according to dictionary.com, peeve = grievance.
Anyway, I fly around the country a lot for work and when I write a lot, I don't kid around. Here are some examples
a) Washington Dulles - Los Angeles, 6 Months.
b) Washington Reagan - Portland, 1 week.
c) Washingto Dulles - Dallas, 3 weeks.
d) Washington Dulles - Denver, 5 months.
e) Washington Dulles - Chicago, 1 week
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Total Number of Miles (United): 135,000 (Priceless).
So, after flying for over a 100,000 miles, the best looking person next to me has been an empty seat.
I have been blessed with having sometimes fat, really fat and simply too large to fit on the plane people, arrogant men, obnoxious old middle-aged women but most of the times, nice middle-aged men occupy the sit next to me.
Why, I ask, for once can't a good-looking, petite, 110 pound woman sit next to me? Not that I would or could do anything but still, if I turn my head, I would have someone nice to look at. It would be like looking at a picture of a beautiful woman, thus, making my journey pleasant.
I am married, and mind you, I love my wife very much and she loves me too. So, don't get any wrong impressions. But still, no luck - no good looking woman next to me.
Perhaps, it's my destiny to fly sit next to fat, obnoxious people and perhaps, this destiny is due to my love for my wife, or her's for me.
Friday, February 24, 2006
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
How I usually start my Monday Morning..
Wow! It's been almost 7 months since my last entry.
Being a consultant, I fly out everyday and I thought why not, after catching a 6:00 am flight to Denver, share my experience through a blog.
a) Wake up at 3:30 am
b) go back to sleep at 3:31 am
c) Wake up, reluctantly, at 3:45 am.
d) Get ready and Get Dressed and wait for my cab.
e) Cab Arrives at 4:30 am
f) Enter into a healthy discussion with the cab driver who emphasized his Republican leanings throughout the conversation. I gained enough knowledge about Virginia's traffic problems and how the Democrats screwed the whole thing up in the first place. Tim Kaine - if only you had caught this cab. (4:35 am - 5:00 am)
g) Arrive bleary eyed at the airport and go through security. It's amazing to see how many non-business people travel at such an early time. Always makes me wonder where these folks are travelling to(5:00 am)
f) Get in to the People Mover (For the ignorant, it's a inter-terminal shuttle). Watch the driver struggle to align it in it's slot at Terminal C. (5:15 am)
h) Walk up to the gate and try to change my seat from 32 C to anywhere in the front, finally settle on 11C (5:20 am)
i) Enter the plane, sit on someone else's seat only to be politely reminded that I am in the wrong seat. Turn red, apologise profusely, and change seats.
j) Watch as an oversize man put this oversize bag into the overhead compartment and overstuff himself in the middleseat next to me. Luckily, I had a window seat.
k) At around 6:20 am, after the was at 35K feet, the oversize man complained vociferously to the purser because they had forgotten to change the movie from last week. Why on the earth, at 6:30 am, would you want to watch a movie when 90% of the plane was asleep.
l) Tried to sleep on the plane but Mr.TooManyFriesFromMcD's oversize palm kept prodding me. (6:00 am to 7:45 am Mountain Time)
m) FInally, land in Denver, only to find thatDenver is as cold as Cheney's mechanically kept alive heart. (7:45 am)
n) Stand in the line at the Car Rental (Hertz). Every person in front of me seemed to be involved in a deep discussion with the Car Rental advisors. Felt like shouting, for goodness sake's people, you are just renting the car and not deciding the fate of the world. Leave that to Messrs. Bush and Blair. (8:15- 8:45 am)
i) Drive in to work only to find there was no need for me to fly in that day (9:30 am).
Exciting stuff eh!
Being a consultant, I fly out everyday and I thought why not, after catching a 6:00 am flight to Denver, share my experience through a blog.
a) Wake up at 3:30 am
b) go back to sleep at 3:31 am
c) Wake up, reluctantly, at 3:45 am.
d) Get ready and Get Dressed and wait for my cab.
e) Cab Arrives at 4:30 am
f) Enter into a healthy discussion with the cab driver who emphasized his Republican leanings throughout the conversation. I gained enough knowledge about Virginia's traffic problems and how the Democrats screwed the whole thing up in the first place. Tim Kaine - if only you had caught this cab. (4:35 am - 5:00 am)
g) Arrive bleary eyed at the airport and go through security. It's amazing to see how many non-business people travel at such an early time. Always makes me wonder where these folks are travelling to(5:00 am)
f) Get in to the People Mover (For the ignorant, it's a inter-terminal shuttle). Watch the driver struggle to align it in it's slot at Terminal C. (5:15 am)
h) Walk up to the gate and try to change my seat from 32 C to anywhere in the front, finally settle on 11C (5:20 am)
i) Enter the plane, sit on someone else's seat only to be politely reminded that I am in the wrong seat. Turn red, apologise profusely, and change seats.
j) Watch as an oversize man put this oversize bag into the overhead compartment and overstuff himself in the middleseat next to me. Luckily, I had a window seat.
k) At around 6:20 am, after the was at 35K feet, the oversize man complained vociferously to the purser because they had forgotten to change the movie from last week. Why on the earth, at 6:30 am, would you want to watch a movie when 90% of the plane was asleep.
l) Tried to sleep on the plane but Mr.TooManyFriesFromMcD's oversize palm kept prodding me. (6:00 am to 7:45 am Mountain Time)
m) FInally, land in Denver, only to find thatDenver is as cold as Cheney's mechanically kept alive heart. (7:45 am)
n) Stand in the line at the Car Rental (Hertz). Every person in front of me seemed to be involved in a deep discussion with the Car Rental advisors. Felt like shouting, for goodness sake's people, you are just renting the car and not deciding the fate of the world. Leave that to Messrs. Bush and Blair. (8:15- 8:45 am)
i) Drive in to work only to find there was no need for me to fly in that day (9:30 am).
Exciting stuff eh!
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