Does everything have to turn into an event?
I left the apartment at 5:20 this morning to take my oldest daughter to the airport. No, I am not publishing the same post twice. This is a different day and a different daughter.
Things were looking so much better than two mornings ago. The roads were dry, the winds were normal, visibility was great and there was no traffic. I was just about to reassure my daughter that we would be there in plenty of time when she decided to call American and confirm her flight time AGAIN.
My wife and I were listening to her very professionally handle the automated operator, when she suddenly cried out “6:00?!?!?!?”
She had told us that her flight departed at 6:50. Therefore, we were intending to arrive at KCI at 5:50. It turns out that her flight departed at 6:00 and arrived in Dallas/Ft. Worth at 7:50. She had transposed the numbers. I can’t believe she could do that! That must be her mother’s genes! (LOL)
I drove as fast as I could but she still missed her flight. And, she had to call her boss because she was the person scheduled to man the office today. Can you imagine how tempting it was to just lie and call in sick??? How would they know? To her credit, she told the truth.
She also did not make the next three flights as a ‘standby’ passenger. She ended up paying an additional $50 to fly out tonight at 6:50.
