Going Nowhere Fast

Houston we've had a problem. Bad weather in Memphis delayed our flight from Chattanooga and we are now sitting in the Memphis airport. We've had a day. After a two hour forty-five minute wait we finally got the okay to leave Chattanooga. Then an error in baggage and passenger weight caused the pilot to get mad, scream at the baggage handlers and stomp off the plane. After composing himself and chewing out a poor young man we were off.... only to find out twenty minutes later that we didn't have enough gas to make it to Memphis. So we swung down to Mississippi and gassed up. An hour later we were off. Yes we missed all our connecting flights for the trip. After quite a long process and even some begging we are booked to Seattle tonight and will spend the night there and leave for Tokyo tomorrow afternoon. We still have a long way to go!