My weekend in the sky

I arrived at Hearthrow nice and early, what ever happened I didn't what to miss this flight. After so many leaving do's to still be in the country tomorrow would be deeply embarrassing.

I got to the check in desk and the nice woman at the desk took my passport and e-ticket then typed for about 5 minutes. She then looked up at me and said "Your Early", I replied with an enthusiastic nod and a thank you. Unfortunately my assumption that this was a compliment about my good punctuality was about to be shattered.

"Your flight isn't till tomorrow"

These words took a while to sink in, for the rest of my life I only had one plan, one simple thing I needed to do and that was to catch this flight. How could I have done this? How could I have been stupid enough to mess this up? It was written on my ticket the date of the flight, how had I assumed it was today for so long? Maybe I had over planned.

"are you sure?"

I was playing for time neither of us had said anything for a while the silence was getting uncomfortable, I also wanted to try and seem like I wasn't the kind of person stupid enough to turn up a day early for a flight.

"Yes!"

Dam that didn't buy me much time, I could tell from the sureness in her yes ( it needed capitalisation and an exclamation mark to express it in written form) that this approach would be fool hardy, she had a computer and my ticket that quite clearly stated tomorrows date after all.

"Would you like to fly today instead?"

Salvation! I could forget this embarrassing mistake and carry on as normal, no-one need ever know.

The rest of the flight was pretty uneventful, we had a stop over in Hong Knog which was nice. Though I couldn't understand why so many people seemed so eager to go and queue to sit on that plane again for what would seem like a eternity.