What's the dumbest travel question you've been asked?
Jan 13, 2011, 4:35 pm
#166
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This thread made my MSP-BOS flight a riot. Thanks!
I will try to think of more but the first one that comes to mind and has been a repeat offense. Including a graduate student in Political Science...
random grad student: Where did you go to undergrad?
me: University of Wyoming
random grad student: Oh cool! What state is that in?
I will try to think of more but the first one that comes to mind and has been a repeat offense. Including a graduate student in Political Science...
random grad student: Where did you go to undergrad?
me: University of Wyoming
random grad student: Oh cool! What state is that in?
Jan 13, 2011, 5:17 pm
#167
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Last year, I went on a trip to the US with some family members, including my mother. I was the only on of us who had visited the US before, and it would be my 7th trip, since my first trip three years earlier (so, you could say that I knew what was required to travel from Norway to the US - a machinereadable passport, and a valid ESTA).
At some point before the trip, me and my mother was talking to one of her neighbours, about the trip, and he mentioned the time he was there, and how he would love to go back. He then asked if we had been to the US embassy, to apply for a visa, which we hadn't.
-"Hmm, that was strange. We had to do that, when we were going there".
-"When were you there"?
- "1986"...
At some point before the trip, me and my mother was talking to one of her neighbours, about the trip, and he mentioned the time he was there, and how he would love to go back. He then asked if we had been to the US embassy, to apply for a visa, which we hadn't.
-"Hmm, that was strange. We had to do that, when we were going there".
-"When were you there"?
- "1986"...
Jan 13, 2011, 5:31 pm
#168
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This thread made my MSP-BOS flight a riot. Thanks!
I will try to think of more but the first one that comes to mind and has been a repeat offense. Including a graduate student in Political Science...
random grad student: Where did you go to undergrad?
me: University of Wyoming
random grad student: Oh cool! What state is that in?
I will try to think of more but the first one that comes to mind and has been a repeat offense. Including a graduate student in Political Science...
random grad student: Where did you go to undergrad?
me: University of Wyoming
random grad student: Oh cool! What state is that in?
Jan 13, 2011, 8:37 pm
#170
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I volunteer for Traveler's Aid at IAD. One afternoon, a gentlemen traveling with is wife and 3 teen-age children approached the kiosk, and we had the following conversation:
Me: Can I help you, sir?
Him: (Reaching into pocket and producing a US passport) My passport has expired, and we need to travel today.
Me: I can give you the number for the State Department, they're the folks who renew passports.
Him: You can't do it here?
Me: Can I help you, sir?
Him: (Reaching into pocket and producing a US passport) My passport has expired, and we need to travel today.
Me: I can give you the number for the State Department, they're the folks who renew passports.
Him: You can't do it here?
Jan 13, 2011, 9:54 pm
#171
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How to get an attorney to stop talking
Many years ago on a flight from Denver to Seattle the guy sitting next to me (he was an attorney) asked me why it took 2 1/2 hours to fly from Denver to Seattle but only 2 hours to fly from Seattle to Denver. I had the inflight magazine open on the page with the map of the US so I pointed at the route on the map and said "You see, when you fly from Denver to Seattle your flying UP to Seattle but when your flying from Seattle to Denver, your flying DOWN to Denver". He didn't speak to me for the rest of the trip.