Jan-98: Flying with my brother to the Superbowl at San Diegoe: beeing denied delivery of the long-before-paid-Superbowl-ticket, getting it only minutes before the game started, after a police-intervention (I did post the San Diegoe newspaper story in the early days of FlyerTalk here)

Jan-98: Driving the rent-a-car in a rush to the Murphy-stadium (Superbowl, San Diego), being lucky to find a youngster showing me a parking-spot at the boarder of the freeway for only $5 - and after the game paying a fine and costs of about $150, and searching for my car a 30-minutes drive away (it had been towed away ...).

May-98: Playing "car-shuttle-service" from Zurich airport to downtown for many guests, I park about 14 times at the tall parking house (12 levels) - and at the 11th time not remebering anymore where I parked the car this time - search-time at least 20 minutes (with guests - my MOTHER IN LAW - waiting).

Nov-98: US and Canada: My children made me a "magnetized" present to hold my tie - whenever I passed security at airports it did give alarm, so I did put it into my purse - and all my credit-cards were demagnetized!).

Dec-98: checking in (with Gisela) at Denver on a UA-first-class-award-2-person-ticket DEN-IAD-Brussels and then ongoing with Swissair (also award): finding out that I booked the Swissair-award-ticket for the wrong date (the Denver-departure-date, forgetting the red-eye-night inbetween).