No Seats Available

After spending the past few days in New York City, I was looking forward to going home to Indianapolis.  Although my flight was not scheduled to leave until 5:00PM, I arrived at 7:30AM hoping to be able to fly stand-by on an earlier flight.  Over the next 10 hours I watched four different flights leave for Indianapolis, with no open seats for me.  Each time this happened, the person working the counter closed the jetway door and said "Sorry sir, there are no seats available.  Please try another flight."  Although I knew it was not personal, it didn't feel good to be told that there was no room for me. I sure hope our Kiwanis Family never reaches the point where there isn't room for at least one more. Our K-Kids and Builders and Key Club and CKI should always be able to say yes to every young person who wants to join.  In the same way our Classic Kiwanis clubs should always have room for one more member...never leaving out anyone who wants to help. With all of that said, I look forward to the day when Kiwanis is growing at such an amazing rate that there is "standing room only" at our meetings and events, as long as there is room for at least one more.