Midnight is to cancelled flight, as stone floor is to morning breath

All is not lost in emptiness. 

First leg of the road, San Salvador, El Salvador to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Was gate side, parked near a phone booth, when the waiter brought to my attention there would be no plane, and next flight was two days out. One can feel small without control; and yet eyeball to eyeball with worst case scenario will, in the end, always prove, that we have absolutely nothing to worry about. 

TACA airlines, morning flight, thank you Spirit for reimbursing my money. That was the right thing to do; now please follow through within the two weeks window you promised, and give your call center in South India, one less displeased American to answer to. 

8:44 am departure, coffee samples are still heavy, Topeca Coffee USA on the radar. See you curbside Chip, look for the smelly man spittin‘ fire.