Travel karma

I have been scoring some bad travel karma lately. I’m in the Allentown, Penn airport on Wednesday (don’t ask) getting ready to set up on the work counters to do a little blogging work. Except there is a small pile of debris on the work area. Now usually, I would just mind my own business and leave it there… but noooooo, THIS trip I decide...I’ll set a good example, clean up the table, throw away the trash. Except…as it turns out…It.Wasn’t.Trash. The ONE time I try to clean ANYTHING up and I end up tossing out someone’s garbage-looking salad set-up. And no sooner had I returned from my trip to the trash can than skinny bitch shows up looking for her croutons and no fat dressing. How uncomfortable.

What else can you say besides “sorry”? Apparently, “can I buy you a new salad” is the preferred answer. But I was having none of it. It looked like it was going to be a real salad stand-off there in gate B2…but then luckily the gate agent called for us “A-listers”…sorry Salad Sally – I gotta go…enjoy lunch?

THEN, on the very same flight, the middle-seat-sitting lady beside me is snoozing HARD. Well, at least she WAS until my glass of sparkling water shimmied right off my seat back tray, fell to the floor and created a seltzer water fountain that the folks at the Bellagio would have been proud of. She just kept wiping her face and arms…never being QUITE awake, but never quite DRY either. After about 3 minutes of this I was SURE she was dreaming about some beach-front vacation with the ocean spray in her face. Wait til she wakes up to find the damage the bailey’s and coffee did when IT splashed to the floor (what?? I had drink coupons). Don’t ask me how THAT story ends…all I can say is “seat-change”.

I’m just hoping all this bad travel karma ends up being of the lost-luggage variety and NOT of the time-to-use-the-exit-rows variety!