Our schedule was to fly from Houston to Detroit to Shanghai to Taipei. Did it turn out that way? Of course not. The flight from Houston to Detroit, inexplicably, was delayed. This meant that we would miss our flight to Shanghai. The reason we needed the flight to Shanghai was because we had tickets to Taipei from Shanghai on another airline. But the Northwest lady (who I do not fault) came up with a brilliant idea. First, we would fly to Detroit, then to Frankfurt, and finally to Shanghai. This would allow us to make that flight to Taipei. Great.
But of course, something had to go wrong. First off, in Frankfurt, we had a 10 hour layover. 10 Hours. What did we do in those 10 hours? We moped around quite possibly the worst designed airport ever. Imagine this- you're walking in an airport and you turn a corner. Around that corner there's another corner. And around this one yet another corner. And around this corner, there's a security checkpoint and another corner. You get the idea. All in all, we had to go through about 15 corners. And 5 security checkpoints.
So finally, we were able to get on a flight to Shanghai. Run by Lufthansa. In case you're not familiar with Lufthansa, it's quite possibly the shittiest airline in Europe. Second only to Northwest, one imagines. The seats were yellow, the entertainment system didn't work, and there was nothing you could really do all throughout the flight. I suppose we were warned though. We were delayed for about an hour because of mechanical problems with the engine. BROKEN ENGINE. Were it not a 4 engined 747, i would have refused to fly.
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