Why Do the Things We Do (7/7/14)

I do a lot of things in life that don’t make a lot of sense to most people. The best example may be a book tour that will take nearly a year to complete, and there is absolutely no way on earth I even break even. In all honesty I would have to sell close to 100,000 books to breakeven, and as a first time author I’d be lucky to sell 10,000 copies in my first year. The tour I concocted doesn’t make sense to many people, other than me.

Just like my tour doesn’t make sense to others it doesn’t make sense to me that there is no cell phone reception at the airport. Granted I know why there is limited cell phone reception. Tampa International is a steel reenforced concrete block that destroys radio signals. However, when you’re looking for someone in a couple hundred thousand square feet of terminal space cell phone reception to connect with a missing party would be a good thing. After spending 15 hours bouncing around baggage claims trying to rundown conferences guest with no cell phone reception I would rather spend 15 hours trying to heard cats in the prairies of the Midwest.

I would think that the airport would want to find a way to boost reception for their customers, but there may be logical rational for not doing so, that I can’t see, just like most people can’t see why I would go on this book tour.