1. I do the online check in and get A boarding passes.
2. I print them out.
3. My printer does a bad job printing them out, dunno if they will scan at the gate.
4. Download the PDFs to my phone.
5. Think to see if the airline says that will work.
6. Their web page implies they have some special version / app that I should try to use, and that the way to get it is to say you want it when you check in.
1. but, uh, I already checked in?
7. Go to the web page to see if I can just type in the confirmation code to re-get the same boarding passes, but as mobile form as well.
8. After I type in the info, it tells me that I can check in.
1. BUT, UH, I ALREADY CHECKED IN!
2. if I click on "check in" will it kill my A's and give me I dunno Z's or something? I have no way of telling, and I don't really want to risk it.
9. Go to the app store and download the app and run it.
10. It asks me to log in, or "CONTINUE AS GUEST" (caps theirs).
11. I click guest... and wait... and then...
12. It gives me a god awful programmer art error dialog box about not being able to connect, "X ERROR Unknown Error while connecting" (oh the hate)
1. Doesn't tell me what they are trying to connect to.
2. Doesn't give me anything useful I could use to figure out what to do to fix the problem.

Have I mentioned recently how technology and the people who do stuff with it make me see red?

Update:

1. The 3rd time I touch to continue as guest, it gets in.
2. The app pretty much has the same horrible UX where it looks like I am taking a huge gamble, it has a CHECK IN button, which for all I know might kill my A's and give me Z's if I dare to press it.

P.S: Anybody (and it turns out to be a lot of people / orgs / sites) that uses I and L and 1 and O and o and 0 and Q etc. in their sekrit kodez is a freaking stupdenous idiot of dumb idiocy (oh the hate).