 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell. So I want to tell you about my day. Just because it's a nice little story I think. So it actually began about 5.30 this morning when I woke up and my stomach was killing me and I didn't really know what to do. It was a travel day. I was coming back down south So even though my stomach was killing me I said, you know, let's see if I can get a little bit more sleep I didn't have to wake up till 9 o'clock To get myself ready to get to the airport. So I said, you know, let me see if I can get a little bit more sleep Well, I made it to 7.30 before I woke up again and I was in dire pain and it was some kind of gas and it was just in my stomach and You know You really only have a couple of options at that point The first one is actually the first one to see if you can get out of bed Which I did and the second was to go to the bathroom So I went to the bathroom and I basically stayed in there pretty much 35 40 minutes Trying to get things moving. I even got myself some alka cells for and and by the time stuff started moving Oh the pain it was just it was just dire pain and yeah This is a wonderful way to start a video, but you know, it's part of the story and So my wife was there and she's saying, you know, geez. What's wrong? What do you think happened? And I thought about it and I said, you know what I bet it was I bet it was the cabbage that we had Last night with dinner. I made salmon my wife made fried cabbage because I asked for it Love her fried cabbage. What I forgot is that it creates a lot of gas And I should have taken something for it last night But I didn't and I haven't had that kind of food in a real long time, you know, both my wife and I work out of town So it had been a long time since she had cooked that and my stomach wasn't ready for it so that beat me up and Then it continued to hurt until pretty much close to 9 o'clock when is which is when I was supposed to be waking up So now I'm worried a little bit because I'm thinking goodness. I certainly don't want stomach problems on the airplane and You know, we started doing everything I started making sure I had everything packed that I need to have packed and we left had to stop at the bank so I could deposit a check and Then I got to the airport kind of early and I started feeling pretty good and I'm thinking okay you know what this is gonna be a fine day and I get on my first plane leaving Syracuse heading to Philly and I get the Philly. I didn't eat anything in the morning, but now I'm in Philly and it's time for a Philly cheesesteak They've got a place that they call local restaurant. That's actually the name of it local restaurant It's in it's in the airport So I get off my plane and I look at the board and I see okay. I'm supposed to be at this certain gate Perfect. I go over get something to eat now. They had these touch pads, which are pretty cool In this restaurant. There's all these different iPads and you know, they're locked there so no one can steal them and I ordered my meal and then I checked my flight there It was on there and it said what gate it was Everything is wonderful. I finished my meal. I look at my times. Oh, I've got time for a foot massage So I go over to this place called to say I think it's called express bar a spa I go there. I get a foot massage. It's absolutely Wonderful you sit in this chair and the chair vibrates and runs up and down your back And it's nice and light touch and this lady's just doing these things with the feet and rubbing it and putting a hot Well warm towels on it not hot. Thank goodness. This is not a pedicure. There's no cutting going on They're not moving fast. It's just a nice slow. Oh my god. So everything's feeling fine. I'm looking at my time I'm thinking my time is good. I Get out. I pay my money. I go to my gate That's when now I start noticing up something was wrong one They're going to a different city than what I'm going to like what the devil so I go over Have to find a departure saying I find it find out they moved my gate all the way the other end Total all the way in there and so I start walking really fast and I get there and the plane is left So I missed my flight Now a lot of people would have freaked and all of a sudden kind of stuff, but I didn't freak I went to the lady sale. Oh geez. It looks like I missed a flight. She said you're Mr. Mitchell, aren't you? You fly enough places they start to know who you are so yeah, that's me So she looks and she starts booking things and says well you have a chance to make this next flight Unfortunately, the next flight is also going to be a connecting flight We're going to have to take you to Charlotte before you can get to your final destination and I've got to give you this and you've got to kind of rush over because they're going to start boarding in About five minutes or so and you have to get on the shuttle bus thinking well, it missed just wonderful timing So I walk over to where the shuttle bus is and I it's not all that far I get there pretty quickly and the buses out there So I got lucky the bus, you know, I was just waiting and people are getting on the bus So I got on the bus to go from the terminal to a terminal So I get in there and I notice okay. I'm not all that far away from the gate I need to get to so I walk to the gate as fast as I can and they have started boarding but they're taking you know the first-class people and Such and usually I get to fly first-class, but because this was you know me getting over there really quick I had to get there and I was actually on standby But one of the lucky things is being a a preferred member of this particular airline I moved to the front of the line. That was nice. So I moved to the front line So I just sat there waited my thing and then you know, even before they were done boarding everyone This lady calls my name up. That's me. She hands me a ticket. I'm in row 31 I didn't even know planes had rows 31 because Yeah, I mean about a Syracuse. You don't really have a lot of really really large planes So this isn't anything I'm really used to and I was way back. I was like two rows from the very back and This was like a triple on each side. So there's a ton of people on this plane and I had this guy basically sleeping on me for pretty much almost the entire flight from Philly Charlotte obviously he was really exhausted. Luckily. I had my my nook and Out of the weird thing, you know, one of the weird things about it is I didn't want to wake him So when the lady came asked me what I was doing, you know, zero She reached over and I reached over my left hand because I was up against the window I didn't want to wake the guy. I don't know why I didn't want to wake the guy I just he just seemed so peaceful sleeping there. So anyway, eventually get to Charlotte now I've got more time to kind of wait and My next ticket was supposed to be row 16, but I like being you know a little further up So I go and I asked, you know, is it possible I can get a little closer Preferred member I get to row nine. I take row nine So I'm once again once again against the window So I get on early because I'm a preferred member. I get in get my thing up there doing good lock myself in and Then this lady comes large lady and you know, it's like, okay. It's gonna be a little tight She's got my spot and so I said hello. She totally ignored me put the thing down locked her thing didn't say a word Could have let that get me mad Because I think I'm thinking well, how rude is that you always say hi to people. You know what fine Now during the flight I don't know if she had a problem with me or she had a problem being in the seat because you know The seats aren't necessarily meant for bigger people. They just aren't I don't know Luckily, I've lost some weight and some inches. So I fit pretty nicely now. Anyway She did this thing for she kind of turned her back kind of to me. She was leaning into the aisle doing something I don't know what it is. I've never seen anyone do that on the airplane. But you know what I figure I don't care I've got my nook. I'm listening to my movies actually watching something on the nook So I'm a happy guy let her do what she wants to do So I end up getting where I needed to get where I am right now. I'm 90 minutes late You know what that's not necessarily so bad 90 minutes. Not a bad thing at all However, I then go to get my rental car and they have run out of cars vehicles Now I'm driving something. You know what I can't even tell you what it's called. Oh, it's called a Sierra. I Didn't even know what a Sierra was. I'd never heard of it. I think it's a Kia I really don't know but it's one of those long long things with three rows in it You know, this is like for families that have like 10 or 12 people in. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating. I might not be You have a lot of places for people to sit and this is me just one person who's gonna drive this monster thing I'm not used to anything like that. But still it was red Reds my favorite color. So what am I gonna be mad about? So I get that I Go to program the phone phone works fine. Then I go to program the the Bluetooth audio Is this not having it not having it, but I said, you know what that's okay I can just listen to my recorded book fine So I do that I go to office. I get what I need to get, you know, why when I leave I usually take some things to where I work and store them there instead of storage at the hotel So that you know the night before I don't have to go over anywhere else I just do that so I go get the stuff come back to the hotel and then initially they thought they'd given away my room I'm like, what the devil you mean you gave away my room. Well after about five minutes They find out. Oh, no, we had a glitch in the system. You got your room. So Got my room went out had dinner came back. Everything's fine You know, I tell this story one because I just have these weird things that happened during the day But I tell these stories because I'm trying to show how for the most part I'm a pretty even killed kind of guy even when things get thrown in your face that are, you know Somewhat disruptive. I mean missing a plane. I need air people who just freak and they start yelling at all these other people when it's their fault and Then having this lady being kind of rude to me on an airplane, you know, there's some people who might have said something to her I just decided you know what she's got her own issue I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna be calm and collected and you know I didn't need her if she had said something later on I might have done something but I didn't have to go there and you know, this is one of those kind of things that I say for the most part We do teach people how to treat us But we also can't always be reactionary to things that happen in our lives that don't quite go our way I tend to try to view everything as a story and Then I can tell the stories or I can relive it or I can write about it I certainly enjoyed telling my wife the story. I didn't tell her the part about you know Yeah, I skipped a couple of parts. I told my wife and she never watches any of my videos So I'm good, but you know, we have to get to this point There's a lot of tension in this world There's a lot of people who get inflamed about a lot of things that have nothing to do with them And if you're getting mad and stuff has nothing to do with you then when stuff does have something to do with you You're gonna get even madder and there's a lot of fights and a lot of people get hurt and a lot of people get killed And it's just got to stop somewhere people, you know, we need to be more responsible for our own selves We need to chill just chill a little bit You know, I understand this thing that's going on in Ferguson, Missouri I you know, I see it from both sides. I understand why some people are mad I don't understand why they're still rioting. I just don't get it I mean the police have been replaced by the state police. Now. There's a the National Guard is there and people are still rioting People were mad at a curfew. I'm sorry Five-hour curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. Go home and get an app go to sleep Nothing good ever really happens after midnight. I know some people will say well, you know, you go to the club you hook up No, no, no, no, trust me Nothing good really ever happens after midnight So, you know, like I said, I understand part of that where you're mad because of the initial thing that happened But that's over now go home Relax chill Now people are looking into it. Justice is going to be served. At least I hope so You know, I'd like to think that the best things are gonna happen in life And that's how I kind of live my life and if it doesn't happen that way Well, then we have another Trayvon and I don't know what to say about that. I don't even want to go there I don't want to get mad. I just want to stay in a peaceful state Let me know what you think though, you know Are there those times where you overreact to bad things that happen in your life? Even if they you know, they're easily fixed or even if you know, I mean my thinking is I had that airport story From a few months ago where I had to spend a night in the airport. I was the only one wasn't anyone's fault You just roll with it and you move with it. You know, things can always be resolved Let me know if you think I'm just being Pollyanna or if you think, you know, maybe I've got something there Maybe this is something you do or maybe this is something you should do. You all let me know This is Mitch Mitchell. I hope you have a wonderful night because I'm going to bed