A Travelers Pet Peeves
Posted on April 24, 2007
Filed Under Ad:Tech, Just for Laughs, Personal, Travel
So here I am in San Francisco for the Ad:Tech conference. I was meaning to post last night when I got to my Hotel room, but we had a late dinner with one of my Vendors. So by the time I got back to my room, it was already midnight, and in CST, that was 2:00 a.m.
The title of this entry is self explanatory. There are things that annoy me when I travel. Obviously going through security is a pain in the ass, especially when flying internationally. But at the same time I think it is necessary because I rather be safe.
I really don’t like long lay-over. I can stand maybe a couple of hours, but more than that is a drag. There is only so much you can do in an airport.
It annoys me when your luggage does not arrive the same time with you. For some reason it happened to be on it’s way to the other side of the world. What’s even worse is that the Airline can’t guarantee when it will arrive.
It annoys me when you are sitting next to a big person on the plane and half their ass is on your seat or they are hogging the arm rest.
But yesterday during my flight from Denver to San Francisco, I discovered a new pet peeve. That is sitting next to a talkative, curious senior lady. Please don’t’ get me wrong. I have a lot of respects for seniors. I think they are wise about life.
However during this flight, I was watching Gray’s Anatomy on my iPod. I downloaded all of Season Two before I left, because I have never watched it and after seeing a few episode of Season One. I began to really enjoy the show.
While I was watching, I already notice the lady next to me peering over, this already bugs me, and she wasn’t even trying to be discreet about it. She than tapped me on my shoulder, and began to ask questions.
‘Is that a TV show?, How did you get that TV show on your iPod? Do you record it from TV and than put it there? How do you get that from the Internet? Where on the Internet? How?
Of course being the nice guy I am, I answered her questions to the simplest and shortest way I know. In all honesty I didn’t have time to explain to her the digital world, or how it works. There wasn’t enough time, t was only a two and half hour flight. For freak sakes, she was almost a dinosaur. It’s like explaining a cave man how a VCR works. (I know kind of mean, but c’mon I wanted to get back to my show)
Ok, ok. I have to run. I’m headed to the show. I’ll be back to talk more about the Ad:Tech Conference. I’m sure you fellow bloggers, would like to know the hottest and latest trend happening in the Internet.
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I know exactly what you mean. I feel like fat people should get first class seats, being so wide and all. On my last flight this lady continuously grabbed my hand during turbulence. I should have gotten a discount just for her fat ass taking up a quarter of my seat. Last time I checked I didn’t know I had to share my seat considering the price they charge to fly these days.
And who is she to tap you. You’re too damn nice. I would have first let he know you don’t touch random people.
But you’re a better man than I.
Enjoy Ad:Tech.