Mercury in retrograde

I don’t normally read my horoscope but I was on the train on the way to Heathrow for yet another trip and picked up a copy of the previous days Metro newspaper. My horoscope said that Mercury was in retrograde and it was not a good time to travel.

Thinking nothing of it I left the train to catch the Piccadilly line to Heathrow. The line had engineering work for the weekend and was closed from Acton Town, quickly re planning my journey I took the Circle line to Paddington for the Heathrow Express, there was disruption on this. When I finally got the Heathrow I ignored the Heathrow Express as it goes to T5 and I wanted T4, I took the Heathrow connect which departed 20 minutes later and is the slower train, it was then I discovered that they have changed the timetable and all the trains go to T5, there is a connecting shuttle train to T4 from Heathrow central. The connecting train did not run for 20 minutes and I arrived in T4 29 minutes before the flight was scheduled to depart.

Having hand baggage only I made the flight by the skin of my teeth. The connection in Paris was fine but we left an hour late and I only had a 90 minute connection in Montreal for my final flight of the day to Toronto. We arrived at the gate in Montreal 30 minutes before my connection was due, I managed to clear customs in record time and arrived at the West jet check in desk 15 minutes before the flight departure but being a great airline they accepted me because I only had hand baggage. I ran to the gate and arrived 5 minutes before the flight was due to depart. Once I was on board I realised that I had left my suit jacket and coat at the security check point. I finally made it to my final destination sans coat which was never handed in.

Fortunately the weather has been good on the trip but it feels odd to be making my way round Canada and the USA in shirt sleeves. Next time I will believe my horoscope