The Story of Our Lives

I left the house last night to meet Max at the airport. We planned to have dinner together at his favorite Thai restaurant. He had a 10am meeting this morning, so we were going to keep it to an early night. Yeah right!

6.20pm Left House to pick Max up from the airport.

6.30pm While standing in traffic a woman yells to me that I have a flat tire coming on the right rear wheel

6.35pm Pull over and look at the pancake-ish tire.

6.37pm Start running back towards the closest Subway stop downtown

6.50pm Catch the SFO airport train, estimating that if it takes a half hour to get there, I will just make it for his 7.38pm landing

7.05pm Max calls my cell to say his flight is cancelled and he has no idea when he will be coming in

7.30pm I arrive at the airport

7.35pm Max calls to say he is on a flight that should leave at about 7.50pm

7.45pm I buy two magazines and some Toblerone and wait....

8.40pm Max sends me a text message on the cell, saying they should be taking off soon

9.15pm I call my friend Ben in NYC. He is mentioned in the current issue of ArtForum, on page 88 under the naked lady.

9.45pm Max lands

9.50pm Max and Lori reunite

10.00pm The luggage starts pouring out the carousel at baggage claim

10.10pm The luggage carousel stops, with very few people having retrieved their bags

10.25pm We walk over to the American Airlines baggage office, at the same time a representative with a walkie talkie is coming out

10.26pm An older man yells at the representative, "What the hell is going on here?! Let's get a MOVE ON! Come on!"

10.27pm The representative turns around and responds, "I'm not your slave. I'm not your slave and you will not talk to me like that. If you have a problem go see the manager. I am trying to help you."

10.28pm The carousel begins moving again, and we grab Max's bags.

10.35pm We jump on the Subway train just in time to make it

11.10pm We exit the subway and hop in a cab to our car with a flat

11.20pm Max changes the tire

11.45pm We head home, and find a parking spot in our neighborhood. Miracles do happen!

11.55pm We heat some soup, and sit in the kitchen together.

Throughout this experience we kept eachother laughing, and just made the most of it. And this is why I love our relationship.