I've been in an airplane 3 times in my life. 1st time it was a Cessna 150 at age 13. It was a demo flight lesson. Best high I've ever had. Amazing experience.
2nd time was a flight to Texas out of Midway. No delays, no hassles but that was in 87'.
Last trip was in 00' or 01' to a LAN party out west. Again flew out of Midway but I did see something that royally pissed me off. You see I brought my system with me which was a P4 system in an Antec SX 1040B case (SoHo tower) and my 55 lb 19" monitor. As the monitor was in a big box it was easy to spot as they loaded it onto the plane. Their form of loading? The loader ROLLED the box into the cargo bay!!! Got to the LAN party and discovered my monitor had huge patches of green & blue screen bloom (off color areas in the screen image). I was not a happy camper...