Thursday, February 26, 2009

The Best Laid Plans....

I'm dead to the world all snuggly in my bed at 11:45 PM last night, dreaming of pints of real ale and egg mayonnaise and cress sandwiches when my phone rings. I don't answer, but let the machine pick up thinking it has to be a wrong number. My phone has not rung past 9:30 PM in months.

Nope, it's my ride to the airport. Seems he's had a change in plans and thus my ride has changed. I will be leaving 4 hours earlier than planned to get to the airport. Which means I'll be sitting at a major New York metropolitan airport for almost 8 hours with two books and my mobile phone.

With such little notice in the travel plans, I was not able at 6:15 this am to find an alternate ride. I live about 3 hours from the major NY metropolitan airport that I am flying out of. My ride actually has a consulting assignment close to the airport and this ended up being a win win. He got someone to talk to for the ride down, I got a ride down.

I was at work by 7:00 AM to finish my last few items, called my boss at 8:15 AM told him my abbreviated day started at 7:00 AM and then I would be out the door.

Oh yeah, did I mention it's SNOWING right now......

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, if it's not to late to give you some advice on currency exchange: do it in your UK arrival airport, NOT in the US. We have the worst rip-off rates and commissions in the world (I've been to over 30 countries, I feel pretty secure in saying this).

Have a wonderful trip!

Family Man said...

I hope you enjoy the trip....

Anonymous said...

Have a great trip.

Anonymous said...

Hope you are having a wonderful vacation. Just found your blog recently and went back and read it from the beginning. Made really inspirational reading on my lunch hours every day and when I got up to the current post, I was lost without more to read. Just started my blog on January 1st-New Year's resolution and all that! You have made excellent progress on your debt and are an inspiration to others. I know that I am encouraged just to read all that you have accomplished. Hope I can have some of the same success. Can't wait until you get back and post about your trip, too.

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Sometimes even the best laid plans can go wrong.