Originally Posted by FrontSeat

Here is what you can do. Starting at 6pm sit in your hallway closet with a vacuum cleaner running in there with you. You can wear earplugs and bring a TV dinner. Stay in there for 3 hours. Then at 9 pm you can turn off the vacuum cleaner and have your wife drive you around the neighborhood for 20 minutes. Have her stop every few minutes to blow the horn and open and shut a door hard each time.

Then return home and sit in a lazy boy chair in your garage for 4 hours. Then at 2am sit at your kitchen table and plan a flight to the west coast while having a radio loud in the background to simulate chatter of a hundred other pilots doing the same. Then have your wife drive you again around the neighborhood and repeat blowing horn and door slamming etc.

At 4 am get right back in that closet for another 3 hours with the vacuum on and another TV dinner. Then at 7 am leave the closet and walk around the outside of your house for about 30 minutes. Watch the sunrise and then go to sleep with the tv on to simulate the noise from other hotel guests and maids. Wake up at 11am and do this 4 nights in a row. Take 2 nights off and do it again.

If you really want to be like the majority sit in the closet about 3 hours before you start on day one to simulate a commute and again after day 4.

If you seriously can't or do not want to do this even as an experiment then don't apply.

Also don't forget to drag a couple of bags and wear a jacket and tie.