Thursday, April 20, 2006

Houston....We Have a Problem.........

I recieved this as an e-mail.....kind of a joke type thing, but if these statements are true, I'd like to know how these idiots have made it through everyday life. Have a look for yourself. What do you think???

Why our country is in trouble
Perhaps this will explain it all........


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 got 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 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 the map and Florida is a very thin state!" --------------------------------------------------------------------


4. I got 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."
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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 that. --------------------------------------------------------------------


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. I just got off the phone with a freshman Congressman who asked, "How do I know which plane to get on?" I asked him what exactly he meant, to which he replied, "I was told my flight number is 823, but none of these planes have numbers on them." --------------------------------------------------------------------


10. A lady Senator called and said, "I need to fly to Pepsi-Cola, Florida. Do I have to get on one of those little computer planes?" I asked if she meant fly to Pensacola, Fl. on a commuter plane.
She said, "Yeah, whatever, smarty!"
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11. A senior Senator called and had 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 double 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 my American Express!" --------------------------------------------------------------------



12. A New Mexico Congresswoman called to make reservations, "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, ma'am, 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". --------------------------------------------------------------------




9 comments:

sela said...

Ok, I hope those aren't real!!!!

enN2sp said...

And these people are running our country?

boneman said...

Can't think of a better reason'n'that to slap term limits on them weasels.
No, I'm sorry. I'm giving a bad name to weasels, aren't I?

Meanwhile, is that an advertisement in between the comments?
I've seen that before on some blogs. Maybe one of us should go in and find out what all the hububu is about.
OK, since I thought to "bell the cat" I'll go in.
If I'm not back soon, send help.

boneman said...

I was gonna go in, but, it just vanished right in mid-air.

'Course, now folks'll think I made it up and there never really was an ad there.

Really! There was....

boneman said...

And, only this very minute did I find out how to actually connect with the putting folks on the "friend" list.
Yeah, yer on it!
It's not all that easy for me to make headway thru the myspace-land, though. There are ads that I have no power over and it's buggy. (geez, only a dinosaur would say "buggy")
But, I'm glad to hear you might come to the April Show. It's a very crowded affair and there's usually lots of food to be had.

But, I gotta tell ya right up front. I am really quite nervous with hundreds of folks just milling around. I've never done well with crowds. It took me seven tries to actually pass speech class in college.
But, I did find a new defense thing I can do that may help (or make it worse, who knows...)

I'll take pictures of folks.
Think it'll work?

alli-gal said...

I think the picute thing wounds like a good idea. By the way, if I have one of my "bad days" I might not exactly enjoy the crowd much either...so you may not be alone.

See, I have these "anxiety attacks" (that's what my therapist calls them) sometimes a big crowd will trigger them...sometimes something as simple as wearing clothes will trigger them, but don't worry.....I'm not gonna show up naked!!!!

alli-gal said...

Oh, by the way, I deleted the ad, or whateve it was...I must have been online the same time you were trying to find it.....wierd

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