u/Aggravated_Skag_733

Received an IRS inquiry, just something that needed to be clarified .. they sent their concern via USPS (paper) mail and I replied with document uploads and comments via their online portal (last time I had one of these years ago, I mailed my docs back, nothing was online). Literally right after I replied to the recent one I am getting several spam calls each day offering help with back taxes and IRS etc. I got zero of these calls before responding to the inquiry. There is almost no way this is coincidental and if it’s not coincidental, then did someone hack into the online portal to get phone numbers of those responding to the IRS there?

On a long flight typing this. Middle seat. Guy in aisle stunk like bad rotten-egg fart from the moment he sat down. It’s no doubt in the spaces between the threads of his clothing. But he keeps letting little ones out. Going on hour four and I can’t take it anymore. At the latest disturbance, I redirected his blower onto me. Because mine alone was too weak to waft his stink. I hoped he’d get the message. He has not. Next option I suppose is the obvious one … somehow ask him to stop with a presumption (though factual) that it’s him. And if it persists or he gives me shit, then if I vomit, it’ll inevitably land on him as I attempt to get to the john. Or do you just tell the attendant from the point it’s becoming too much? Dunno. Seems like the last 8 of 10 trips have had deplorable flight situations for one reason or another.

Delayed first leg due to lack of crew. Per schedule, this would cause (just) missing the connection … so AA automatically rebooked to a three-leg itinerary that reached destination 6 hours later. Got to the connection and by luck my originally ticketed flight was also delayed …. just enough to make it after all. Yay. But, they’d gone ahead and sold my seat, the one I had been confirmed on since being ticketed weeks ago. The agent said, with scrutiny for me and my expectations, that if the connecting flight had not been delayed then I would not have made it. So they gave away the seat. Right, and if my outbound hadn’t been delayed I’d have made it. It’s really an unreal, helpless kind of feeling in which you as the customer are made to feel happy just for arriving at your destination within 24 hours of ticket, alive. Have been flying for decades and still see new things, almost always unfavorable. The early connection departures with delayed customers still trying to reach their connection, is another recent gem.