I’ve been on a flight from SJC (San Jose airport) to OAK (Oakland airport) to pick up passengers, then on to SEA (Seattle-Tacoma International Airport). I think the leg from SJC to OAK was 6 minutes.
Oh, I’ve been there. I guess i should change my answer.
I’ve driven over some high mountains on the big island in Hawaii, and i took trams and cablecars up a bunch of mountains in the alps. But i don’t remember exactly which mountains, it hire high up we were, just that it was high enough that some people got altitude sickness, but none of us did. The highest i was sure of was some light hiking i did in Utah, near salt lake city. I walked around some the first day i was there, and was surprised how hard it was to walk up the gentle incline of the parking lot. And i went back after spending a long weekend in salt lake city, and was surprised how much i had adapted in just a few days. So i looked up the altitude if the little lake we’d hiked to, and it was 2 miles! So my answer was based on that, i went a little higher than 2 miles. So I rounded to 11000.
Changing my vote to 14000. And maybe it’s really higher, but I’m just not sure.
I have covid now, for the first time. But it’s already much worse than any cold I’ve had. On Thursday i ran a fever of 101, had a raging headache, and my teeth hurt. I spent the day curled up in blankets trying to sleep. That was the worst of it, and far worse than any cold I’ve had.
Now I’m just tired, but i lost my sense of smell. Which, actually, has happened to me twice from colds before covid, but it’s a nasty symptom.
I’ve been in mountainous areas, but altitudes I’ve been is not something I keep track of.
Ugh, so sorry to hear that. I really hope your recovery comes quickly.
Top tip: never book a seat in the “Discount Economy” section.
My April Fool’s Day prank answer depends entirely on what sort of prank we are talking about.
Unless the prankee and everyone else involved is genuinely and fully amused and surprised (pretty rare scenario, in my experience), nobody is harmed or more than very slightly inconvenienced, AND the prank is clever, I really, really dislike them.
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I live close to Oakland airport, so of course I know where it is, and I use it often.
Yeah - there is a big difference between lying and shouting “April Fools!” and a clever, well constructed prank. My favorite is still the time all the comic artists switched comic strips about thirty years ago.
That poll really needed a “I used to pull pranks, but now I can’t be arsed,” option.
Ooh, that would be my choice.
I voted assuming good pranks. Good pranks are
- funny
- harmless
I’m my experience, lots of pranks do fit those requirements, though.
April fools jokes are always more funny to the giver than the receiver, and I hate them.
Well, mostly harmless. We did hide one fellow’s room and pretended we didn’t know him for an hour.
Yeah, I was unable to respond to the poll about April Fool’s Day pranks because it depends entirely on the prank. A “prank” could be funny and clever and enjoyable for everyone involved, or it could be a thinly-disguised excuse to be an asshole.
Before the Raiders moved to Vegas, it was a fun gybe to Santa Clara 49ers fans that Oakland was the local team to San Francisco
“Harmless” is a relative term when it comes to pranks.
I decided to look up episode recaps of one of those prank TV shows. Pranks included bringing a man on a fake talk show and revealing that his husband had a secret second family with kids, an electrician pretending to be fatally electrocuted in front of his friend, and convincing a woman that her son has killed somebody and been arrested.
No, nobody was physically hurt. But even after you say “ha, ha, just kidding,” there’s got to be some residual trauma hanging around after cruel deceptions like these. Not at all funny to me.
I’m more generally interested in flying to San Jose than SFO. The only time in recent decades I flew to OAK was when I used a certain online booking site touted by that Star Trek guy that promised bargains. It was indeed $20 cheaper than Southwest’s best price but what it did not mention until after you bought your non-refundable ticket was that they considered SFO, OAK, and SJC all the same, and I was flying in and out of Oakland.
Cost of the Oakland to San Jose airport shuttle: $20. The only reason I did not lose money was because the airline involved was kind enough to fly me out of SJC on the way back to PHX. Never again, Kirk.
What’s funny for me about visiting the top of Pike’s Peak is that despite being in Colorado Springs for over two decades, I’ve never done it.
Most of my friends here are more or less locals, so they all did it at some point and are totally uninterested in it. And I’m not going to go alone.
Of course, I felt the same way when I had friends visit me in Las Cruces NM, and they all wanted to go see White Sands (about an hour away) or Carlsbad Caverns (about three hours away). I just wanted to roll my eyes, because I’d been to one or the other every other year or so between school trips, Boy scouts, or other excursions from elementary school on.
That’s interesting, because IMO the real reason non-local travelers don’t consider flights to OAK isn’t because they don’t know OAK is near San Francisco, it’s that most travel sites don’t consider SFO and OAK to be the same. That is, if you go to your favorite travel site and search for flights to New York without specifying which airport, it will show you flights to LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark. But if you search for flights to San Francisco most sites will only return flights to SFO. If you want to also compare flights to OAK, you have to remember to check the “also search nearby airports” box, or specifically search for flights to OAK.
Some pedantic people will say “But Oakland isn’t San Francisco, it’s a different city”. But that’s like saying Newark is a different city from New York. It’s technically true, but basically everyone considers Newark to be one of New York’s airports. IMO, travel sites should consider OAK to be one of San Francisco’s airports, the same way they consider EWR to be one of New York’s airports, since OAK is no farther from downtown San Fransisco than EWR is from Manhattan.
Those were all mean. I wouldn’t consider any of them to be harmless. On the other hand, the Minecraft Poison potato snapshot was harmless, and a lot of fun.
A friend and i once made a lot of “creatures” by gluing googly eyes onto cotton balls, and we dispersed them around our workplace so that our coworkers found them on April Fools Day. We didn’t open anything locked, or mess with anyone’s stuff, or put them anyplace dangerous. But our co-workers came in to the silliness of little creatures all over the place. It was harmless. And i think most of our coworkers enjoyed it.
Seconded.
And that applies to “pranks” in general.
(Admittedly, that also applies to pie. Nevertheless, I voted for pie.)
Whether that’s funny depends on who you played it on. Doing that to the wrong person could be genuinely nasty.