Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of flying out of Chicago's O'Hare airport. I was checking in at the ungodly hour of 6 AM on a Sunday, and hoped that would be a quiet time at the airport. The streets near the downtown hotel were almost empty, so that was encouraging, but the closer the taxi got to the airport, the busier things got. Not a good sign!

There was no line at the Air Canada counter (woohoo!), but there was no counter agent either. He showed up a couple of minutes later, and that part of the process went quickly. (The same guy showed up at the gate later, to take our tickets, and attached the jetway to the airplane when it arrived. I figured he'd fly the plane too, but he didn't!)

Then, it was on to the dreaded security checkpoint, and the inevitable long wait.

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