Geez, it's been a Monday! My day started with the alarm clock singing at 4:30 this morning. I really wanted to hit the snooze button, but there was no time for that...I had to get up take a shower, warm my car up, make a pot of coffee and get ready to pick my sister up at 5:00 to head to the airport. I know your thinking 30 minutes isn't much time, but I don't spend hours getting ready and luckily my sister lives right behind me :) So off to the airport we go! My sister was hired at the Federal prison a few months back and she is gone to Georgia for 3 weeks of training.

I have to explain a little about her...Jayme my sister is 27 so she is grown, but sometimes you wouldn't know it. She has never flown before and she was really anxious and nervous about the whole situation. I myself have not spent much time on a airplane, but I have flown a few times. So it's a 45 minute drive to the airport and all she keeps saying is she is going to be sick...what if she passes out on the airplane, how will she know where to go, wonder if something happens and she misses a flight...yatta yatta... So I spend the whole ride trying to calm her nerves and explain that it's really nothing to it, and she shouldn't be so worried. I explained to her where to go when she got in to check her bag and pick up her tickets, I explained to her about going through security, I told her that if she wasn't sure about something to ask someone who worked at the airport and they would help her. Still she went on and on for the whole ride... So we get to RDU and her paper says terminal 1 but there is no sign for US Airways there...hmmm I just so happened to remember hearing something on the news about some airlines moving to terminal 2 so we pull up and I tell her to run in and double check to be 100% sure, because I know if I leave and she is in the wrong spot she will probably have a panic attack...LOL So US Airways had moved to terminal 2, and we unloaded her bags, I gave her a quick hug and off she went. So I am on my way to work...I somehow miss my exit on 540 and end up who knows where, but then I seen some shopping centers and figured out I was in Brier Creek...thank goodness because I hate to be lost! I was back on the right path and on the way to work. My sister sends me a text to tell me she got her baggage checked and her tickets and that she was on her way to the security line. She had plenty of time since her flight didn't leave until 9:10, I just had to get her there early so I could make it to work on time! Not long after I get to work she sends me a message saying how cool the airport is and that she is excited...thank goodness because I was worried about her! She sends another text before she boards the plane and said she would text me when she landed in Charlotte to let me know how everything was going.

I go to lunch...I have herd nothing from her, I get off work and I have herd nothing from her... So now I am the one freaking! As soon as I get home from work, I am searching the arrivals and departures from every place she went...all planes left and landed on time. Why in the world haven't we herd from her! So I am thinking, maybe she lost her phone, maybe her phone is dead...she must have lost it because she would be at the training facility for a few hours by now. I am talking to my Mom and she hasn't herd from her either. So now I am trying to figure out how in the world we are going to find out if she made it there. FINALLY at 8:30 my phone rings and it's Jayme!!!!!! She said every since she got on the first plane her phone hadn't worked...thank goodness because I as starting to think someone have kidnapped her or something!

So I get her story about her day...so funny! She said all the airport people were very nice but she found the normal people to be quiet rude. She said a lady was ugly to her when she asked about the zones they call out for seating (she didn't know...it was her fist time flying) She said while she was sitting she asked a man if he could tell her if she was at the place and he told her to look at the board (she didn't know) so she was upset with the way the average people treated her :( Of course I was thinking about the last time I flew, and about all the people who were around. I only had 1 person ask me a question and I tried to help them....like I said I am not an expert at flying! Why are folks so ugly and rude? The funny thing is my sister said the people she asked were people she thought to be in their 40's. I wonder how people would feel if someone they knew were confused in a airport and asked a question and someone treated them like an idiot! Moral of the story...not EVERYONE is a jet setter, sometimes people in an airport are flying for the first time or the first time in several years...it can be scary and overwhelming!!! Really no one has manners anymore and it makes me SICK!

It makes me think of the other day when I was in Walmart... I overheard a man ask another shopper where he could find cream of chicken soup, and the lady just blew him off and said I don't know. Really!?! So I turned around and told him I didn't know the exact isle, but that it would be on the aisle with all canned soups and what the display would look like. I saw him later in the store, and he stopped me and said I really appreciate your help, I don't usually grocery shop but my wife was sick and couldn't get out. You know a little kindness goes a long way! It was amazing how thankful he was that I tried to help him find some soup... So everyone please try to help someone when they need it, don't ignore or treat folks with disrespect...sometimes the smallest act of kindness can make a persons day :)

So that was my Monday...some other stuff to0, but I will get into those things later this week. My day hasn't been so great and I have several things that are stressing me at the current moment. More than anything I need sleep...so off to bed I go!