I might be Dee Dee Dee...

For those of you who have never heard of "Dee Dee Dee" before, I recommend you to the following link... Now granted if you are at work and don't have headphones then you might want to just wait until you get home. The clip is from Mind of Mencia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrYzz1pxwU

Now it may appear as though it is making fun of the mentally retarded, but if you pay close attention you will notice he is talking about people who do stupid things and don't know it or don't care. It's kind of like the "Here's your sign" comedy bit... oh yeah... Except it's funny!

I had a case of Dee Dee Dee's this week. As both of you know (by that I mean the two people that read this blog), I get on a plane every week to go to work. I have basically been taking the same Monday morning flight for so long that I recognize other people on the flight. I haven't started asking them about there kids, but I figure that is just a matter of time. My only fear here is that they'll start bringing them on the plane (See last post). The flight attendants will probably throw my wife a baby shower someday (NO! NOT SOON! So don't read into that statement). Anyways, knowing that I take the same flight week-in and week-out I book pretty far in advance. Saves money. Gets me a seat on a packed flight. Yada Yada Yada... I take the 8:40 AM flight. Occasionally, I leave on Sunday nights and like to take the latest flight possible. This allows me to spend more time with my bride! That flight leaves at 8:30 PM. One thing I have noticed about airlines is that they all fly their routes, the same times, each day and give those flights the same number over and over... For instance I am on flight 517 every Monday morning. Sundays it is 1069. Now if you look on Monday night at 8:30 PM the flight is also 1069, Tuesday is the same... so on and so forth (I swear this is going somewhere).

So I arrive last Monday at The Airport. The usual drill ensues. Security, no problem. Starbucks, coffee. To the gate to wait for boarding (Not as long as usual since I made platinum last week! No more Jabba's). Well I get to the gate and begin to ponder the meaning of life in The Traveler's World. As I am standing there I look down at my ticket and see Monday, 8:30 PM. I thought "silly airline, they put PM instead of AM on my boarding pass". So I go to board and the reader won't take it. Stupid things are always broken. The gentlemen looks at my ticket and says "You need to speak to this lady." I step over to the side and she begins to query the passenger list for my name. I just assume she is misspelling it. Typical. Nobody, EVER spells my last name correct. My bride says, "Easy to say. Difficult to spell." I think to myself it must be hard to read it off of the boarding pass. What a Dee Dee Dee... Then I look at the flight number I am trying to board and the flight number on my boarding pass. You bet! The newly crowned king of the Dee Dee Dee's booked the wrong flight basically because he doesn't know the difference between PM and AM. So I talk to the lady and mentally apologize for my thoughts about her. She says, "We can get you on Stand-by". The next five minutes of my life were excruciating! I was so scared that I wouldn't make the flight. I was second to last to have my name called and board the plane. I was just glad to be on the plane. They put me in Row 31 E. Second to the last, middle seat. My penance for stupidity.

That was my one of my interesting stories this week. I was discussing this with my wife and we were talking about comedians. She dropped a bit of wisdom and really struck home with me. She basically said that it was amazing how comedians get away with conveying so much social commentary and then it hit me. That is why I like stand up! They tell it like it is and I respect that. I may not always agree with there message, but I appreciate somebody who has the stones to stand there and not blow smoke. It is refreshing. Maybe that's because I am the same way. Who knows, but my Travel Size Better Half always has good insight into things like that.

(If you watched the clip, you'll be singing it all day! "How many idiots can there be? Some say one out of three. If you don't know then take it from me. You're the Dee Dee Dee... So they lower the standards... So they lower the standards")