Family Story

My horrible family vacation over MEA break four years ago. My dad works for northwest, and most employees that work for northwest recieve free air fair. There is a catch behind the free air fair, just like the saying there is no such thing as a free lunch. The deal behind the free air fair is the employees get any open seats on the plane if its not sold out, so if there are no open seats you have to wait for the next plane.
My dad plans a trip to New York City over MEA, everyone knows flying to New York is expensive and can be hard to get tickets. My family arrives at the airport at four thirty in the morning, we arrive at the gate to board the plane and everything is fine. The next thing we know my dad is called to the front desk and to our surprise there is no open seats on the plane. The next flight is a hour later, and there is a flight going out of Minneapolis every hour tell six o'clock p.m.. A hour later we arrive at our next gate, which happens to be across the airport, how convenient right? My family and I wait for all the people to board the plane, then my dad walks up to the front desk to see if there are any open seats, shockingly the answer is no. This happens for the next five planes going out of Minneapolis. It is now 10:30 in the morning and after running to and from different gates all day we are just ready to give up. Just when my family is ready to go my dad receives a phone call from one of his co-worker and he is happy to inform us that if we wait three more hours at the airport we can catch a plane. At this point everyone in my family is ready to ripe each others heads off, but we hold our cool and we get on the plane three hours later.