Too Late

I successfully avoided Chicage O'Hare Airport for more than a year.

This week I spent several days in the central part of Illinois with the plan to end up Thursday evening at a building about 20 minutes from Chicago O'Hare airport. At the time I made the reservations, I considered flying Southwest into Midway, but would have headed for home at 7 PM and arrived back in Kansas City at 8:30'sh. I decided to fly American from O'Hare because I would be able to leave at 5:45 on Thursday and be home earlier. Since the client was estimated to be only about 20 minutes away from O'Hare, I figured I could leave by 3:45 or so and make it without a problem.

WRONG.

I left the Nursing Care Center about 3:45. Due to construction and traffic, I arrived at the Rental Care Return at 5 PM. The shuttle bus driver was wondferful and dropped me off at a curb side check-in to ensure my luggage would make it onto the plane. I suppose the luggage made it, but I am at a Marriott at O'Hare for the night as I did not make it through security in time to arrive at the gate and board the plane.

I would have been better served to have flown Southwest to Midway and traversed the extent of Chicago to the Midway airport.