notes from the HIP
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Notes From The Hip, words of wisedom and rantdom from the sidekick! Yes thats right kids its time for another ramble via the sidekick. This time around its a few notes I wrote up on what a fustrating travel experience i had this past week. Actually in hindsight it wasnt all that bad but nevertheless..
Logan American Eagle gate 22 to go to 30 find shuttle, messed up, I go to gates to get on planes not shuttles, no rest room at check point written on security tubs that's handy, and no indication yer in right place while u sit and wait and wonder hmmmmmmmm see an agent and the agent says ya somethin will happen
Travel is fustrating, u get tio the airport 2hrs ahead of your flight stare at long ass lines thinkin by the time u get to a counter 45mins will have passed... Or worse yet u get there only to be rerouted to another line,
Its a 60s system of free love good travel stuck in a paralyzed paranoid panic filled world, airports need to be redesigned, the flows are not set in a motion that implies any sense of u will be fine, derobing before flights annoying, rushed thru the cattle progression, shoes off, laptop out, anything with just a minor hint of metal goes..., hmmm watch, it looks plastic, can u afford to be wrong? Staring back sown the line...
I got picked for paddin down, yeahness, this is after the fact american cancels my flight and redirects me, no forces me to leave the terminal and reticket reenter security to get on a delta flight, all that with 20mins to spare, then just 10mins before shecluded departure there I am at the security gate waiting.. Padded down, sec has no care in the world regarding my time, but they love to comment on the color of my laptop or oooo look how small this camera is... Golly ya that is nice helllooooo I got 3mins to get on a plane here people.. And they wondered why I wouldn't smile
Travel blows, ya gotta do it but it sucks, there's no proper notice, nothing will prepare u, it pays to assume the absolute worst, it can only get better from there
Sitting here staring at 22.... See attendent it says, now a new guy shows up, he's a person, goes right thru the usual metal door that screams no... While I wait and wonder... Now I get up, antendent intercepts me says not yet and I say ummm a joblo just went down there,, no he didn't... Ummmm ok. Sit back down, now I get to watch again, another customer goes to the metal door denied.... Yells to an attendent, can I get a bus please... Hello... Now customers are hovering ariund the and now attendent lets them go down.... Huh? I ask, again, sir no one goes down that's not approved... Umm offical people have badges n stuff those guys had bags and hell looked like customers... Nope. Officals, airline officials, the subclass of we don't talk diectly to u directly guys those are like un marked vans. They looked like me, the went thru that door, can I really put my self in the hands of the airport to assure me on anything?
Some friends tell me it all sucks dan nothing new, I say no we can do this better, deasign a better experience around travel, and it starts with the airport, then the mindset,
Hmmmm lets think hotels this trip, the winner embassy suites, free happy hour drinks and food, free vegas stle breakfast, and all that for $100 a nite... That's damn spiffy....
Hotel rooms are changing though. Springhill suites gave a bed bout 6inches from the floor, I kept thinking somethings wrong, and the tv was in the middle almost at a divider, I like to crash, hit the bed typically the only thing u can hit and watch tv, nope, this time its hit the psuedo futon and rearrange the room so u can see the tv...
Cheap phones tooo.. Hotels have these cheap airplane 2, blinking flashing phones, 9000 of them are on ebay I bet... How was yer expwrience sir... Hell only embassy suites asked me that question, maybe only they cared... Who cares, that's the question. Maybe nobody cares.
In my line of work the reason we work is cause we care. First part of the week I was in medical institute evaluating better doc tools. They cared. Then I go to boston to test users working on a uml programming application, huh... They cared too. I don't get paid unless some cares. Wouldn't be in biz if someone didn't care.
In other news via the hiptop er sidekick.. I've totally switched over to it rather successfully this time around. In fact I have no clue where my nokia is... hmmm. Anyways it's been good. I've downloaded a few new apps for it as well and the games have been great too.