O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, where he had booked tickets, had long-term parking but the cost was outrageous. Trying to outsmart the city boys, Dally found a Holiday Inn and made a deal. They let you park free if you were staying the night before your flight out. He had a flight that night, but he would return in three weeks and spend the night. They agreed.
He got in the shuttle and kicked back. The motel shuttle driver asked which airline he was on. Dallas told him Southwest. “Sir, Southwest only flies out of Midway (the downtown airport)!” Dally whipped out his antacid and cellphone and called his computer-savvy wife, all before he reached the terminal where she had rebooked him on a United flight to Denver!
Three weeks later, he returned to Chicago. In his confusion, he had kept no record of which Holiday Inn he had left his truck! His techy wife found him the telephone numbers for three Holiday Inns in the airport area. He called all three, and none of them had any record of anyone by his name that had left their truck and booked a room. Dally got on one of the Holiday Inn shuttles and rode to the first one. He searched the parking lot … no luck. He rode the shuttle to the next Holiday Inn and searched the parking lot … no luck. Then on to the third where, lo and behold, there it was! Next morning, he decided to do a little sightseeing.
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