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March 13, 2007
Progress Report: No Progress
Arrived on time in San Fran, only to run into the logjam at immigration and customs, denied access to the original perfectly-planned flight and put on a new one that gets in six hours later - only after taking a detour through an entirely different city. I think it's fair to say that there is absolutely no reason we should believe that this airport hell is every going to go away. It's bad enough on a domestic flight schedule, but boy, add jetlag in the mix and it's like catching some terrible malady.
In the shop next door to the gate, a radio plays some 90s Adult Contemporary cover of "Save the Last Dance for Me" but it cuts in and out like some four year-old is toying with the volume knob. The whole floor also wobbles from something aeronautics-related.
Now the same kid - or bad reception - is cutting up "Achey Breaky Heart."
You almost never hear the phrase "Half the fun of travel is getting there" in regard to planes.
Posted by marxy at March 13, 2007 5:20 AM
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In the numerous instances of airport hell I've encountered I always find myself almost enjoying being in limbo (of course I had no immediate pressing business to get to at the time). I can't understand why people get so upset about it as if that's going to help.
The only times when I can't take it are when there are actual little kids being annoying shits or if some jackass decides it's time to tell me his/her life story. Jet lag can't be fun, but try and relax.
So my advice: get away from the kid with the knobs and try to enjoy the extra reading time you just got.
Posted by: Adamu at March 13, 2007 12:07 PM
I just start drinking.
Int'l travel means it's probably cocktail time either where you started or where you end up, so no worries.
Posted by: Rory P. Wakekrest at March 13, 2007 1:15 PM
I find Marxy's ongoing airport/plane narrative extremely illuminating in that it perfectly mirrors and is basically composed of the same elements as his discourse on japan.
to put it very simply: self is displaced into perceivedly mal-functioning other-space. if Marxy ended up spending more time in airports (which i don't wish him) his insights into japan would one by one become transferable to airport society.
Furthermore Adamu and Rory P. Wakekrest's comments above also perfecly mirror their symphatetic but somewhat more relaxed and accepting position when it comes to japan.
Posted by: alin at March 13, 2007 2:19 PM
> symphatetic to Marxy, that is.
Posted by: alin at March 13, 2007 2:20 PM
Ha, you might be right. This place has done a number on my liver.
Posted by: Rory P. Wakekrest at March 13, 2007 2:45 PM
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Posted by: bhauth at March 13, 2007 8:21 PM
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