You know you've been travelling too much when...

[Warks]

... you hire a car from Avis then when you drop it off you park it at Hertz and drop the keys into the Hertz desk!


I only discovered my error when I got home from TSV and got an emailed receipt from Avis! I thought it must have been an old one but then I replayed my trip in my mind and realised I'd got my keys from the Avis desk... Can't be the first time it's happened to them!



(Yes I know there's a thread like this somewhere but why not start another?)

 

[coyote25]

....when you go to the wrong boarding gate and line up because you are used to the Mel-Syd 7.00 am flight being at that gate!

 

[boomy]

When picked up for the "random" explosive test more then 3 times a week

 

[Warks]

When picked up for the "random" explosive test more then 3 times a week

When you leave your bags unzipped and resignedly plonk them on the counter in front of the scanner person without them asking you. (that's when they're not scanning someone else)

 

[Colster]

When you get to WP from 90% discount economy.

 

[Hvr]

You deplane, get in the hire car and realise you have no idea where you are or where you're going.

 

[pauly7]

You deplane, get in the hire car and realise you have no idea where you are or where you're going.

Haha agreed - for me, I wake up in a hotel and have no idea where I am.

Have also commonly told the lovely QF check in staff that I'm off to 'city X' only to be told with a big smile that I'm already there....

 

[Princess Fiona]

You see this

And come down to earth with the realisation that you're finally at home and it is in fact your garbage bin

 

[Archphoto]

You get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, slide open the door, wonder what happened to the toilet bowl and then suddenly realise that it's actually the closet and you're home.

 

[MartinMemo]

You realize your toiletry case hasn't left your luggage in months, and in that time you have unknowingly swapped your travel sized toiletries that were in your luggage with the full size ones that were in your home bathroom.

When you replace your travel tooth brush 3 times in by the time you need to replace your home toothbrush.

When you haven't purchased shampoo & conditioner that year, and your shower floor at home is covered in dozens of tiny bottles.

When you are confused after getting home and noticing your bed isn't made? (this one is the worst)

 

[Simsy85]

When your friends return home after an interstate flight and tell you the Flight Attendents asked about you....

 

[MartinMemo]

When your friends return home after an interstate flight and tell you the Flight Attendents asked about you....

Haha! I love this one.

 

[Grogan]

When you get back from a non english speaking country and go into the local pub and use hand guestures to indicate the size beers you want.

 

[nonpop]

When you have more foreign money in the wallet than local Oz dollars.
When you forget where you left your car keys in your house (as you haven't used them for so long) and the car battery has gone flat and the black rubber stuff around the wheels has gone soft.
When you get up in the middle of the night looking for the mini-bar (for soft drinks, snax etc).
When every pair of jeans, jackets etc all seem to have boarding passes in them and you can't remember even taking that flight.
When you starting using foreign language expressions such as "Okay la" and don't realise you are doing it.
You start to feel like home when you get off the plan in another country.
The women seen nicer.

 

[MartinMemo]

The boarding passes thing! Every bag and pocket will have at least one - they and they are all through the house. I though it would have stopped with the mobile passes but they still print one out for you to board.

 

[Warks]

When you're amazed at the large size of the soap in the shower and realise it's your own bathroom.

 

[day-heg]

When you land at your home port, hop on the Skybus into the city, jump in a taxi and get to the office... and as the lift doors open you realise you drove to the airport that week.... Bugger.

 

[tim374]

When you replace your travel tooth brush 3 times in by the time you need to replace your home toothbrush.

I think if you even feel the need for separate toothbrushes then you travel too much.

 

[Warks]

I think if you even feel the need for separate toothbrushes then you travel too much.

Best thing for travel ever is to have a completely separate set of toiletries ready packed. Who hasn't arrived somewhere and found they've left a few items behind? Anyone tried shaving with one of those airline razors??

 

[MartinMemo]

Best thing for travel ever is to have a completely separate set of toiletries ready packed. Who hasn't arrived somewhere and found they've left a few items behind? Anyone tried shaving with one of those airline razors??

I completely agree - my small aesop toletry box lives in my luggage and is never taken out when at home. If put in properly it holds 2 x raxors & shaving cream, hair powder, full size toothbrush and paste, makeup & face wash, and the other unmentionable travel necessities. Can also usually fit a hotel soap shampoo & conditioner in their in case the ones supplied are not up to scratch.