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A coworker's story: Some clients are flying into Redmond for a meeting, and he's picking them up from the airport. They call. "We're here. Where are you?" "We
by sbierwagen 6y ago
A coworker's story:
Some clients are flying into Redmond for a meeting, and he's picking them up from the airport. They call. "We're here. Where are you?"
"Well, I'm at the airport. Where are you?"
"I told you, we're at the airport. How can you miss us? We're the only people here. This place is tiny!"
They had flown into Redmond, Oregon, which has an attached municipal airport, instead of Seattle-Tacoma. The meeting is delayed while they arrange to fly to the correct state.
- jbluepolarbear 6y agoHow did that even happen? Did they not notice getting into the tiniest plane, possibly even a prop plane.
- djmips 6y agoData point: It's faster to get from Vancouver B.C. to Redmond on a prop plane (landing on Lake Washington) than going via Seatac...
- jbluepolarbear 6y agoOh I know, my great grandpa used to fly his plane onto lake Washington all the time.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoI have picked up people who wanted to go to Wake Forest University. It is located in the town of Winston-Salem, home of RJR Tobacco. There is also a town named Wake Forest, home to the original Wake Forest Baptist Manual Labor Institute, then Wake Forest College. Mr. R J Reynolds paid this college to move to his home town, donating the land, but not renaming it. If you try to go to Wake Forest, NC, you get RDU instead of GSO, and it is an extra 3 hours or so driving round trip.