In The Cloud - How to prank the cloud

As a pre and post sales Systems Engineer, there is a lot of travel and often we travel with Account Executives (aka "Sales People").  I often travel to the mid-west with a salesman we will call "Bob".  We fly in the literal cloud to work on figurative cloud computing.  Bob doesn't check-in for his flight until an hour before (or less).  A year and a half ago I thought of a way to stay entertained in the clouds.  I called our corporate travel agent:

Me: Hi, this is Scott from Insight and I need to make a change to Bob's seat assignment.  Bob has a gastro intestinal issue and is embarrassed to talk about it… he needs to sit as close to the toilet as possible.  Please don't tell him I told you about this since he likes to keep it discrete and is too embarrassed to ask himself.  I kept a straight face and didn't chuckle (it was difficult not to laugh).

Agent: LONG PAUSE ….  Wow…ok, thank you for letting us know.  We will handle this discretely. 

Fast forward 1.5 years… Insight VP at our National Sales Meetings was talking about how Bob is very angry with the travel agent since he is always sitting next to the bathroom for over a year, yet his engineer is upgrading with miles (hard earned miles J ) to first class.  I couldn't let the travel agency take the blame and let everyone know what had happened.  My long-term prank was now over, but we were laughing so hard we were crying.

The moral of the story - check in for your flight the night before so you can change your seat.

Pranking in the Cloud,

Scott