Could there be anything worse . . .

Matterhorn Fan · 04-16-2005, 04:25 PM

than shopping for airplane tickets?

I wasted about 5 hours of my Saturday buying a plane ticket. Certainly my slow dial-up connection is partially responsible for that, but not entirely.

Grrrrrr . . . is there any online task that is more frustrating?

Not Afraid · 04-16-2005, 06:27 PM

Well, it depends on where you are going. I've been having fun watching airline tickets for Tokyo. I might feel differently if I were flying to, say, Fresno.

sleepyjeff · 04-16-2005, 08:33 PM

NRT baby!

mistyisjafo · 04-16-2005, 11:03 PM

Yes, there can be. Having to be on a six hour flight with a screaming baby next to you! Not that I don't love the little ones but there is nothing worse. You feel bad for the kid too!

Not Afraid · 04-17-2005, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by sleepyjeff

NRT baby!

Yes! LAX > NRT.

sleepyjeff · 04-17-2005, 12:57 AM

PDX only has 3 non-stop international destinations....FRA, YVR, and NRT.

€uroMeinke · 04-17-2005, 12:58 AM

sleepyjeff · 04-17-2005, 01:04 AM

Sounds exotic huh?

Vancouver, BC

Matterhorn Fan · 04-20-2005, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by mistyisjafo

Yes, there can be. Having to be on a six hour flight with a screaming baby next to you! Not that I don't love the little ones but there is nothing worse. You feel bad for the kid too!

I hate the six-hour flight in the first place. Screaming child--ick!

Maybe I should just stay put for the rest of my life. No, wait, I get bored too easily for that.

And I'm not flying to Fresno.

Cadaverous Pallor · 04-20-2005, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Matterhorn Fan

Grrrrrr . . . is there any online task that is more frustrating?

Hmm....good question. I think any site that has an annoyingly circular set of links, where you're sent around and around and never find any answers, is always friggin' annoying. But it's not 5 hours annoying. I can't believe anyone uses dialup anymore, what with all the graphics-heavy sites out there. Although I guess it is better than tying a typewriter to a TV set with rope and taping a telephone wire to it.

Hmm....you could make homemade one way telephones with paper cups and string.....play "TV" with a cutout box and put on your own shows (we used to use an inner tube as a TV screen when I was a kid)......but how would one "play Internet"?

Oh, wait, kids have their own computers now from like age 6 on, don't they?

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