Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 13956903)

No miles = no.

Originally Posted by mwg25 (Post 13956698)

Sounds like BTR. You start to recognize the little "twitch" a car (or more often, super-sized truck or SUV) makes before it's going to jump into the next lane.

Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 13956984)

Guess he had a little touch of the paranoia.

Originally Posted by adelauro (Post 13956992)

That's the only thing I could think of too, but why draw all the attention to yourself?

Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 13957101)

Holy crap, this hangover hurts so much...

good morning, box

Originally Posted by CO 1E (Post 13956909)

The things that kill it for me are minimum stay requirement and lack of mileage earning.

Originally Posted by fozz (Post 13957125)

I thought you could earn miles in the NZ program, just not partners.

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 13956705)

Both of the above pretty much summed up Houston driving (though I will say only 10-15 mph over the posted limit is done here). I was certain that car dealers here sold turn signals as optional equipment:rolleyes:

Fortunately, I don't deal with Houston traffic that often during the week, for which I am very grateful.

Originally Posted by zippypinhead (Post 13956996)

I once witnessed a guy in an old Chevy Citation pull that trick over and over on the Satin* Island Expressway. Traffic was buzzing along at the usual 50mph under the limit.:rolleyes: He would start to drift over in the next lane acting like he didn't see the car next to him causing that driver to spike his brakes and leave him a gap. He would get past a couple of cars and pull the trick again and again. The Citation was just beat up enough that nobody would mess with him...

*-And, yes I believe that's the correct spelling...:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 13957138)

Yes, but we just end up with orphaned miles.

Originally Posted by ConciergeMike (Post 13956738)

The single-night tip record fell again last night, and it is in danger of only holding the record for one day. We have a 350-person black-tie charity Monte Carlo night tonight, and two weddings tomorrow. :cool:

Originally Posted by adelauro (Post 13956873)

Fun flight last night, JAX-EWR. Just before the door closes a person who can only be described as a kettle boards, panting and sweating. I don’t generally use the term kettle, as I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. However, if the word ever fit anyone, it fit this dude: Cut off jean shorts that were about six inches too short, a sleeveless Marlboro T-shirt and what I think was supposed to be a mullet, but with the added attraction of a pony tail. I’m not kidding. However, what really earned him the kettle moniker was his carry on - an enormous plastic Walmart bag that was literally bursting at the seam.

FA tells him to take 2A so we can push back. Of course, this is behind me. We depart and actually all is quiet back there for most of the flight. I guess he was asleep. Fast forward to our descent. I begin to sense him becoming active, rummaging through his bag which is of course under my seat. Suddenly I hear him exclaim, rather loudly, “Oh f***, how did that get in there?” A mild sense of foreboding overcomes me at this point, but he settles back down.

Then, just as the rear gear touches down, he bolts from his seat and before the FA can stop him he dashes to the lav. The FA gets on the IC to the cockpit. As soon as we are clear of the active taxiway, the captain stops the plane and announces that we will remain in this position until the person in the lav returns to his seat. What seems like a couple minutes go by and then another announcement, this time adding that the crew has the ability to unlock the lav and if that comes to pass the person in there will be detained upon the aircraft reaching the gate. Mr. Kettle exits the lav and returns to his seat as if nothing has happened. I guess the Captain reconsidered and called for law enforcement anyway, so we had to wait for them to arrive and take the dude off before we could deplane. As I exited the jetway two LEOs were talking to the guy.

Originally Posted by FT Lurker (Post 13957101)

Holy crap, this hangover hurts so much...

Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 13957124)

Gatorade, Excedrin.

Originally Posted by uncertaintraveler (Post 13957170)

Curiously timed posting....


Coming home from work on Wednesday, a delivery driver with Maggiano's just about ran me off the road when he merged into my lane, with no signal lights. I noticed the jerk was also on his cell phone while driving.

I also noticed that Maggiano's is kind enough to post their phone number on the back of their delivery van. ;)

So I call up the manager while following the delivery van and voice my frustrations with their driver, perhaps not using the nicest of language. The manager, after confirming that the van that nearly ran me off the road was indeed their van, apologized and said that he would take it up with the driver that evening.

If the driver got sacked, I really don't care.