Going through security at the Manchester, New Hampshire airport is also possibly the best security I've ever gone through. I packed my stuff very carefully so -- to come home -- so that my carry-on -- I pulled out my plastic bag with my toiletries and stuff and laid it on the thing and did all the stuff you're supposed to do and set it on. Well, the gal behind me had been at the knitting convention also. We'd both been given these gigantic bags of free yarn. And I had left mine in the plastic bag thinking -- and it was in my, my big suitcase so it didn't go through security with me. It had gone to the luggage land. But this gal that was behind me in the security line, she put her carry-on on the thing and the guy asked her to open it and she was looking for her toiletries and her toiletries were at the bottom. And as she opened her bag, the yarn exploded out of the suitcase. It was bright orange yarn. She had nine skeins, about the size of a football, of bright orange yarn stuffed in that bag and it just, like, popped out and exploded over the belt that carries your luggage forward. The guys at the security, at, uh, security there, started laughing. I was laughing and I said to the guys, I said, "We were at a yarn convention." And the guy said, "Well," he said, "it's okay." And she was like, "Well, I'll get it picked up. I'll get it picked." He says, "Look behind you lady. There is nobody here. It's a Sunday morning and you ladies are the only ones here and if it takes you a while we don't care." And he started laughing and he said -- besides that he says, "We're wondering how many more of you are gonna have this experience." He says, "You're the third one this morning that's had the yarn explode out of the carry-on." And he looked at me and he said, "Where's yours?" And I said, "Oh I put mine in my, my big suitcase." And he laughed and he said, "That was a good idea." So that was a lot of fun. Not so much for her, but it was pretty funny. The whole thing with the yarn came flying, flying out of the…

My husband and I went to Europe, and we were in London, and we had just left Ireland. So we had all of our luggage and we were making it from the train to the subway and we didn't know where to go. We didn't know the first thing about a subway. We had all this luggage. And then my shoe decided to break. And we're standing in the middle of the subway station looking like Americans who don't know anything. And this one American came over to us who, he said -- I told him where we needed to go and he said he would point us in the right direction and he got on the, on the bus with us. On the subway bus with us. And when it came to our destination he pointed out that this was where we get off. Well, it turned out that he had gotten on the wrong bus just to help us. He had to go catch his own bus after he dropped us off to his destination -- to our destination. Which I thought was so incredibly kind of him. We get to the motel, we dropped off our luggage, I fixed my shoe. Things we- went great after that. But that total feeling of, of lost and alone and then a just savior out of, out of nowhere comes up and speaks with an American accent and tells you, "I'll show you where to go," that was priceless.

I was in Detroit for a conference, and I was presenting at the conference on one of the days. And I've been away from my daughter, who's six months old now, a couple different times overnight, never had any issues. But this time I also went without her. I started having issues the first day with a blocked milk duct. So for those of you -- I mean it is pretty self-explanatory, but for those who are not sure what I'm talking about, if you're breastfeeding you can get an area that gets blocked up and it just -- like, the tissue is a lot harder and it obviously still has milk in it can be pretty painful and sometimes there are things you can do to loosen up the blockage, like icing it, applying heat and stuff. But nothing was working. So I have had them in the past. It's not been anywhere near as bad as it was this time. It was, like, shooting, stabbing pain. I just could not get it to unblock. And the other thing I should say is when you have a blocked duct, one of the things they recommend is really not pumping if you can, if you can help it, and I didn't have an option not to do that because obviously my baby was not with me. So anyway, I kind of rode it out the first day, was hoping that it would overnight kind of loosen up. It didn’t. So in the morning -- on the morning of the second day, I had to call my husband and say like, “I really need you to bring her here.” Um, he's on paternity leave, so at least that piece wasn't kind of a mess. But so he drove my daughter to me on the same day that I had to present. So I had to present at 1:00, and he was set to arrive I think originally by 11:30, but then she was just kind of fussy. He had to stop to feed her. So he came around 12:00 or 12:15, and I had to run out and feed her, and then I also had to ride back with them to show them where I was staying.  And so I'm like manically trying to breastfeed my daughter. We obviously can't be driving while that's happening. Then we do start driving, and…

This was in the early 90s when there was a commercial on TV that was this very snooty butler guy with a jar of Grey Poupon mustard on it, and it was always, "Do you have any Grey Poupon?" Well, we were in the bus, and [Name] was kinda getting himself into trouble. And finally, I looked at him and said, "You are getting yourself into trouble, and I'm not dealing with this. I'm tired, we've been at Cedar Point all day. I am tired and I'm not gonna fight with you and your behavior." I said, "I'm coming back to sit with you." And he kind of grumbled and grumbled, "All right, all right." So I walked back to sit in the second to the back seat of the bus. He was sitting by the window, and I was sitting on the aisle.  We were stuck in traffic trying to get out of the Cedar Point entrance and exit driveway things, several lanes of traffic. And below us, as we are sitting there, is a car with the window down, and [Name] is just looking out the window, and the guy says, "Hi, where are you from?" And he tells him, and the guy says, "What's up?" And so, [Name] being extremely -- thinking he was extremely witty says, "Have you got any Grey Poupon?" And the guy laughed, turned around to the back seat, and threw a jar of mustard, Grey Poupon. We about died. It was one of the funniest things that ever happened to anybody on a bus, it was just so funny. [Name] said, "What do I do with it?" I said to the guy -- said, "Hey, we're throwing your mustard back. We can't have mustard on the bus," and he laughed, and we threw it back to him. But it was one of the funniest things that has ever happened to us on a school bus. It was just hilarious, it made our, it made our trip and we all laughed about that for years. So that's like my favorite, my favorite school bus story.

What's the craziest thing you ever saw on a school bus? Man, I'll tell you. I was probably in middle school or so, and I remember at one of the very first stops -- I was always like one of the last kids off, so this was pretty early in the process right after school. I remember this kid getting up to get off the bus. He walked to the front of the bus, hung a right to go down the bus stairs. He made it to the very last step, he turned around, and he vomited all over the bus floor. It was brutal. It led to like a 30 minute delay. All he had to do was step off the bus. Um, I can't remember who it was. But there is a part of me that wonders if that was some part of a grand scheme. If someone had wronged him and this was his final middle finger to us. But yeah, I'll always remember that kid for the rest of my life.