The following question was presented:
What time should I leave San Jose to get to the airport? I have to catch a flight at 6:25 and Google maps tells me it's a 38 minute drive, but that's not accounting for rush hour traffic. I'm supposed to be in a meeting until 5:00, but that would seem to be cutting it too close to park my car and get in there.
Results:
5:00 was the clear winner with 50% of the votes selected from the following:
- 3:30 (17%)
- 3:45 (0%)
- 4:00 (0%)
- 4:15 (17%)
- 4:30 (17%)
- 4:45 (0%)
- 5:00 (50%)
Graphic of Results:
Analysis:
All ye leave it until the last minute merchants. Let me say - I guarantee that none of you would have left it that late - you certainly wouldn't have made the flight. I actually left at 3:00 as there was a break at that point and it seemed like the right time to leave. One randomly interesting thing was that the alarm kept going off in the terminal accompanied by a voice telling us to leave by the nearest exit. Rather interesting as to me, the nearest exit was out and onto the airfield, but I'm guessing that's not what they wanted us to do. What actually happened was that everyone stood up and looked around to see if anyone was going to actually move and do anything. I think there was an expectation that if it were a real emergency then somebody would have come round and ushered us in the general direction of where we were supposed to go. That didn't happen and it just sort of turned into a quick milling around and then everyone sat back down again. The alarm actually went off twice, but it was completely ignored the second time.