Back and forth

So I left work early yesterday to take Ali to the airport.  She checked the status online and the flight was marked as ON TIME.  We had Nicki with.  Nicki has this weird fear of the noise that is made as the car goes over the metal connectors of the ramp to the departure area.  As soon as she heard it, she got up from the back seat, crawled up front and jammed herself under Ali’s feet on the floor in the passenger side.  She has this scared, timid look on her face.  It’s cute but also very strange.  For some reason she finds these terrifying.

As we pulled up I see a cop/security guard guy come popping out from behind one of the parked cars on a Segway. WTF is the point of that???  He was rolling around making sure people didn’t spend 5 extra seconds in the loading/unloading area than necessary.  What a joke.

Ali says goodbye to Nicki (who is still wedged on the floor) and me.  I unload her bags and then before I pulled away I paused for a second to roll down the passenger window to see if Nicki would come up to say good bye, which she didn’t.  As I put the window up, I turn back to the front and am startled by the f’in guy on the Segway who has now pulled up to the side of the car.  I roll down the window and he says “All set?” meaning “Get the f out of here”  I was a split second away from spitting out a sarcastic. smart ass comment about this dipshit but at the last second I caught myself and just said “Yep all set”  I was pissed at myself as I pulled away for not letting a remark fly to let the guy know that an extra 15 seconds by the curb did not require his intervention.  F’in jerk.

Well I was almost out of gas so I had to stop to fill up.  No more than 10 minutes after dropping Ali off, my cell phone rings.  It’s Ali, she says she heard a rumor that the flight was canceled due to weather in PA.  Great, well I told her that I had to stop for gas anyway so I would wait to hear back from her.  She calls me back in a bit saying that although the flight is not cancelled, it could be delayed indefinitely because of high winds in PA.  The airline people said “if it isn’t life and death, I would recommend that you reschedule”  So Ali reschuduled for this morning and I swung around and picked her back up. 

I was sort of hoping that Segway shithead would be in the area so I could get a second chance to indirectly insult him, but he was evidently at another gate being a pain in the ass.  So we scooped Ali back up and took off.  The noise once again scared Nicki.  She again crawled in the front floor area under Ali’s legs and stayed there the entire 45 minute drive home. 

We left bright and early this morning at 6am.  We took Nicki with once again.  It was bizarre, as we approached the airport, far off from those noisy strips still, Nicki was looking out the window.  She must have recognized the scenery somehow and again crawled up on the front floor to hide.  I couldn’t believe that she knew where we were going.  We dropped Ali off and Nicki again stayed on the floor all the way home.  Crazy dog.  Ali arrived safely in PA.

Of course I got a call this morning that the Camry Hybrid showed up today.  But of course we can’t finish the deal until Ali is back to sign the papers.  Her flight comes in around 5pm Monday so I am hoping we can somehow work out picking the car up on Monday night.