Signs that you're traveling too much....
#182
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Michigan
Posts: 328
Ha - I've run into that. I would get excited when they started rolling out the new years for at least some occasional change but otherwise it was (with a depressed sigh) "I guess I'll take a Camero again."
#183
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: MDW/ORD
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#184
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: OOL/DOH
Programs: QF LTS WP, Avis Pres Club, HH Diam.
Posts: 3,192
#185
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Formerly at PIT, now planted near MSP.
Programs: No flights since April 2019 (Medical Issues). Lost all my status.
Posts: 1,483
You live in city "A", are traveling between cities "B" and "C", but find a copy of a newspaper from exotic city "D" on the airplane. You bring the newspaper home, because you think the kids might like to take it to school to show their friends. Your wife then remarks that one kid is in grad school and the other has been overseas in the military for two years.
#186
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA (the REAL Washington); occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
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even when he was in middle school and high school my son would have probably rolled his eyes and said "What's a newspaper?" despite the fact that one showed up on our doorstep every day
#187
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: London
Posts: 517
I use a bullet journal (basically, I draw up my own paper diary format) and have had to introduce a column specifically for "where is SBM today?"
#188
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Portugal
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#189
Moderator, Emirates
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Where My Heart Is
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When you go from one country to another and start speaking to the taxi driver in the language of the previous country you've been in.
Have had some funny looks from Egyptian taxi drivers when I've been trying to tell them where to go in Cantonese .
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Have had some funny looks from Egyptian taxi drivers when I've been trying to tell them where to go in Cantonese .
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#191
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: LAX
Programs: AAdvantage EXPLAT, Hilton Diamond, SPG/Marriott Gold, IHG Platinum, Citi Exec MC, Amex Plat
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When you have no idea about touristy things to do in your own city because all you ever do is go to work, go home, or go to the airport.
When you go to a big city and never even do any touristy stuff there.
#192
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: SEA (the REAL Washington); occasionally in the other Washington (DCA area)
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#193
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: SJC/SFO
Programs: WN A+ CP, UA 1MM/*A Gold, Mar LT Tit, IHG Plat, HH Dia
Posts: 6,281
When I was flying SFO-ICN frequently I recognized several of the regular FAs on the route. One I chatted about it with she said she remembered me, too. Except she was wrong. She mistook me for someone else. And I knew who it was from talking to him on my previous trip.
#194
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Formerly at PIT, now planted near MSP.
Programs: No flights since April 2019 (Medical Issues). Lost all my status.
Posts: 1,483
Spare Change?
One of my young grand-children once asked me for 50 cents. I said that I usually throw my spare change in my backpack that I use for flying; so that I don't set off the metal detectors. I told him he could have all the change he found in my backpack.
He found $8.50 worth. He now goes straight to my backpack every time he comes over.
He found $8.50 worth. He now goes straight to my backpack every time he comes over.
#195
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: PBI/MIA
Programs: AAdvantage Gold, HHonors Diamond, Marriott Gold, Skymiles, Mileage Plus
Posts: 397
One of my young grand-children once asked me for 50 cents. I said that I usually throw my spare change in my backpack that I use for flying; so that I don't set off the metal detectors. I told him he could have all the change he found in my backpack.
He found $8.50 worth. He now goes straight to my backpack every time he comes over.
He found $8.50 worth. He now goes straight to my backpack every time he comes over.
It was about $5 worth, PLUS about 5 euros worth. And I haven't been to Europe since 2013. The backpack doesn't set off the TSA agent anymore.