It's been an, um, interesting two weeks in New York. Lots of things have gone wrong. Way more than usual. And unfortunately, it did not end before my trip home last night...
I'm usually SO good about getting to the airport two hours in advance. Yesterday, I worked in an office up in Adirondack Park, an hour and a half from my hotel. I left early after kicking chart butt and headed back to the hotel so I could swap out a few things and head to the airport. Didn't leave until 15 min after I'm usually at the airport. On the way, I nearly forgot to fill up the tank before I actually got to the airport. I get there and there are NO signs for my car rental company. None. Every other car rental co has a sign saying where to return your car. Mine? Nada. I find the kiosk where I picked up my car and ask the guy there. He says, just park it over there and walks away. Hmm. Okay. So I wait 15 minutes while he rents out cars to others before another guy finally wandered over and checked in my car. I'm just putting the paperwork in my bag when I realize... I don't have MY car keys! Ugh! I'd double-checked to be sure I had my ticket for the long-term parking, I'd checked to be sure I had my hotel key for when I returned... completely spaced making sure I had my KEYS in the bag! Luckily, the guy who shuttles cars back and forth was there and offered to take me back to my hotel... luckily again, only 15 min away. I get to the hotel, run upstairs (3rd floor of course), dig through everything... no keys! Back downstairs, dig through my bag again to be sure... no keys! Back upstairs again, more digging, toss the suitcases out of the closet... there are my keys on the floor under the suitcases!! How they got there, I have no idea. Rush back downstairs and hop back in the car and we're off. I start laughing and tell the guy the maid's going to think my room's been ransacked! heh He says he was thinking he hoped I'd remember when I get back on Sunday that it was me who did the ransacking! hahaha Thank God, Albany is a really small airport or I never would have made my flight. I had to stop at the ticket counter to get boarding passes printed (the printer at the hotel's been down for days) and head to security... no line. =) I get to my gate with time to spare before they even start loading the plane! Whew! Way more stress than I needed after the roller coaster ride that was my past two weeks. But it all worked out, I caught my flight (where I got trapped next to the window by a guy who took full advantage of the free drink policy in first class - he passed out, I had to pee. heh The second half of my flight, I got bumped out of my window seat... by a cello. Hmm, definitely the better of my two seatmates! haha I head back to NY tomorrow with a too-short-for-comfort layover in Cleveland. Wish me luck! The next two weeks has to go better than the past two!
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