No, the kind of bumps we like. We volunteered to give up our seats on our short flight from San Francisco to Seattle and were rewarded with two domestic ticket vouchers for being "bumped." It's actually been pleasant hanging around the San Francisco Red Carpet Club for the past few hours with a lunch break as well and we'll still be landing in Seattle by 8:00 p.m. or so.
Not a bad day's work for a couple of retired folks.
Update: Or, as United calls it, EasyUpdate Travel Alert received on our wireless and e-mail at almost exactly the moment we posted this. Our flight will be leaving at 6:55 p.m. instead of 6:15 p.m. That's no big deal, although sometimes these delays have a way of mushrooming.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
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