On May 9, 1:34 pm, "Obveeus"
aol.com> wrote:> Is there a point in time when the lack of time between connections justifies
> knowing ahead of time where to go or is it always 'intelligence' to wander
> off the plane not knowing where to go and having to check?
Yes.
> Nothing wrong with checking the monitors another dozen times while already
> at the correct gate, either. I see people do it all the time. If the gate
> changes or the flight suddenly gets delayed, they may even learn about it
> before it is announced over the PA (although the gate agent is usually much
> faster with updates than the monitors). You can call it 'intelligence'.
> I'll call it 'second guessing' based upon nervousness and insecurity.
But that's not the same thing, because then the person is already in
the wrong place--if they've gone to the wrong gate. Again, let them
not do it one time, get screwed over, and these boards would be
buzzin' with folks who would talk about how stupid they'd been, about
how they (themselves) always double-check, etc.
> Everyone else? How many people are we theorizing about that acknowledged it
> was 'dumb luck', but that I am arguning with?
Several. Check the tree. If you take the word "dumb" out of it. It
might be lucky to see an earlier flight while you're checking to make
sure you're going to the right gate (or to see what is the right
gate), but it's not dumb.
And I join madams53 in saying "Damn you (OK those were my words) for
making me defend Mirna's intelligence." But in this case, she just
wasn't dumb. She was lucky--but not just lucky.
> She got off the plane and had to look at the monitor because she *did not
> know where to go*. You can clasify 'not knowing where to go' as something
> other than 'being lost' if you want, but it changes nothing.
Being lost is not knowing where you are. Not knowing where to go is
something else. My wife fails to understand that as well.
But being lost is certainly not simply a matter of having to look at
information to see where you are to go next. If that were the case,
then someone who did not know the next gate, but found out as they got
off the plane, was lost before that point. In fact, all the racers
spent most of the race lost, since most of the time, they didn't know
where they were going next. A racer would be "lost" until they tore
open a clue, for instance--using your definition.
Don't blame me. It's your definition.
>> What on Earth could that be?
>
> The accent? I'm sure she would be much more successful with cab drivers if
> she could just master their accent.
The accent would probably work well with the aliens in the movie
Galaxy Quest.
> They don't get cell phones. They can borrow one if someone will let them.
> I'm just wondering if Eric borrowed it from the cab driver or from someone
> on the plane.
I don't think they're allowed to carry cell phones around with them.
It had to have been the cab driver's.
