Stuck!

Leina had quite a scare at the airport last night. She was taking a red eye into DC (that's right, not to LA--someone got his weekends mixed up) for the social work conference. After she got dropped off at the airport and her ride was long gone and it was pretty close to the time that her flight was going to leave, Leina discovered that her driver's license was not with her! Horror of horrors! She had evidently removed it from her purse one night in the past week when she went out clubbing and forgot to return it to her wallet.

Leina did not panic, however. She made a quick calculation that it would be impossible for Charles to return to her home and pick up her ID and get it to her before the flight left. And though she was without an official, government-issued ID, she did have her diminutive stature and her charm, as well as her old student ID. And it worked! She cased out the three different ID-checking people at security and chose the sweetest looking TSA agent, and she gave her the whole story, embellished only slightly, about being held up and giving the criminal her dummy wallet stuffed with newspaper, which happened to accidentally have her real ID in it.

For the flight home, Leina will face the same problem. She may call the airline first and see how to avoid the debacle at the airport. If Leina happens to read this entry before then, she should take this advice: swear up and down to the security officers that she is only 15 and therefore doesn't need official, government-issued ID.