flight delay

i am sitting at the airport waiting to be allowed on my plane. been here since 6 pm. of course i can never go home without sitting at the airport for an excessive amount of time due to a flight delay. ground delays in boston tonight because of a little mist. anyhow, since i am bored out of my mind i decided to give in and spend $5.00 to 'surf the world wide web' for a little while before the plane takes off. unfortunately, i have spent most of this time doing work since when i connected to the internet the first thing that happened was my outlook was bombarded with emails. now i have decided to take a little break and check out the people around me.

the airport is a great place to do some serious people watching. there really are just so many interesting people to observe in the gate area. starting with the man next to me who smells like someone just took a baseball bat to the back of a bar and spilled every single bottle of liquor behind it. he is also somehow managing to smoke cigarettes somewhere in the smoke free airport. he gets up every five minutes walks away and comes back smelling like he just took a shower with a few cartons of marlboro lights. then there is the girl sitting a few seats away from me. she is wearing a skimpy little white dress and the most hideous platform sandals that i have ever seen. she is dressed very appropriately for a flight. she is also on her cell phone talking as if she is the only person in the airport. there's the lady who sat RIGHT next to me even though there are about 100 other empty seats in the area just so that she could be right next to her cell phone while she charged it (as if there werent any other outlets in the airport she could plug it into). Then, there is the man WITHOUT a cell phone. i did not think that those people existed anymore unless they were 10 years old or younger, but there was in fact a 50 year old man using the airport pay phone this evening. I actually wondered why they even had those anymore, but I just realized why. for that guy. there is a man a few rows over from me wearing sunglasses and a safari outfit. i think he may be in the wrong terminal because this flight is definitely going to boston not the australian outback.

currently, i feel as though i may be getting drunk just off of the fumes from the man sitting next to me. he just got back from his third mysterious cigarette. he is now talking to his coworker who he clearly went and got a little sloshed with. his buddy's face is bright red, i guess he couldn't hang with mr. liquor cabinet himself.

there's also a boy at the ticketing counter who seems to be trying to get on standby for the next flight. i am not exactly sure what makes him think he is goign to get on an earlier flight since the last three flights to boston have been delayed. i am pretty sure about 100 people before you had this idea already. seeing as though our flight will be boarding in less than a half hour, i would say this boy is shit out of luck. but good luck to him anyhow.

the girl sitting right across from me was in the bathroom with me earlier. she spent at least 10 minutes applying makeup (she was doing this when I walked into the bathroom and well after I washed my hands and left). She has also relocated her seat about five times in the last hour and a half for no apparent reason. she must be looking for her future husband in the airport tonight.

next time your flight is delayed, make sure to take note of these people. i am sure there will be similar ones boarding your plane as well. unless of course you are on a flight full of people who look like they were on Lost. i wish sometime in life I would be on a flight like that. with all hot young people. i can almost guarantee i will be sitting next to drunkard over here or a really fat guy who can barely fit in his seat. aren't you glad i splured and spent $5 to share this with you?