A Trip to the Airport

I was at the Detroit airport, waiting for my daughter Karen to return from a short trip to South Carolina. I had arrived an hour early, and was watching airplanes take off.

Then, a tall tale came to me...a tale about filling in for an air traffic controller who had called in sick, and I was in charge of the takeoffs and the landings.

I thought it was real humorous, and was working out the fine details...until I got home and watched the evening news. One of the lead stories was about government workers not getting paid this Friday, and of the TSA workers working the airports...who also aren't getting paid.

All of a sudden...the story was no longer funny. The smiley face ;0) is for my story (which I thought was good), and the sad face ;0( is for the current situation we find ourselves in with the shutdown, the wall, and our two combative political parties. What a big fat mess.