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Rep Retirement Lodge 127: So This is the New Year...

Rep Retirement Lodge 127: So This is the New Year...

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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 127: So This is the New Year...

bigblue_dl said:
"Delta Airlines and TSA can blow me" story:

We checked in the night before, so we just had to drop bags, we go to the much shorter "bag drop" line, where some Delta ***** doesn't let us get in line because we don't have a paper boarding pass, we had them sent to our phones, but apparently she couldn't figure that out. Since we didn't have a paper boarding pass she made us go to the check in line, which took about a half an hour to get through, as opposed to about 10 minutes if we would have been where we were supposed to be.
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A.) I never understood why the phone based boarding pass would be a good idea. I have had enough problems with phone issues to not trust it, plus the paper is so much easier to hand to someone so they can look at it, etc.

B.) I am reluctant to reveal this here, but whenever possible, use the security checkpoint at the ramp, not the one in the main terminal. It's where the business travelers go. Lines are WAY shorter and people know *** they are doing at security (for the most part). You would even be ahead to drop bags then go downstairs, take the tram to the parking ramp and then rush back to your gate over what you did do.
 
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So really the lesson for BB_DL is, "never check bags".

If you have to check them, do a gate check. 1) its always free, and 2) you won't be rushed to your gate.
 
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goldy_331 said:
A.) I never understood why the phone based boarding pass would be a good idea. I have had enough problems with phone issues to not trust it, plus the paper is so much easier to hand to someone so they can look at it, etc.

B.) I am reluctant to reveal this here, but whenever possible, use the security checkpoint at the ramp, not the one in the main terminal. It's where the business travelers go. Lines are WAY shorter and people know *** they are doing at security (for the most part). You would even be ahead to drop bags then go downstairs, take the tram to the parking ramp and then rush back to your gate over what you did do.
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This is the first time I've had a problem with the electronic passes. I don't have a printer at home, or any way to print the passes, and since I wasn't working last week I couldn't print the boarding passes at work like I usually do.
I didn't have a bag that was small enough to bring through security before, but I bought one yesterday after the fiasco I had last trip. I'll be checking a bag much less frequently now. The only good thing about the ordeal is that our bags got to Las Vegas on the first flight and were sitting there waiting for us when we got there, it only took about a minute to get our bags.

Commie, I'll rep you.
 
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Maybe its just me but I've always checked in at the counter at the airport... I've never had to wait long or had problems... of course I've never run into a weather situation at the airport itself. This way I don't have to worry about printers or other things.
 
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Yeah, you can always check-in / print a boarding pass in one of the kiosks. It takes all of two minutes at most.
 
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Bakunin said:
Yeah, you can always check-in / print a boarding pass in one of the kiosks. It takes all of two minutes at most.
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Not if the line to get to the kiosks has 50 people in it ahead of you. Once you get to the kiosks, yes, it's very quick. I tried to do electronic boarding passes for my trip but when I got to Logan and waitied in the Bag check only line (in which they asked me if I was going on the 8:35am flight to Newark at 8:05 - I was like "If I was on the 8:35 to Newark I would have been here at 7:15 - why are you letting people cut ahead because they're late?") I tried to call them up but the free wirelss at Logan must have gone away and I couldn't open them. By then the attendant had already printed them out for me.
 
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Another fun tidbit from my time away:

I had an ingrown toenail, and didn't bother to do anything about it. My toe swelled up to about twice the size it should have been and it hurt so much I could barely walk. Christmas eve I gave it a good squeeze and got about a half a shot of puss out if it. After my family saw it on Christmas they were going to make me go to the doctor, because I still couldn't walk and by this time it smelled like it was rotting. Christmas night I used a jack knife, tweezers and nail clipper to cut out my toenail, it felt instantly better. By the next morning the swelling was gone and it didn't hurt anymore, but it still was full of puss and smelled like a roadkill until about Sunday. Also, all of the skin on my toe must have died, because it all peeled off. It was pretty nasty, but I didn't have to go to the doctor!

Luckily I didn't run into a chick with a foot fetish in Vegas.

edit: and by Sunday, I mean 2 days ago, not the day after Christmas
 
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I used to play soccer so i had my fair share of disgusting toe injuries. That said, I'm going to throw up.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 127: So This is the New Year...

I think I'm 2 for 2, however I won't know until sometime in the future. Time to unwind, then back to studying for tomorrow.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge 127: So This is the New Year...

JF_Gophers said:
Do you have to know terms like Mizzen-mast, Jib, Halyard, Tack, and Clew? :D
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Not so much the sailboat terminology, but similar terms, yes. Luckily we have numerous references at our disposal that include much of what we need to know, we just need to know where to find it.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Do you have to know terms like Mizzen-mast, Jib, Halyard, Tack, and Clew? :D
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Not so much the sailboat terminology, but similar terms, yes. Luckily we have numerous references at our disposal that include much of what we need to know, we just need to know where to find it.
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Did you watch the movie Summer Rental for any last minute cramming? :p
 
bigblue_dl said:
Another fun tidbit from my time away:

I had an ingrown toenail, and didn't bother to do anything about it. My toe swelled up to about twice the size it should have been and it hurt so much I could barely walk. Christmas eve I gave it a good squeeze and got about a half a shot of puss out if it. After my family saw it on Christmas they were going to make me go to the doctor, because I still couldn't walk and by this time it smelled like it was rotting. Christmas night I used a jack knife, tweezers and nail clipper to cut out my toenail, it felt instantly better. By the next morning the swelling was gone and it didn't hurt anymore, but it still was full of puss and smelled like a roadkill until about Sunday. Also, all of the skin on my toe must have died, because it all peeled off. It was pretty nasty, but I didn't have to go to the doctor!

Luckily I didn't run into a chick with a foot fetish in Vegas.

edit: and by Sunday, I mean 2 days ago, not the day after Christmas
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Nice!
Probaly should have use a toothpick to pry up the nail a little to air it out a little.
 
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