my friends daryl and maureen are getting married on saturday. i’m in the wedding party so i am here (thursday night) for tomorrow’s rehearsal. my dad flew in to toronto today to attend meetings and he changed his return flight to 9:30 so that we could fly together. we were supposed to have dinner together but then he decided to visit his mother and siblings in scarborough and it was too much of a rush for me so i was able to have a last-minute dinner with lora instead.
i had no idea that Porter had its own little ferry dock. So I just assumed that it was the same one as centre island, which the bathurst streetcar does not go to! so after waiting for the bathurst streetcar for a few minutes, i took the subway to spadina, then got on the spadina streetcar and just sat there waiting for it to move. when it did, it was so slow! all i can think about is how my dad is just waiting for me at the airport thinking “dammit, my son is always late.” got off at Queen’s Quay, called my dad and he said “i’m at the top of the escalators waiting for you” and i was like… huh? where are you??? so i had to take a cab to the correct place. sheesh. at this point it is shortly after 9pm… cutting it a little close.
so then i’m at the airport and i go to the metal detector thing and she’s like, “boarding pass please”. so i give her what I have and she’s like, “this is not a boarding pass, this is just your itinerary.” so i was like… ok. i just printed out something and wasn’t paying attention. i did the online check-in but after selecting my seat i didn’t pay attention to what to do next. this was probably because i am always rushing in the mornings. woudln’t have made a difference anyway as my printer hasn’t had ink in it for over a year. so glad i bought that thing, anyway, i digress. i had to haul ass back around the corner to the check-in while I hear them calling for “mr. chu” on the PA.
so i go to go through the metal detector and some dude is like, “are you mr. chu? ” and i say yeah, and he goes “they are calling for you”. i’m like, yeah i know, but i can’t get there any faster than this, there are 2 people in line ahead of me… i go to through the metal detector and have to take off my belt and try again. go up to the counter to get onto the plane and my dad’s like, “where’s my boarding pass??” So he goes back to find it and the guy says, “are you mr. chu?” and i say yes, well there are two of us, i am jason. and he says, “there’s only one mr. chu on this flight” and i’m like, no… the other one is eddie. he says, “no”, i say yes… he looks it up and says, “oh the other mr. chu is on the plane already” and i say, uh.. no, he’s right there.
my dad comes back and thinks that somebody accidentally took his boarding pass. actually he thought he had his but he was holding mine. for some reason he took it from me and even though his was a computer print-out and mine was from the check-out counter, he still thought it was his. anyway we got on the plane at 9:29. I was quite grateful for the free can of stella.