Black Bikers Experience

If you don’t know now you will. Airtran Airways is a no go!!! I was in Dallas, TX for training about a week. Friday my flight was leaving at 7:35pm. I checked in and went thru security, no problem…
  

The problem started once I arrived at the gate. They instructed us to move down to another gate because our flight will leave from this gate. Moved to the new gate and then they said the flight will be delayed an hour. That was fine about 15 minutes later they said the flight was canceled due to bad weather conditions in Atlanta.

Confused yes because I spoke with my friend and he said it was raining and lightening but blowing over within the hour. I called my companies travel agency and booked the next flight out for me and my co-worker which was 7:30am Saturday.

Told to go to the counter to change ticket for tomorrow’s flight. Well this is when it gets good. The guy and girl at the desk first told me we had to pay $300 plus to secure the flight. They told others there were no flights til Sunday.

Called travel agency again and went to the counter with the phone and now they told us that we would need to pay the difference combined of over $300 plus because it would be more to leave on Saturday. What the hell…

They canceled the flight and me the customer had to pay more to go home? I didn’t make this decision, they did. Never new Airtran new how to play “Three Card Monty“. The said if our companies travel agency canceled the flight they had canceled, they’d apply that money toward our tickets and then we’d owe the addition money. Catch this, we were told there were no seats available on the flight leaving out Saturday morning but if we paid the $300 plus maybe, just maybe we’d have a seat. How do you go from not having seats to having seats if you pay the money. Airtran got game!
  

They had a flight that left at 5:10pm going to Atlanta and another one of our co-workers was on that flight. We thought he was home by now; not so fast. As we were walking to get our luggage and take a taxi back to the hotel; we passed the gate they moved us from. What an amazing thing we saw. The flight that left at 5:10pm didn’t. The people from that flight was at the gate we were moved from and they were leaving on our flight to Atlanta.
  

What happened to the bad weather being the reason to cancel our flight. Airtran was so horrible that they didn’t try to accommodate this family who the mother was going to her father’s funeral. The manager at the gate told her he couldn’t help her. He could have made arrangements to get her on our original flight…since it did leave for Atlanta without us.

I said I was going to give Airtran Airways a shout out but not in a good way. Bad, sorry, horrible customer service and liars at that. I almost forgot when I did get back to Atlanta there was a female employee of Airtran that was checking luggage to make sure baggage claim check was the same as the one on your ticket. She asked me to fly Airtran again. I told her the story…the short version. It was like this, Hell no never again!

She said that the pilots make the decisions on canceling flights and they get away with it because they are Union…I don’t blame Frontier Airlines from dissolving their partnership with Airtran; they suck!

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Is this what motorcyclists are looking forward to, becoming a one wheel world. I hope like hell we as black bikers, bikers, motorcycle clubs and black motorcycle clubs won’t have to worry about someone asking to ride with us showing up on one of these. Say it ain’t so!

It’s cute and could be fun but not to be used to go anywhere but around the office or around the house if the space is big enough.
Goldie~Regulator for Life!

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Verdell Wilson on October 20th, 2009 wrote a blog that I want to share. I felt that it would help with vehicle safety issues on the road. Most accidents happen around the holidays due to driving drunk. Prevention is the key to this and once you read this post you will learn about an alternative to driving while intoxicated. It’s a wonderful concept to aid in decreasing vehicle and motorcycle accidents during this festive time of the year. Bikers do own other means of transportation and around the holiday depending on where we live and the climate, we may ride our motorcycles or get in our cars and trucks to celebrate. Let’s be safe. No one wants to get a DUI, fatally injure another drive or spend time in the emergency room.

Like with my biker family; we are having a big Thanksgiving shindig at our Clubhouse. Yes, depending on the weather you may see some of us on our motorcycles and others in other forms of transportation. There will be drinking going on and most of all lots of eating. As black bikers we tend to do the damn thing in a big way. That’s just us. So with this in mind excess may take place with food, fun and drinking. I will stress to my club members to be safe and aware out there because other drivers may not practice safety.

Let’s be safe and enjoy the Holiday and prepare for next motorcycle riding season. I will see you out there on 2’s. Yeah Buddy!

As the holiday season approaches and your calendar begins to overflow with festive party invites, we at Metblogs urge you to act responsibly, especially when it comes to alcohol consumption.

Our motto is: If you’re going to be making a merry mess of yourself all over town, please do us all a favor and go home with a stranger.

OK, maybe that’s not an official Metblogs motto, but it should be. The thing is, there are many alternatives to drinking and driving. You can take the Metro, call a taxi, hire a limo, appoint a designated driver, call a sober friend, call Alcoholics Anonymous. Still, with all of these options, so many of us will choose to get behind the wheel of our own car and drive home after a night of boozing. I am not proud to admit how many times I have done this in the past.

According to Y Drive, “The main reason people drink and drive is that they don’t want to leave their cars behind.”

That’s why Y Drive came up with an innovative and affordable service that eliminates this factor altogether. When you call Y Drive, a professional driver will come to you on a folding scooter. For a flat fee of $38, the driver will pack the scooter neatly into your car (in such a way that it will not leak or damage your fine leather interior) and then drive you home in your own car. After you and your automobile are safely put away for the night, the driver will ride away on the folding scooter he or she rode in on. Y Drive is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Just call 888.401.3847 or check them out online at ydrivela.com.

Friend of the blog Eliot also told me that he and his crew have been using a similar service in LA called Booze Croozer. Booze Croozer is more like a limo service, they will not take you home in your own car like Y Drive, but unlike most limo services, you do not have to put down huge deposits or book them far in advance. You can call Booze Croozer while you are at a bar ready to go home and they will pick you and your drunk friends up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Booze Croozer’s rates are apparently comparable to taxi fares ($4.99 initial charge and .49 per mile after) and they even offer specials like free shots on “Tequila Tuesdays” or “Whiskey Wednesdays.” Check out their rates here. For a ride, call them at 1.888.496.2766.

Any way you guzzle it, the options listed here are going to be far less expensive than the cost of a DUI or vehicular manslaughter or your life. So please. Next time you get drunk, go home with a stranger.

If you know of any other services in LA that specialize in providing an alternative to drinking and driving, leave us a comment below.

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