My Travel Habits....The Strange Ones.

People who travel a lot are quirky. There is just no way around that.

I am no exception. The idea for this blog entry came to me when I was getting dressed this morning (very quickly I might add, since I woke up 15 minutes before my transfer for the airport was supposed to leave).

I have a lot of little rituals and rules when I travel, and even though in my head, they are important and necessary to staying sane while traveling….they might seem a little strange to the outside world.



So here you go…..Viv’s list of her quirky travel habits.



1. I have this theory that any germs that could possibly be in a hotel room that would be very dangerous, die in 24 hours. I know this is scientifically inaccurate, but for some reason, I believe it. Therefore, for the first complete day that I am in a hotel room, I do not walk on the floor without shoes. Meaning, I wear my socks all the time, and shower shoes in the shower. After one day, I don’t do this anymore. Weird, I know.



2. On the subject of hotel room germs….I always sleep in socks. I don’t have a problem with hotel sheets or anything, I t has to do with the fact that I am so tall, and my fear of my bare feet touching the mattress if the sheets ride up. Since hotels do not use fitted sheets, the sheets ride up a lot. Irrational fear of the hotel mattress. Ever since I saw that bed bug thing on Dateline.



3. One of the first things I do when I get to the hotel room, is check out the pay per view Adult video titles. They are always hilarious!!!!! Don’t worry, I don’t rent the porn or anything (not that there’s anything wrong with that) I just always think the titles are hilarious. Especially if they play off real titles of movies or TV. The three best titles I have ever seen were
1. “Good Will Coming”
2. “9021 OH” – with the OH said very sexually.
3. “ The Ospornes”

Awesome.



4. I can tell you whether or not every piece of jewelry I own will set off a metal detector or not. And I always think about metal detectors when I am shopping for, or buying, jewelry. Belts too for that matter.



5. I keep my makeup in a ziplock bag all the time, not just when I am flying. Which is a shame,because I have about a million cute little makeup bags. Some of which were designer or very expensive. I think just about every TD girl does this. We were laughing on a program last month where 6 TDs (all female) went out to dinner, and I asked if any of them had any hand lotion. Every one of them pulled a ziplock bag of makeup out of their purses. We all got a little chuckle out of that. I also keep a box of ziplock bags in my carryon.



6. I am ridiculously anal about the “Stand Right, Walk Left” rule on airport moving walkways. I get so annoyed at people who don’t understand this concept. It’s really not that difficult. I have actually been known to yell “Stand Right, walk left” at people who are standing left. Yeah. I’m that girl. Also, I may or may not have, on occasion, completely mauled right over the carryons of people who were standing right, but decided to have their carryons on the left. WTF. I mean, I say “excuse me” once. If there is no reaction, I just force on through. I don’t even feel guilty about it.



So, I just decided that this is all I am going to write about this. I reread what I have so far, and……I sound a little psycho. True story.