Cursed business trip

I'm in Detroit Metro airport waiting or my flight back to Tokyo from my 1 week business trip to the US and I hope my troubles are over. Here's a quick list of the problems so far:

  • In NYC on the first night, my friend got strangled by a crazy drunk jock as we were coming out of a Japanese restaurant close to his place. The jock finally let him go and went on to hit another random guy a block away. He wasn't hurt but we had a good scare.
  • When going to Greenwich Village to buy a bag my girlfriend asked me to bring back, I got fell into the Gay Pride parade and got stuck for over an hour trying to wade through the crowd back to Broadway.
  • On the flight from NYC to Dallas, I was randomly selected for a special security check. Random is the word, it's the second time out of 2 US flights I took since 9/11.

SSSS over and over again

  • My flight today from Dallas to Detroit was cancelled and rebooked for tomorrow 6AM. I will have to wake up around 3:30AM to leave at 4AM for the airport.
  • I was randomly selected again 30 minutes ago after checking in for my flight to Tokyo. This time the machine smelling explosives started to beep and the officer called a supervisor to recheck my bag, pat me down and ask me a bunch of questions...

Just a 13 hours flight left to go and I'll be back home in Japan, safe from all this crazy stuff. I can't wait!

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Business trip to the US

Tomorrow I'm leaving for the US we're I'll conduct some training sessions and will discuss implementation of new systems with people from the North American division of my company. Here's the flight plan:

lots of planes

One weekend in NYC to see a friend
2.5 days in Dallas
2.5 days in Detroit
15470 miles
32 hours 35 minutes in a plane

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