Traveling and other stuff

[papayahed]

Sooo, Yesterday I realized I was one of *those* type of people. I was in a public place I saw a sign that said "Please do not throw muffins* in the garbage disposal" and I thought to myself "They can't mean muffin tops right?" and I thought about it for way longer then I can to admit until I realized that "all muffins" meant "all muffins". Even though I thought it shouldn't include muffin tops the sign clearly said all muffins.:icon_bs:




*The circumstances have been change for the delicacy of the forum.

[papayahed]

I'm stuck in the Atlanta airport. My flight which was supposed to take off at 12:33 was canceled and I was rebooked on the 8:30 pm flight.:cuss::nopity: (hey didn't we have a smilie giving the finger??) Anyways I was flying into Newark so I was able to get an earlier flight into LaGuardia.:cheers2: I still have to wait four hours but I can easily pass that time at the bar.erm, bookstore.

[papayahed]

Still at the airport.

[JuniperWoolf]

Hmm... try to find something fun to do. I know, get totally wasted and dress up as a pilot. Haha! Talk to people and freak them the hell out. Like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU

[Hurricane]

I'm stuck in the Atlanta airport. My flight which was supposed to take off at 12:33 was canceled and I was rebooked on the 8:30 pm flight.:cuss::nopity: (hey didn't we have a smilie giving the finger??) Anyways I was flying into Newark so I was able to get an earlier flight into LaGuardia.:cheers2: I still have to wait four hours but I can easily pass that time at the bar.erm, bookstore.

This just happened to me tonight. My trip home, which usually takes around four hours total, took me twelve. The Baltimore Airport is not really an exciting place to spend 8 hours, and if you're still at the airport I'm really, really, sorry.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

Hmm... try to find something fun to do. I know, get totally wasted and dress up as a pilot. Haha! Talk to people and freak them the hell out. Like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU

Funny stuff !

I had run across that video a few weeks ago when I was introducing my son to the Dean Martin roasts, "The Rat Pack", etc.

Speaking of travelling, my son and I will be on the road for many hours tomorrow morning, heading out to New Mexico. Imagine; two guys in a truck covering over a thousand miles, but I wouldn't have it any other way!
Mom is gladly sitting this one out!

Gilliatt

[papayahed]

Hmm... try to find something fun to do. I know, get totally wasted and dress up as a pilot. Haha! Talk to people and freak them the hell out. Like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU

Nice!


This just happened to me tonight. My trip home, which usually takes around four hours total, took me twelve. The Baltimore Airport is not really an exciting place to spend 8 hours, and if you're still at the airport I'm really, really, sorry.

yeah, I think the whole east coast was delayed.


Funny stuff !

I had run across that video a few weeks ago when I was introducing my son to the Dean Martin roasts, "The Rat Pack", etc.

Speaking of travelling, my son and I will be on the road for many hours tomorrow morning, heading out to New Mexico. Imagine; two guys in a truck covering over a thousand miles, but I wouldn't have it any other way!
Mom is gladly sitting this one out!

Gilliatt

In theory that sounds great, however road trips always sound like fun when you're not in the middle of it.


I'm on my way home. I'm back at the airport ya know what bugs me? This guy and I were standing at the counter and there were three customer service reps and none of them would acknowledge our presence. Couldn't at least one of them look up and say "Someone will be with you in a minute"??

[papayahed]

Coworkers!!! If I say I'm going to be in between 8 and 9 don't try to tell my you have someone coming in at 8 for training.

[papayahed]

I really dislike turbo props, they look like wind up toys.

[papayahed]

Whoooo Hooo. I drove for four hours without stopping to use the ladies room.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

After a full week home for Thansgiving, I reluctantly made my way back to room 413 in Rockford Illinois this week.

It's almost over!

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[kasie]

Whoooo Hooo. I drove for four hours without stopping to use the ladies room.

Do share the secret, papya, there's a love - an hour and a half down the motorway and I dare not pass the service area or I start imagining all sorts of hold-ups ahead before the next place to stop. The car goes on automatic pilot and signals left and starts pulling over, even if I hadn't thought of a 'comfort stop', yet when I'm on the coach I can go all the way to Heathrow before thinking of making a trip to that impossibly small room at the back of the coach.

[papayahed]

Do share the secret, papya, there's a love - an hour and a half down the motorway and I dare not pass the service area or I start imagining all sorts of hold-ups ahead before the next place to stop. The car goes on automatic pilot and signals left and starts pulling over, even if I hadn't thought of a 'comfort stop', yet when I'm on the coach I can go all the way to Heathrow before thinking of making a trip to that impossibly small room at the back of the coach.

haha, I don't know!! I guess I was too busy singing or talking on the phone to realize I should stop.

[papayahed]

I had run across that video a few weeks ago when I was introducing my son to the Dean Martin roasts, "The Rat Pack", etc.

I love the Dean Martin roasts.


I really dislike turbo props, they look like wind up toys.

I'm glad to see my perspective hasn't changed.

It's only an hour but for some reason on this trip I'm having such a hard time with the time difference.

[papayahed]

See what I mean, it's 8:40 pm and I'm fading fast.:redface:

[qimissung]

Whoooo Hooo. I drove for four hours without stopping to use the ladies room.

Yeah, that is good. When I go visit my family in Oklahoma I always stop once during the six hour trip.

[Scheherazade]

I love stopping at service stations especially if I am travelling alone; have a cup of tea and read... Observe people coming and going. Such a treat.

[papayahed]

Why is there never an outlet at my gate? And if there is an outlet why has someone less deserving already claimed it?? Why???

[Scheherazade]

Why is there never an outlet at my gate? And if there is an outlet why has someone less deserving already claimed it?? Why???No idea what this means...

Boarding Gate?

[papayahed]

Ya. Boarding gate at the airport. Like now, I'm on of three people here, is there a plug any where?? No.

[papayahed]

And my beers have worn off and now I'm just tired and cranky and no plug.


My laptop is fading fast.

[papayahed]

Good thing I have this big bag of candy to keep me company.

[papayahed]

Natalie's candy bar I curse you and your old timey sign.

[papayahed]

My big bag of candy:

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/9417/20111111195654390.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69/20111111195654390.jpg/)

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

My big bag of candy:

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/9417/20111111195654390.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69/20111111195654390.jpg/)

Looks like a pile of jaw breakers to me.
That'll keep you busy for a while.

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[JuniperWoolf]

That candy looks really cool, it's all old-timey too.

I love airport stores. I once bought live lobsters on a vacation to Nova Scotia. They survived and they were really tasty, but I put them in the fridge with the fancy airport chocolates that I also bought and the chocolates aquired a lobster taste, which was a shame since they cost like $50 (which is a lot of money to a thirteen year old).

[papayahed]

:ack2: Lobster flavored chocolate! blech.

[papayahed]

Same damn airport, I have a plug this time but the damn candy store is closed.

[qimissung]

That big ol' bag of candy looked pretty juicy, papaya; and forgive my ignorance, but what is a plug?

[papayahed]

That big ol' bag of candy looked pretty juicy, papaya; and forgive my ignorance, but what is a plug?

Most people know them better as outlets. It's tough to find an outlet in an airport to charge my phone/laptop/mp3.

[Paulclem]

So you call plugs outlets over there. This certainly is a fascinating site. We refer to outlets in the retail sense. Plugs can be the electrical or sink kind. Sink? Washbasin? Fascinating.

[qimissung]

We also refer to outlets in the retail sense. :D

Thank you, papaya. I'd like to think I could have figured that out with a little more context. :D

[papayahed]

Ol' Blue made it!!!!! My favorite mp3 player in the whole wide world took a trip through the washing machine. I thought she was a goner but yesterday I tried to turn her on one last time and she worked!!!!! Life is good.

[KCurtis]

I'm traveling for business right now. Tonight my coworkers and I went out to dinner. Our waitress had an eye patch.

It made me wonder...Ya know, what happened? Is it completely gone? did she have surgery? Did her pet bird peck it out? .

She should have kept the patch on! In defense of pet parrots ( I have one), they are so smart and their eyesight is so good, they know the eyes are extremely valuable, and when they do touch the eyelids they are so very gentle. When my bird grooms my face, she will never get too close to my eye- if she wants to examine my eyelashes or my eye makeup, she will poke just a little. It is really very cute.

[KCurtis]

So you call plugs outlets over there. This certainly is a fascinating site. We refer to outlets in the retail sense. Plugs can be the electrical or sink kind. Sink? Washbasin? Fascinating.

I call them plugs- the outlets are what you plug in to. I love going to London and looking at British signs- Way Out for Exit. And the British names for things like; Washing up liquid for dishwashing soap is my favorite. Growing up liquid for baby formula I love. Hoovering for vacuuming, and I also really love the word toilet that is used over there instead of restroom!! Restroom makes no sense. So last summer when we came back from our second trip to London, I tried to use the word toilet when I went back to work. It was a disaster. People thought it was as bad as swearing, that's how it is taken here.
I can't wait to go back.

[Paulclem]

I call them plugs- the outlets are what you plug in to. I love going to London and looking at British signs- Way Out for Exit. And the British names for things like; Washing up liquid for dishwashing soap is my favorite. Growing up liquid for baby formula I love. Hoovering for vacuuming, and I also really love the word toilet that is used over there instead of restroom!! Restroom makes no sense. So last summer when we came back from our second trip to London, I tried to use the word toilet when I went back to work. It was a disaster. People thought it was as bad as swearing, that's how it is taken here.
I can't wait to go back.

Interesting. I had a mate who spent some time in the US at one of the summer camps. He told me that he once stood on a table and told the kids to "Pick up the rubbish and put it in the bin". Of course they hadn't a clue what he was on about as he didn't use trash and can.

Restroom seems an unnecessary euphemism. Loo seems to be both a good description but least offensive. I've also heard it referred to the small room and the WC.

[KCurtis]

Interesting. I had a mate who spent some time in the US at one of the summer camps. He told me that he once stood on a table and told the kids to "Pick up the rubbish and put it in the bin". Of course they hadn't a clue what he was on about as he didn't use trash and can.

Restroom seems an unnecessary euphemism. Loo seems to be both a good description but least offensive. I've also heard it referred to the small room and the WC.
Lol !! I've read so many British authors these terms are very familiar to me- but that is one reason we love to go to Britain. We can say the word toilet. However, the two times I have been there I never had enough toilet paper. Two squares is not sufficient.

[papayahed]

Delayed. Fly out tonight or take a nine am flight tomorrow and take a travel voucher for $200?