TERROR IN THE AIRPORT

[The Mockingbird]

...for some reporter stuck in a shower.

And you thought you were destiny's bish. (http://edition.cnn.com/TRAVEL/blogs/richard.quest/index.html)

[The Thrill]

Quit whining, ya baby.

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[Clever Login Name]

And here the airport folks have been misguidedly focusing on preventing terrorists from getting on airplanes and not paying enough attention to the needs and wants of insipid, self-important business writers who find themselves caught in mildly unsettling situations. :rolleyes:

[Mom]

One time, while checking into a motel, my then 5 year-old with Down syndrome closed the motel room door while my husband and I were both at the car getting bags. Junior was locked in and we were locked out and my little boy couldn't open the door. Thankfully we could see him through the picture window because the curtains were open. I went to the front office for another key but was told there wasn't another key because my husband and I had been given both keys which were now inside the locked room. I asked for the master key. The part-time desk clerk (the only employee there) opened a case of keys and brought them all down to the room and tried key after key after key ... you'd think the master key would be marked "MASTER KEY." After going through what seemed like thousands of keys the desk clerk said, "Hmmmm, I guess the only one with the master key is the manager but he's not here. I'll go call him." During all this time my son was happily playing inside the room. If he'd been crying I probably would have asked for a baseball bat to break the window. The manager of the motel was twenty minutes away at a dinner party and would come with the key. After 40 minutes in which a locked door seperated us from our child, the door was unlocked with the master key that the manager carried on his person. What if our child had been in there choking? What if it was someone else in there having a seizure or a heart attack or any other emergency situation? My husband and I were mad as Hell (even though it was our own dumb fault that we left our keys and our kid in a room with the door open to retrieve a couple of bags.) But here's the kicker (and it's a good one)-

My husband was so angry that he deliberately walked away from the manager so that he wouldn't blow his top and he surely would have had he heard what the manager said to me after the door was opened. He leaned in, smiling and said, "Don't worry, Ma'am, there won't be any extra charge for me coming here in person to fix the situation."

[The Mockingbird]

I've ranted several times on the subject of reporters who don't live in the real world. I mean, who showers in a frigging airport?

[Lazlo Toth]

I can answer that. I do on long international trips.

I remember flying for eleven hours from Uganda to London and had to switch airports. Then, we had a four hour wait for the next flight. I paid the two pounds for the towel and took the opportunity to get a shower. I felt much better during the nine hour flight to San Francisco.

The small bathroom was clean and functional, and I did not get locked in.

[ March 27, 2007, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: Lazlo Toth ]