Traveling when Mercury is retrograde

Traveling when Mercury is retrograde is always an experience. But nothing can be worse than losing one’s trailer key in the Dallas Airport. To be fair, when Kinky Friedman once penned the wise reminder, “It doesn’t matter if your destination is Heaven or Hell, if you’re flying in Texas, you’ll connect through Dallas…” Of course, he was referring to the Big DFW airport, a lesser ring of Hell, and I was stuck in the smaller, more quaint Dallas Love Field (Home of Southwest Airlines). So after a delayed flight, and after getting into Austin and finally collecting my gear, and after getting picked up, I get home to find myself locked out of the trailer. After calling everyone I know who has a spare set of keys, I finally get desperate and break in through the bathroom window. One of my friends helped with the operation, but I don’t think I should name names, in the interest of protecting my sources. One set of keys didn’t have a battery in her pager, and one set of keys is down fishing on the Gulf right now, and the management’s office, which has a key to trailer as well, they weren’t available on Sunday evening. It’s not like they have problems at this time, either. A little “B & E” and I was home free, finally.