FAMILY TRAVEL BLUNDER #1

FAMILY TRAVEL BLUNDER #1

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Lesson Learned: Bring extra clothes in carry-on luggage

We scheduled a long layover in Atlanta when we returned from Europe (thought we needed extra time with COVID and customs).  Of course, our plane was one hour early so our long layover was now forever.  My daughter started feeling sick when we landed.  I thought maybe she was hungry, so we found a restaurant for a “real” meal.  She didn’t feel like eating and said she needed to use the restroom.  Literally 10 steps away from the restroom, she vomits.  Since she had her mask on, instead of spewing all over the floor, it went down her jumper.  Quickly she ran into the bathroom while I guarded the vomit so no one would slip on it. 

People were upset I was blocking the middle of the walkway until they realized I was preventing them from stepping in nasty vomitus!  A transporter was pushing an old lady in a wheelchair and stopped to help.  The old woman screamed “What are you doing?  Can’t you see she’s sick?!?  Go! Go! Go!”  Finally, my husband found a wet floor sign and I went to find my daughter.  I found her butt naked in the handicap stall.  Yep, she had stripped and cleaned herself with loads of toilet paper.  “I’m not wearing that jumper,” she said.  Shit!! 

I gave her my sweater, left her naked in the bathroom with my phone if she needed anything and set out to buy her new clothes.  Except…there are NO clothing stores anywhere!  It took me over an hour riding trams to different terminals to find all the stores closed (and I didn’t have a phone to tell them).  Even my husband ventured out to try and find something as I hadn’t returned.  None of the souvenir shops had any shorts or bottoms.

She ended up wearing a 2XL Atlanta Hawks souvenir t-shirt home.  Lesson learned – bring an extra set of clothes in carry-on luggage.