[Dunbar]

For this year's Preakness, I was arriving at the Philly airport on a flight from Europe 2 hours before post time. I live 2.5 hours from the airport, but had been thinking all week I'd be able to catch it somewhere on the ride home. By the time I cleared customs, I still had 45 minutes to post. Too long to wait at the airport--I had enough time to get to the 1st rest stop on the PA Turnpike. They had 3 TV's in the Food Court. I found the manager 5 minutes before post time and asked her to change the channel. She said the only 2 channels they got were CNN Headline News and the Weather Channel! She claimed she had tried getting other channels recently. I pleaded with her to try again anyway, but she was a real jerk about it, saying she had to close down some cash registers first. (Like it would have taken more than 30secs to try.) Of course, I may have seemed like a wild-eyed lunatic to her.

I ran out to my car radio hoping to find a broadcast, but after several scans up and down the AM and FM dials, nada! So frustrating! Got the result from some radio sports talk show, hearing only "and Curlin nipped him at the wire". Took another 5 minutes to figure out it was Street Sense that got nipped!

--Dunbar