My first flight ever was in a C-172, from KFCM (Flying Cloud Municipal) to KMSP. As soon as we took off, tracon gave us an immediate slot to land on runway 35 if we could hustle over.
It was funny because as we swept down over highway 494 and onto the threshold of 35, we could hear the disgruntled FO of the DC-9 waiting to take off at the other end of the runway (on 35 you land heading north and take off to the south) complain and ask us to speed things up. We turned off onto the first taxiway, and the Disgruntled DC-9 roared past us with vengeance. So was my first flight experience.