I’ll take a full caf shot with a little milk in an IV, please.
(Written at the beginning of the journey)
August 12, 2007
Sitting in the airport at the worst hour possible: 4:30am. The problems with this are HUGE. First, the coffee place is NOT open. Oh, there are people there playing with money and turning on the machines, but I am being taunted with the IDEA of coffee and none of the actual caffeine. Next, there is my bag.
You see I carry this lovely laptop in a backpack type bag. I picked it up to throw it on my shoulder as I exited the car this morning to discover one of the cats (and I have a theory) has sprayed it. I have ode to cat pee coming from one of the straps of my bag. And as you guessed it, there is NO bag vendor open at the airport at 4:30am. I briefly wondered if the kind people of the coffee place would let me move said laptop to one of their paperbags — but I fear the level of protection it would provide. At this point, I’m unsure of my course of action. Do I try to clean it, knowing full well there is no way to get the smell of ode to cat pee out of ANYTHING? Or does it get tossed just as soon as I can find a bag vendor with an option? Urgh, and my mind can not process any of this while the lovely Peet’s person is teasing me with counting change at a shocking slowly pace. Does this woman not understand that the Queen without her coffee is like a day without sunshine?
Unrelated to any of the above:
For sale CHEAP, one kitty. Very friendly. Sweet and kind. Unsure which you may receive in the box as it could be a kitten OR an older cat ticked off at me for shoving meds down her throat. I will pack in bubble wrap and ship to the destination of your choice.
Also, unrelated to any of the above:
I’m suddenly seeking opinions for laptop bags. All thoughts welcome. Priorities include: lightweight, protective, easy to carry, fit in overhead OR under seat in front of me; and look as little like a laptop bag as humanly possible. I’m considering roller backpack. Bonus plan would be if it could also hold plane knitting and perhaps might be unattractive to a cat.
Updated to add:
There is a lovely, although slightly stinky ex-laptop bag in the Vancouver airport. I found a bag vendor there and paid probably too much for a CLEAN backpack, but I got the mission accomplished. I swapped out the bags and then had this horrible thought, someone is going to see me leave this OLD bag in the airport and there will be a bomb squad and everything. I thought about telling a security officer what was up — but frankly trying to explain that I brought cat pee over the border freaks me out a bit. So, I opted to shove it in a garbage can and walk away very, very quickly.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:22 pm
That last bit is hysterical. Sorry about what you had to put up with, though!