The benefits of travel with an elderly passenger..

I just took Mum back to the UK at the end of her vacation in California. There are some distinct advantages of traveling with an elderly passenger:

• Police outside SFO let you park outside the terminal illegally while you schlep your bags and mum into the terminal
• First Class check in agent sees you and calls you over, bypassing the long regular line snaking around the terminal.
• Wheelchair person takes you through the preferential lines at customs and security, again bypassing long lines.
• You get to board before anyone else (in Heathrow, you even get a special lounge to wait in until the flight is ready to board).
• All the flight attendants make a fuss over you.