Joe’s P.O.V
I looked at it as though it was just another one of the many necessary, but forgettable, business trips I had to endure as part of my position at an energy equipment engineering company.
This time, it was a 3-day energy symposium to be based at a large hotel in downtown Chicago. I had grown up years ago in the Windy City, although living now on the West Coast, but I remembered well the ordeal that flying into O’Hare during changeable weather afternoons in late Fall could be. I wasn’t disappointed …my 767 flight from Seattle had to hold for traffic delays, then hold for gusty winds, landing almost an hour and a half late under a brooding gray sky. A long limo ride downtown in rush hour traffic at last delivered me to the hotel.
Tired and irritated, I checked in, went up to
