Knucklehead Moves: Holiday Travel Edition

Today I made a knucklehead move.  It’s not a horrible life threatening condition, but it’s annoying when the symptoms flair up.

This morning I was  sitting at Denver International Airport, home to the demonically evil blue horse.

Why was I sitting there?  Because I was attempting to fly on the second busiest air traffic day of the year in America and my flight was delayed.

This was only a knucklehead move because I have the freedom to work from anywhere and could have booked the flight a day earlier before the herds of holiday travelers descended upon the terminal.

The funnier part is that I have this blog titled “Blind Influence” (maybe you’ve heard of it) that shares insights and ideas based on how to not do exactly what I did.

Somehow my kluge of a brain chose the same day the majority of people chose to fly even though my window to fly was wide open.  I could have flown last week if I had chosen to.

It’s just a reminder that even though I swim in information about how our DNA makes us do some dumb things and believe in ‘truths’ that we make up, I’m as susceptible as everyone else to the power of human faulty brain wiring.

Between the holiday crowds and flight delay due to weather I had the opportunity to work from the airport with slow clunky wifi for 3 hours.  Again, it wasn’t the end of the world and complaining about flight delays is SO 20th century; it’s unusual these days to not be delayed.  But next time I’ll be choosing to fly on an off day with a higher chance for a smooth airport adventure.

Since  I can’t upgrade to a better brain model or trade it in for a newer and more improved edition, at least I can learn from my mistakes and make a public declaration on a blog to help me stick to it.