Okay, this is weird. A consultant for my corporate client has gone missing. We didn’t book his travel, so we don’t have access to his records, so we don’t know if he’s checked in for his flight home today. The office where he was consulting has mobilized to try to find him; apparently he had a problem all week with finding his way around and kept getting hopelessly lost. Someone was to lead him to the airport earlier this morning, but he took off on his own without waiting for her, and hasn’t been heard from. Hasn’t returned his rental car, either (I have a contact with the rental car agency). They’re really very concerned and now they’re calling his wife to get more information.

Poor man, I hope he’s at the gate waiting for his flight, after abandoning his car somewhere within sight of the airport, and I hope he’ll be okay.

The alternative is that he’s driving around and around, unable to call anyone because his cell isn’t working. The rental car agency doesn’t have “lojack” technology on the car, so we just have to wait and see if he turns up. As of right now, he’s “not late” for a confirmed reservation (that’s as much information as the airline was willing to give me due to confidentiality rules).
UPDATE: He showed up at the airline counter, 45 minutes late for his flight, after taking 5 hours to go 25 miles. He thought he’d made pretty good time, and only missed one turn. He also managed to return his rental car to the right location, where we’d thought maybe he’d just abandon it anywhere within walking distance of the airport. So he’s okay, but his colleagues were sure worried about him.