MonkeyZero
Mexican Mayonnaise Weiner Sandwich
Man that is just brutal. When we came back from Switzerland we got up at 5am local time, 11pm home time. Took 3 trains and 2 flights and got home at 11:30pm home time. So basically 23 and a half hours of traveling.Yesterday's travel day was interesting.... typical LA traffic from hotel to airport, typical airport delays.... but my Son In Law and the other Apollo guys are flying to Vegas for a different convention, and I was going to drive us home from Chicago.
Flash forward to mid-flight when we realize that he never gave me the KEY to the Suburban parked at Ohare. For some reason my daughter didn't bring her keys... they're hanging on the hook at home... 2 1/2 hours from Ohare.
Apparently the phone app and Onstar can both unlock the car remotely... but can't start the car. I suggest we take the El train to downtown, then take the South Shore back to South Bend, but we are getting in late enough that we might miss the last train from Millenium station, and while the three year old grandson with us has been an exceptionally good traveler to this point, we didn't want to risk that.
Pick up the bags from claim and are dragging all this shit (down two extra pairs of hands from the trip there), through the airport, trying to get to the vehicle (why they make rows 1-8 of every floor of the parking garage completely separated from rows 9-16 by a cloverleaf and road, while maintaining the same naming convention is a mystery of stupidity for another day). So outside again... past the bus pickup... into a different entrance to the other half of the parking structure on the other end of the terminal (huge horseshoe shape), I leave the girls, the kid, and the bags inside the airconditioned bus depot.... while I go to the vehicle with the locksmith so he can open the vehicle and make a new key.
GM owners.... I wouldn't feel safe because your car is "locked"... it took maybe 1 minute for him to put a bladder in the door frame by the window, open a little gap, reach in with essentially a coat hook, pop the door open.... the alarm went off, and he reached under the dash and there's a reset switch that silenced the alarm immediately.
$550 laterwe are on the road in rain... that progressed to full blown monsoon.... the kind where the trucks slow down or pull off the road.... so it's 45-55 mph much of the way instead of 70-90... rest stop chicken sandwiches along the way.... I think we met in the hotel lobby at 7:30 am... and I didn't get home until 12:30 at night (granted we lost 3 hours in flight time change) but that's still 14 hours, even after a non-stop flight.
I was toasted as I'm sure you were.
