Technicalities

September 27, 2011

Notes Jotted At the Airport

Here were a few things I was noticing while waiting for our flights. I can't help but write them down because it's fun.

-- OMG geeky guy next to me in geeky deep philosophical coding conversation on phone. Let me gag him!

-- If I ever wear big white tennies to travel my husband has instructions to shoot me.

-- Geeky guy just exclaimed "Gate 19!" hung up on his friend, jumped out of his seat, walked off leaving his computer, half eaten sandwich, and bags to check gate change. Wow.

-- Why is there always one person who won't sit down when we're trying to get going? Why?

-- No kids on this flight. I'm sure that's a first ever!

-- Southwest has much nicer terminal areas than United. Much.

-- What is with people just stopping either directly after walking off the jetway or in the middle of the main walking corridor blocking traffic when they exit the plane? Idiots.

-- Pilot talking on intercom. Sound is so bad we can't begin to hear him. So what's the point? I guess this means we'll be landing soon. Excellent.

-- Woman in front of me has fully reclined her seat but keeps tossing about on it like she can't find a comfortable position. Waiting for the seat back to collapse onto my lap. It's only a 2 hour flight - not an all-nighter!

And thus some of the thoughts that flitter through my head become an eventual blog post.

Posted by: Teresa in Ummmmm at 09:28 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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1 That one person who won't sit down? Oh yeah, I know who you mean. What gets me is they STILL don't sit the hell down even when the flight attendant comes on the PA 2-3 times, "Please be seated so we can leave on time." Hint? Ya think? GAH. Those people infuriate me. They need clues, and badly.

Same with the people who stop and block traffic in the jetway, or decide to have a big ole pow-wow with family members at the bottom of the escalator. Grrrr.

Seat reclining idiots. Like it's SO much more comfy to recline that extra 2 degrees? I keep thinking the seat-reclining idiots will realize that no one else is reclining and feel guilty about doing it. But there's always that ONE seat-reclining idiot, and yes, he/she is always right in front of me. I usually scream loudly when they first recline, hoping they'll realize they just clocked my kneecaps. "AAHHHHHHGGGGH!" I go. All dramatic-like. Sometimes it gets their attention, but they don't "care." Because they are "selfish" idiots. I just hope karma gets 'em.

Well, thanks T, for getting my BP up with this post. Heh.

Posted by: sheri at September 28, 2011 06:12 AM (7FREh)

2 LOL - well, didn't really mean to get the BP into the stratosphere. I do like blogging the oddities of travel though. Irritating but fun stuff.

Posted by: Teresa at September 28, 2011 08:59 PM (jxg4K)

3 Two things:
1- United, in addition to not having awesomer terminals than Southwest, also breaks guitars. I've always had crappy luck with air travel. Either the luggage is lost, or the flight's delayed. It's always something. United and El Al (natch) are the only two airlines that have not screwed me up, down and every which way.
2- A dooshbag seat reclining / Hairboy story: We flew together once, from EWR to SAT, for a blogmeet and, while we were sitting in the Continental terminal making small talk, it came up in conversation that whenever he flies, without fail, the plane's one seat reclining dooshbag always manages to sit in front of him. Whatever. I didn't think anything of it. So there we are, on the plane, and within 30 seconds after takeoff -- bam! -- the seat in front of him goes down, right up against his knees, and the face he made: priceless.
Personally, I prefer sitting upright. Then again, I prefer not flying at all, but one does what they have to do.

Posted by: Erica at September 28, 2011 11:31 PM (PY2l4)

4 Waaaah...I don't know how to make HTML hard returns.