I have some baggage
I thought you might enjoy this while I continue to lazily complete my post on eating 24 courses at Chicago's Alinea:
Jet Lagged Blog in NY Times: A User's Manual to Flight 21C
The only thing that could have improved this piece would have been a discussion of those maddening people who make pointless, noisy phone calls as soon as the plane touches down to reassure themselves of their own importance. Yep, I'm here. Yeah, we just landed. Still on the runway. On a plane. Yeah, I checked my bags. So, like we planned before, I guess you'll meet me here? At the airport? Cause that's where I am now.. oh, you are too? At the airport? Cool. Yeah, still on the plane. What are you doing? Anything happening? and so forth.
My other pet peeve involves the baggage claim, where I always end up choking back blind rage at the many, many people (usually men, I'm sorry to say) who think it's fine and fair to press their calves directly against the carousel and lean over the belt while it revolves. For those of us who are stumpy, this positioning effectively blocks us entirely from seeing our bags until they have gone a few feet past us. If everybody would just agree not to crowd the belt and put some distance between themselves and the carousel, then the world would be a happier place and shorter-legged humans could have equal access to their Travelpros. Just sayin'.
Jet Lagged Blog in NY Times: A User's Manual to Flight 21C
The only thing that could have improved this piece would have been a discussion of those maddening people who make pointless, noisy phone calls as soon as the plane touches down to reassure themselves of their own importance. Yep, I'm here. Yeah, we just landed. Still on the runway. On a plane. Yeah, I checked my bags. So, like we planned before, I guess you'll meet me here? At the airport? Cause that's where I am now.. oh, you are too? At the airport? Cool. Yeah, still on the plane. What are you doing? Anything happening? and so forth.
My other pet peeve involves the baggage claim, where I always end up choking back blind rage at the many, many people (usually men, I'm sorry to say) who think it's fine and fair to press their calves directly against the carousel and lean over the belt while it revolves. For those of us who are stumpy, this positioning effectively blocks us entirely from seeing our bags until they have gone a few feet past us. If everybody would just agree not to crowd the belt and put some distance between themselves and the carousel, then the world would be a happier place and shorter-legged humans could have equal access to their Travelpros. Just sayin'.
posted by cindym at 1:06 PM
4 Comments:
Hi Cindy! Happy belated b-day, I'm just now catching up! (and I also still take my bra off that way, all the time.) I can't wait to read about Alinea - that's one place I'm dying to go. Did you hear that Grant is cancer free?? Woo hoo!
Peter and I had a good laugh over that post and the ones that preceded it. Did you read the post about the "great plane robbery" and the flight attendant who got a diaper full of poo in her hair??? Who knew that was a job hazard!
Happy belated birthday. I can't wait to hear about Alinea, I'm jealous!
Hello Cindy!
Greetings from Hong Kong! Happy Birthday! By way of introduction, I will be 26 on the 13th, an aspiring culinary student, and a big fan of your blog. After reading all your experiences, I can't resist the temptation of make my dream come true and attend culinary school. Between LCB or Ritz Escoffier, I couldn't really decide. I want to learn more but I can't afford to lose too much time---LCB seemed a more thorough (longer) program than Escoffier. Will you be kind to give me a few advice on making the decision? I'll really appreciate it.
Have a wonderful 30th birthday!
Thank you so much for sharing!
Chongwei
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