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Really, though, The Sims is a really weird phenomenon. I think I’m glad I never played it.

Somehow I managed to get into my iCal the wrong flight time1. So instead of getting to the airport just in time to argue my way onto a flight that leaves in 30 minutes, I arrived just in time to hear that the door is now closing and that I am long past the argument phase. Fiddlesticks.

One very real perk of flying consistently on a major airline is the unbelievable route selection that this usually affords you. My flight to Dulles and connection to Columbus would have me landing at 10h30. But if I take this flight to Chicago an hour later, and make an illegal 25-minute connection, I can get there at 11h!

I don’t believe in checking luggage, so making it to the plane in 25 minutes was no problem at all. We landed 15 minutes early and I made the rest up in the rental car office and on the highway. I arrived right on time for my meeting; a perfect travel recovery, after starting off so very badly.

1 As a result of this incident, I have reviewed my personal travel process. Readiness level TRAVELCON 2 now includes as part of standard operating procedures a final confirmation of flight and airport transportation times.