So far, I've missed only one flight due to my fault. The good part, is that My Ph.D. supervisor, my father, and myself are probably the only people in the world to miss an OA flight to the islands (from Athens to one of the greek islands) that leaves at afternoon. We had to drive to Athens ~400 km in a greek traffic (and signs), and I was the driver (I was the only one with valid driving license and insurance (long long story)). We had a colleague on the flight, so he told us that they are actually taking off on time (16:00!). Still, after stopping at curb side at 15:55, I ran for my life, and let my father take care of returning the car, but we were too late.

I had a close call with SK, BRU->CPH (to a job interview!). I OLCI the day before on SK site, just to arrive to the airport and sent back to the counter as OLCI in SK is not a real CI. I ran like crazy through BRU to terminal A (darn tunnels!).

I also had some fun time when I tried to board a plane a day earlier (in SFO), I remember booking a flight on the 23rd, but the computer insisted that it was the 24th (thanks AA for taking care of that).

The really weird thing that happened to me was with the Thalys. I bought the tickets my self, and due to an error, gave the wrong return date, but I forgot about it. Only after boarding the thalys, I find out that the ticket is not valid for this train, but for the train the day after. Now, they won't de-board me in the middle of the trip (throwing someone out the door at 300 kmh is not easy) but god knows...

So the conductor comes to us, asks for tickets. I nonchalantly gave him my ticket, and he stamped it. While he extended his hand to return me the ticket, he stopped, looked at the ticket more carefully, and decided not to cause any havoc. After all, the ticket is already used...

and I am not counting the times I had to run through MUC, ORD, or IAD because some airline was late...