Two Parking Tickets and a Seizure Summons…

Not bad, considering I almost missed my flight to Toronto on Friday. I had a couple of meetings in Toronto on Friday night, and I also had a very important wedding to attend. A very close friend of mine, who I haven’t seen in a number of years, finally got married on Saturday.

I was speaking with a customer on the phone for awhile, and lost track of time. I grabbed my bag at 2:35 PM and whipped over to Voodoo for a quick meeting on our ARIA system. Driving like a stunt driver fresh out of the Dukes of Hazard training school I finally arrived at Voodoo at 2:50. My flight was leaving at 3:50, so the meeting had to go quickly. I ran inside, grabbed everyone that needed to be there, and whipped them into the board room and quickly chicken scratched out a diagram and a plan. It was 4:00 by the time I finished the meeting and made sure that everyone had their questions answered.

I get back into the car and started driving towards the airport. In the meantime I knew the flight was going to leave so I had someone phone Westjet and let them know I was on my way.

The traffic was brutal, I was supposed to check in at least one hour early, and I could not miss this flight. I four wheel slid around the final bend to the airport coming into the parking garage where I was shocked to see no parking spots on the second floor. Rather than driving around looking for parking I made my own spot next to the elevator, ran out of the car, grabbed by bags from the trunk and flung them into a cart.

I arrived with 30 minutes to go and luckily the plane was delayed by a few minutes, I checked my bags through quickly (Westjet is incredibly efficient, they blow Air Canada away), blew through security and made it just in time to pick up some Starbucks and jump on the jet.

When I arrived back into Calgary last night I found three pieces of paper on the windshield including two parking tickets, one more expensive than the other. The third piece of paper was a notice to seize my car. Thankfully I made it there on time before the tow truck posse arrived.

I guess two parking tickets and a seizure summons beats missing the flight.