Has anyone ever flown out of LAX for 1:45am flight? It's the closest to an unsavory New York experience I've had here in SoCal. For some reason, the international terminal chooses to conserve its lightbulb usage and rely a lot on the neon glow from the commercial signs. The only food available was from a McDonald's where asking for a grilled Chicken wrap for your old man gets you a deep-fried crispy one after waiting about 15 minutes for it (that's where you ask your old man's coronary valves to take one for team rather than make your old lady go through another maddening wait). The night crew employees were on break around us, some drinking McDonald's coffee and others taking a cat nap.
The tableau of us eating deep-fried fast food surrounded by slumped over unconscious bodies bathed in a blue neon reminded me of the NYC Port Authority bus terminal on 42nd Street. I was half-expecting my pimp to yell for me to get back to my corner.
We eventually boarded the plane and in the next 18 hours we probably slept about 5 hours. We flew Cathay Pacific which has a new seat system where your chair doesn't recline, the bottom of the seat slides forward instead. It's not very comfortable because the top of your spine just arcs forward with your head dangling down so you end up looking like a comma. On the plus side, this means the seat in front of you doesn't lean down into you or your tray. Given that we each had a movie screen it was nice that your view wasn't affected, especially considering we were awake and watching movies for 14 hours. I saw Kung Fu Panda, What Happens in Vegas (what a surprise ending--kidding!), and Iron Man (yes, again--Tony Stark, grr, baby!), and I almost got through nearly all the episodes of 30 Rock they had available. I briefly regretted wasting my time sleeping when I should have seen them all.
Anyhoo, we arrived safe and sound in Singapore. And promptly passed out for 5 hours.
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*raising hand*
our flight to thailand left at 2:15 am. HAWT. luckily we stuffed ourselves w/ sushi at kabuki's beforehand, so didn't need to buy the awesome lax food. also- you had a pimp too?
i'm getting a deja-vu... our flight showed kung fu panda and iron man, both of which we watched. they also showed it on the way back. yay. get ready to watch the same effing movies coming back.
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