I like arriving 6 hours early for a flight. I have time to drink beer and take a nap on the ground.
That’s basic airport etiquette.
Arrives on time. Flight is delayed for five hours. Welp hitting the bar I guess.
Same
Seen all of this at every college I’ve been to
I am fully on board with brushing your teeth in a public restroom. That is perfectly acceptable behavior.
Unless you leave toothpaste in the sink, in which case you’re a monster!
That’s just people that do the same thing no matter where they are.
I don’t know what it is, but aside from the side effects of nicotine addiction and access problems in these spaces(which, whatever, I get it), transportation hubs (airports, train stations, ferry terminals, etc.) are my favourite places to be.
I have it the oposite way :( Especially the airports, they pressent themselves as this beautiful, clean location for happy traveling people. In reality it looks more like in the picture, people beeing on the edge of collapse, exhausted, living like shit
I’ve always felt like they just present themselves as transportation hubs and that’s it. They’re often very utilitarian and full of signage and whatnot. Remind me of other transport terminals.
Those little white nicotine pouches have solved my nicotine access issues while flying. I still hate that most airports completely did away with smoking areas though. I don’t smoke, but I vape. It’s pretty fucked up to put someone into an area that takes 4 hours to get into, and then not provide an area for their basic needs. Yes, I know nicotine isn’t an actual need, but it’s an addiction, and it feels like a need when you’re addicted.
Snuss. I’m about to board a plane in 14 hours and I have several cans ready. I’m a vaper too.
I prefer the white pouches because they don’t require spitting, and they don’t mess up your teeth. But I used to use the snus back when I was a smoker, before these little pouches popped up everywhere.
Snus, at least in the USA, is those white pouches that you don’t have to spit. The ones you spit are called Dip. The ones where you spit a gallon are called Chew.
I was thinking “snuff”, even though you and I both said “snus”. Thanks for clarifying. Now I know what those white packets are called. My friends and I have always used “chew” and “snuff” interchangeably and for the stuff where you spit a gallon we’ve called it either leaf, or loose leaf chew.
Ah, I remember snuff. I don’t dip too often but when I do it’s coperhagen long cut. Bought that Copenhagen snuff by mistake like 20 years ago and I think I still have it in my teeth. I genuinely do not know why anyone uses that stuff.
Snuff used to be named for the stuff people used to use (like Napoleon) and they would snort it. Lots of elegant Snuff boxes out there.
I found a jar of that once in a little convenience shop way up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. It was made by Levi Garrett & Sons, was in a brown jar, had an old timey label on it, and a cork in the top. For years afterwards my friends and I would pull it out when we got drunk enough and snort it. It was crazy strong. It would mess you up real good. Idk what ever happened to it. It kind of just vanished without me noticing.
Edit: “I think I still have it in my teeth” lol. Isn’t that the truth? I preferred the long cut too. But my friends who were “real men” all preferred the short cut because I guess it proves you’re a badass.
You mean it’s NOT common practice to do all these things at Wal-Mart??
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Are airports as a whole liminal spaces?
An airport fits the definition pretty well
Yes.
But one can be a bit more specific and think of their long corridors as liminal spaces, but the cafés and stores in them as not. I flu a few times per year out of the same airport, and typically wait in the same café for over one hour. I use this time to rest a bit before getting on the flight and eat something, and it doesn’t feel liminal at all.
Flying into small fields in a small plane can be an interesting experience; some are actually quite busy, they’ll either have a popular mechanic shop on the field, a busy local flight school, or it’s a destination for business jet travel because of a local golf course or something. Others are almost abandoned, which can be an interesting experience to visit.
Yes. Especially the bits that connect multiple concourses on foot.
Drinking tomato juice (more related to the airplane). WTF! never seen it in vending machines, offered on tap, in fast food joints …
But 9/10 times someone in my hearing range orders a tomato juice to chillax and drink that sweet thick pseudo-ketchup.
It is a travesty you can’t buy it in more places. I typically ask for a virgin Bloody Mary instead.
I order. I use it to mix in my airplane bottle of vodka and the others you mention are probably doing it as well.
Be me, keep a toothbrush and toothpaste at work so I can brush my teeth after lunch in the employee restroom.
Me too! Every morning after coffee. I work from home now, but I did this every day.
Hope you’re waiting around 15 minutes after finishing that coffee and having a drink/rinse with water before you brush, otherwise you risk damaging your enamel
I heard from dentists it was better to do it before eating or drinking anything, as you’ve coated your mouth in the good shit to protect it. But I guess it’s splitting hairs.
I bet Diogenes would pay the senate to let him live in an airport.
Why would the Cynic pay for something, especially to the Senate?
It’s a reference to the time Diogenes payed the senate to be able to live in a Market.
Since when are we not brushing our teeth in public bathrooms? Hell they’ve even got outlets so that you can shave!
That’s like, the least weird thing I pull in public bathrooms.
The 10 dollar bottle of water is slowly becoming a thing outside of airports
Converted to roubles. That’s a lot of roubles. I can get 3.5 full lunches for this much.
Flew last week and was surprised when all of the shops were reasonably priced
What the hell lol, what exactly did he do?
a hardcore rightwing republican got caught soliciting a gay sex bathroom hookup and then tired to play it off as if he was simply shitting with his legs so wide his feet went into the adjacent stalls.
Hah, classic republican antics.
Mine has free water fountains but yeah…
Not going to lie, the 6:00 a.m. beer hits different.
2, 3, and 4, sure, but 1, 5, and 6 are common in many non-airport locations
I don’t think it’s common to sleep on the floor in public. Even those who do are typically homeless and many don’t think that’s socially acceptable.
1 for short-haul and 6 for layover longhaul. Or being in an airport that weirdly doesn’t have public transport early morning but has early flights.
No excuse for 5. Society is degrading.
