As you may have read, my parents were here visiting us. I dropped them at the airport on Wednesday morning for their 12 hour flight home. Every time they travel they get their friend Louise to drop them at the airport and pick them up. In return Louise uses their car for the time they are away. Well, sure enough when they got back to their airport Louise was waiting for them with a big smile. Mom hugged her and started telling her about the wonderful time she had, and about her wonderful daughters and wonderful grandchildren (yes we are all that wonderful) They talked the whole time that dad was retreiving the luggage. The talked all the way to the car, talked the whole time dad loaded the luggage into the trunk, talked as he opened the back door and closed it. Mom and Louise had a full 2 weeks of talking to catch up on. Louise was going to drive home. So she pulled out of the parking spot and started driving away. Mom realized that they had no change in the car for the parking attendant; she rummaged through her purse for change; she asked dad twice for a dollar, but he wouldn't even reply. Didn't matter, mom always has a purse full of change and she found the money she needed to pay. Mom and Louise continued to talk as they headed for home. For some reason mom turned around to ask dad something to realize HE WASN'T IN THE CAR. "OH MY LOUISE WE FORGOT F (dad). Louise spun that car around in the middle of the road. Where was F she asked. Of course mom and Louise started to laugh. When they got back to the airport there was dad stood there, not looking very impressed at them both. Apparently when he opened the back door he layed his laptop bag inside the car and went to bring the luggage cart back to the building and when he turned around Louise and mom were gone. He looked across the parking lot to see them leaving so he started to jog towards them when he realised they didn't know he wasn't there.
Guess Louise and mom won't live this one down for many years to come.
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