10 Situations I dread the most


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June 4th 2012
Published: June 4th 2012
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Here are my top 10 situations that I fear when travelling.
<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the passenger behind me indelicate clinging to my seat fifty times (at least!) when he gets up to walk the aisle during the flight from Singapore / Paris, and which sometimes clings to my hair the way ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the restaurant that lets you check for its tempting menu, when making the order you list everything that is no longer available in the kitchen (70%!o(MISSING)f the card and all you want!) ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the hotel telling me that our room was not reserved when we land in the depths of nowhere in the Cantal (and the hotel is full, otherwise it would not be funny) ...

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<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">my head on the photo identification required by U.S. authorities for the ePassport: Close-ban smile, forehead and ears emerged, a horror! Even under torture I do not show it! This time we all look like potential terrorists! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">lack of space for luggage in the TGV. The designers imagine that the passengers would take the TGV as you take the subway, with only one handbag ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the airline that ships 15 to 20 kilos of luggage per person on a diving destination: a joke-it?! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the passenger's flight Boston / Paris just laugh like a rattle with his buddies installed behind me and just when I fell asleep on the night flight. I wanted to gag her with her ​​scarf and hang on a hook in the bathroom of the business, and I was not the only ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">O slamming ten meters below the surface, when your buddy is already far ahead and you hear your exhaust air to the speed of sound in big bubbling on your neck while you have been waiting for this dive finally discover your first pygmy seahorses! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the hostess that overzealous, advising my small backpack (with camera equipment) and carrying case my PC tells me that one of the two will spend two and half hour flight over northern Greenland in the hold! (And I did not let her do the PC spent the flight in the cabin of the hostess) ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">GPS for the car that makes you go around in circles because he is unable to take into account the work that clutter the city for nearly three years! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the hostess Annone mechanically " <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">chicken or beef? "and without waiting for your answer you off the authority of beef because there is more chicken! And in the same vein, I would like to stop wanting to force my hand when I refused the wine on my plate: I do not drink wine, I do not fill my bag with miniature bottles of alcohol and I have no need of defilement, even in flight! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the new diving mask that continues to fog up when you have tried everything (toothpaste on the glass, anti-fog product, saliva, dishwashing, etc. ...) and with contact lens rinsing mask is a random operation - 25 meters ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the restaurant side of the world and in which, hungry (e), you rush to enjoy tropicalités small, you end up with a menu that offers six pizzas to choose from! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">coverage of air that smells of vomit sometimes when you unfold! It's disgusting and I am about to offer me a shawl to wrap myself up like a mummy in an ocean of freshness well for me ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the radar that you stupid flashes at the exit of yet another tunnel around Monaco for a difference of 2 km / hour! While I'm talking radar, too much swearing against speed limits anarchic waltzing from 130 to 110, then 70 back to 90 before falling to 50 (of work) and back to 110, all in less than four minutes , and at night! Try to keep a speed less than that authorized in these conditions! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the boss who rolls on the mechanical dive boat, showing off hardware and combined high-tech, and who a few minutes later, smashing corals at each stroke of swollen calf Nitrox ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">chocolate pies (one of my little foibles) that have only the name in 98%!o(MISSING)f restaurants around the world! Please gentlemen cooks, do an internship at <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: #48423f;">La Maison du Chocolat to know what a real chocolate pie (and Easter is ) ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the mattress protector rubber slipped between the mattress and the fitted sheet in some hotels that want a little too cautious: I like sleeping on a diaper and the smell of rubber disturbs my sleep! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">roosters around the world who themselves hoarse at any time of day and night around the world: I guarantee that cocks do not sing at dawn, but rather in the dark! ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the dive which makes the walk-jerk under water for ages and who does not want to budge: after the fifth dive with him (and usually three on the same site) I want to make him swallow his tuba and ask how much it pays the octopus that tickles every day in the same place ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">unconscionable that the perfume in the bathroom late night flight, just before the breakfast service: ladies, your perfume is personal, do not force passengers to 400, and see how he does not conceal the shower you have not been able to ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">the taxi driver who asked me fifty questions from the airport to the device, all to achieve " <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">your husband and he does what ". And it feels subtle ...

<ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: #48423f; font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;">spend four weeks in Bali and not find a single day in order to do a little shopping! ...


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