You need to be at the gate to be gate lice. I stroll right through. I don’t need to jockey for position. |
Gate lice is more of an attitude than a behavior. We all recognize the type. |
Ok. Congratulations? |
| Gosh, why hasn’t it occurred to the millions of holiday travelers to simply get a frequent flier job with a company that partially subsidizes seat upgrades? Problem solved! |
| I would like to ban tuna on airplanes. |
Lounge lady doesn’t have a job with those perks, silly!! She IS the boss! And for a limited time for only a small investment, you too can be part of her downline, running your own business and laughing at the gate lice from the Newark Airport Lounge… |
| When the comfort in the airlines goes back to 1960, or even the late 1980s when I took my first flight, then we can dress better. Like we did then. |
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Sean Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
I thought we were supposed to wear heels and button-down shirts to fly? Does he think people don’t get a cardio workout already, sprinting 400 yards to the gate with luggage and kids in tow? These are not serious people. |
Just what I want, some sweaty guy sitting next to me for 5 hours after he just did a bunch of pull-ups and box jumps in his business suit. |
I don’t understand the urge to board so early. We have assigned seats. Why do I want to sit in that uncomfortable seat longer than I need to? |
Overhead luggage space tends to become unavailable the later you board the plane. That's why people try to board sooner than later. |
And we wouldn't have videos of spirit airlines shenanigans! |
Two memories that stand out for me are people bringing on bags of still warm aromatic fast food and the teenage girls that spent their time using their tray tables to do all their press on nails. THE GLUE omg I did like sharing a row one time with these two sisters who had to commute cross country between their divorced parents. They told me they always waited until the parent was gone on either side to use their dad's credit card at the old school news stand places and buy massive amounts of candy and chocolate and teen magazines and stuff like the Enquirer and Star. They shared with me and that was a very cool flight !!!! |
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I remember reading a story about some 1960s plane crash maybe in NH where some hikers went up to the site and they were finding decayed, moldy high heeled shoes.
Also some horrible story about a same era crash in the Hawaiian ocean where rescuers eventually found dead people still floating in their very nicely tailored clothes. Not that it would have made a difference, of course, but there's something about the mental image that evokes the thought, "they dressed up for that" |
Well people could check their bags and avoid this problem. Pet peeve: people who pack a suitcase too heavy to put in the overhead compartment and must rely on others to do it. |