So to give you a little history - I'm now on a project here in Dallas, TX. The project has it's challenges, however the work "afterlife" is pretty sweet. For instance.....my coworker Nikki and I went out with my bestest gay last night and his ex. Where can you get pictures such as this?!:
So had a great night....and a great week with my gal Nikki. We were at the airport here in Dallas today being silly and racing each other in the security line to see who could win. I zip through my line and with a victory dance totally rub it in that I was the winner! (yeah me!) The TSA workers were laughing at us. We gather our things and head down to the gates. Nikki walked with me to my gate and then we said our goodbyes.I sat in my gate for about 30mins or so listening to Obama's stimulus speech at Caterpillar (which was pretty cool by the way) and making phone calls to arrange a super fun evening with my friend Connie. (Fun to me these days is going to an exercise class called Zumba!! - pathetic I know). I get in line to board the plane - me an my A40 (Southwest) and proceed to walk down the jetway to the plane. I carry one of those roller bags, so as you travelers know, rolling a bag down an airplane aisle is pure torture so I retract my handle down and pick up the bag. Except it felt like 10lbs. lighter. Uh oh.........
Yup.......no laptop......
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So I suddenly kinda hyperventilate..........and as usual, in a panic I call Paul. (Mr. Calm, Cool and Collected) Told him what happened and he said, "No problem honey, don't worry I'll call you back in about 5 minutes". Oh I love that man.
So I find a seat (window of course - my preferred) and sit down to catch my breath. As I sit there I'm thinking the entire time "Should I really leave the airport?!?!" I mean I do have a Zumba committment tonight!? lol So Paul calls back and he was able to get ahold of the airport lost and found and they had reported that they had a Dell computer turned in a little bit ago, however someone claimed it already. Mine was a Lenovo laptop. Damn.
I wasn't hearing what I needed to, so I decided to deplane. I told the stewardess what my dumba$$ did, and I needed to go see if anyone had found it. She said no problem - and I rush off the plane......(thinking there MIGHT be a slight chance that I would actually get back on that flight home - yeah right.)
I went down to security and they were super nice looking in every nook and cranny to find my missing laptop and no dice :( The nicest security guard named Scott Thompson took my business card and make/model and said he would call me if anything showed up.
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I went into the bathroom and had a "moment" to myself to think about what I had done. Thoughts of "OMG this is soooooo not Dave Ramsey and I'm going to have to pay for a $2000 laptop", and "Damn! I made really good progress on that Training Style Guide today?!" and "All my passwords and information are on there!??!"......breathe......breathe.......breathe........
So I call:
(1) Mom to tell her I wasn't going to be arriving at 5:00pm
(2) Paul to see what I needed to do
(3) Suzanne so she could look up a number for me to call such as 1-800-DUMBA$$
Everyone of course was so super sweet to calm my nerves (thanks guys). Suzanne advised I needed to call my manager Michelle (which I was so afraid to hear - geez!? I didn't want to have to call her and tell her I am such a loser!!!) So I did. I left Michelle a voicemail telling the events of the day......
5 minutes pass.........
RING RING - "Mrs. King? This is Scott - I have your laptop"
WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I then asked him if I could give him a hug and he said "sure" LOLOLOLOL
He met me at Gate 1 and I ran up to him and gave him a HUGE hug! haha He laughed and said that someone picked it up by mistake at security and turned it in at Gate 15. So THANK YOU to the nice citizen who returned my laptop - I owe you FOREVER! And a HUGE THANK YOU to Scott Thompson the nicest security guard EVER.
I called everyone back to let them know it was found. I had to call Michelle and just laugh in her voicemail - I'm sure she thinks I'm the biggest dork in town. In the meantime my wonderful husband had already (1) signed us up for LifeLock (an identity theft service) and (2) started to change all online passwords to our accounts...........what a guy.
So needless to say the moral of this story............
Don't play "I'll race you through airport security" with your girlfriends.
SIGH
