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So, I used to be a late adopter of the cellular phone, and eventually bought one in I believe the spring? of 2015? This shall be related shortly.
This story takes place in 2014. There’s actually just one annual national-ish convention within the US for my job kind, and it’s in November in Atlanta. I stay within the Pacific Northwest.
I flew off to attend that convention for the second time that fall, and whereas it is a nationalish convention, additionally not that many individuals from this far afield go annually, so I deliberate on doing a little touristy issues within the evenings. I’m comfy doing issues alone, in order that was high quality. Though I do want somebody had gone with me to style all of the coca-cola flavors from different locations, as a result of a few of them are, um, one thing. Anyway. On the final afternoon I used to be there, I got here again to my resort room after the tip of the convention (like, 3pm) to seize a distinct jacket and head again out, and I ended to go potty. This can even be related shortly.
So I used to be gone for like 4 or 5 hours, and got here again to seek out that the floatydoodle that tells the bathroom tank to cease filling had damaged after I flushed simply after 3, and thus the bathroom tank had been overflowing for hours. There was not simply standing water within the rest room, however within the carpet, which was splish-splashy for a lot of toes into the primary room, and damp all the way in which over to the mattress, together with the areas the place I had tossed-aside worn clothes and various different issues (paper bag with snacks, convention program sitting on the ground… luckily no electronics).
The resort was immediate in transferring me to a different room, though it was fairly an entire effort of going forwards and backwards to maneuver my crap as a result of I didn’t need to put my moist garments into something, I wished to depart them to hold in entrance of the AC and get as dry as possible earlier than shoving every part into my baggage to get house the following morning. If I have been to have this expertise now I’d ask the resort to let me run my moist stuff of their dryer for half an hour, however this didn’t happen to me on the time, and this resort didn’t have a laundry space for company.
Throughout all this transferring (garments, toiletries, oh wait additionally the stuff within the tub, oh and the snacks within the fridge…), I picked up the room cellphone and organized a morning wakeup name for STUPID early, so I’d have time to pack the mostly-dry stuff and get to MARTA to get to the airport in time for my flight schedule for a couple of minutes earlier than 9.
Now, I’d nonetheless try this, however would additionally set some alarms on my cell, however as famous beforehand: I didn’t but have a type of.
Would anybody care to guess from which room I picked up the cellphone to rearrange that decision? And what occurred subsequent?
I by some means didn’t assume by that if I organized the decision from FirstRoom, the resort wouldn’t robotically transfer the decision to SecondRoom despite the fact that they have been transferring every part else to do with me to SecondRoom. Their automated system most likely did attempt to wake me up at 5 within the morning, however…. I used to be not in FirstRoom, so this didn’t work. So I wakened in a type of levitating off the bed in a panic conditions, found it was 6:52, threw every part into baggage as quick as I may, made positive I used to be sporting pants and had my ID and ticket and so on, ran my butt the three blocks to MARTA, took the excruciatingly lengthy morning-commute journey (SO MANY individuals on and off at every cease, SO MUCH asserting the practice can’t go till everybody quits touching the door…), arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson at about 8, satisfied a number of variety individuals to let me forward of them at TSA, ran as if being chased by a bear by the airport…. and watched them shut the door to the airplane hallway factor whereas I used to be nonetheless most likely 120 toes away.
As soon as they shut the door, they don’t open it once more.
Yep.
Nonetheless no cellphone, however on the plus aspect this was Atlanta and I used to be flying Delta, so absolutely there could be a service space and in addition most likely an honest likelihood of a aircraft, proper? Proper?
There’s a service space; it’s, or not less than was then, proper on the crossroads of the busiest flipping airport in America. Huge open, no partitions, and at any given second there are most likely about 700 individuals strolling inside 20 toes of it in all instructions speaking to their colleagues and youngsters and wheeling their baggage and no matter, so it’s LOUD, and so this service space, they’re bilingual, however they will’t truly hear you. They direct you to a home cellphone a couple of toes away the place individuals who CAN hear you may assist, however you may’t hear THEM, since you are standing in the course of a people-hurricane, and lengthy story brief, after a LOT of pleading as a result of whereas this was not Delta’s fault, it was additionally type of not MY fault, they solely charged me the change-plane charge, and bought me on the one different aircraft of the day that would do a connection to house on the “identical” day. This aircraft left Atlanta at round 8pm, so I had eleven hours to kill, nothing in any respect to do apart from browse the magazines in a single Hudson Bookseller after one other, after which two bizarre layovers and an arrival time at house of round 1 am native. That final leg had delays, so I truly landed round 1:35, at which level I had been awake for practically 22 hours, used the month’s value of adrenaline attempting to make the unique aircraft 20 hours earlier, and spent eleven hours in a large airport attempting not to fall asleep as a result of adrenaline crash is an actual factor. Additionally, positive there may be meals within the airport, however I don’t like paying $12.39 for a latte or $17.95 for 3 barely-leavened unfortunately-scorched pancakes, two tablespoons of syrup, and the saddest bacon on the planet, so I did get an overpriced McDonald’s cheeseburger after which made do with airplane pretzels and the like, so by the point I used to be house I used to be too hungry to sleep and too drained to eat.
0/10, don’t suggest, and all due to a defective bathroom tank regulator.
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