Day 1 - Three's Company


Day 1 – Friday, Aug 17
Three’s Company

Our departures were divided – Jay and John, The Lesser (“John, Jr”) took a route through Boston to play golf and tennis there before heading to Ireland; Jack and Bill took their own paths, and Steve, Paul, John, The Greater and Chan travelled together through Chicago. I can only speak for our travelling crew directly and anecdotally for the others.

While John the Lesser and Jay had some trouble with a flat tire on their plane in Boston and subsequent delays, all others had uneventful travel. That is not to say that there are not some events worth reporting. For example, when the four of us arrived at Indy airport, it didn’t take but 15 minutes in the gate area for Paul to be talking with an attractive woman. Furthermore, when we got to Chicago, three of us (Steve, Chan and John, The Greater) got off the plane and were waiting for Paul from the back of the plane. You guessed it … he was walking and talking with yet another attractive woman, who gave him a hug and said, “I will give you a call sometime.” Of course, we have to give Paul a hard time about all of this, but it doesn’t end there.

Upon boarding the plane for the flight to Dublin, there was still another attractive young woman (Susanna) chatting with Paul … and as good fortune would have it, she happened to have a seat in Business Class across from Paul.  That’s when things got interesting, and if you don’t believe me, check out this picture.



Not surprisingly, Paul’s reclining Business Class seat did not work thereafter, and he was stuck trying to sleep in an upright position for the whole overnight flight. He asked Susanna if he could share her reclining seat with her, but surprisingly, she declined his request.

Note: While most of the stories of the legendary shenanigans of Paul are exaggerated, please be sure to know that the story about Susanna is not (photographic evidence)!!!

We arrived on Saturday morning, and we checked into the Portmarnock Golf and Resort Hotel uneventfully.

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