I have nightmares about being caught outside my hotel room in nothing but my undies when moving the room service trolley out into the hallway (yes i ring room service and tell them it's there). then i have to go down to reception in my undies
Something similar nearly happened to me, and now I always make sure I'm wearing something while sleeping in hotels!
I woke up in the night needing the loo, and was a bit disorientated because it was towards the end of a long trip involving a lot of different hotels.
I was still half asleep and opened the door to what I thought was the bathroom.. and came to just in time to realise I was standing naked in the hallway and the door was about to slam behind me. It was a very close call, and I've never in my life felt so relieved that I caught that door in time!!
I have nightmares about being caught outside my hotel room in nothing but my undies when moving the room service trolley out into the hallway (yes i ring room service and tell them it's there). then i have to go down to reception in my undies
How embarrassing would that be !
That happened to my father. The newspaper was not next to the door. He went out to get it and ......the door slammed shut. My mother was in the shower at the time. She laughed so hard she could hardly tell the story.
a) I am in NYC.......this was before 9/11......I land........and I have my pockets FULL of colones (currency of Costa Rica)........so I think "I am going to go to the WTC..........they do WORLD trade so they will be able to give me dollars".........sure enough, they don't and I dont have a single cent that I can use in the US
b) My wife and I are running to catch our flight..........we are late......somehow our carryons open up .........and all our stuff flies all over the hallway.......(right at the airport).......so we grab what we can and run to the gate....I say to my wife "what gate is it" .......she says "its gate xyz" so we go there......we get in.....sit in the very last row of the plane (a nightmare by itself) and then I realize we got on the wrong flight...........and as i am thinking that.......and the plane takes off.......it becomes totally obvious that there is a major malfunction..........and the plane is going to crash...........we were not suposed to be there.......but we were
Other than really bad things happening, my worst travel nightmares have happened:
1) food poisoning - Barcelona for work, nothing worse than being at a meeting where you have to excuse yourself to purge.
2) no luggage - 3 days in NZ and two days in Madrid
3) robbed - wallet lifted in SF (hostel) and an attempt in Barcelona.
The only other thing I can think of would be to be upgraded and then have it taken back on a long-haul flight. Never cried for the first three, but this, I might!
a) I am in NYC.......this was before 9/11......I land........and I have my pockets FULL of colones (currency of Costa Rica)........so I think "I am going to go to the WTC..........they do WORLD trade so they will be able to give me dollars".........sure enough, they don't and I dont have a single cent that I can use in the US
I get that this is a hypothetical, but it's a little hard to believe this is your nightmare. Most nightmares are plausible - Most currency exchanges and banks stock the local currency! Also, just an FYI - People's Foreign Exchange in DC and NYC regularly stocks colones (rates suck as always).
I have nightmares about being caught outside my hotel room in nothing but my undies when moving the room service trolley out into the hallway (yes i ring room service and tell them it's there). then i have to go down to reception in my undies
How embarrassing would that be !
Well, I don't dream about it, but I am terrified of becoming extremely ill on the road..more so of coming down with it on the same day I have to fly. I cannot imagine being "that guy"..the one with the barf bag the whole flight, ruining it for the other pax. What if I had uncontrollable diarrhea on a long flight? It would be a hell to endure, having to travel and being utterly weak and not thinking straight. Some fellow travelers have told me stories..one spent a trans-at in a DC-10 rear lav puking his guts out from some food poisoning he picked up.
Luckily, it's never happened. yet. I have been ill on the road before, but at times when I could take a day or two to recover and I have never been THAT ill on the road. But I travel so much...sooner or later...
Whenever I fly and take a nap, I always have the EXACT same Dream (aka Nightmare):
...Oddly the dream is about me napping on a flight...and I wake up...and I realize the plane is struggling to "pull up" against a mountain out in the middle of nowhere...engines screaming...
I always wake up before I find out if the flight makes it or not...
