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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
We’re basically down to if it’s the pin causing her problems, we’ll have it taken out. Or if whatever is wrong can be treated with meds, we’ll try that.
But we’ll probably draw the line at another procedure for a different problem.
Tennessee. June 22-29.
I think that sounds like a good strategy. That’s what we’d do under the circumstance.
Ah - well, sounds like fun! Anyone from here going that you can buddy up with for the traveling part?
I’ll still likely be one over the limit on the way back - I’m not taking my good guitar; I’m going to buy a cheapish-and-sturdy-but-good one from someone there. He’s a Vermonter I’ve met a number of times, so I trust him. Actually he and a handful of the other Vermonters on that list were the first internet folks I met in real life. We all got tickets to a concert and my dad and brother came, too. We guitar list folk started continuing with conversations that had started on-line...”how’s your cat doing? How do you like that new mandolin of yours? Did you see that discussion about...” Kinda freaked Dad out a bit, I think. ;-)
I think what I’ll do is just pay the $25 they charge for a second bag, and then gate check the guitar. It’d still be cheaper than mailing it insured. The tricky part is going to be gate checking, ‘cause I don’t know how to do it or where you go to pick the item up when you get there.
Some...but I think they’re flying Southwest to Nashville for a few extra days. I’ll likely fly straight into Knoxville...which means leaving at about eleven or midnight so I get into Knoxville in time to get to the campus in time for registration. ;-) I’ll be starting out sleep deprived, but I don’t think there’s an easy way around it.
Yep. She’s going on 13.
I just hate what it will put the boys through. Mrs. and I will be sad, but it will be harder for them. Abby was the cat we got after Benny died (at age three) rather unexpectedly. Jr. was in 2nd grade then. Luke is now.
It’s a part of life. It’s a part of growing up. Still sux.
But, I’m gonna stop now and still hope for the best. I need to get back to this deadline before I get all fahklempt.
Ok! I will! The order says it shipped on the 17th...I bet I get it tomorrow! It even says the Preppy converter shipped...it was on backorder.
We got the Core...Matthew didn’t like it as much as the Preppy though, so Steve took it.
So Joshua will get the eye-dropper pen that comes with the ink and I’ll have my Waterman you sent me and a pink Preppy!
That should do it for a while. I’m all set.
Maybe. Heh!
Yeah...I agree with Hair, though. You’re being very reasonable and kind.
Gate checking is really easy. You show up at the gate, they give you a tag to tie on the bag and you leave it at the door of the plane. Then when you get off, you wait at the plane door again and they bring the bags up.
OK...I think I could handle that. And they don’t give you a hassle at security for taking an extra bag through?
I just realllly don’t think it’d be a good idea to check even a fairly sturdy guitar at the regular baggage desk. Stuff gets tossed around and dropped and all.
I do wonder how they handle the cost of the extra bag at gate check. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a register there.
*fret*
It’s always sad when they get old... I’ve been through that many times now, with all the critters I take in, and they all get old.
If it would help, I could send you a couple of kittens. :~)
No one, to include humans, animals and fish, is to be replaced.
Of course, if you sent it with a salmon...
Trojan salmon?
OK, I’m late for werk. Again.
They have humans at the check in counter who will handle that for you. You might need a debit card. The minimum wage union TSA screeners wouldn’t care if you had nineteen bags as long as you don’t tell them one has a bomb in it.
It really is simple with the gate check thing and if you explain (and hold firm) that that’s what you are going to do it should be just fine.
or a six-ounce tube of toothpaste...
We won’t talk about the one time I was flying somewhere and forgot about the packet of guitar strings I’d put in an inside pocket on my coat...
The screeners were not amused.
After you've checked in, where you'll also receive your boarding pass, unless you did that online before you left home, you just go on through security and to your departure gate. At that point, since you went to the main check in desk, you should have no problems, unless, of course, one of your bags is too large for an overhead bin, or to go under the seat, but it seems they'd catch that at the main desk, before you ever got to the departure gate.
I’m confused now...so you can get the gate check tag at the normal check-in point? And then just hand it to them at the gate?
I’d be checking one bag the normal way...my suitcase. But I’d want to gate check the guitar.
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