Sitting Next to 'God'
One spouse’s worst PCS ever. 

by Marie Dyer, Registered User on Milspouse.com

My worst PCS was last January. My children—three of them-- and I left Baumholder, Germany six weeks before my husband so that we could enroll the children at a new school right after the Christmas/New Years holiday. The flight from Germany was perfect, but when we arrived to the states, all seven of our bags were lost. Next, the rental car company would not release the PRE-paid car to me because we were taking it out of state from Kentucky to Ohio, and my husband had the credit card--I only had a debit card. I even offered to PAY for the car with my debit card, that's how desperate I was.  Our only option was to take a cab to a hotel that was next to the bus station so we could catch a bus home.   The cab driver had to literally "smuggle" us into the hotel because he said the nearby drug addicts would be tempted to rob us when they saw our leather coats and laptops in tow. 

The next morning, we boarded a Greyhound bus (big mistake) to go home.  I sat next to a man who literally thought he was God, and I was his bride (no joke...a man across from me whispered, "Lady, I swear I will not let this man hurt you" when he saw the panic on my face). For four hours, this man tried to hold my hand, and spoke words of adoration to the kids and me. Finally, “God” reached his final destination, and was about to leave the bus...but before doing so, LOUDLY serenaded me a horrible love song in front of the 60 passengers on the bus! Everyone turned around and stared at us (even the bus driver). He departed saying, "My wife, my love, we will be together again soon, I promise.  When he departed, I was not only embarrassed, but humiliated.  I promptly announced to everyone that I had no idea who the crazy man was, I was NOT HIS WIFE and my children were not his children. Luckily, we made it home safely, rented a car in my home city, and a few months later, I was reunited with my REAL husband of 20 years! What a nightmare!