I visited my grandmother in Kansas City. It was a year or two after my grandfather passed away (whereas in reality he outlived her by ten years). Anyhow, I had a good visit, but started having problems when it was time to return home. I had a lot of things to do at the last minute, including some banking. At the bank, I had to wait in line a long time. I was really starting to worry about missing my plane, but the banking was vital so I waited. Eventually the teller handled my transaction, but the printer wasn’t working, and I really needed the receipt. I mentioned that I was going to be late for my plane, and she said not to worry about it, as she would be happy to give me a ride to the airport (though I’m not sure exactly how that was going to help).
So once the printer was fixed and I got the receipt, we got in her car. First she had to drive me back to my grandmother’s house so I could hurriedly pack my bags. That turned out to be a disaster. Things that I needed didn’t seem to be where I’d left them, but were scattered throughout the house. I couldn’t find my laptop at all, but I found the charger for it under the kitchen table behind two pairs of men’s shoes. At first I thought that they looked like some of my own shoes, but the size was wrong so I realized that they must have been my grandfather’s. I expressed surprise at his shoes being under the kitchen table, and my grandmother said that she couldn’t bear to move anything from where he’d left it.
Finally I found the laptop and got everything packed, and the teller gave me the promised ride to the airport. I did miss my flight, but managed to get a later flight that had a connection in another city. In that city’s airport, once I got to the gate for the connecting flight, I realized that I’d lost the laptop again, somewhere in the airport. I left the gate to look for it, but I didn’t find it. However, now I’d lost my boarding pass, and the security guards wouldn’t let me go back to the gate. I wandered around, and as I did so more and more of my stuff disappeared. I feared that I would be stuck in that airport forever, without any of my posessions.