Who needs underwear?

My mom made it safe and sound. Her first flight from Ohio was cancelled so she spent 2 hours in line to get rebooked. They put her on a different airline and told her she'd have to run. So she did and checked in and because she was rushing or because they're profiling white grannies just to be fair, she got the complete search and pat-down and just barely made that flight.

Then by the time they arrived in Dallas, she had missed her connecting flight back on the original airline - but that's OK, because she would have had four minutes to change planes in Las Vegas. So back to the second airline, the one she actually flew the first leg on, and hang around for a while, then get on that plane, then sit on the runway for 45 minutes while everything stopped due to storms in the area. But at least she was coming straight here and didn't have to change in Las Vegas.

So I had put off until the last minute leaving for the airport, forgetting that it was rush hour. I realized I was almost out of gas, so I stopped and was filling the tank at the time that her plane was supposed to be arriving. We "rush" the rest of the way to the airport - about 15 minutes - and park right across from the terminal so we won't have far to haul her suitcase. I can't find her flight arrival on the arrivals board, so am about to head off for baggage claim when we see her coming down the escalator, having JUST arrived.

So we hung out at the baggage claim carrousel. And waited. And waited. And nothing. And so off we go to the check-in for the airline that she did fly on, but they don't have it and no one is answering the phone at the airline that she was originally supposed to be flying on. The nice woman took all her info and my address and we headed home (stopped at McD's with playland for some nice healthy dinner, because it was after 7 by that point).

No suitcase. All night: no suitcase. All day: no suitcase. Mom called the number they gave and got an automated system that said her case had been picked up at 7 AM and should have been delivered within 6 hours. Uh, this was 8 hours after 7 AM already. Now it's 3 hours after that and still no sign.

Good thing we wear almost the same size. My shorts are hanging off her as if she were a teenaged boy, but she's clothed.