A Little Friday Travel Humor
 

A Washington, DC airport ticket agent offers some examples of why our country is
in trouble!

1. I had a New Hampshire Congresswoman ask for an aisle seat so that her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window.

2. I had a call from a candidate's staffer who wanted to go to Capetown. I started to explain the length of the flight and the
passport information, then she interrupted me with, "I'm not trying to make you look stupid but Capetown is in Massachusetts."
Without trying to make her look stupid, I calmly explained "Cape Cod is in Massachusetts, Capetown is in Africa." Her response -- click.

3. A senior Vermont Congressman called, furious about a Florida vacation package we did. I asked what was wrong with the vacation in Orlando. He said he was expecting an ocean-view room. I tried to
explain that's not possible, since Orlando
is in the middle of the state. He replied,
"Don't lie to me, I looked on a map and Florida is a very thin state!"

4. I received a call from a lawmaker's wife
who asked, "Is it possible to see England
from Canada?" I said, "No." She said,
"But they look so close on the map."

5. An aide for a cabinet member once called
and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas. When I pulled up the reservation, I
noticed he had only a 1 hour layover in Dallas. When I asked him why he wanted to rent a car, he said, "I heard Dallas was a big airport and we will need a car to drive
between gates to save time."

6. An Illinois Congresswoman called last week. She needed to know how it was possible that her flight from Detroit left at 8:30 am and got to Chicago at 8:33 am. I explained that Michigan was an hour ahead of Illinois but she couldn't understand the
concept of time zones. Finally I told her the plane went fast and she bought it.

7. A New York lawmaker called and asked,
"Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know whose luggage belongs to whom." I said, "No, why do you ask?" She replied, "Well, when I checked in with the airline they put a tag on my
luggage that said FAT and I'm overweight. I think that's very rude." After putting her on hold for a minute while I looked into it, (I was laughing) I came back and explained the city code for Fresno, CA is FAT and the airline was just putting a destination tag on her luggage.

8. A Senator's aide called to inquire about a trip package to Hawaii. After going over all the cost info, she asked,
"Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?"

9. A senior Senator called and have a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China. After a lengthy
discussion about passports, I reminded him
that he needed a visa. "Oh no I don't. I've been to China many times and never had to have one of those." I doubled checked and sure enough, his stay required a visa.
When I told him this he said, "Look, I've been to China four times and every time they have accepted American Express!"

10. A New Mexico Congresswoman called to make reservations and said, "I want to go from Chicago to Rhino, New York." I was at a loss for words. Finally I said, "Are you sure that's the name of the town?" "Yes, what flights do you have?" replied the lady. After some searching, I came back with, "I'm sorry I've looked up every airport code in the country and can't find a
Rhino anywhere." The lady retorted, "Oh don't be silly! Everyone knows where it is.
Check your map." So I scoured a map of the state of New york and finally offered, "You don't mean Buffalo do you?" The reply?
"Whatever, I knew it was a big animal."

Thats downright scary!!

Your tax dollars at work.
Please vote for responsible folks.
M (SMdA, Gto.)

If any of this is really true, what a disgrace.
I say we fire everyone that is in politics right now across the board. We start with a clean slate and we throw out all party affiliations. May the best person get the jobs....

www.snopes.com says this is false. Just an urban legend

After applying for admission to Harvard, a New Mexico student got a reply from the university that stated: "Being as you are from a foreign country, you will need to pass a test to prove proficiency in English".
((D))8-)

mikemo ... I DO vote for responsible people, and sometimes they are responsible for some really big screw-ups ;-)

Nina

Not only is it an urban legend, but it's also so very old!

If a responsible person ever runs for office then he/she will have my vote. In the meantime I have no choice but to vote for the less foolish person. :-(

This might be old but it's still funny. Most of us know it wasn't true, John.

Of course these are oldies, but they still are goldies! However, there's a whole column in (Arizona Highways?) a magazine about people (esp. in the federal government) who refuse to belive that New Mexico is one of the 50 states!

These are all as ancient as the hills.

And can you actually imagine a Senator or Congressman making their own phone calls about these things? That's why they have minions.

But it is true that a remarkable number of people have no idea of geography. (I once had a temp asst who wanted to know what state Massachusetts was in.)

What;s scary to me is the things that they ARE idiots about - like global warming, the economy falling apart and the "war" in Iraq. (My suggestion is that the only Sens/Reps who can vote on this is the ones who have kids on active duty there.)