Friday, October 23, 2009

You're sitting in a chair....in the sky!

This is Louis CK from an appearance on Conan. He is one funny dude.





My friend MK sent this to me months ago, and it's just been waiting patiently for me to share it with you.

I flew to Tampa, FL, two weeks ago for a trade show. If you want a true appreciation of how much we expect, the sense of entitlement we've bestowed upon ourselves, simply fly by yourself to a city you've never been before. Here's how myfirst day played out.....
  1. I loaded my car and drove to a parking area near the airport where a man I've never met before picked up my luggage and transported me and my luggage to the American Airlines check in counter.

  2. At the check in counter, two guys I've never met before looked at a paper print-out I brought from my office. They picked up my bag, put some magic numbers on it and put it on a conveyor belt. I didn't see the bag again until Tampa.

  3. Inside the airport, a lady I've never met before scanned a barcode on my piece of paper and let me get on a plane, where a man I've never met before flew me...in the air... from Dallas, TX, to Tampa, FL. And while we flew, a nice lady I had never met before served me ice cold Diet Cokes.

  4. At the Tampa airport, my luggage miraculously appeared before my eyes on a conveyor belt.

  5. After collecting my luggage, I took it outside, where a guy I've never met before loaded me and my luggage into a yellow car, and took us both to the Intercontinental Hotel. By the way, I had no idea whatsoever of the address of the hotel.

  6. When I got there, I handed my drivers license and a piece of plastic to a woman I've never met before. And she gave me a nice safe place to sleep and a place to hang my clothes.
Are you getting this? I went, by myself, all the way across the country and slept in a room with nice fluffy pillows, armed only with my drivers license, a print-out from Orbitz, a credit card, and a handful of dollar bills for tips and taxi.

I didn't know a single soul who helped me that day, but I expected nonetheless that each of those strangers would perform his or her function and my trip would go off without a hitch, which it did.

What a remarkable world we live in!!


2 comments:

Big Al said...

That's why I always ask "how are you" to all those people. And say "thank you, have a nice day", and if I have heavy bag or more than one bag, I tip the nice man who loads them onto the rental car bus. I had a waiter look at me with a blank look on his face when I asked how he was. He said, "No one ever asks me that, they just order their food,". How sad.

Chad and Mary Kate Martin said...

In chair...in the SKY! I love that you can appreciate when I find humor and amusement in a catch phrase...thanks for the posts...miss you.