Knucklehead Moves: Holiday Travel Edition
Dec 23rd, 2009 by Brett Greene
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.
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Lucky for you, you probably had the technology on hand to enjoy Planes, Trains and Automobiles on your smartphone while you waited for everything to sort itself out.
Best, M.
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LOL, I just worked, but now I'll remember to download Planes, Trains and Automobiles next time.
Glad you made it to where you needed to be. A trainer in a time management class I took many years ago had a tip about flying on low traffic days and I have planned that way ever since. Whisking through an airport is a very nice feeling. Love your photos of the suitcases in the snow. brrr.
I'm glad to have met you today through Twitter and look forward to visiting your blog again. @LindaSherman
Thanks for the comment Linda. I'm glad the @BrianSolis tweeted about your post so that I could discover your blog. Nice social media insights.
I'll definitely choose of flying days in the future.
We once flew back to DIA after Christmas and found our vehicle buried under several feet of snow. Thankfully it was a 4WD truck because after an hour of digging we were able to get it up and over the mountain of snow behind it. Some people weren't able to get their cars out for several days. If you've been flying out of DIA for awhile, you are bound to have some stories!
Enjoy your tweets on Twitter. @HeidiTown
Wow Heidi. I have now been forewarned. I have not had a DIA story nearly as interesting as your snow story. My biggest DIA question is why, when a plane comes in after 11pm and all the gates are open, they always park the plane at the farthest gate away from the escalators to the train to the terminal.