You know you are a frequent flyer when ...

... when the lounge staff wonder why you are flying at a different time to usual.

I got to MEL this morning at about 1015 and was chatting to a lounge attendant who asked if everything was ok. I commented that I had just missed the scrambled eggs. I was offered to have some made for me. :shock: I declined and had toast, but I was impressed.
 
harvyk said:
I guess I just don't use cash in general (just about everything goes on plastic) and when I do I tend to have a specific goal in mind (typically no ability to accept plastic) and thus have only enough to cover that goal.
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I like your optimistic outlook on life!

Having cash (especially Kina) can be summed up with an experience I had a year or so ago at POM. Short term arrivals business visa used to be PNK250. Without notice and without fanfare the PNG gov't decided PNK500 is fair and increased it (CPI be darned).......overnight (or within a week I think it was)! I landed with no prior notice, no press release, no incoming pax notification, no web site change and with what I thought was a prudent amount of PNK400 in cash.......PNK100 short! No cards at immigration (alright, there is an ATM but that's only relatively new) and luckily the cash exchange next door to arrivals visa desk accepted AU coinage and I was able to make up the extra PNK100 with AUD that I had in my wallet (Relying on coinage I might add). To make matters worse, at that point I was determined to have just one card.......and that card had a week left on the expiry (I was only out of country for two days), but they had posted the new card out and stopped the old card. I gained a new found appreciation of cash and a selection of new grey hairs! Luckily, by the next morning, my old card was working again and my resolve to have more than two backups, even for short trips, was hatched.
 
When your friend starts raving about going into the Koru lounge for free feast of food & a shower that she doesn't need on Facebook.... All you can do is laugh in your mind and let her have her fun....
BNE isn't that special! ;)
 
Intra said:
When your friend starts raving about going into the Koru lounge for free feast of food & a shower that she doesn't need on Facebook.... All you can do is laugh in your mind and let her have her fun....
BNE isn't that special! ;)
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BNE might not be that special to you or I, but I remember my first entry into a lounge. I was so excited that I called just about every to brag (this is in the days before facebook, status updates had to be done manually). :lol:

It's pretty special to go through those frosted glass doors (and get past the desk) for the first time, esp if you'd had many flights in the past where all you could do is look at those lounge doors and wonder what it must be like inside.
 
harvyk said:
BNE might not be that special to you or I, but I remember my first entry into a lounge. I was so excited that I called just about every to brag (this is in the days before facebook, status updates had to be done manually). :lol:

It's pretty special to go through those frosted glass doors (and get past the desk) for the first time, esp if you'd had many flights in the past where all you could do is look at those lounge doors and wonder what it must be like inside.
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I totally agree with you :) To go with the topic "You know your a frequent flyer when" the lounge loses that charm of a first time or once off thing....
I'm still having a small chuckle to myself though - This friend is just really annoying anyway and has been posting farewell Fb posts for the past 2 weeks :?
 
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..... you need to drive from Bayside suburbs in MEL over Westgate Bridge to Western suburbs - but as you are driving up Montague St auto-pilot steers you to far left lane that exits to MEL Airport / City Link - at which point your co-pilot screeches 'Wrong lane - you gotta get over a lane di**head' - D'Oh my bad - force of habit!
 
serfty said:
Where one goes to avoid Tolls in getting to/from the Airport (especially in a Rental).
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I'd take Mount Alexander personally. The Ring Road may be faster, but it's significantly longer (and i've not found any real time saving benefit from the ring road vs mt alexander).
 
I don't know if I posted this earlier in this thread (I can't be stuffed searching) but I don't think so. A few years ago after spending more time away from home in other states than at home, I arrived back at MEL and got in my car on a Friday night to get home just in time to go to the football (my son arranged tickets in a box). As I was driving along a road I knew like the back of my hand, I was seriously asking myself if I'd missed the turn off to the Gold Coast, and how I would get back to my hotel.

And, no, alcohol wasn't involved. Senility perhaps.......
 

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