Nice post! I don't know if it's a writery joke or an American thing, but who wakes up thinking they have a plane to catch when they don't even have tickets and somehow they're aware there are no tickets?
And for all your effort, the damn time fast-forwarding machine didn't even work - that's a bummer. I hope you weren't planning to market it :)
If you're hoping to get to Krakow you should buy the tickets already!