When the world tells you your out.

Despite popular opinion to the contrary, what brings a person happiness depends on who you are and where you are. You could be in an airport, all the signs say this way to Alabama, people are going to Alabama, they are following the signs. Some are walking to the exit gate, some are running. Some stop for a nice snack or a meal along the way in an airport restaurant, some busily run to the gate with all their belongings forgetting that the have forgotten their tickets at home. Everyone wants to go there, but only some actually end up there. How is that possible? Ask the porter at the door:

Jane: "Dear Porter, I have all this luggage that I need to be delivered to terminal two...I am going to Alabama!"
Porter: "Yes mam, sure thing, but there is something you should know. There are no flights heading out of this air port going to Alabama tonight. They are all cancelled."
Jane: "Yes, but don't you see I have family there. And they are expecting me. Surely you must be mistaken."
Porter: " No mam, can't you see that there is snow all around us, there is no way you are going to your destination tonight."
Jane: " I see, so what do you recommend?"
Porter: " You see that hotel across the street? Ask for Mark, he'll tell you how to get there."
Jane: " I was just in that hotel, and there isn't a Mark or a Mike that works there!"
Porter: " Mam, you must be mistaken, Mark is my friend. We share a ride to work each morning, I just dropped him off."
Jane: " Are you sure you work here? I been told that recently there has been a rush of crime in airports, where fake porters are stealing peoples money and giving them false information!"
Porter Superior: " What is the trouble mam?"
Jane: " You have an impostor working for you, I am deeply grieved."
Police: " What seems to be the trouble?"
Porter: " This woman wants to go to Alabama, I told her I'd take her luggage to terminal two, but she has to wait until the snow clears up. All flights going to Alabama are cancelled until further notice."
Police: "Mam can I see your ID?"
Jane: " Why yes of course!"

pause

Police: " Mam you work here in this airport. You work in the communications dept. In fact you are the one who issued to cancellation notice for all flights cancelled going to Alabama. How is it that you are now trying to board a plane going there, that doesn't even exist?"
Jane: " ( she closes her eyes, clicks her heels three times. All the snow melts, the seasons change, the year changes and the airport closes.)
Porter: " Mam, welcome to Alabama."

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