Fun At The Airport

I'm sure I may be the only sane, quiet down if you are doubting the previous statement, person to take the challenge of not talking to anyone on a flight. It actually is a tough feat especially with security measures the way they are nowadays.

It starts when you exit your car, checking your luggage will add more of a challenge if you have to check it with the csr. It is much easier if your just rude and don't respond or say "thank you". Some people this comes easy but for me, it's tough.

Next feat is getting by the ticket and vehicle license checker, most of them don't speak English anyways so that isn't as adventuresome. After breezing past that it's onto the gate of no return, usually those people are more interested in their shiny badge then really wanting to hold a conversation with you. Keep your head down, take half your clothes off and that piercing nobody knows about may not trigger the alarms. If so, I can bet your out of the game as no sign language will save you there.

Bet you just can't wait to hear the next level of introversion? Me too, well not really because I know. Next step is to sit there and wait for your flight to be called, easy task and I won't spend much time on this. Now people watching is a whole other topic. Maybe someday you have the pleasure of me going on and on about people in general.

On the plane, oh boy, a real fun one. Depending on the airline and plane type, I will usually sit towards the back. Partly this is due to a small bladder and the 2 pots of coffee I have consumed by then. Mostly due to most people cram to the front of the plane to get off quickly and rush out to their destination where they will just be backlogged by those people that I referred to describing at a later date. Sit in the back and see if someone sits by you, if they do you must hide in a book or turn your shoulder and watch outside. Wait till you are up above the clouds and just stare into nothing, talk about killing time! Look for animal shapes in the clouds, just kidding but it sounded good.

Once you land it is fairly easy as a herd of you are going towards rental cars, baggage claim or to someone awaiting your arrival.

If you think you have conquered this challenge, try to do this on a round tripper! Yes, I have done it and weirdly enough it was quite refreshing and thought provoking. And by now you probably wonder how, with my limited time, I come up with the analogies I do. Hmmm...where to get all this time? If your up to the challenge, let me know as I want to be reassured there are at least two of us in this world.