Friday, August 3, 2007

planes, automobiles, atlanta and sushi...

So I arrived at the airport in Philly with no issues to speak of at security and proceeded to the gate where my flight was scheduled to leave at 11:45am. We ended up boarding around 12:15pm and took off. I dozed off for about 20 minutes during takeoff (airplanes are incredibly therapeutic to me) when I woke up to an announcement that we were going to have to land in Philly again because there was some sort of issue with the landing gear. Now, this sort of stuff does not get to me. I don't really get nervous on planes; call it faith, call it my nature, whatever...so we landed in Philly to find out that they couldn't fix the problem so we had to get off and board another plane after about another 30 minutes. This time it was pretty much seamless and I finally arrived in Atlanta at about 5:30pm about 3 hours later than I was originally supposed to. Much thanks to my boss for volunteering to do the meeting tonight solo so I could hit the hotel and rest to be ready for our workshop tomorrow morning. I took the shuttle to get my rental car and after some searching for a full-size car, the guy came around with a new Nissan Altima. I filled out the paperwork, got directions to the hotel and hit the road. Once I was on the highway, I happened to look down and notice that there were no keys in the ignition! There was a big ON/OFF switch for the ignition in its place. It's at this point it hit me that I don't know where the keys are and if there are any keys! After my mind was spinning the rest of the drive to the hotel about whether I'm going to have to leave the car unlocked or call Enterprise to bring the keys to me, I pulled into the hotel parking lot. After some serious searching, I finally noticed the key electronically inserted into a slot on the left side of the dash under the steering wheel! HUH?! Are we really that lazy that we can't turn our wrist to start the car? Man, I felt stupid. So after getting settled into the hotel, I found a fantastic sushi bar around the corner and had dinner. Man, there's nothing like good sushi, especially when you top it off with Haagen-Dazs.

1 comment:

Lisa said...

We're glad you are home safe! Like the new picture on the top of your page:)