Reply #5: Reminds me of traveling with my family...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

My dad always insisted on getting to the airport *ages* before the scheduled departure (and this was before you had to go through security), just because he wanted to be sure we wouldn't be late. And we'd be like, "Dad, we're so early that the airplane is still in Seattle, being assembled at the Boeing factory." But it was always like that.