Month: May 2014

The bacon cap saga: fin

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In case any of my six readers have forgotten the back story, I was displeased with the bacon cap I enthusiastically ordered, because the fit was odd, and the shape of the hat was kind of bulbous.

As much as I tried to really love the cap, I just couldn’t get around the fact that it made my head look like The Head, and the rim of the cap would dig into my ears. Upon some research about NewEra caps, I discovered that the reasoning behind such a shoddy product was the fact that the bacon cap, like the vast majority of minor league baseball caps, were manufactured in China, where the results have been notorious for being inconsistent and misshapen.

Long story short, I discovered that the bacon cap was offered from MLB.com directly, where they clearly state that it is made in the USA, so I ended up ordering it again, with hopes that the claims would be true, and I would get a bacon cap that fit and looked right. Otherwise, I was ready to wage war with MLB.com if they dared send me another shoddy Chinese-made bacon cap.

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How to avoid Atlanta Airport curbside police aggression

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In short, use the cell phone lot.

Cell phone lots exist at many major airports for a reason – for people to have a place to wait in their cars completely stationary, reducing the risk of inadvertent collisions while doing laps around the drop-off point.  The term comes from the obvious concept that when the person awaiting pick up is ready, both parties are in optimal and safe conditions to correspond over cell phones to arrange for pick up.

Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport was a little behind the curve, but they too now have cell phone lots.  Unfortunately, nobody uses them; either people haven’t been properly taught how to use them, or why they even exist or/and they are simply too stupid to figure it out on their own.  Subsequently, it is still a very common practice that people circle laps around the drop-off/pick up area*, even in spite of the massive construction they are doing in the middle of the route, that impedes the flow and traffic to its usual disastrous conditions.

*it baffles me to this day that despite being the statistically busiest airport in the world, Atlanta’s airport still does not have separate levels for drop off and pick up, as even a toddler could understand that one lane sharing two duties is less efficient than two lanes dividing them up separately.

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