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The flight before christmas
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The flight before christmas Recently I experienced one of those bad days, I often ride the rapid (train) to the airport as taxi service to my front door has been unreliable in the past. I was late, delayed (about 20 min) in finishing up those things in the lab before a bit of r and r which worked against me when discussing our route to the rapid. The boys guilted me into driving them to the station with the luggage to save time even though I had to run 5 blocks from my parking spot. The train was leaving as I arrived and I was shocked to find it would not return for about an hour as the holiday schedule was now in power. To my shock and later relief they tricked me, those sons gave me grief as the train arrived 15 minutes later oh what a vacation saver. I sat pondering the sun and fun thinking that the trip was all but done, when to my surprise an emergency shout, the overhead wires are down, the train must halt! So out into the cold we were forced, and I was dressed for the plane and florida of course ! No taxi, no uber service during a 30 min wait that was bleak, the bus they had but the driver was home asleep. Three train loads of people made the black friday sales rush, being a gentleman I almost missed the bus. I asked our destination but the driver didnt know, he had but a radio that told him where to go. Another 30 minutes went agonizingly slow, the traffic was fierce with fans going to the cavs show. ah nuts, although I asked 3 times the trains never did show up when they finally told us the rail was down completely and to find alternate transport another 45 minutes had passed. We ran back up the stairs and outside to a hotel and asked the doorman to hail us a cab. He called 2 companies but after another hour it was too late. So we ate a pizza, watched star wars and took the shuttle and rail back home which was working to that point by then. The next day all seemed well we got someone to drop us off 3 hrs early at the air port. We received numerous glares when we used the primer line to check in our luggage as opposed to the long 30 person snake in economy. Finally we boarded, they shut the door and we taxied out. Then we turned arround, docked and reopened the door. I was thinking oh crap what now! Turns out the guy next to the exit door had a little too much alchol and a mental disability to boot. He kept reaching up and pretending to pull the handle so, they kicked him off. The rest went smooth and I was thankful to get to that lovely warm weather. |
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Sounds like an adventure to remember!  Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet. 
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