Is this Fair?

[mishka422]

I was sitting at my desk starting to go through my daily work when I got a call from a client who was in NYC on his way to La Guardia when the first plane hit. He said the cab driver stopped in the middle of the bridge and got out of the car after he saw it in the rearview mirror. The got to the other side of the bridge, he told the driver to turn around and go back to the city. While I was on the phone with him the other plane hit. All I heard from him was a gasp and then he said he didn't know what was going on but it was horrible. The calls started flooding in about an hour later from my clients who were trapped all over the globe. It was such a helpless feeling to have to tell them that they were on their own and I couldn't get them home.

The beauty of humanity did come shining through during that time of crisis though. I had clients call me from California who went to the Los Angeles airport looking to rent a car and drive back to Georgia. There were no cars available but there were people who were walking through the terminal lobby with signs saying they had a car rented and were driving to such and such a city and had room for 3 more people. That is how my clients got home. They joined forces with a total stranger to get back. I had a CEO of one of our largest companies who was stuck in Austin. He got on a Greyhound bus! The next morning I called him to see how he was doing. He was outside Birmingham and he said the atmosphere on that bus was actually comforting. Everyone on it was in the same predicament.

I had a client who was stuck in Detroit who rented a U-haul and crammed two more people in to drive south. He went out of his way to drop each of them at their homes on his way back to Atlanta.

They are all memorable but one client's situation stands out to me most. He was in Prague at a conference. He had just checked out of his hotel and gone to the airport to come home. His flight had been delayed so he was going to miss his connection so he just opted to stay in Prague one more night. He went back to the hotel but they were sold out for that night. He asked if they could help find him a room in a sister hotel and that is when the first plane hit. Then the second. He discovered that the airspace was shut down and he had no idea when he could come home. The hotels were all sold out in the city! He had no place to go and that is when one of the hotel staff stepped forward and offered him a room in his home with his family until he could get home. WOW! He allowed a total stranger to come and stay with him and his wife and kids. That was amazing!

I just had to share that with you. I didn't have a chance to yesterday.

Hope you all have a blessed day and remember that humanity is not lost in most people, it's just buried a little until an extreme circumstance bring it out.