It must be “Unfrequent Flyer” day at the airport. For someone who has accumulated 10,000 SkyMiles in the last year this can be very annoying. Security is the worst. They grab one bucket per shoe and scramble to figure out when they has to take out and off to go through the metal detector. they are usually wrong and have to step back on top of me to take a sweatshirt or belt off. They always have a giant bottle of lotion or sunscreen in there carry on despite the millions of signs saying those items are not allowed. I am usually left standing waiting for my bag that I stuck behind the full size carry in they have packed so tight that it must be scanned 3 or 4 times. I particularly live when they try to get redressed and put their shoes on while standing in the middle of the walk way instead of finding a seat. I can see how scared they look as they check their boarding pass 20 times while they wait to board. They talk so loud on their phones about where they are, how much longer they have to wait and what time they land so someone can pick them up. If they are on their way back home, I get the privilege of hearing every detail of the trip they just went on an how whatever family members they just saw are doing.
On they plane they read the entire SkyMall magazine and sometimes the safety procedures for good measure. they grab the seat at every bump and look around to see if anyone else is panicking.
Once they have survived the flight it is time to retrieve bags. after grabbing a cart to tote the 20 bags they have checked, they stand just far enough back to almost miss their bag as it passes by but instead of letting it go around again, they jump in front of someone and nearly get their arms taken off trying to rip their bag from the conveyer belt as it tries desperately to get away.
I cannot begin to express how much I am looking forward to the day when Tim is not an airplane flight away for so many reasons but unfrequent flyers is definately high on that list.
