Hi Folks. I'm doing an out of the ordinary middle-of-the-day entry. I actually had a few spare minutes here at work before our department Christmas lunch and gift exchange and thought I'd fill you all in.
Last night was crazy. I stayed late at work (again) to work on some things (like my vaugeness?) and when I got home I realized that Olivia was flying out for Little Rock Thursday morning. DOH! This threw a serious wrench in my plans. You see, I had been planning all along to buy Olivia a cell phone for Christmas, but I wanted to give it to her just as she was about to get on the plane. Backing up a step further: I purchased the phone and plan through Sun Com on Monday while I was off from work and had been charging it and programming it at work this week.
So, when I got home and realized that she was flying out the next morning, I freaked. I made up some dumb excuse to come back downtown and get the phone. But, I had to be sneaky so she didn't suspect anything. As it turns out, I pulled it off. She never knew it was coming.
The alarm went off at 3:55 this morning. Did we get up for it? Yeh right. In fact, I woke up to find that my clock had found it's way to 5:15!! We were planning on arriving at the airport at 5 so that we'd have enough extra time for security, etc. We threw on some clothes and ran out the door. We arrived at RIC at around 6:15 to find a TREMENDOUS line at the ticketing table as well as the security checkpoint(x-ray). We made it through the ticketing line by around 6:40. By then, the security line had grown much longer. We took our place in line and began nervously biting our fingernails. Just to put things in perspective, by 6:50 the line had barely moved and Olivia's flight was scheduled to leave at 7:20. As we got closer to the x-ray station, I pulled out my phone and dialed the number for her new phone that I had hiding in my jacket pocket.
I had set the ring tone on her new phone to be "We wish you a merry christmas...". Her phone began loudly singing in my pocket, which really confused Olivia...until I pulled it out, handed it to her and told her that I thought that she might find this useful while we were apart. She was totally shocked..exactly what I had hoped for. I quickly showed her how to use the speed dial to call my cell phone that I had already programmed in and then hopped out of line and left.
She called me from Charlotte a little while ago. She somehow made it on the plane in Richmond. I think they actually held the plane for her, since she had already checked her lugage and they knew she was in the airport somewhere.
Check back for further updates....I'm off to eat a gigantic lunch with my co-workers and then exchange gifts. YAY!
Posted by Jeff at December 20, 2001 11:59 AM