RE: Comedy of Errors < Abundance
I really enjoyed these stories Lizelle! It sounds like the theater ticket blunder ended up being a gift in disguise! Sometimes these kinds of things interject more fun and adventure into our lives.
I have one for you. A friend of mine (@luckyfellow) and flew to Chicago for a buddy trip about fifteen years ago. We flew into one of Chicago's two main airports, O'Hare. After an amazing weekend of sightseeing, good food, and live jazz we hopped into a taxi (these were the days before Uber) and rode back to O'Hare airport reminiscing about the weekend with plenty of time to spare.
We waited in the long line to check our luggage. When our turn came up the ticketing agent told us we were at the wrong airport! The budget airline we were flying booked our arrival at O'Hare and our departing flight out of Chicago's second airport, Midway.
We had less than an hour before our flight took off at the other airport. We ran to the taxi stand and explained our ordeal to the cab driver. He took off like a bat out of h@ll and drove us 80+ mph on the freeway to get us to that airport on time. We made it with just a few minutes to spare. Needless to say that taxi driver got a HUGE tip (and I pay way more attention now to tickets and other details when I travel).
We were both pretty poor back then so a last minute plane ticket wouldn't have been an option. If we missed that plane we would have been coming back on the Greyhound bus.
Oh my word, I can just imagine the panic stations; thank goodness you were early and the taxi driver knew his job or you may have ended up on the Greyhound;)
We actually took a trip on one of those buses soon after retirement as I'd never been on one and thought it would be nice seeing more of the countryside as someone told me they enjoyed their ride! Well, we chose the luxury liner and everything was hunky dory till the aircon started leaking on our side of the coach; fortunately this happened close to our destination and it was summertime. We all had a good laugh at the contraptions the passengers and crew came up with to try and divert the water; no one had an umbrella:):)
Then on our trip back we were told we could sit anywhere on the top level as it was empty; when we made a stop halfway, an odd honeymoon couple got on and we were in their seats! You know the Jerry Springer show types? He was young, she was an old gal and we simply moved to other seats without any fuss but this odd young man was fussing, kept on explaining to us why they had to sit in those seats; we said no worries but it took quite a while for him to calm down and sit with his bride, that was really weird! Needless to say, I had my adventure and that was our first and last Greyhound experience:)
Panic is right! We still laugh about that adventure all these years later.
Whoa, your bus experience sounds like an interesting one! I wonder why they needed to have those particular seats?