Sometimes you even have to go through more security, or another passport check, and find a line waiting there. I once travelled out of Spain, and this exact same thing happened. A long passport control line stood between me and my gate, where departure was scheduled just 15 minutes later. Luckily myself and 5 others decided to go right to front and explain situation - no one objected to us going thro first.

But try to avoid this un-necessary stress by checking in advance.

* Invest in Executive Lounge

If you travel often you might get free entry to an airport executive lounge. If not, you can often pay a small amount to use it. The ideal low-stress airport experience begins in executive lounge. Away from all airport hustle & bustle, relax with free drinks and nibbles. Read a newspaper or magazine and you're soon in just right, relaxed frame of mind for your journey.

* Nervous ?

Don't feel embarrassed to be nervous. A lot of people are nervous of flying, but you know it's much safer than your car journey to airport. If you can't use an executive lounge, then there's a couple other options to reduce your stress. Try shopping ! Yes, retail therapy can help take your mind off your nervousness and stress. No need to buy anything - just wander around looking...

Follow above tips and you'll have a relaxed and stress free airport experience, all ready to enjoy your vacation or business trip.

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"But we were not allowed to check in until 4:00 p.m.," I protested.

At this point, Deadpan Clerk pulled from under desk a box big enough to hold almost half a pillow, and started rummaging helpfully through it to see if he could find a pillow. He could not, he announced.

In hospitality business, folks should know how to treat people hospitably, or so I thought. If that were case, I suppose I would never have written about Hotel Stella and Wicked Witch of Lido ( http://www.thehappyguy.com/Hotel-Stella.html ) or about paper-thin walls in many hotels these days ( http://www.thehappyguy.com/hotel-jokes.html ). OK, so latter was largely fiction, a desperate search for a column topic, but Hotel Stella torture story was 100% true.

Back at fairly expensive Resort-on-the-Edge-of-Nowhere, Deadpan Clerk proceeded to assure us that we were not only ones he mistreated. Phew, what a relief! In fact, just a few minutes earlier a man had come looking for an iron for his wife (probably for his wife's dress, as men rarely iron their wives, but Deadpan Clerk never clarified that).

He proudly related how he had explained to man that irons were not available after 4:00 p.m., unless he had one in his magic little box.

"But we were not allowed to check in until 4:00 p.m.," man protested.

He sent man back to inform his wife that she will have to attend dinner theatre in a dress looking like a prune (the dress, not wife...at least, not that we were aware of).

NOTE: Although no missing persons report has been filed, we did not see man again.

Deadpan Clerk was proudly informed us that he had sent man away without an iron. Apparently we did not rank high enough to deserve even their very worst customer service.

I should end this story on a happy note. But how? I escaped alive, along with strange woman I pass every day in hallway. It turns out she is my wife, go figure. And a most compassionate wife, too...she even helped Deadpan Clerk escape alive, too, at least until I return to fairly expensive Resort-on-the-Edge-of-Nowhere.