Mr Gilbert, please meet your party at Gate A

Well, I went to go pick up my co-worker James at the airport. Normally, we come out at Gate E so I parked in the area that would bring me out close to Gate E. However, he was coming back from Europe instead of the States, so I checked the board when I got upstairs and it said his flight would come through at Gate A. Darn it, that's the opposite end of the airport. Inchon airport is set up in a crescent shape and it is really big, so I hustled my way down to Gate A to wait for him. I got to the gate and sat down to wait. Luckily, I brought a book. It really varies as to how long it takes to get through customs, so I wasn't concerned when he didn't come out right away. But then then flow of people coming though slowed down to just a few here or there. We normally take our cells phones with us when we go on a trip and turn them on when we land, so we can call each other. I kept trying to call James to see if he was having problems getting through for some reason but his voice mail kept picking up. I thought maybe he had gone down to Gate E since that is where we normally meet so I rushed down there to see if I could find him. No James. Huh. Maybe he didn't realise I was going to pick him up. I called his home - no answer. Tried his cell phone again. Went outside to see if he was waiting for a bus or taxi. Nope. Went to the other side of the airport to see if he was waiting by the military in-processing desk. Nope. There had been some areas of Romania with heavy rains and flooding, so now I was worried he got caught in that and missed his flight. No, he would have let me know. I'm on my way back Gate A when it hits me - I went off his itinerary and used the date of his departure. You have to ADD a day to get the arrival date because of the time change. Which I forgot to do. So, I was a day early and drove an hour each way just to get some serious exercise running up and down the Inchon airport. It was so dumb and I felt like such a moron that I just had to laugh.