An out of Amy experience

I've never been dead.

Well, obviously.

But Friday evening I had my first out of body experience. And I wasn't even near death.

Just near-internet boyfriend.

There is something completely and totally ridiculous about sitting in the arrivals area of the airport, waiting for your internet boyfriend to arrive. Ridiculous enough that come 4:55 p.m., watching Oprah with the fellow suits waiting to go through security, I was positive I had stepped out of the body of Amy Guckeen and into an alternate universe.

Where some crazy girl had gone all Napoleon Dynamite on herself and had become the LaFawnduh to some Southern Charmer's Kip. And nothing seemed more amusing or more ridiculous.

So began the giggles Friday evening at the airport. And they would not stop. For 20 minutes straight, every time Beth, my security detail for the great meet thought I was near composure, out came another squeak, and another declaration to remind her of the hilarity of the situation.

"We are sitting. In the airport. Waiting for my boyfriend. Who I met. On the internet. To walk up and say hi."

*Giggle, giggle, giggle, giggle*

Gradually panic set in for Beth as she realized that there was a 95% chance that I would be laughing like a crazy woman, unable to be controlled, and far beyond the ability to speak once Seth the Southern Charmer arrived at our side, and that it would be her responsibility entirely to introduce the two of us.

And then, he appeared. And suddenly, the giggles went away...