Welcome to MY nightmare

[BrianS]

I spent Tuesday at our firms Washington DC office. Its typically a daytrip... YEAH.. RIGHT.... This is what followed.


I leave the DC office 4pm. Get to Reagan at 420ish
(mind you I was checking for delays all day)

Crew for the 5:45 plane is running late, we finally board and leave about 6:15

arrive at Boston at 8ish, circle a few times, try to land TWICE…
NOPE! Lets get diverted to LaGuardia

Get to NY…No hotel rooms ANYWHERE…
They say there is a 3:15 am amtrak or a possible 6-7-8am flight..

We cant stay in the terminal, so I opt for Penn Station and amtrak.
They give me a voucher and off I go..

I share a cab with some government guy who I find out is a bigwig at the EPA.

We get to Penn Station at 10:15. Windows closed at 10.. The 3:15am is full.
We cannot use the vouchers.

In desperation I reserve a seat on the 6:20 Acela.
Dave (my boss) happens to be in NY right? I hop a cab over to the Sheraton and crash on
a cot till 4:30 when I need to leave back to Penn Station for my train.

3 hours of sleep so good!

So I get to Penn Station, 6:20 Acela is canceled.

I am now on the 6:55 NON Acela due to get to Boston at 11am

Needless to say, I will NOT be at work today.

At least Penn Station has WiFi

So I finally get on the train and arrive in Boston 5 hours later.

I get in the car thats waiting for me and go home..

The car drops me off, I go to my door.. Im thinking shower and rest... I reach for my keys - WAIT.. NO KEYS.. I LEFT THEM INSIDE... I had been planning on coming home when my wife was there....

So I am sitting there.. in 20F weather.. prolly closer to 0 with the windchill... with a cellphone with a 99.9% dead battery.. and just enough juice to call my mom with my tail between my legs to come pick me up...

Chinese food tends to make things a little better.. Then we drove 45 mins each way to my wifes work to get her key..

Original ETA.. 8pm Tues evening
Actual ETA.. 5pm Wed Afternoon

Kill me.