Travel Trevails

Spent last week in Newton, MA, working. Usually I have very good luck traveling. This trip was a bit of an exception.

The trip featured the following mishaps.The plane I took left the ground about 40 minutes later than planned, due to maintenance paperwork and some forgotten luggage. When we arrived in Boston the jetway wouldn't stretch out to meet us. That meet that an entire planelod of people, mostly with nervous bladders had stood up, removed their luggage from the over head bin, and were standing in the aisles waiting for the doors to open. It wasn't to be. Instead we had to taxi to some far off location. Once at my destination, one of my traveling companions had to wait a very long time for his luggage, no doubt they had moved the plane before all the luggage had been removed.

Then at my hotel, the Newton Marriot, the clerk transposed my room number and price per day. So instead of thinking I was in room 179, I thought I was in room 151. Unfortunately, the hotel has no room #151. So I had to trudge all the way back to the desk. Additionally, this hotel is built into a hill so there is a mind bending converstation after they give you their key while they explain that yes you are on the ground floor, but you will need to go down the elevator to get to the first floor. Then to top it off, every dau of my stay the magnetic key was unable to open my door. Did I mention the closet door was also off the track. At least coming home wasn't so bad. I still don't know how happy I am to be paying extra for airline food.

O.K., I know it's not like I was stranded in Antarctica, with nothing but ice for toilet paper, but this is America, I'm entitled to whine a bit.