So, I used to be a late adopter of the cellphone, and eventually acquired one in I feel the spring? of 2015? This shall be related shortly.
This story takes place in 2014. There’s actually just one annual national-ish convention within the US for my job kind, and it’s in November in Atlanta. I dwell within the Pacific Northwest.
I flew off to attend that convention for the second time that fall, and whereas it is a nationalish convention, additionally not that many individuals from this far afield go annually, so I deliberate on performing some touristy issues within the evenings. I’m comfy doing issues alone, in order that was high quality. Though I do want somebody had gone with me to style all of the coca-cola flavors from different locations, as a result of a few of them are, um, one thing. Anyway. On the final afternoon I used to be there, I got here again to my lodge room after the top of the convention (like, 3pm) to seize a special jacket and head again out, and I finished to go potty. This can even be related shortly.
So I used to be gone for like 4 or 5 hours, and got here again to seek out that the floatydoodle that tells the bathroom tank to cease filling had damaged after I flushed simply after 3, and thus the bathroom tank had been overflowing for hours. There was not simply standing water within the rest room, however within the carpet, which was splish-splashy for a lot of ft into the principle room, and damp all the way in which over to the mattress, together with the areas the place I had tossed-aside worn clothes and diverse different issues (paper bag with snacks, convention program sitting on the ground… thankfully no electronics).
The lodge was immediate in transferring me to a different room, though it was fairly a complete effort of going backwards and forwards to maneuver my crap as a result of I didn’t wish to put my moist garments into something, I wished to depart them to hold in entrance of the AC and get as dry as possible earlier than shoving all the pieces into my baggage to get house the following morning. If I have been to have this expertise now I might ask the lodge to let me run my moist stuff of their dryer for half an hour, however this didn’t happen to me on the time, and this lodge didn’t have a laundry space for visitors.
Throughout all this transferring (garments, toiletries, oh wait additionally the stuff within the tub, oh and the snacks within the fridge…), I picked up the room cellphone and organized a morning wakeup name for STUPID early, so I might have time to pack the mostly-dry stuff and get to MARTA to get to the airport in time for my flight schedule for a couple of minutes earlier than 9.
Now, I might nonetheless do this, however would additionally set some alarms on my cell, however as famous beforehand: I didn’t but have a kind of.
Would anybody care to guess from which room I picked up the cellphone to rearrange that decision? And what occurred subsequent?
I in some way didn’t suppose by way of that if I organized the decision from FirstRoom, the lodge wouldn’t robotically transfer the decision to SecondRoom despite the fact that they have been transferring all the pieces else to do with me to SecondRoom. Their automated system in all probability did attempt to wake me up at 5 within the morning, however…. I used to be not in FirstRoom, so this didn’t work. So I wakened in a kind of levitating away from bed in a panic conditions, found it was 6:52, threw all the pieces into baggage as quick as I may, made certain I used to be sporting pants and had my ID and ticket and so on, ran my butt the three blocks to MARTA, took the excruciatingly lengthy morning-commute journey (SO MANY individuals on and off at every cease, SO MUCH asserting the practice can’t go till everybody quits touching the door…), arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson at about 8, satisfied a number of form individuals to let me forward of them at TSA, ran as if being chased by a bear by way of the airport…. and watched them shut the door to the airplane hallway factor whereas I used to be nonetheless in all probability 120 ft away.
As soon as they shut the door, they don’t open it once more.
Yep.
Nonetheless no cellphone, however on the plus aspect this was Atlanta and I used to be flying Delta, so absolutely there could be a service space and in addition in all probability a good likelihood of a airplane, proper? Proper?
There’s a service space; it’s, or a minimum of was then, proper on the crossroads of the busiest flipping airport in America. Extensive open, no partitions, and at any given second there are in all probability about 700 individuals strolling inside 20 ft of it in all instructions speaking to their colleagues and youngsters and wheeling their baggage and no matter, so it’s LOUD, and so this service space, they’re bilingual, however they’ll’t really hear you. They direct you to a home cellphone just a few ft away the place individuals who CAN hear you’ll be able to assist, however you’ll be able to’t hear THEM, since you are standing in the course of a people-hurricane, and lengthy story brief, after a LOT of pleading as a result of whereas this was not Delta’s fault, it was additionally type of not MY fault, they solely charged me the change-plane price, and acquired me on the one different airplane of the day that would do a connection to house on the “similar” day. This airplane left Atlanta at round 8pm, so I had eleven hours to kill, nothing in any respect to do aside from browse the magazines in a single Hudson Bookseller after one other, after which two bizarre layovers and an arrival time at house of round 1 am native. That final leg had delays, so I really landed round 1:35, at which level I had been awake for practically 22 hours, used the month’s price of adrenaline attempting to make the unique airplane 20 hours earlier, and spent eleven hours in a large airport attempting not to fall asleep as a result of adrenaline crash is an actual factor. Additionally, certain there’s meals within the airport, however I don’t like paying $12.39 for a latte or $17.95 for 3 barely-leavened unfortunately-scorched pancakes, two tablespoons of syrup, and the saddest bacon on the planet, so I did get an overpriced McDonald’s cheeseburger after which made do with airplane pretzels and the like, so by the point I used to be house I used to be too hungry to sleep and too drained to eat.
0/10, don’t suggest, and all due to a defective bathroom tank regulator.
