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Old Jun 5, 2008 | 4:29 am
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florin
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  1. poor lighting in a hotel room; it's hard to iron a shirt if you can't SEE the wrinkles
  2. cafeterias, hotel/airline lounges, bouffets-style food places: NEVER put the most popular things in a corner. I stayed at a Marriott RI for some 400 nights in total where they placed the coffee and juice machines in a corner in the breakfast room. Very, VERY annoying!!
  3. hotel lounges: a HUGE couch that thakes up an entier room but only sits 2 people. 3 could sit there comfortably but nobody sits that close to strangers. When 2 people are seated they are at either end and nobody is going to go for the middle!
  4. hotel/airline lounges: coffee tables that are too low. If the table only gets up to my ankle (or slightly above), why not just get rid of it altogether, since I have to bend down to pick up my drink anyway?
  5. hotel rooms: placing a wall-mounted hair dryer right before the light switch, so that you have "go past" or "reach behind" it to turn the lights on. Very impractical for going to the bathroom during the night.
  6. The entire CDG airport is an example (if not the epitome) of stupid design.
  7. Cars that lock the doors when you put them in drive, but only unlock the driver's door when returning to park. I usually leave my bag in the back seat right behind me and don't like having to go through the extra step, especially since I forget half the time and then have to either open the front door again or take out the keys.
  8. Why not have jetways that operate automatically (using sensors)? It's such a waste of time to have to wait for a GA to do that and some of them are really bad at it (never a problem in Europe though).
  9. Runways very far away from the terminals. Long taxis times wastes more time and fuel for taxiing, which is counterproductive. I bet some aren't even in the same zip code!
  10. CRJ's (100 and 200)
  11. Positive note (cars): audio controls on the steering wheels, sunglass compartments.
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