Traveling is sooo glamorous..or 78th on the upgrade list

When you travel constantly for your job you are hoping to get a few perks for doing so. One of the perks that you hope to get is status and with status comes upgrades from the back of the plane to first class. Now in the back of the plane they pack you in like cattle and charge you for anything you might want to do like say drink, eat or watch a movie and just to make sure you know you are in the public transport system they pull this little curtain across the doorway blocking the view to the promised land of first class where they treat you like real people.

I have been traveling for a long time now and the perks are getting fewer and father between. This Monday I was on the 8am business mans flight and i had my optimistic thoughts of getting bumped up to first class where I could enjoy a OJ and not having someone I dont know and dont want to know basically sharing a seat with me. I get to the airport and look at the board and find out I was 78TH ON THE UPGRADE LIST!!!! This was a new personal low for me and I wasnt even the last person on the list! The list had 98 people on it. now I ask you, if you have 98 people on the upgrade list, are you really getting a perk??

Yup.. traveling is glamorous.