A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

While reading this blog please remember that:
Forum is airport
Funnier is dangerous
Hate is hate.

What I really hate? I hate to do my claim and I have not submitted my claim since July this year. I also hate the waiting time in the forum. I will wait until last possible moment to get to the forum to ensure I will have as little waiting time as possible. Today, I have to do both with flight scheduled at 9.00pm.

My fake cats watching me do my claims while my real cats in the boarding.

I spent 6 hours from 11.00am to 5.00pm submitting my claims. 2 hours searching for receipts, 1 hour on denial that I have to submit my claim, 1 hour swearing to myself for not doing it sooner like yesterday and 2 hours actual keying-in the claim in the system.

After that I cleaned up the claim's war zone, showered and prepared to leave the house for my mom place. I managed to get out from the door at 5.40pm. On the way, I had to detour to my colleague house to drop my claim forms so that it can be submitted to finance. By the time I get to my mom house it was already 6.15pm.

Since I did not have lunch and the airline food will be S.U.C.K., I ate at my mom place while helping with my sister with her final year thesis. Since the time taken to get to the forum from my mom house is about 45 to 60 minutes (depending on the speed), I was planning to leave the house at 7.00pm. That time will enable me to get to the forum by 8pm for the 9pm flight's check in. That way I don't have to wait long for the flight. As usual, plan and actual is two different things. By the time I began my journey, it was already 7.15pm.

So, I have too and was speeding with my sisters and my mom in the car to the forum. I was doing well at 120km to 140km until about 10 minutes to the forum when the car starts pulling to the left. What is the worst that can happen while you speeding? Flat tire. Front left tire. That was what happens. Fortunately the car did not flip on high speed. Lucky us.

Here I was, late for my flight and stranded on the highway. What could make it funnier? There is no spare tire in the car. The spare tire was used to replace the front right tire when it goes flat 2 days ago.

What to do now? The sensible things. Call my brother to bring another tire from my sister car, get a taxi to the forum and ditch my mom and my sisters in the middle of highway. That was what I did and I managed to get to the forum with barely enough time for check in.

Wise cat say what?

For those who wonder, my brother saved the day and got my mom, sisters and car back home safely. What is funniest? My brother and sister got stung on the face by caterpillars while changing the tire. Right now their faces are swollen.

What a day. Good nite.