i'm in an airport

DB should have arrived in NYC by now.

At least the wireless is free.

Have a good time in NYC, Elvis.

Going to NYC to see JBR, take more of my stuff out in advance of the October move, and to go see Devo & the Yeah Yeah Yeahs(as mentioned on this thread)

Anyway, getting on the plane now

(Wish I'd actually thought to look for this thread on Thursday, when I was actually in an airport.

Sitting by a window overlooking a runway. A plane takes off. Older Scottish man and I turn to look at it at the same time. “Off you go, my son,” the man mutters at the plane with quiet enjoyment.

older scottish man otm

Just landed at John Wayne airport aka SNA

delete the De Subjectivisten lounge

Glasgow airport - fuck your bus stands! Only one of them clearly labelled and the rest not visible from outside the airport. Also a fella sent me in the wrong direction.

How have I spent a night sleeping upright in metal chairs in the domestic St Petersburg terminal, and yet this is still the coldest airport I’ve ever been in my life?

glasgow airport is shite, right enough

Thought this bump would be about Moka doing the tracks rollout from the airport check-in.

Looking forward to sixteen hours in Economy to attend an event that has already been cancelled and switched to web conference due to fears about coronavirus.

Just going for the airmiles then? ;)

Air miles in economy aren’t worth anything, sadly.

They will apparently find me something to do when i get there.

will it be "come straight back"

duty free secret shopper imo

^^ some new inspiration for the perfume thread perchance!

I’d generally say I would never stoop to wearing perfume found at airports but I am passing through Doha so perhaps they have the good stuff.

I’m going to Bali and afaik there have been no cases of coronavirus at all in Indonesia so far but two thirds of the conference attendees are from Australia and the rest are from various parts of Asia so there is probably a perceived risk much stronger than any actual risk.

On my way to the airport. I'm wondering how apocalyptic it'll be.

Feel you might be disappointed if the airports here are anything to go by these days. Unless you really sense the coming apocalypse in everything being near-empty and eerily quiet? But do share if everything's ablaze (and pick a nice bm record to accompany the scene)! Bon chance, man.

Thanks! I'll find out in a few minutes… But yeah, it's way likelier to be a whimper rather than a bang, as ever. With a bit of luck our plane will empty a swell.

Safe flight, pom.

Thanks, gyac. Airport seems as packed as ever, there are just more face masks than usual. Kind of disappointed tbh.

hope all goes well pom

just watch out for this guy

https://i.imgur.com/F3x22v1.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/klxw8xk.jpg

HI DERE

fuckers put my luggage on the other plane

You have just experienced The Return to Normal ©

sitting up late to wait for my luggage to be delivered after getting up early so i won't miss my flight: that's the Delta Difference
fuckers ain't even coming by the look of it

life finds a way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agnCrhaMmE

they got me the bag like 36 hours later after multiple fuckups, wheeeeee

I'm in an airport for the first time in ages. S'weird, everything seems back to normal except the masks.

Uh I’m at Washington National and there are a lot of unmasked people despite the rules.

probably senators

it's been a while

At BWI with people eating all around me and one woman with a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt (so you know she’s unvaxxed) defiantly unmasked.

Good 'ol BWI. Stay safe.

I traveled from BWI a week before Thanksgiving and then came back on Dec 11th and it was the nearest I'd ever come to hardcore holiday flying, and YIKES. Sending good energy to you and anyone doing this this year

Thanks

Haven’t flown since 2018, totally insane that all these people are not wearing masks

yeah I mean like, people get sick at the airport anyway

the airport is the only place where I see white people from the suburbs or whatever and I hate all of them so much

yeah I mean like, people get sick at the airport _anyway_

were they classy, icky, or dudes?

People
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world

Living in London has really taken any affection I had for airports out of me lol. The standardization is a bummer too, like every airport in Europe now having that damn duty free shopping corridor you need to go through.

My flight was booked for 6am so I stayed up and left the house at 3:15am. Flight was changed to 9:45am so I tried napping supine on the banks of chairs. It was phenomenally uncomfortable!

Nobody looks cool going through TSA screening. This, I suddenly realize, is my biggest issue with flying: I only like things that look cool

There’s a Sammy’s here (as in Hagar). Do I go for some tequila?

does a Hagar shit in the woods? hell yes brother

It’s a good tequila and I think you deserve it. Try not to show up in a viral video later.

I was desperate enough to hear a follow up to 1984 that I gave 5150 another chance last weekend after nearly 30 years of abstinance. Starting with "Dreams", i made it as far as "reach for the golden ring" on my first attempt before switching it off.

The second time through was unbearably sad, though. It's the optimism for a future that never materialized, where you know you're watching a tragedy but the actors still think it's another kind of play. Part of it is def that there's a certain brand of corporate modernism preserved in amber, like they've ditched the laser grid of 1984, put on a blazer and stepped into the Frasurbane Mcdonalds. But also the energy of a new creative partnership that seems full of promise but already peaked.

Oh, Sammmy, I'd love a tequila TY for offering.