Airports...

[mimbresman]

I been in three so far today, heading to a fourth.

They are trippy places. :rolleyes:

[RandomDood]

I love to hang out during a layover and observe the freaks. :D

[manwebi]

I love to hang out during a layover and observe the freaks. :D

I like watching the peoples too... but it's always weird when you find one watching you!

[RandomDood]

hey, when you watch the freak show, you become part of the freak show. I got no problem with that. If I expect others to entertain me, turnabout is only fair. :D

[mimbresman]

I always find it freaky when people, (usually sales men) appear to be talking to no one...having a one sided conversation, then you realize they are talking on their Blutooth.

[wigger thomas]

man I really got hassled in vegas once. I'd already eaten all the evidence in a couple brownies for the flight. I was smiling ear to ear while they looked for what was setting things off. It was a piece of gum wrapper.

[robcycle]

...then you realize they are talking on their Blutooth.Wireless headsets; helping the sane to look schizophrenic since ... :p

And airports, meh. I can't deal with them. I just don't like them. Its a bunch of people who are generally not in a good mood and in one big goddamn hurry. Not my style. So I take my time, and my drinks :p

-Rob.

[monkeyboy]

Airports are great compared to the freaking flight. I can sleep no worries on the floor, seats or whatever if I have to in an airport but don't sleep a wink on a plane. 15 hours from here to LAX drives me mental.

[rockhound]

Watch out for the "wide-stancers" in the crapper!

[K-Man]

Good thing your flight wasn't canceled.

Or is it? (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/3-0&fd=IG&url=http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2008/03/24/daily26.html&cid=1145545779&ei=7N_rR77FCInmwQGgjP3DBw&usg=AFrqEzfKJ7hKf63QwNiONnWOqMsUlqeRFg)

[rockyrider]

Watch out for the "wide-stancers" in the crapper!and foot tappers

[monkeyboy]

and people that step on your feet/legs when you're nicely outstretched in the emergency ailse while waiting for the crapper.
and people behind that keep pushing the back of your seat...

[mimbresman]

Airports are great compared to the freaking flight. I can sleep no worries on the floor, seats or whatever if I have to in an airport but don't sleep a wink on a plane. 15 hours from here to LAX drives me mental.

I used to ride my bike along the bike path on the beach off LAX and watch jets take off. Every so often a Quantas 747-400 would take-off fully loaded for its trans-Pacific flight. Amazing planes! They would be still only a couple hundred meters off the ground by the time they reach the beach. Engines at maximum. They were fun to watch. :cool:

[davkatreb]

I have an uncle on the other side of the continent. He's not getting any younger, and I really need to find a way to visit him before it's too late. I'd love to road trip it, but if I go I'll have to fly. Other than that, I wouldn't board a commercial plane if you put a gun to my head.

[Marticus]

Flying itself isn't so bad. I used to fly a lot more (although this year I've already logged six round trips.) I used to fly about once a week, though. I never had a problem with the flight itself -- only with the airports -- actually, just one airport, really. Living in SE PA means I get to travel out of the worst airport on the planet, Philly Int'l. A week ago, I had to go to Dallas and ended up delayed 3 hours on the flight home -- not because of anything in Dallas. It seems that the Philly folks couldn't keep their sh*t together and were way behind schedule on incoming flights. They were denying us our takeoff because they had nowhere for us to land. Add to that the fact that getting through security at Philly is without a doubt the worst I've ever seen -- I swear, Israel has to be easier to get through than Philly. And not because Philly has thorough insepctors. They're just slow and stupid. People routinely carry illegal items through there -- for a while, there were news stories every month of some inspector sneaking on full-size fluids, metal objects -- even a big knife in one instance. Of course, it took him ann hour to get through with it, but they never caught it. The last time I traveled, the line at terminal B security when I was flying out went all the way back to the garage entrance ... at 6:45 in the morning!!!! For anyone not familiar, that's more than a quarter mile long. It is longer than two of the moving sidewalks. Just to get through security. Luckily, I was traveling out of terminal C, so I was able to cut across the depressed looking people, but I've been there before. Philly is just an awful, horrible airport. (For anyone considering a trip to the area, see if you can fly into Allentown instead. It's a bit further north, but definitely a better experience.)

[RandomDood]

Watch out for the "wide-stancers" in the crapper!

How do you have a wide stance with your pants around your ankles?
:confused:

I just don't get it. The last thing I'm thinking about, in a public crapper, is sex.

[Spatafore]

I agree Marticus. I have been in over a dozen airports and Philly is by far the worst airport I have visited.

[K-Man]

-- I swear, Israel has to be easier to get through than Philly. And not because Philly has thorough insepctors. They're just slow and stupid. People routinely carry illegal items through there -- for a while, there were news stories every month of some inspector sneaking on full-size fluids, metal objects -- even a big knife in one instance. Of course, it took him ann hour to get through with it, but they never caught it.

I have this, uh, friend who recently made it through Philly airport security with a Swiss Army knife in his backpack. :eek:

[monkeyboy]

I used to ride my bike along the bike path on the beach off LAX and watch jets take off. Every so often a Quantas 747-400 would take-off fully loaded for its trans-Pacific flight. Amazing planes! They would be still only a couple hundred meters off the ground by the time they reach the beach. Engines at maximum. They were fun to watch. :cool:

Ah, the old flying kangaroo, good airline, never crashed, which is what it's all about really, but the hosties could do with some attitude adjustment, especially the old boilers. Qantas have way too much of a monopoly on some routes especially Australia to LA, but that is due to change with Malaysian and I think someone else coming on the scene and fares are gunna be much cheaper soon woo hoo!
I have a new vote for worst airport. Heathrow is such a freaking nightmare the missus and I have vowed never to go there again. I reckon I aged a good 2 years in the few hours I've spent in that shambles of a place.