American Airlines Can Eat Shit and Die

   Yeah, you read that right.

   As our blissfully delighted little family prepared to board our flight for California this morning, our attitude changed rather quickly.

   My son and I, with my daughter's carseat on my back, approached the gate agent as the first class folks finished boarding the plane. Our boarding passes showed "Group 5" but I had not heard her say that families with small children could board so I said, "do you mind if we board?" To which she replied "Yes, I do mind!"

   I will spare you the details but this fucking moron proceeded to contradict herself more than once as I doggedly quizzed her as to why it was we could not board early. We ended up boarding with Group 5, as mandated, and I went ahead and installed Sis' car seat in her window seat, well out of the aisle that the Mensa member had exclaimed with great fervor I would be jamming up if she let me board early. Suffice it to say that there was clearly a reason she was checking tickets at the gate and not actually handling money at the ticket calendar. I'm relatively certain she prints out a map each morning to remind herself how to find her way to work.

   Contrast this with the single male flight attendant on the flight who went out of his way to help bring the kids drinks when they were thirsty, even though it wasn't our row's "turn" yet.

   Note to American - airlines like you are endangered species - if you want to stay in business, clean up your shoddy act..and don't expect another bailout by the taxpayers - we will gladly fly Southwest and JetBlue when they're the only ones left.