Posts from — May 2004

so the weekend started with me bolting out of bed on saturday morning with amy yelling, “it’s 6:30!” now, most days, this would be cause for rejoicing, as it would mean that the cat hadn’t done a happy dance on my face at 5 in the morning and the dog hadn’t yet decided that he just had to void his bowels before the alarm went off. but this day, oh, no, this was bad. see, I was supposed to catch a plane at 6:50 that morning.
so yeah, when I set the alarm after getting home from work at 1am, i set it for 5pm instead of 5am. difficult for the clock to do it’s job if you don’t set it correctly.
after attempting to call united three times and getting hung up on when i tried to get connected to an actual person, I threw the phone down and “fuck it,” we’re off to the airport.
7:10, at the airport, in line, hopping from foot to foot. get to the counter and plead for mercy with the “i’m an absolute idiot” excuse. get a ticket– no extra fees!– for the next flight, leaving in an hour and a half. cool. now if only i could reach my mother…
land in oakland at 10am, find my mother who has been waiting patiently since about 7:15, wondering if i ever got on a plane, as she didn’t know how to check her voicemail at home on which i had left six messages…. exit airport, reach into pocket to pull out phone card to call amy to let her know all is well…
which leads me to sunday, when, after finally finding a copy of chabon’s summerland in paperback, i go to pay for the thing with my debit card and realize my drivers license is not in its place in my wallet. after retracing my steps throughout the day, it appears that the fateful call to amy while my dl was in my pocket (damn you, multiple security checkpoints!), it slipped out and away, forever lost. either that or the too-nice 15-year-old kid next to me on the plane pickpocketed me and is using my ID at this very moment to get very drunk instead of going to his cousin’s high school graduation. so if you see a skinny chinese kid who may or may not still be reading the merchant of venice and answers to the name of leo in the la vicinity in the next couple of days, grab him and get my license back, would ya?