Overheard at the Airport

CLT – Word Choice Fail

January 15, 2010
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Man, as he reaches behind me for the second time to unplug his computer: Sorry, I didn’t mean to violate you again.


SEEN at the airport – BOS

December 17, 2009
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Background: There’s a passageway between the A, B, and C terminals at Logan International Airport that has a “seascape” theme.  In accordance with said theme, there are many vaguely-shaped fish, divers, squid, etc. made of colored glass embedded in the floor.  As I was going on my merry way one day I noticed the following “squid,” which leads me to believe that whoever designed this lovely “seascape” got a little bored and decided to delve deep into some latent, possibly Freudian issues within his wounded, wounded psyche.

 

All that comes to mind is…REALLY, Logan?


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CLE

December 9, 2009
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Man 1: Maybe I’ll add in the email, ‘It’s our one-week anniversary!’

Man 2: Yeah, you should send her a mammogram.  CANDY GRAM!  I meant candy gram!


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CLE to PHL

November 20, 2009
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Woman #1: I can read Portuguese, since I know Spanish.  But READING Portuguese is different from UNDERSTANDING Portuguese.

Woman #2: Yeah.  Portuguese is Spanish with a stroke.


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LGA

October 22, 2009
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Woman on phone: “Oh, hi honey…no, I’m not sober.”


CLE to IAD

October 9, 2009
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Setup: This absurdly creepy man sat next to me on a plane and was telling me about his “girlfriend” from Kiev that he met online and was going to visit.  This is merely a sample of the nuggets of pleasantness that came from this man’s mouth.

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Creepy Guy Named Rex:  My mother passed away a month ago.  I see how my dad is now, and I really don’t ever want to be alone like that.

Me, Pressed Against the Wall of the Airplane in Sheer Terror: Oh, I’m sorry for your loss.

CGNR: Oh it’s okay.  It was actually a freak accident.  She fell down the last four stairs in the basement, hit her head, and drowned in a pool of her own blood.

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CGNR:  So the first time I met my girlfriend in person, we got to the hotel and there were two twin beds…so we [pantomimes moving the beds together].  Then in the morning, I notice that she puts on the SAME underwear as the day before.  Then the next day, she puts on the SAME pair of underwear.  I asked her how many pairs she has, and she says “two.”  So I went out and bought her a week’s worth of underwear, and said that American girls change their underwear up to four times a day!

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CGNR: I stopped dating American two years ago.


EWR

September 24, 2009
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Continental gate agent, to computer: You know what? THIS IS BULLSHIT!


PWM

September 20, 2009
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Not really a quote, but airport-relevant.

In a Snapple cap: “Dolphins sleep with one eye open.”

THEY BETTER.


LAX to ORD

September 18, 2009
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Daughter: Mommy, why is our plane late?
Mother: Because God said so.

 

-Scott R.


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CLE

September 18, 2009
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Three Orthodox Jewish girls arrive at the gate, pull out Hebrew prayer books (Siddur) and begin to pray.  Moments later…

Man: Is that a Bible there?

Girl: …No, it’s one of our prayer books.

Man, pulling out Bible: Oh, see, we have the Old Testament and the New Testament.  Do you have those?

Girl: No, that’s not part of our religion.

Man: So Jewish people don’t read the Bible?

Girl: No, that’s not part of our religion.

Man: Do you read the Hebrew translation?  Because the translations are really unreliable.  Each word can have several different meanings.


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