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Travel notes
Aug. 25th, 2011 06:54 pmHome again; Mom's home and recovering well; I did not bite anyone in the airport, but it was a near thing.
Randomness from the journey:
- I took the 5:30 a.m. flight out, which I don't think I would do again, though it certainly got me to my destination plenty early. When I got up in the dark, I discovered that the kidlet had written a line from an Oysterband traveling song and taped it to the back door.
- There was a pretty young woman in the Chicago airport who was wearing a red flower behind her ear, a short skirt with an equestrian print, a crinoline, and flats with silver buckles. She looked fantastic.
- I detest rolling carry-ons. They slow everything down -- when you want to enter or leave a plane, you have to wait for people to cram them into the overhead bin; when you want to run through the airport (because 48 minutes between flights is not long enough in an airport as big as O'Hare), you can't get around them because they take up so much space. I packed six days' worth of stuff in one shoulder bag. Of course, that may be the reason why I'm so sick of these three T-shirts I could scream.
- I had forgotten that folks down home don't press buttons, they mash them. It made me giggle every time.
- We went to a medical-supply place to get Mom a leg lifter. I walked up to the cashier and said, "We're looking --" and she shouted, "No!" and then laughed and said, "Sorry, sorry, just being silly. I was just feeling negative for a moment." And I shook my head and went on, but now I wish I'd asked her: You work at a medical-supply place. Were you thinking most of your customers are looking for more unpleasant surprises in their day?!
- I felt the East Coast earthquake, but I was so sleep-deprived that all I could think was, "Am I dizzy? am I hallucinating?"
Randomness from the journey:
- I took the 5:30 a.m. flight out, which I don't think I would do again, though it certainly got me to my destination plenty early. When I got up in the dark, I discovered that the kidlet had written a line from an Oysterband traveling song and taped it to the back door.
- There was a pretty young woman in the Chicago airport who was wearing a red flower behind her ear, a short skirt with an equestrian print, a crinoline, and flats with silver buckles. She looked fantastic.
- I detest rolling carry-ons. They slow everything down -- when you want to enter or leave a plane, you have to wait for people to cram them into the overhead bin; when you want to run through the airport (because 48 minutes between flights is not long enough in an airport as big as O'Hare), you can't get around them because they take up so much space. I packed six days' worth of stuff in one shoulder bag. Of course, that may be the reason why I'm so sick of these three T-shirts I could scream.
- I had forgotten that folks down home don't press buttons, they mash them. It made me giggle every time.
- We went to a medical-supply place to get Mom a leg lifter. I walked up to the cashier and said, "We're looking --" and she shouted, "No!" and then laughed and said, "Sorry, sorry, just being silly. I was just feeling negative for a moment." And I shook my head and went on, but now I wish I'd asked her: You work at a medical-supply place. Were you thinking most of your customers are looking for more unpleasant surprises in their day?!
- I felt the East Coast earthquake, but I was so sleep-deprived that all I could think was, "Am I dizzy? am I hallucinating?"