{"id":514,"date":"2005-02-23T14:00:17","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=514"},"modified":"2006-10-18T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T22:17:00","slug":"back-in-acton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/02\/23\/back-in-acton\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Acton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our return flight, in spite of Matrix-depriving sleep, felt flawless. Brian and I sat together across from Matt and Diane, and while I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reading The Big Bad Wolf (on loan from Matt) or napping, we talked about partitioning, scsi drives,Intelligent design (described in a Globe column this morning as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Creationism in sheep\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clothing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), the Middle East, how to destroy the earth, digital cameras (he filled a gigabyte card and drained but one battery) and the fragility of the airline industry. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One shoulder fired SAM and it all goes away.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The single glitch revolved around the Park and Fly shuttle that ferried us from the airport to the offsite (call it cheaper, not cheapo) parking lot. A truly Twilight Zone-esque experience with a near mutiny by passengers crammed and trapped inside this dimly lit shuttle with filthy, near opaque windows and a slow moving driver who couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t decipher the spoken word.<\/p>\n

We all had to yell out our vehicle ticket numbers and Diane repeated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153oh938oh8\u00e2\u20ac\u009d four times before Matt boomed-in with his best, and I might say on the verge of murderous, baritone, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153OH938OH8.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the driver asked again.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zero938Zero8,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Matt replied.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153OhZero938oh8?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arms snapped up and straight out, his hands open and a medium sized neck width apart. I grabbed the back of his belt as he boomed again, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NO! ZERO938ZERO8.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Who could blame him. He had been the perfect citizen for the last five days, but he was desperate to hang with his friends before midnight curfewed him back to Central St. It was only seven, but the walls, they were a closin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in. <\/p>\n

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d waited to be picked up for twenty-five minutes at the airport while watching competing lot vans zoom by us as if we were spectators at the Daytona Five Hundred. And now we were sitting for an inexplicable amount of time at the entrance to the Park and Fly lot while the driver waited for some phantom to allow us in. We were all tired, cold and impatient, but none of us more than Matt who sat shoulder to shoulder with a sneezing, nose blowing, headset wearing, singing, all but jumping up to dance, man, who absolutely could not have been driving himself home.
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Late breaking news: Diane answered every question as a left-brained person.
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Our return flight, in spite of Matrix-depriving sleep, felt flawless. Brian and I sat together across from Matt and Diane, and while I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reading The Big Bad Wolf (on loan from Matt) or napping, we talked about partitioning, scsi … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}