It was two days before the first day of school was going to start and I was stuck in Des Moines. I was with my grandma and grandpa sitting in the airport waiting for the plane to come in. The plane was supposed to leave at 8PM but right around 7:30 the loud airport speakers announced, “The flight to Phoenix, Arizona has been delayed two hours.” Now the flight won’t take off until 10 PM and we were going to miss our connecting flight. My grandma went to the gate agent with about two other groups in front of us waiting to get their flight changed too. The next flight coming out of Phoenix was at 1 AM which would mean a night in the airport. Two very boring hours later. 8PM finally rolled around and I was stuck sitting in a hard uncomfortable
