I am about to start three weeks of traveling for my current employer. While I know my trips are necessary to drive business, I still hate the fact that I have to go through the frustration of traveling. There does not seem to be a part of the process that goes smoothly and I seem to get upset from the beginning.
Assuming that you have a corporate travel provider, your travel frustration begins with packing. The first thing you have to think about is check your bags or not. If you check your bags you can pack more things in a bigger suitcase and can make more formal plans at your destination. Checking also requires standing in more lines and spending more time at the airport. You also run the risk of being that passenger who's bag never makes it to its destination. If you decide to go carry on only you run into the dilemma of packing just enough to get by and no that you will have to iron everything you have at the hotel and you cannot make any purchases or add to your contents since you have no room. I normally carry on but ten cannot pack gym clothes or go out to often when out of time since I do not have the clothes to spare.
The next frustration normally comes with packing. With new security at airports you can either pack tiny little travel bottles of everything you need or you have to buy items when you get to town. Either way is a frustrating decision to make and requires shopping. I prefer to buy my shampoo when I get there but it is not always possible.
Hotel and motels are always promoting how they want to make your trip comfortable. This is such bullshit. The pillows are always too stuffy or too slim. The sheets feel like they have been industrially washed thousand of times and are so rigid that they feel like cardboard. The comforters are so flat and lifeless that you have to turn the room heater on which causes the air to dry which causes my nose to bleed. Stupid comfort.
I could go on and on but just writing what I have has pissed me off and so I am done.
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