How fitting that I wrote up that last post on changing plans this morning!
Just as I was about to head out the door to the office I got a call from the head of our local office here. He’s the guy that I had come up here to relieve.
“You better pack your bags. We may be sending you home today.â€
OK, I thought. The company just spent a bunch of money to change my flight, which was originally scheduled to leave yesterday, had me go get a rental car. And now they want to send me home anyway?
“So do you want me to change my flight for one today?â€
“Just call around and see what you can get out today, but don’t change your flight yet. We may need you to stick around. Call me and let me know what you can get.â€
Sure. No problem.
I called the airline. Good news: there are still a couple seats left that would get me home tonight. Called back the office and let them know.
“We still don’t know for sure. I’ll call you once I know.â€
So I wait. Tick. Tick. Tick.
Eventually he calls back. “Yep. Go on home. Thanks for all your help!â€
Cool! I call the airline back. “We’re sorry there are no available seats until tomorrow morning.â€
Oh, we totally saw that one coming.
I was explaining the whole deal to a friend of mine who said, “Flexibility — the key word of the 21st century.â€
“Semper Gumby!†that’s my motto.
I was once on a mission trip and things were getting crazy. (I’m convinced there’s no word in Brazilian Portuguese for the English “plan.â€) At one point I asked our leader if we’d moved through flexibility and on to the fluid stage.
He said, “Oh, we’re way past fluid. We’ve been gaseous for several hours now.â€
I laughed long and hard when he said that. The double entendre with our reaction to some of the local food we’d recently had was just too much.
Of course sleep deprivation also may have made me a bit giddy at the time…
Anyway I should be heading home tomorrow sometime. Of course there are still about 22 hours for that plan to change. 😉
Enjoy!
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