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Cellar Scribblings
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 04, 2020, 02:21:06 pm ---You must not have spent enough time in the bars. :laugh:
I often get a beer or bloody Mary while I'm waiting, especially if I've got a long layover. For a while there, bartenders were carding literally everybody.
One time I stood next to a guy who looked to be in his '80s. He goes, "OK, but while I'm getting out my wallet, OK if I set my cane on the bar?"
:laugh:
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Yeah, I don't go to airport bars, so I've never been carded there.
Sason:
I'm on a weeks staycation too! What a coincidence!
Tomorrow I'm going to visit little Jona and his service staff (aka parents).
I'm staying overnight, and have no catsitter, so I have to bring the kitties which is a major schlep.
But I haven't seen Jona in a couple of months, so it's worth it.
brianr:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 04, 2020, 11:46:57 am ---So you can just waltz into the airport and go straight to your gate without any interference or hassle?
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Yes, if the plane is a turbo prop. You just have your ticket scanned and walk across the tarmac and up the steps in to the plane.
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 04, 2020, 11:46:57 am ---You don't have to take off your shoes to be X-rayed? You don't have to put all items you're carrying into bins that go through an X-ray machine? You don't have to stand in a little area where imaging shows you in a really revealing way? You don't have to take off your jewelry, etc. if the scanner beeps when you walk through it? You don't face the possibility of a body search by a TSA agent if the scanner beeped, or maybe just randomly? You don't have to limit any liquids in your carry-on bags to, I think, three ounces (so a bottle of water is forbidden)?
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If it is a jet, those things happen except I have never had to take my shoes off in Australia nor NZ. The last time I was in USA 2017 I had shoes without any metal and told the woman and she asked my age, I said 73. She said you have to be 75. So now I would not have to take my shoes off, ridiculous. In NZ you can carry bottles of liquid( wine, water, whatever but not hot) on board
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 04, 2020, 11:46:57 am ---Plus we'd get whole meals and, if you go way back in the past, free champagne. People would dress up for plane flights. Acquiring and keeping a (paper) ticket was more trouble back then, but everything else was easier.
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In NZ you do not get meals, the longest flight is only about 90 minutes. Everyone gets a cookie or crisps and tea or coffee unless there is turbulence when you only get water. Flying to Australia (3 hours), I fly Emirates rather than Air NZ because it is ony about $10 more and I get a 3 course meal with wine included. I usually arrive at my sister's home about 8pm (10pm NZ time) and she does not have to feed me, I just want to go to bed.
brianr:
We always find it hilarious being asked for age ID when buying alcohol in USA. I remember it happening at a Bettermost dinner in Boston in 2010.
The only place I have been asked in Australia (since my 20's) was the Northern Territory to show I was a visitor, there are regulations for Aborigines so locals (of whatever colour) have to have a permit to buy.
I have a mate, he had been a student 11 years younger than me. I was Best man at his wedding, (Yes I wanted to be the Bride ;D )
He always tells the tale of the time I took him to the hotel for a drink on his 18th birthday (it was not his first but the first time he was legal).
The bartender asked me my age and I spluttered '29' while Graham roared with laughter.
Sadly my last visit to him and his wife in 2018, he looked at least 10 years older than me. He is a hippy with a long grey beard but smoking, both tobacco and weed, has taken its toll. He has given up drinking alcohol and had given up tobacco after 4 weeks in hospital but I do not know if that has lasted. We had an argument (always friendly, Graham loves to argue) over the comparative dangers of alcohol and marijuana.
brianr:
I only have my oil changed once per year. I thought that was the wonderful thing about new cars. I have only averaged 7,600 km (4750 miles) per year. I still use the original Ford dealer from whom I purchased. It has a WOF (warrant of Fitness) check every November (anniversary of first when it arrived in NZ) which takes about 45 minutes. I go across the road to the Nursery/Hardware store for a coffee and a wander. Then a full service in February (anniversary of my purchase) which takes about 2 or 3 hours. I take the bus into the city for a movie. The dealer sends me an email reminder. I could probably find a cheaper place but prefer to stay with the original dealer. It has been 10 years and the only major cost have been tires (2ce) and a battery. Fingers crossed.
I would like to buy an electric car but they are so expensive. The Government was going to subsidise them next year (by taxing gas guzzlers) but Covid has put a stop to that.
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