We host some regular events at our place, and one of the invitees who is a bit of a second-level acquaintance but a nice enough person is probably in excess of 300 pounds, perhaps as much as 350.
Last time we all sat around the table, we didn’t notice until after that they’d caused the leg of their chair to thoroughly crack down the length of it. I’m sure it wasn’t there before and it was only on their chair.
Admittedly, the chair was a $30 purchase years ago and we recently upgraded the table, so we’ve been thinking about replacing the cat-scratched chairs, too. But we probably wanted to wait another year or two until we bought. I’m not that mad about the cost of 1 chair, but I didn’t want to replace a set of 6 yet.
Right now, we’ve circled the chairs round so that the cracked one is where one of us would sit. With a little bit of care, the leg can be made safe enough for a lighter person to sit on.
Probably, they won’t break a second chair. It’s semi-random how much stress something can take. If they do break another one, we’ll have to have an awkward private chat.
Spent ~7 hours chopping up a downed tree and splitting wood over the weekend, my back is in pretty sad shape today. I’m not done, but I’m past the halfway point.
I mean - we hope that the next chair holds up and nothing comes of it. We’ll glue and screw/tape the one as well as we can and position it where they won’t be on it. But we can’t just hope that a chair doesn’t fully collapse under them and injure them on our property. If the next one looks to have distress… I guess we could buy a full set of specifically strong chairs, but we can’t have them getting injured. The types of chairs we’d intended to get next weren’t necessarily substantial in nature, like not solid hardwood.
My (former)company’s 401(k) website sucks. It has all sorts of info about your account but not how to get a distribution. All it says is “if you have any question call an 800 number”. Oh, that would be fun!
Why can’t I just click on a button that says “it’s my money and I want it now”!
I had a tight connection the other week and the first plane was late leaving. According to revised projections, the plane was due to land at the layover airport 5 minutes before the next plane took off. My SO, a seasoned traveler, said I could use their app to rebook on the later flight. I did this, chuffed with myself about how tech savvy I was.
However, the first plane arrived earlier than projected. I ran to the next plane and surprisingly got there in time to board. The plane was full though and because I had rebooked they’d given my seat to someone else. I would have to wait 3 hours for the next flight. Of course, the next flight was delayed by 1 1/2 hours, so I arrived at my destination well past midnight rather than 8pm.
Moral: don’t rebook until you’re sure you’ve missed the connection.
We haven’t had a matching set of 6 chairs for years. We give the best chairs to the guests and use Costco chairs for ourselves. When I visit other homes I don’t even notice it the chairs don’t match. I would notice though if the chair was wobbly (or broken).
You know what’s nice about the landline phone you have in the house? If you get mad, you can slam the phone down. You can’t do that with a cellphone. Of course, these days, you’re just slamming it on a virtual agent. Still, it feels good.
that makes sense as long as there is space on the later flight. We need 4 people to get to Alaska, arring in groups of 3 and 1, so it would still take pretty bad luck for the 3 to miss it.
More info, making it much more likely that what the airline did could be done without our permission, since connection times are still within their posted times. (Flight numbers and times are all illustrative.). We booked flight 1234 from connecting city to Alaska. Leave 3pm arrive 6 pm. They moved flight 1234 to leave 1 pm arrive 4 pm. We’re still on it. There is a flight 5678 now, leaving 3 pm arriving 6pm, same times as before. But (seems likely, since very few seats available now) it may have been an existing flight, also moved earlier.
Yes, there are a few different considerations and it will depend on how disastrous it will be to not be able to change to the later flight. Planes can make up 20-30 minutes if they’re running late. There will come a point that the first plane is so late that it will be impossible to make the connection, unless the second plane is running late.
If I had a redo of my situation, I would wait until my first plane has touched down at the layover airport. If there was no way of making the connection, I would rebook on the later flight as the plane approached the gate. I might even cough up the cost of in flight internet access if I could do it mid flight.
It might be that the later flight was already too overbooked (perhaps that’s what happened in your case) so that there’s nothing you can do about it.
I’ve had a conflicting experience before, where my first flight was running late, but was expected to just barely get there in time to make my connection.
We were put into a holding pattern before landing, and I missed the flight.
I ended up being put on the standby list for the next flight…and was one position shy of getting on.
While I don’t know for certain that I would have had a seat if I had formally rebooked, it’s a factor as to why I’ll at least look into rebooking if there’s a reasonable chance of a busted connection.
Of course, that experience is also the reason why I refuse flight itineraries that have less than a 90 minute layover, and why, on two occasions, I’ve said to a gate agent “I don’t want to risk spending the night at [connecting airport]…”, and on one occasion rebooked for one week later, and in the other occasion rebooked to fly to a different airport (I didn’t have dog sitter coverage for the following day, so it made sense to fly to the next-closest airport and do a one-way rental).
I was recently booking travel from US to Europe with a connecting flight in Europe. Their “best” flights have layovers of less than an hour.
As I’m sure you all know, even if you’re just passing through a country’s airport , you need to go through immigration. This can take quite a while, especially if you can’t use the line for EU citizens.
Kayak has “sliders” where you can adjust the amount of layover you’ll accept, but to default to “an hour should be plenty of time” is ridiculous. It’s like they’re not even aware of how their industry functions.
In a few weeks, I’ll be flying Icelandair from the US to London, with a connection at Keflavik. I understand that I will not have to clear Schengen immigration for the connection.
This summer, I’ll be flying Icelandair from the US to Berlin. I will admit that I am a little leery about the 90 minute connections outbound and inbound, as I’ll get stamped in/out of Schengen at Keflavik that trip. But supposedly the border guards at KEF do operate very efficiently, and I assume that standing in a queue will be one way to stay awake at that hour of night/morning.
Fortunately my/my wife’s trip to our godson’s wedding at Thanksgiving isn’t one that I have to abide by corporate travel policy for. Company says that I have to take a flight that is no more than $200 more the lowest “logical” fare. The definition of “logical” doesn’t consider short layovers. (It does at least consider nonstop as “more logical” than connecting, and doesn’t consider overnight layovers as possible “logical” options.) However, it’s costing us $300 per person to avoid 40- or 45-minute layovers at CLT on AA.
