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I've been traveling recently. And as always, I'm fed up with certain of my fellow travellers -- the ones who are inconsiderate. You know the ones - the people stand in front of the trays you have to empty all your stuff into to go through the x-ray machines but don't pass them down to fellow passengers and who stand right where the stuff comes out of the machine and block access for everyone else when there is plenty of room to move further down. And to the person who peed all over seat 15D - you're lucky I thought to check before I sat in it.

I also con't care for certain hotels - the MGM Grand in Las Vegas comes to mind. Whoever set up your check in proceedures should be shot, and your maintainence people along with them. What takes so long to check into a flipping hotel. Why does it take five minutes and several hundred keystrokes to type in a 12 letter name, a 12 digit credit card number, and a 12 digit license number? And how is it you manage to remember to charge the credit card for the first night's stay while you happen to forget the same reservation? While a TV remote that doesn't turn the TV off when changing the channel or the volume would be nice, you ought to make darn sure that the closet door stays closed if you're going to have a light automattically come on when the closet door is open so that a weary traveller doesn't to find something to prop up against the door so they can sleep.

I will say airport security has gotten better. No more questions about who packed your bag and random investigations into the other side of your belt buckle, just a great deal of scrutiny of your drivers license. You still have to have your shoes x-rayed, although I'd prefer they just look for a fuse sticking out of the heel.

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