Thursday, January 27, 2011

Aiprort Banter


Over new years weekend I made my way down to Los Angeles and chose the convenience of the airplane as my means for getting to my destination. First stop, Sacramento Airport. Bags were packed and I thought everything was good to go. But, do you know what the biggest mistake for people when it comes to air travel is? It's not "accidentally" forgetting you packed a buck knife or accidentally forgetting you had shampoo that was larger than 3 oz. It's forgetting to bring headphones to block out surrounding chatter. Trust me, on a holiday weekend in a crowded airport nothing blocks out general population discussions like "Piece by Piece" by Slayer. Sometimes I'll just put the headphones on, no i-pod. Just let the chord dangle. No one is going to want to sit next to the crazy asshole with headphones plugged into nothing, right?
Well, while burying myself in the next best thing, a book, I hear the sound that could only resemble a horse getting excited about his oats.A huffy puffy sound makes it way around the corner and who is it? Its the living breathing mannequin from the vans store in the mall. Apparently ol' Huffy Puffy missed his flight by an entire day, but it wasn't his fault and boy was he letting his mother hear about it. Now, the airport is no saint, but a whole day and its not your fault? who are you fooling? The conversation went as follows:

(Huffy Puffy)-" Its bullshit. They told me my flight was actually yesterday and I had to pay $70 to switch to a flight that was today.
(Mother probably contemplates why she didn't have the father pullout on the sheets because one load of laundry is better than this)
(Huffy Puffy)-" I know. Well, I called them Jewish."

He called the front kiosk worker Jewish. That's fitting, right? I mean, the lady was simply punching in and doing her job and instead of getting to the airport on time he was out buying super skinny purple jeans. This is the world we live in, welcome! I don't stand for the use of slurs and stereotypes we all come across in this world, but if you were going to throwout stereotypical slurs who would be more fitting for the role that many think of when throwing out these stereotypes? The kiosk worker simply working her 9 to 5 shift or Huffy Puffy complaining about only having to pay $70 bucks for missing his flight by a whole day? Lesson of this, many still haven't gotten the hint that some one's religious backround isn't an insult( clearly a good ol' "Douchebag!" is a better zinger) and yet, it's these idiots that will keep on producing other little huffy puffys.

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