Monday, September 15, 2008

Ain't all it's cracked up to be


So I know that I promised an update on what we have been doing, and it is coming....later.
So as most of you are aware that over the past 3 years I have travelled ALOT for my job. As many of you are quite jealous of all the different places I get to go and see, I just wanted to give you an idea of the woes that come with the territory of traveling alot. I am getting to the point now that it seems like something always seem to go wrong. Honestly, I don't think that any of these things would have ever happened to me in my life if I weren't on an airplane at least 4 times a month...
Here is listing of some of the more interesting traveling woes I have experienced:
1) Found cockroach in rental car
2) Rental car infested with ants
3) Crashed company car in France
4) Prepped for any emergency landing while flying over the Atlantic Ocean because of a electrical fire in the cockpit. (no worries, the fire was extinguished and we landed okay).
5) Hotel room that was so small that I had to share my barely bigger than a twin sized bed with my suitcase because there was literally no where it would fit in the room.
6) Same hotel room bathroom so small that I either had to sit on the toilet seat sideways or drape my legs in the tub.
7) Exercised at 3 am because I was wide awake from the time difference and there was literally nothing else to do.
8) Fell down the stairs in a hotel lobby (and yes in front of a crowd...awesome!)
9) On one flight was surrounded by a group of individuals that immediately took their shoes off, the smell was horrible. I switched seats only to find it was the coldest seat in the plane, and it didn't recline, and the flight attendants skipped over me 3 times. When I asked for things and politely let them know that they skipped over me...they got pissy with me!
10) Sat directly behind someone with hygiene and gas problems.
11) Can't even count the amount of hours I have spent in an airport due to delayed flights, you learn quickly how to sleep in the airport chairs.
12) Eating out, though it may seem great to not have to ever cook, you really get sick of it.
13) My malnurished husband who only eats candy and pop while I am out of town.
14) Spent a 5 days in Belgium....stayed in 5 different hotels.
15) Airplane that pulled into the wrong gate so we had to wait longer to get off the plane.
16) When I am traveling my dreams get VERY interesting. I have weird dreams normally, and by weird I mean waking up in the morning thinking "what in the world was that?", but when I am traveling they get even worse.
I am positive that there are plenty more that I can't think of...it is midnight and I have been working all day so my brain is fried and refusing to put a coherent thought together.

2 comments:

Maile said...

Wow! I definitely can't say I envy you. If I fly more than once every other month or so, I begin to dread the thought of leaving home ever again.

Halsie said...

stop your whining you big baby. just kidding. LOVE YOU! Ryan