On the road again
Sorry to have been so quiet yesterday—I was down in New York City facilitating a focus group, and forgot to grab a laptop on the way out the door. Anyway, here are a few musings from my trip…
A tip from a talkative NYC cabdriver: If you have to make a mad dash to the airport, or anywhere else in New York, don’t count on getting a taxi between 3:30 and 4 p.m. That’s when drivers change shifts, he said, and no one wants a fare when they’re heading back to the garage.
Having finished up my business ahead of time, I headed back to Laguardia with several hours to spare before my 7 p.m. flight. As I tried to go standby on an earlier flight, I learned that my ticket was "time-price-sensitive," according to the ticket agent. That meant that instead of the standard $25 fee, it would have cost me $250! Might be worth checking into the standby possibilities of your ticket if you, like me, suspect your business could wrap up earlier than you expected. Oh well, it actually was kind of nice to have three hours to spend doing nothing more productive than gobbling up Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress--excellent airport reading—and a bananaberry smoothie.
One more lesson learned the hard way: Always check to see when it’s school vacation time before heading off to the airport. Massachusetts’ kids were out April 19-23, and they must be a traveling crew, because the parking lot at Logan airport was so jammed that they had to actually valet-park my car! I was a little worried about retrieving it—not to mention leaving my keys in the car at the airport—but it all went smoothly and my little Subaru was waiting with nary a nick, just where they said it would be, when I got back.
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A tip from a talkative NYC cabdriver: If you have to make a mad dash to the airport, or anywhere else in New York, don’t count on getting a taxi between 3:30 and 4 p.m. That’s when drivers change shifts, he said, and no one wants a fare when they’re heading back to the garage.
Having finished up my business ahead of time, I headed back to Laguardia with several hours to spare before my 7 p.m. flight. As I tried to go standby on an earlier flight, I learned that my ticket was "time-price-sensitive," according to the ticket agent. That meant that instead of the standard $25 fee, it would have cost me $250! Might be worth checking into the standby possibilities of your ticket if you, like me, suspect your business could wrap up earlier than you expected. Oh well, it actually was kind of nice to have three hours to spend doing nothing more productive than gobbling up Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress--excellent airport reading—and a bananaberry smoothie.
One more lesson learned the hard way: Always check to see when it’s school vacation time before heading off to the airport. Massachusetts’ kids were out April 19-23, and they must be a traveling crew, because the parking lot at Logan airport was so jammed that they had to actually valet-park my car! I was a little worried about retrieving it—not to mention leaving my keys in the car at the airport—but it all went smoothly and my little Subaru was waiting with nary a nick, just where they said it would be, when I got back.
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