I've also had my share of drama like when I arrived for a flight home at 19:00h (7pm) for a flight that actually left at 07:00h (7am)
One of my visiting cousins did that recently! We teased her a little bit but that's probably an easy mistake to make XD
Amusingly everything you find interesting about airports is everything I absolutely loathe. There's to many people, it's too noisy, the buzz of that many people doing that many things in one place gives me massive headaches and makes it nigh on impossible to concentrate on anything and makes my skin prickle. I really, really, really hate the transit part of travelling XD The actual being wherever you're going is pretty cool though.
But I guess I can say the last one because I've never had to fly for work, it's always been vacationing/visiting family.
Lol...I teased myself...and deserved it! I was pretty focused on the work and all, I simply made an error of judgement due to a lack of attention. I paid the price though, literally.
I get the thing about the 'too many people' aspect but there's not much choice for people who want to travel, as I have and do and will. When flying for pleasure it's easier to deal with, when flying for business it's damned annoying, I just want to get where I'm going, to work when I'm waiting, and to keep to myself...Difficult to do in a major airport.
I can barely concentrate on normal airport things, really can't work in that kind of environment XD Do you manage to get work done while you're waiting when you're on a business trip or is it something that has to wait til you're in the accommodation/office/wherever you were going?
Even the less desirable things are fine when it's something you actually want to be doing XD
I don't get much work done...but, having said that, is observing and admiring air hostesses work? Hmm, methinks it could be.
Seriously though, I sometimes sit in the airline's frequent flyer lounge and work a little, and if not then the work I do is mainly clearing up email inboxes, organising computer folders and my calendar, sending texts and such things...it's not work per se, just work related.
I would still count tooling and housekeeping as work as it faciliates more efficient working. Guess one just has to not get too carried away with the tooling and remember to do actual work >_>
Oh yeah, the actual work element must be remembered or things don't go so well when it's time to be accountable. 🙂