Really makes you wonder just how many spam transactions there were during the time where it was costing $20-$25 to send bitcoins.
Right around New Years I had one transaction stuck unconfirmed for two weeks. It was sent by an exchange, where they squeezed in many inputs (large file). At the time an average fee was around $450 for my tx - I tried to pay for accelerated service, they wanted ~ $6,000 to do that. It was a joke - a feeding frenzy...
Got scammed by a couple guys from this forum...sad human behavior...