Occasionally, I’ll talk to people who think it’s really cool that I travel for business. They’ve clearly never experienced it. Like yesterday when I left San Antonio to fly home.

• I arrived in Denver to find that the airport had been shut down because of high winds.
• Flight cancelled.
• Customer Service counter number had no human beings – just kiosks and phones.
• Called United reservations to find out if they could get me on another flight – they hung up on me.
• Went to Customer Service counter with human beings – the line was a football field long.
• Call United reservations again. Earliest they could get me home was almost 7:00 the following night – Denver to Springfield to Chicago to Des Moines.
• Scrambled to find a hotel room with every other stranded traveler.
• I have no clean clothes.
• My schedule for the rest of the week is shot.

Ahhhh, the glamor of business travel.