Change of Plans

Sam Turner was hurriedly trying to get all of his odds and ends taken care of before he flies out to Los Angeles for a business conference in the morning. Back home, Sam's mother, Ms. Lucille Turner, walked around for most of the day with this worried look on her face as if her doctor had told her she had terminal cancer. As she paced up and down the living room of her house and looking out the window for his car to pull into the driveway, you could tell she obviously had something very important to share with her son.

Twenty minutes later, and to Sam's mother's relief, Sam pulls into the driveway. Visibly tired and haggard after a long day of running all over Boston, Sam comes through the front door and collapses onto the sofa.

Sam's mother, well aware of Sam's obvious exhaustion, tries to think of a subtle way to unload the burden she's been carrying all day.

Slowly, Sam's mother approaches her son and says, "Hello son, how was your day?" Sam responds back to his mom with an, "Okay, I guess, I'm just tired that's all. I enjoy traveling, but I don't enjoy the preparation for it."

Sam's mother releases an apprehensive smile and says to her son, "I had a dream last night that's troubled me and I'm having an uneasy feeling about the flight you're on tomorrow. I don't quite know what it is, because it is just a dream, but it's something different about this one." Sam responds back to his mom's words by shaking his head and saying, "Mom you just had a bad dream, don't worry about a thing. I'll be alright. You're worrying yourself over nothing."

With tears, Sam's mother responds, "I'm serious about this, can you cancel your flight for tomorrow, because it's not a mandatory conference anyway?"