I don’t know how to explain it, but time works differently in airports. 5 minutes and 5 hours are somehow the same. Your flight is delayed but arrives early. The carpets are from 1980. The water machines are from 2045. It is always happy hour. You have always been in the airport.
@tiffanycli For a while I was convinced that the new Concourse D at MIA was a hologram. New and shiny, but I frequently had to walk the entire length of the largely empty concourse to end up downstairs in the gritty 1970s gates, where passengers were packed like sardines. A mind-bending hologram.