For almost 50 years now, federal law has decreed that if someone wins more than $1200 while playing slot machines or video poker in a U.S. state or in its …
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For some people, going to a hotel that offers a free continental breakfast (psst! Here’s why they call it “continental” breakfast) is a big deal. If you have a big …
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In December 2021, President Biden signed an executive order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government. I don’t know how much it would actually …
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Several weeks ago, there was a big hubbub regarding a Delta passenger who had made it a habit to search out flight attendants who were doing what she perceived to …
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Suppose you want to take a trip and you know you’re going to go with family/friends/co-workers, but you don’t know who yet. That normally makes things difficult because the airlines …
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Full disclosure: save for one flight in Asia (one where the overheads were positioned for a country whose residents tended to be on the short side), I have never put …
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When you learn another language, you tend to learn conversational words and sentences. Since they require a decent understanding of the language in question, idioms and multi-word expressions come later. …
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A lot of people don’t really like going through the TSA security checkpoint. And that’s understandable. It’s crowded. It can be a long queue. Overall, it can be pretty stressful, …
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It’s been reported that the electronic scanners at airports’ TSA security checkpoints are having difficult with select driver’s licenses of, now, a third state. This time it’s not the TSA’s …
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Imagine that you need to stay at a hotel for work. To save money, you make a reservation through an OTA such as hotels.com. And when you arrive at the …