and there’s a BRO talking on his cell phone, bragging to his friend about the strip club he went to last night and how socal has “dude, so many oriental girls here.”
No eyepatch?
asia will blow his fucking MIND, bro.
ha. last time i was at the airport (mighta been LAX) some dudebro with really bad mustache said to friends, “What was i gonna do. She was shoving her tits in my mouth and rubbing on my cock”
music over PA: “wild wild life”
like sitting on pins and needles, things fall apart...
it’s scientific!
Peace of mind?
Piece of cake!
i’ll be sitting in an airport in about 8 weeks. EEEP!
two fridays from today i get to be in airports all day long
LIT to DFW to LAX to SYD a week from tomorrow.
I can hardly wait! I even like layovers, no one can bother you and you’re free to smoke and look through the used bookstore (in Milwaukee, god bless).
Tho not at the same time, more’s the pity.
I looove airports, and travellin. You’ve got permission to eat whatever you want (you’re travelling!). You read magazines. You enjoy your cigarettes because they’re few and far between. And you get into this weird vehicle, watch movies for a certain amount of time, maybe eat a meal or two, and get out SOMEWHERE ELSE!
Exactly! And no one can reach you in between, or if they can, there’s nothing you can do about whatever they’re calling for. Such a relief.
at a good airport, i can stand there watching the arrivals and departures board for 10 minutes: all those exotic cities, the way the letters and numbers roll, the changes in flight status.
even here i get a thrill: Missoula! Victoria! Kamloops!
I always have the feeling that when you’re travelling you have a sort of ‘get out of jail free’ card to do whatever you want (I’m not talking about crime, you understand)—hence my fast food consumption and magazine readin’. I think this is why i prefer flying alone to travellin’ with a companion (this only refers to the airport+plane part—I like travelling with others in general).
CAN U SMOKE IN NEWARK AIRPORT?
I’m pretty sure they still have a couple tiny smoking areas—you’re fenced in like lepers.
Traveling with others is bad unless you work out beforehand who’s responsible for what and stay out of each other’s hair. NOT doing this is how I ended up on the wrong train out of Penn Station and neither of us quite wanted to either shoulder the blame or blame the other outright.
XP: the only indoor smoking area I know of is in Milwaukee (again!), I think everywhere else I’ve been has been smoke-free...? I’ve never been laid over at Newark, tho, it’s always either departure or destination.
I’m seriously scanning over craigslist for deals on a used Nintendo DS, just to keep me sane. Last year, playing “Shadowrun” on an emulator with my then-work laptop helped me thru the flight.
I’m flying Virgin in a week, and they’ve got video games as part of the entertainment system! F-zero shall take me across the atlantic.
Because books were out of the question? (XP)
My favorite preperatory part is the stocking up: selecting books, filling the ipod, picking out magazines. I wish I could do it every day.
I flew Northwest last year and they had the seat-back entertainment consoles. The games were pretty weak but the selecting and pausing the movies thing was great.
Because books were out of the question?
oh no, i loaded up on them, but after enough time reading in a seat, i get all-a-shifty
Yeah, you need a variety of distraction-options.
It’s been almost a decade since I spent more than two hours on a plane, I guess. Point taken.
I’ll be in an airport Sunday morning, because I’m FLYING HOME! YES!!!!! LA area ILXors be fun and all, but damn I miss Mr. Jaq. Here’s the deal though—I work from 6 pm Saturday night to 6 am Sunday morning, rush back to hotel for shower, grab suitcases, checkout, catch flight. 3 hours of airplane sleep. Zombification.
wtf jaq did u say all-nighter?
i missed a connecting flight during a layover in new mexico once beacuse i tried to huff it all the way over to a different terminal to make use of the one smoking area in the airport. this was partially due all the free drink tickets non-drinking southwest frequent-flyers had bestowed on me before this trip. i loaded up on free Dewars and NEEDED a smoke. I ended up getting home 4 hours later than I was supposed to because of it.
i’m smoke free now though, and looking forward to HNL to ORD; ORD to EWR; EWR to LAX; LAX to HNL over the course of 12 days next month.
stoked!
[xpost] I’ve been on the night shift since Monday. It’s total hell. Running on about 4 hours of sleep every day and trying to program. But nothing has blown up. And just two more nights of this, and I get to come HOME!
hope your throat’s better
Not to the point of making it a fine excuse not to come in to the office Monday—Wednesday :) And then, on Thursday?! We FLY TO VEGAS!!!
or... erm... maybe... “preventing it from being a fine excuse”? Something like that. It’s been a long week.
i’ll be back in an airport in just under two months.
Twoooooo weeeeeeeeks for me.
god willing, one month for me
where’s everyone flyin’ to?
two wks
cuba
7 months
amsterdam
In two weeks I’ll be going from DC to Israel.
3 months: SAN, ATL, UVF, LAS, XNA
TWWOOOO WEEEEEKKKSSSS for me too. Gatwick, then Tampa. Or Orlando. Or Miami. Somewhere in Florida anyway.
NYC bound in 3 weeks
you guys are all lamers
i was at an airport just FOUR HOURS AGO!
i’m in an airport
it’s one of those airports w/o gates, just a door and a tarmac
one time i saw kyle mclachlan in this airport
elvis impersonator on a unicycle ?!?
Here we go
my flight’s been delayed by about 3 hours...so far.
*twiddles thumbs*
two flights just got canceled due to “an illegal crew member”
?
oh wait, MY FLIGHT was just canceled.
FUCK
what the hell
It means that they’ve been working for too many hours.
yep
now i’m in a hotel near the airport, and just realized my luggage is in en route to chicago (for some reason. they told us that it would be impossible to get our bags tonight because they’re “locked up”, and to get them in chicago), along with my contact solution, case, razor, change of clothes, etc.
i did manage to get a 6am flight for tomorrow though, so i should still make it to chicago in time for the interview.
well, one of my bags made it here
just landed in chicago, 18 hours after first arriving at the DC airport.
wooooooo!
“an illegal crew member” is really code for worked too many hours? Wonderful choice of words. It’s not as though people in an airport could possibly give any other alarming interpretation to such a phrase.
Dublin airport at Christmas is always quite poignant. Today no exception.
99% of the time i spend at airports is spent in a mixture of boredom and annoyance but it’s nice to occasionally be reminded that the arrivals halls are some of the most joyous places you could wish to be at times.
Only took em 20 hours to get my luggage to me
I am looking forward to eating at the Hooters in the Frankfurt airport in about ten hours.
I’m at Ohare and through security 3.5 hours before my departure time. My flight doesnt even have a gate yet. But there’s a semi competent lite jazz band playing Xmas carols.
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And directly across from the band, seats with electrical outlets!
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I’m at BUR with 30 minutes to go until boarding for the first leg of BUR->LAS->JFK. Free wi-fi, an outlet in front of the gate, trying to decide what to watch on my LAS layover... Captain America, Cowboys And Aliens, or Scorsese’s George Harrison documentary?
Pilot: “And if there’s anything I can do to make your flight more enjoyable, please let us know.” DO A BARREL ROLL!
And can we get some inspirational music, cheers, and high fives when the seatbelt sign goes off after we land? “We made it guys! Woo!”
I’m in an airport. I have been here for six hours. I have twice boarded and disembarked the same plane and received eight delay notices.
How is your monday?