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I had to get back in the van so I could help Dad with the rest of the bags. Ordinarily, that kind of thing would've been Rodrick's job, but since he was dressed for eighty-degree weather, he got out of it. He was lucky heDID, too. When we got to the gate for the economy lot, Dad couldn't reach the ticket from his window. So he made me get out of the car to grab it. Unfortunately, I didn't notice that there was a giant slush puddle on my side of the car until it was too late. After we parked, we rolled our bags to the nearest shuttle stop, which wasn't a lot of fun.

The sign said the shuttle bus to the main terminal came every ten minutes. But there was no room for us in the bus shelter, so we had to wait outside in the freezing cold. Twenty minutes went by without a bus, and Dad started getting really anxious about the time. He said we were just gonna have toWALK to the terminal, which was about a mile away.

I would've tried to convince Dad to wait a little longer, but my sock was starting to turn to ice, and I didn't wanna get frostbite. Sure enough, once we got about a hundred feet from the shelter, the shuttle bus pulled into the parking lot. We tried to get the driver to stop, but he just blew right by us. So we RAN to the shuttle stop, but we didn't make it back in time.

Now Dad was really worried about missing our flight. I told him maybe missing the flight wouldn't be the WORST thing to happen, but he didn't seem to be in the mood to hear what I had to say.

By the time we got to the terminal, we were both soaking wet and miserable. So when a pickup truck almost hit us in the crosswalk, it made Dad REALLY mad, and he let the driver know. That just made the DRIVER mad, and he pulled his truck over and stepped out of his vehicle.

We didn't stick around long enough to talk things over with this guy. We ran in the opposite direction and blended in with some people standing on the sidewalk until the coast was clear. Dad told me I could learn a lesson from this, which was to never lose your temper and do something stupid. But I took away DIFFERENT lesson when Heffleys get in trouble, Heffley RUN. The rest of the family was waiting inside the entrance to the terminal. Mom wanted to know what took us so long, and Dad wanted to know why she hadn't gotten in line with Manny and Rodrick and held a place for us.