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SaltPork · 01-29-2008, 07:54 PM

I travel often for business, trains, planes, cabs and everytime there is always something that goes wrong. Lots of delays, cancellations, a fire on board the aircraft (really), an angry cabby for no reason, etc.

I'm not sure when it all started, but it's been happening for some time. I ALWAYS have a problem. The closest I've come to death was the fire on board the airplane while over Lake Ontario at 15,000 ft and the engine exploding on landing. In the end they've all been simply inconveniences to my life, thank God.

Recently, after a travelling dry spell of about 1.5 yrs, I hopped on a plane to Baltimore. Normal flight, no delays, it was great. I thought my run was over. Then I got to the train station to go into DC for a 10 AM meeting. It was about 9AM all trains were running 30 minutes late...I thought let the games begin, but luck would have it that there were two cabs out front. My colleague and I hopped the cab and made our way to DC. The cabbie stopped at Union Station and said "Get out, this is as far as I go". We were stunned. We only needed to go a couple more blocks down Penn. Ave to our destination, but he was done...WTF.

Something always seems to happen to me when I travel, how about you guys? What are some of your travel nightmares? Mine happen constantly, anyone else experience that?

01-29-2008, 07:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
SaltPork Everything's better with bacon Location: In your local grocer's freezer.	travel nightmares I travel often for business, trains, planes, cabs and everytime there is always something that goes wrong. Lots of delays, cancellations, a fire on board the aircraft (really), an angry cabby for no reason, etc. I'm not sure when it all started, but it's been happening for some time. I ALWAYS have a problem. The closest I've come to death was the fire on board the airplane while over Lake Ontario at 15,000 ft and the engine exploding on landing. In the end they've all been simply inconveniences to my life, thank God. Recently, after a travelling dry spell of about 1.5 yrs, I hopped on a plane to Baltimore. Normal flight, no delays, it was great. I thought my run was over. Then I got to the train station to go into DC for a 10 AM meeting. It was about 9AM all trains were running 30 minutes late...I thought let the games begin, but luck would have it that there were two cabs out front. My colleague and I hopped the cab and made our way to DC. The cabbie stopped at Union Station and said "Get out, this is as far as I go". We were stunned. We only needed to go a couple more blocks down Penn. Ave to our destination, but he was done...WTF. Something always seems to happen to me when I travel, how about you guys? What are some of your travel nightmares? Mine happen constantly, anyone else experience that? __________________ It was like that when I got here....I swear.