My dad = booby's parents

[Bernadine]

My whole family is going to Miami.  We leave tomorrow morning, out of DC, which is a bit of a hike for us, but it was cheaper.  Flight is at 6am.  Dad is insisting we all leave at 1am.   ^o)

[LLL]

Awesome, haha. Traffic has been pretty light so maybe your dad would consider leaving at 1:30 instead ?

[Bernadine]

Oct 2, 2013 15:31:23 GMT -5 LLL said:

Awesome, haha. Traffic has been pretty light so maybe your dad would consider leaving at 1:30 instead ?

Not a chance.  I just talked to him- 1:00 sharp.  Lol.

[VeryViolet]

Please explain to him that the only good think about the furloughs is that traffic doesn't suck and that 1am is insane. I don't even think Reagan opens until 4:30am or 5am, Dulles has overnight flights and may be open but who wants to be sitting at the gate at 3am for a flight. LOL

Good luck my mother is insane about the airport too. I live 5 minutes from Dulles and she told me I needed to leave at 4am for a 7am flight. BECAUSE OF SECURITY LINES!!!!111!!

[leeann]

Reagan won't be open when you get there. I got there ass early for a flight once and the security gates weren't open yet - I would check online if you are flying out of DCA.

[VeryViolet]

Oct 2, 2013 15:37:53 GMT -5 sameoldash said:

Oct 2, 2013 15:33:39 GMT -5 VeryViolet said:

Please explain to him that the only good think about the furloughs is that traffic doesn't suck and that 1am is insane. I don't even think Reagan opens until 4:30am or 5am, Dulles has overnight flights and may be open but who wants to be sitting at the gate at 3am for a flight. LOL

Good luck my mother is insane about the airport too. I live 5 minutes from Dulles and she told me I needed to leave at 4am for a 7am flight. BECAUSE OF SECURITY LINES!!!!111!!

hahahah my mom is the same way. i like to be at the airport an hour ahead of time (if it's IAD) so we ask that a driver is at our house an hour and 10 minutes ahead of time. this makes her MENTAL. she refuses to believe we're 5 minutes (or less) from the airport. 

I don't get why time and physics don't apply when it comes to the airport?! She comes to my house often and to get there she has to drive right past the airport she can see it. LOL

The best part is for that 7am flight I accidentally overslept and didn't get to the airport until 6:15 am. I was still at the gate before the flight boarded. I told her the story when I landed (I was meeting her in Orlando) just to freak her out because I am a mean daughter. 

[revolution]

Ha. So you'll be sitting outside security by, what? 3:30 AM?

[sawyerthedestroyer]

My H does this too. The airport is an hour away and it's tiny so it never takes more than ten minutes to get through security. But we MUST leave at least four hours before our flight or he starts spazzing out about being late.

[suzyp]

Ugh. My Mom is like this too - she also likes to have 2+ hour layovers because ONE TIME she had to go from one end of Philly to the other.

If you're flying out of DCA, the security lines don't open until 5am. And when you get there at 1:40am, I'm not sure if you can get it. I randomly know that they put locks on the doors after 9/11 (b/c the airport was closed), but not sure if they use them most days.

[Deleted]

Traffic is super light w/ the govt. shut down. I'm thinking you could leave at a leisurely 2 am and screech in in the nick of time. Stop by my place on your way, for a (spiked) cup of coffee.

[snickers]

lol!

[ginap]

Oy. Sounds like my MIL. She had a 7:30 flight at an airport that is 20 minutes from my house and she insisted on leaving the house at 4:00 am. Crazy cakes. And then she got there and sat for 3 hours.