to boston and after about 20 minutes, the agent came up with an option – a flight that left in about an hour out to la then a connecting flight cross country to boston getting us in after 1 am, i took it – seemed better to have something solid at that point versus waiting out a weather delay. but wait, not 10 minutes after i had booked the “la detour,” the gate agent came on and said that if there was anyone left in the gate area who had been on the original 6:00 am flight (plane was still sitting there) to start boarding as the flight was leaving 