sometimes

you are stuck at the portland airport for 15 1/2 hours and your boyfriend is too busy "working" to hang out so you end up signing up for 2 different airlines credit cards because they come with a free cup and then end up buying, reading, and finishing McCarthy's The Road and you have to hide the fact that you are crying through the final pages because the stranger sitting next to you keeps tapping you on the shoulder to point out the snow through the plane window and sometimes that day doesn't end up being so bad.