I selected the worst possible time to fly out of YYZ (Toronto). 8:30AM with a check-in time of 5:30AM. I live approximately 2-3 hours away from the airport. With the threat of freezing rain in my home town the night before my flight I opted to drive down to Toronto and … yep … sleep in the airport. I thought I’d get to check-in way early and snooze at my boarding gate. Except the check-in people don’t arrive until 4AM. Which meant being constantly half awake for fear of sleeping through my check-in time. At 4:30AM I passed through security. Then because I was *so*early* for my flight I was selected for a “random search.” Which wasn’t as bad as it could have been. But they did swab my computer with a special cloth wand looking for lord knows what. Once through security I was looking forward to sweet, sweet sleep, but it was not to be had as I was locked out of my flight’s boarding area (again). I hung out for an hour before asking someone official-looking who in turn sent me on a wild goose chase which resulted in someone scratching out the boarding gate listed on my pass and with the instructions to, “monitor the boards for your new loading gate.” The hour of minor panic while I waited for the notification boards to be updated was for naught. The doors into Gate 81 were opened shortly before my flight. Good thing I went back to check them… I did manage to catch about an hour or two of sleep on the plane (finally) but then I woke myself up with my own snoring and for the sanity of my seat mate stayed awake for the rest of the flight.
head cold + airplane sleeping = the classy.