Friday open thread: travel mishaps

I have spent most of this week exhausted out of my mind: either travelling, working in Cambridge (much more frequently and with much more teaching of much larger groups of students than is typical), or suffering the ghastly effects of food poisoning. Today is the first day I finally felt able to catch my breath; I only worked in the morning and took the afternoon off as time in lieu for working two partial Saturdays at workshops/conferences. I taught my class, wandered around Cambridge market doing my grocery shopping, and then caught the train back home at lunch time. I spent the afternoon thoroughly cleaning both bathrooms, doing an hour-and-a-half-long yoga class, and taking a very long shower, and I finally feel relaxed.

Because of all the above, I wasn't going to do any open thread prompt this week (my Dreamwidth-ing has suffered in general and there are several people's posts on which I want to offer commiserations and/or congratulations to various life events — take this as a general expression of such sentiments if you have posted about things which warrant them). But then I saw someone in my Dreamwidth circle using a great prompt in another context, and felt compelled to borrow it:

What are your most memorable or notable travel-related mishaps?

I have many, and every single one of them was caused by my mother.

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I'd love to hear your answers!