Vomit Bags, Bluetooth, La Quinta

On travel:

1. The fastest way to freak out a flight attendent is to hand him or her the bag located conveniently in your seat pocket. Nevermind that it may contain innocent trash for collecting, or a dozen used tissues. Your flight attendent will inevitably assume it contains DRIPPY BODILY FLUIDS and immediately recoil and then ask you if you are ok. You are fine. You just have a head cold. (This has now happened to me twice.)

2. This makes me want to ask flight attendent neighbor how many people actually vomit on planes. I have never witnessed this; but I am sure it happens. Ewww.

3. People who sit in public spaces talking on their bluetooth headsets look ridiculous. Seriously. WHO are you talking to?

4. There are at least four La Quintas in Austin, TX, and I have been to all of them this week, and one is only a mile away from another one. I do not understand how this is a sustainable business, especially when 1) the address does not appear correctly on google maps; and 2) people can never find their way back to their luggage.