The Airport

[colbybfox]

Today the Navy has asked me if I wouldn't mind coming to the airport here in Tokyo to pick up a guy who will be checking into our squadron. He's an Airman who is fresh out of basic training and this will be his new home for the next two to three years and I will be his first impression of the military overseas. What of that

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[msnu24]

I hope you had better luck finding him than I had finding you!!!

[colbybfox]

Ouch. Not undeserved though. If it makes you feel any better, I did have a run of bad luck finding him. His plane landed at 3:45 and I didn't get ahold of him until an hour later. He was held up in customs for screening and when nobody else came out of the arrivals portal I thought I had missed him. I scoured the terminal for the btter part of the afternoon and was about to give him up for lost when I saw a guy carrying a sea bag and correctly asssumed he was my new check-in. Everything came out though but I didn't get back to base until after 8pm.
I haven't forgotten about sending you the stories I promised. You'll have them by the end of the weekend I swear.

[msnu24]

Thanks for reminding me. . . I almost forgot about them. I think I purposefully forgot about it, cause you KILLED her!! yes I know I know it was just your free writing and we'll drop it if we ever start up NEH again, . . . I hope you know I'm just picking on you. *hugs* Glad you found him. At least you found him in the end and didn't have to throw away a venti caramel frappuccino. *le sigh* all that good caramel gone to waste.

[lifeisnow]

youre a good story teller

[colbybfox]

Thanks. I like that kind of thing. So much happens in airports. I felt like Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in the beginning of Dogma. "Don't just sit there leering at me. Somebody's going to think I just broke up with you."
"We're going home??"