Same here. If I had a dollar for every time walking back to my room to get the car keys made me an extra 5 minutes late, I could buy a house outright.

Thank you for justifying my desire never to work with Germans.

I have wondered this, and it seems like there's three big reasons everyone has set up camp around:

I used to get all upset, but then I realized that nobody else is happy about the situation either and learned to forgive the other drivers for their roles in the situation while being mindful of my own. Once you forgive them, you can let the negative emotions go.

That in general has been my behavior modification too. If they're unwilling to let the brain they're charging millions of dollars a year for other people to use, temporarily, figure out a tiny ass budgeting problem for the most efficient solution, so be it. I will do the inefficient thing.

I can't believe your company is treating you like an adult. That's how rare it all seems...

I just say "I need to go to X place on Y and Z dates. You figure it out" and Mary takes care of it. She knows all my flight and hotel preferences and correctly determines my need for a rental car based on the placement of the hotel she selects and the availability of public transportation to the client site. Best…

Are you my travel agent? She explains that every time even though I never ever book nonstop or direct flights. Apparently her other clients are all idiots.

oh the joys, lol...

<SPOOKY VOICE> Expense rules.... Expense Rules! </SPOOKY VOICE>

I do all my best thinking while stuck in traffic. I don't usually have the radio on and there's extremely little to pay attention to owing to the fact that it's still technically illegal to be checking your phone during a traffic jam. It's a great source of distraction free time.

Reject her help. It's been a year, tell her to focus on her own work.

I think there's strong evidence that Jesus Christ would have split hairs on at least some topics.

I feel you mate, I'm just drawing a parallel.

Maturity isn't something I've come to expect from the young. We don't really teach that.

That is strictly speaking not true, many men were beaten to death because they liked the "wrong" color girls.

My girl and I have disagreements about this all the time. I have a stable income and no student loans or other large financial obligations, while she is going back to school for a masters degree and constantly frets about the debt burden. She is meticulous about saving every penny, whereas I will go ahead and buy…

do you mean coincidental?

That's a shame because rocket science is apparently very easy.

If they're willing to put up glass instead of fencing, the historical aesthetic is clearly not important to them. The Seine is a lost cause already, and I literally do not know or care what UNESCO's role in this world is.