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[aaronjb]

Then either plan your journey better or suffer the cost

You live near enough to be able to leave once you have a confirmed landing time... aim to arrive as the plane touches down and you'll never pay more than an hour

True but the amount of time it takes to hand over the plane to ground staff, as well as the transfer from airside to the front of the terminal varies a lot.  I try to time it perfectly because you do not want to p-off a jet-lagged, pre-menopausal woman who has been awake for 18 hours and standing on her feet for most of it.  Sometimes she is delayed and I have to literally circle the block, which if you know heathrow can be a pig.

Surely you just tell her to "suck it up, buttercup, you chose the job"?*


(*And then retrieve your gonads from the bin she throws them in, later)

[Gaffers]

Then either plan your journey better or suffer the cost

You live near enough to be able to leave once you have a confirmed landing time... aim to arrive as the plane touches down and you'll never pay more than an hour

True but the amount of time it takes to hand over the plane to ground staff, as well as the transfer from airside to the front of the terminal varies a lot.  I try to time it perfectly because you do not want to p-off a jet-lagged, pre-menopausal woman who has been awake for 18 hours and standing on her feet for most of it.  Sometimes she is delayed and I have to literally circle the block, which if you know heathrow can be a pig.

A big difference between working on a plane and sitting in one... Sure she appreciates being met with her favourite Starbucks and a hug followed by a stroll to the car in the car park rather than trying to find you on the forecourt

Nope.  Kid gloves until she has had a sleep.  We have a mutually agreed protocol for the days she comes until after she has slept:

- Clean house
- Clean car
- If a West coast trip she will be very hungry, so have a traditional Hawaiian meal ready (fried spam, eggs and rice earns a lot of kudos)
- No important conversations that require decisions, hold them until later
- Any conversations regarding dates/plans that do occur must be repeated after the sleep as she will forget them (this caused a lot of issues when we first got married before we knew)

If I am late anything wrong gets amplified on a logarithmic scale depending on the the amount time she is waiting and factoring the weather variable in to the equation.

After the sleep she is back to normal, but beforehand........

[TD]

Last time I parked at Heathrow the b@stards wanted £11.30, for 2 hours of parking. 

That said the T2 short stay car park was gadget rich, pop your number plate into the machine and it will remind you were you parked.

At Heathrow, I tend to use the Heathrow app and run in when it tells me baggage arriving.... 

[Kevin Wood]

- Hide boat(s)
- Clean house
- Clean car
- If a West coast trip she will be very hungry, so have a traditional Hawaiian meal ready (fried spam, eggs and rice earns a lot of kudos)
- No important conversations that require decisions, hold them until later
- Any conversations regarding dates/plans that do occur must be repeated after the sleep as she will forget them (this caused a lot of issues when we first got married before we knew)

FTFY.

[Gaffers]

 

I only have one boat, a small rib which she bought for me as a Xmas prezzie a couple of years ago.  I dont have time for anything bigger right now, but if I ever retire early....

[aaronjb]

but if I ever retire early....

.. see other thread about the state retirement age!

[Shackeng]

Even the more 'reputable' firms here will potentially use your car as a shuttle for ferrying drivers back and forth. Very few of their drivers actually have any driving ability either,wheel spinning away from the forecourts before you've even crossed the road...

After seven months working the forecourts, I would never entertain parking off site

Sounds like a job TB could do.
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[Gaffers]

but if I ever retire early....

.. see other thread about the state retirement age!

I have plans 

[Shackeng]

Then either plan your journey better or suffer the cost

You live near enough to be able to leave once you have a confirmed landing time... aim to arrive as the plane touches down and you'll never pay more than an hour

True but the amount of time it takes to hand over the plane to ground staff, as well as the transfer from airside to the front of the terminal varies a lot.  I try to time it perfectly because you do not want to p-off a jet-lagged, pre-menopausal woman who has been awake for 18 hours and standing on her feet for most of it.  Sometimes she is delayed and I have to literally circle the block, which if you know heathrow can be a pig.

She doesn't work for BA then.

[Gaffers]

Then either plan your journey better or suffer the cost

You live near enough to be able to leave once you have a confirmed landing time... aim to arrive as the plane touches down and you'll never pay more than an hour

True but the amount of time it takes to hand over the plane to ground staff, as well as the transfer from airside to the front of the terminal varies a lot.  I try to time it perfectly because you do not want to p-off a jet-lagged, pre-menopausal woman who has been awake for 18 hours and standing on her feet for most of it.  Sometimes she is delayed and I have to literally circle the block, which if you know heathrow can be a pig.

She doesn't work for BA then.

Nope.

[STEMO]

but if I ever retire early....

.. see other thread about the state retirement age!

I have plans 

Are they cunning? 

[Doctor Gollum]

So cunning, in fact, that you could pin a tail to them and call them foxes

[Rods2]

Reading today about an off-site airport parking firm that has gone bust and all the customers know is that their cars are parked somewhere in the southeast of England.

[STEMO]

Reading today about an off-site airport parking firm that has gone bust and all the customers know is that their cars are parked somewhere in the southeast of England.

Hmmm....I've seen that somewhere......oh yes.....in the very first post. In fact, I'm guessing that's what this thread is about.

[Rods2]

Reading today about an off-site airport parking firm that has gone bust and all the customers know is that their cars are parked somewhere in the southeast of England.

Hmmm....I've seen that somewhere......oh yes.....in the very first post. In fact, I'm guessing that's what this thread is about.

You don't expect me to start at the begging to read 'old' news do you?