{"id":8247,"date":"2006-01-09T15:04:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/01\/09\/dave-hill-international-man-of-mystery.html"},"modified":"2006-01-09T15:04:54","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T22:04:54","slug":"dave_hill_inter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/09\/dave_hill_inter.html","title":{"rendered":"Dave Hill, International Man of Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guess whose travel agent didn’t use his travel profile (the one with his middle initial) to make his reservations?<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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