Charlie O’HaraKLM have definitely become the Rules airline. No usage of power banks. No photography on board. No drinking of alcohol not supplied by KLM. No charging your phone from the seat while taxiing. All on top of the normal stuff.
So very reassuring.
In another country, transferring to a third country, I feel someone brushing my back in a queue. I turn around and hiss “Abstand bitte!” because of course the person behind me is German.
I’d taken my bag off to retrieve a water bottle. In the 10 seconds that elapsed she had somehow gotten to within microns of my back.
All is forgive as I’m in a location with MOUNTAINS. And OCEAN. ❤️
4am at a Spanish airport (a hastily arranged flight triggered by yesterday’s Berlin airport strike). I’m studying and respecting an old man, who is resplendent in a giant hat and enjoying a monumental glass of brandy.
I now have 11 hours of travelling as I’m bounced around Europe to get home. I shall document my findings.
This entire flight was full of Canadians. I fell asleep to the gentle lulling of “gee” and “sorry”.
*This* flight is full of people wearing Disney merch. Several Goofy hats are in my eyeline.
I am ashamed that several Disney Adults were queer coded.
*My* queer people don’t do soft toys and cringe.
After 12 hours I’m finally boarding the last flight of my journey home.
I always delight in watching those folks who try to sneak past the gate boarding groups get publicly turned away. Absolute bloody schadenfreude.
I acknowledge that I’m quite the authoritarian in many ways.
Ethan Marcotte@awfulwoman when i’m at an airport, my inner monologue is just my brain disdainfully hissing “SOCIAL CONTRACT” over and over again
@beep I always appreciate your black bike hidden underneath that layer of lovely politeness. ❤️
@awfulwoman i am no robert frost fan, but “good fences make good neighbors” goes a long way to describing my people/upbringing
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@beep “an unanswered door is a happy door”