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I think I probably get about 25% of my scheduled wakeup calls and probably less than half of the hotel alarm clocks work correctly.
I'm actually considering a new section called "Stuff I learned" or something similar where I can talk about stuff like this.
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When I was travelling a lot for business, I never bothered with wakeup calls. I learned my lesson on my first business trip after I got out of college. They asked me if I wanted a wakeup call when I checked in. Well, when I said I wanted one at 7:30, and it didn't come, and I got chewed out pretty good by my boss for showing up like it was a final exam and I was still in college, I never relied on the wakeup calls anymore. Here I was, running downstairs at 8:30 to get stuff set up, with a baseball cap, a dirty t-shirt that I used to work out with the night before, and shorts.
Lesson one of business travel was never rely on the wakeup call. Always set an alarm and use that as a backup.
The most fun lesson to learn was that it is hard to get tips paid one dollar at a time to "entertainment" with clients reimbursed, but hey, live and learn.