Guess whose travel agent didn’t use his travel profile (the one with his middle initial) to make his reservations?
Yes, it was time, once again, for DHIMMOM to make his appearance. I knew I was in trouble as soon as the little self-serve check-in kiosk told to talk to a real, live person. Interestingly enough, there was a whole set of “secondary check-in” podiums, manned with three or four people, with a moderately long line in front of them.
Standard drill. She took my drivers license; called the TSA Mother Ship; read the number, my birthdate, my middle name; and got permission for me to sneak on board. Annoying. Not as annoying as then having her feed me the standard line about making a reservation with my middle name (as I told her multiple times our company travel agent usually does; she also didn’t make the reservation with my frequent flier number, either).
It would have been amusing if I hadn’t had a phonecon I had to hop onto. Fortunately, one way or the other, I couldn’t do so, since our conference calling service evidently went through the Sprint lines that were down from this afternoon’s West Coast outage.
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*Snort*
“Oh Sir, there seems to be an problem with your ticket, could you please wait a second….”
he he he ;P
Oh boy… More fun to think about while flying tomorrow…
Actually, the lady at the podium was quite up-front about needing to contact the TSA (after I was cleared) and how I should make reservations with my middle initial. Actually, almost condescendingly so, which didn’t improve my mood.
Don’t worry about flying, though — if they’re hard at work protecting the flying public from folks like me, I’m sure everyone else will be safe …