning.

I left my form for the airport at 4, got there at 5, only to find out that my flight had been delayed from 7 to 8. Not such a big deal since jetBlue has the COOLEST terminal at JFK (as I’ve mentioned in certain videos from last year). So I check in, go through security, and find my gate.

Now the flights been delayed till 8:45.

Now 9.

Now 9:30.

They stopped updating it after that. But we didn’t take off until 10:30. I should have been IN MY HOUSE by then.

At around 12:30, we were almost here, when the pilot comes on the intercom and says we are going to take a detour over The Bahamas (pictured above from the GPS channel on board) to avoid some turbulence and we should be on the ground at about 20 after the hour.

SO LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: We are going 50 minutes out of the way, to avoid a couple bumps? Which, by the way, was completely ineffective since it was an extremely turbulent 50 minutes.

We finally landed at 1:30.

The best words in the English language: “jetBlue would like to be the first to welcome you to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.”

Anyway, now that that’s over with, I’m here in the coop for 9 days. Party.

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Today has been the WEIRDEST day.

The plan for today was to take my mid-term, and go to work… I guess both of those things did happen, but in the midst of a very strange turn of events.

The day started with me waiting for the bus. My class is 20-25 blocks from my dorm, so I usually take the NYU bus in the morning and walk home in the afternoon. The bus was really late though, which normally wouldn’t be a problem, but I had a mid-term today, and I didn’t want to be late, so I decided to grab a cab.

Luckily, I got one quick, but the driver wasn’t some Indian dude named Hassan (lol, stereotypes), but rather an old Jewish lady. She was hilarious and was so interested in my life, but she drove like an old lady, and I was in a rush. She saw an ad for a MTV’s The Buried Life on the side of a bus and told me how strange the question “What do you want to do before you do?” is, hah.

So we get down to 9th Street on 2nd Ave, when she tries to cross over to 3rd Ave… BUT NO. There is a random parade/mob/riot/protest about freedom in Tibet or something?! It was ridiculous. As punny cab lady put it: “Don’t they know you have an exam to take!? If only it was raining so it would rain on their parade.”

After about 5 minutes of sitting in PARK, I gave up, paid the lovely Jewish women who told me to have a nice flight tomorrow, yeah, she knew all about me, and rushed to take my mid-term.

When I finished (failing it), I checked my phone to see that today is jetBlue’s 10th Birthday and that they will be hiding out in different parts of Manhattan giving out 1,000 free plane tickets. I WANT IN. I only had an hour and fifteen minutes to get lunch and be at work, but when I saw that jetBlue was downtown, I hopped on the subway to try to find them.

The tweet they posted said: “We’re at Broadway & Dey St. Find us and bring a birthday card for JetBlue!”

When I got out of the Subway at the City Hall station, I started walking toward the nearest Duane Reade to buy a birthday card when who walks by me? MAYOR BLOOMBERG! Like, our shoulders were about 2 inches apart at one point. It was so cool. Totally made up for the fact that I did not win a free jetBlue ticket, but the story continues…

So I walk into Duane Reade, and as soon as I do, some guy runs up behind me goes to the cashier and yells, “Do you guys sell birthday cards!?” I looked at him and was just like “jetBlue?” and he was like “Yep.” Once I had picked out a card and was waiting in line, I heard people in front of me on their phones saying “NO, THEY’RE OUT OF TICKETS?!”

I went down to Broadway and Dey anyway, and jetBlue wasn’t there, but there were hundreds of confused people roaming around with a cell phone in one hand and a birthday card in another. My guess is they didn’t see Mayor Bloomberg today though, so, I win ;)

Turns out the next location they went to was University & 12th which is RIGHT by NYU… but I was at work so I couldn’t even try to show up. It’s all good though, I already have a jetBlue ticket to Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow at 7pm. SEE YOU SOON 954!

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When I see a map like the one above on the TV of the seatback in front of me, I, like anyone else, would think “HEY! We’re about land.” But no. That would just make things a little too easy now, wouldn’t it?

Let’s start from the beginning.

jetBlue Flight 14 was supposed to leave Ft. Lauderdale International at 5:05PM yesterday afternoon… but because of some bad weather in NYC, they delayed the flight until 5:50… then 6:20… then 6:40. Whatever, no problem. Only a little behind schedule. So at around 4 I went over to the airport (paranoid that it would leave early), and I got through security fast and sat down in some empty chairs and just sat on Facebook or whatever.

At around 6 o’clock, they came on the intercom of the entire terminal and were like “This is the final boarding call for jetBlue Flight 14 to New York City – JFK.” Apparently, I was sitting too far away from the gate to hear their boarding announcements, lol… but I rushed over there, got on the plane, and was happy that we were getting out early… except for that we didn’t get out early. AT ALL.

Once everyone boarded the plane, we pulled away from the gate, just like normal, and started driving to the runway. Once we get there, the pilot comes on and was like “So we’ve been delayed about 30 minutes on the ground.” WTF. Seriously? Why did they let us get on the plane if they were just gunna delay us another 30 minutes?

30 minutes later, we FINALLY take off, and we got up to NY pretty quickly… just a little over 2 hours (it usually takes about 2 and a half). When we got here, however, the pilot came on again and said that they’ve put us in a “holding pattern.” That basically means you circle around the airport because of bad weather or whatever until air traffic control says you can land. That’s what we were doing in that picture above… circling… around New York… around New Jersey… around New York… around New Jersey. I almost shot someone in the face… but I couldn’t because they wouldn’t let me bring my gun past security. Like how bad could the weather possibly be? Turns out very.

When we went in for a landing… honestly… idk how the pilot did it. I was watching out the window and all I saw was white… white… white… white… and BAM! We hit the ground. It was a pretty rough landing and kind of scared us all, but the flight attendant came on immediately after and said “Come on guys, give the pilot a break you can barely see anything out there!” and the entire cabin started applauding. It was pretty cool, and to be honest, everybody at jetBlue is pretty cool. They are by far my favorite airline. (They should be paying me for this free advertisement, seriously.)

Anyway, wow. This is by far the longest post I’ve ever written… it totally ruins my “lets keep all the blog posts short because people like short blog posts” plan. I’m so lucky that anybody reads these things at all. You guys are the best =)

So obviously I’m back in NYC now.
Be back in Fla on June 28th, FOR TWO MONTHS! 

PS. Just for the record, I don’t have a gun ;)

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“What’s good” has a double meaning in this post.
First of all, it’s ghetto slang (which from that last video, we all know is appropriate for me) for “how are you?” but it also appropriate because I’m about to tell you “what’s good” in my life right now. (Don’t worry I have no idea what I’m talking about either.)

WHAT’S GOOD:

My schedule was changed around a little bit so now I’m coming home three days earlier on May 8th (still until May 16th). Yayyy three more days of high school parties that get broken up by 11pm (from what I hear hahah).

WHAT’S BAD:

I have all these NYU meals left to use by the end of this month… so I’m trying new things… like iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Idk why, but I have this idea of the way coffee should taste (based on the way it smells) in my head and it’s so delicious that I keep forgetting… I hate coffee. Proof that Pichardo is not actually my father.

WHAT’S…. MEDIUM:
I’ve noticed that my posts on deandagati.com are a strong reflection of my Facebook status updates. Idk what to make of that… I guess that there isn’t actually a need for this website at all lol.

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