It was o'dark thirty in January 2016 on a very rainy morning. I had grossly miscalculated the time it would take to get to the Oakland airport on a weekday. I had booked myself on a 1-day trip to Anaheim. I was just three weeks into working full time again and decided a 1-day, like literally a commute, to Anaheim was a great idea! I am also someone who cannot stand being early to things so I strive for on time, which means i am almost always late. Point in case.
I had left my crying 18 month old daughter on my dad's chest. I was driving in the pouring rain at a frustratingly slow rate down Highway 24 towards Oakland. It was probably around 5am, but the weather made things difficult. I am notoriously bad at driving...in the rain...in the dark.... in the snow.... in general... so I was not only stressed out but also very uneasy. As you know, I tend to get stressed out about anything outside of actual driving, so I ended up listening to Cool for the Summer several times. I had recently "discovered" the song by subscribing to Apple Music and then searching for best of 2015 so I could be up on all the latest and greatest. Mind you, I was playing this song over and over in the dead of winter, in the RAIN, but it is somewhat ominous and something in the riff suggests a .... as in you don't know what will happen.
Well, what happened is that I was completely panicked and absolutely certain I was going to miss my flight. It wasn't a huge deal, i would miss the first bit of a training I wasn't even conducting, but all the same. I flat out ran from my car to the terminal, bypassing the shuttle. I arrived at the gate only to find out.... the flight had been delayed. I made it. One would think I learned my lesson, but sadly I have only gotten more complacent, which is a story for another song!
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