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T.I.B. (This I Believe)

Idea Stolen from Tom Peters

12 Things I Believe About Business Travel

1. The person checking into the hotel in front of you will have some kind of issue; no one is sure what the issue is but there is an issue. This will cause your check in to be delayed at least 10 minutes.

2. If you get lucky enough to get booked on an earlier flight into Atlanta, this earlier flight will be get delayed and end up departing 30 minutes before you original flight time. (I’m blogging this as I wait for my earlier flight that has now been delayed for an hour and a half)

3. When you go to refuel you rental car the gas cap is always on the side of the car away from the fuel pump. (I always forget to look at the dash for the fuel door indicator)

4. The person going through airport security in front of you will always forget to remove something metal from their pockets, set off the buzzer and have to get rescanned.

5. Hilton Honors will never give you a room upgrade, even if you ask plead and stomp your feet.

6. There will always be someone in Zone 5 try to board the plane while they are still boarding Zone 2.

7. If there is something that you plan to watch on HBO while on the road your hotel will have Showtime and not HBO.

8. The person in the room next to you will always slam their room’s door and it seems that it is always at 3:00 am (fire alarms also have a tendency to go off in the middle of the night as well).

9. In trying to save the company money you look at the posted “Delta Deals” and the deals will always be for a city that you’re not traveling to or near or even in the same hemisphere.

10. If it is raining, snowing or 30 degrees out and you have decided that this is the week that you are going to get back in shape, the hotels treadmill will have an “Out Of Order” sign on it.

11. No matter what day of the week or time of day you are flying, Delta will always announce “This is a full flight”.

12. People that travel for their job become jaded, opinionated and realize that that world does not revolve around them, but we still like to think it does.

And has anyone ever seen someone use one of the air-phones that are mounted on the back side of the middle seat? I didn’t think so