It's the little things that matter...

Every time you travel, whether it's business or pleasure, you run into little snags every now and again. Usually, you don't let small nuisances stress you out as you've come to expect a little inconvenience when you travel. BUT WHEN EVERY SMALL NAGGING NUISANCE POSSIBLE HAPPENS YOU START TO GET A LITTLE ANNOYED!

What's happened to me so far:

• 90 minute flight delay, including an hour of waiting on the runway, so I couldn't even get out of my seat to stretch or pee.
• Forgot to charge my mp3 player, so it died before takeoff.
• Guy sitting next to me had bad breath.
• Woman in front of me audibly and aromatically farted 3 times.
• Baggage was lost, it was found, but I had to wait an extra half hour.
• Hotel sticks me at furthest corner away from the entrance (big hotel too).
• When I finally get to my room, there's an annoying high pitched whirring noise emanating from the industrial heater fans right outside and below my door, I call to get room switched, and had to hike up to the front and then they stick me at opposite furthest away corner.
• Front desk calls me up to say the credit card is declined. I have to go up front desk again and it turns out that American Express wanted them to see my ID to confirm. WTF?! I presented ID at the time of check in!
• This morning I go to shave and notice my razor broke during transport.
• I get to the convention hall to set up my booth and there's no carpeting or furniture that we ordered. I go to see what happened and they claim that they never received order and tried to charge extra for late order- I was fortunate enough to have the actual fax with date and time to argue and get price reduced.
• I go to breakfast while the furniture is set up and come back and they get the order completely wrong!
• I got a huge splinter from our crate that we use to ship the show materials.
• Cheap razor I bought gave me 4 nicks and I now have little toilet paper pieces all over my face.
• I'm in Nashville.
  

AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!! What's fucking next?!!!

The yoga guy in the booth across from me noticed my stress levels rising and tried to get me to "breathe"- I told him to go fuck himself since he's probably God damned flexible enough to do it for real.

Okay, so that last part was just fantasy, but I really came close to saying it.

Trapped in Nashville

Was booking my trip for a trade show coming up in February today. I've been to Nashville twice before so I have no real desire to stay longer than I have to. The show ends at 2pm on a Saturday and I'll have to wait for the exposition union workers to deliver my crate which can take up to 2 hours. So realistically, the latest I can book a flight is 6pm.

I make the hotel reservations and then went to look for flight info.

There are no flights leaving Nashville after 5pm that get to Philadelphia in a reasonable time or isn't super-expensive!!

So now I'm stuck in Nashville an extra night and won't be able to fly out until the next morning. Nothing personal against Nashville, but it's a boring place if you don't like country music. They have a mall on the hotel property and some restaurants and bars but nothing else and nothing worth traveling to see. No poker either! (I know, I know- how do people even survive living in the middle of the south?)

Hopefully the strip bar scene is good.