Voice Post: Atlanta airport = sux0r

[eruthros]

Phonepost transcription:

“Query: Why are airports so soul killing? I mean, here I am in Atlanta airport, because I'm flying back from Florida, and basically every flight is delayed, so there's not a seat to sit in anywhere. My flight has been delayed for about two hours but they're masking it by putting it on. . . under scheduled departure time, and then they say "on time" which startled me kind of a lot when I was, uh, trying to figure out which flight I was getting on. So there's not a seat to be had anywhere in the airport. People are sitting on the floor, people are sitting on practically the walls, people are sitting on pillars, people are sitting on phone booths and I am walking up and down Terminal D, because where else can you walk? And I've seen 3 or 4 people burst randomly into tears, just sort of walking along, and the next thing you know: absolute devastation. One of them it was because she couldn't find a place to smoke and had been in the airport all day, the others were not exactly forthcoming, or at least not loud about it.
But seriously, this is a big airport, it seems like you could put a Barnes and Noble in here somewhere. Maybe a Starbucks with actual seats. Possibly they could air condition it, that would be a help.
Anyway, I hope to get home at some hour, maybe, eventually, and then maybe I will actually get to check my email and LiveJournal, which would be hugely exciting because I haven't all week. See you then.”

- transcribed by fiatlouis

Comments

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I thought the Houston airport today was bad, but it sounds like you're having a much worse time, and at least I got in on time.

*hugs*, and here's hoping you're on your way home soon.

[eruthros]

I got in five minutes after the last train to SF runs, and hadn't even picked up my checked bag.

Fortunately, my friend fiatlouis = awesome, and came to get me at the airport at the ungodly hour of 12:30 am in awful weather. (My other option was to wait until after 1 am, catch a bus, transfer on a street corner in downtown SF in the rain, and catch another bus, getting to m_shell's apartment sometime after 2:30 am. I am v.v. glad he picked me up.)

[annexensen.livejournal.com]

UGH sorry to hear that you are having such a crappy Atlanta airport time! That airport is always so bustling and aggravating! Gpa got run over by a baggage cart there a couple years back!

[eruthros]

It is a really busy airport!

[luminosity]

You poor thing! I was stuck in the Atlanta airport for 13 hours once. It was like wandering through a third-world country, and I expected to see people herding goats through Terminal D. Chickens in caned cages. Tents. It remains soul-killing, and I hope you live through it.

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

*sends sympathy*

It's been a few years since I was in Atlanta, but it doesn't sound like it has changed. Hope you get home safely (and soon).

[eruthros]

Basically, it's a small city filled only with stressed people and shops selling $5 ice cream or magazines.

[eruthros]

EXACTLY.

It's like... come on, guys! Can't you get some more chairs in? I kept seeing the same people walking up and down, not willing to stray too far from the departure monitors, and with nowhere to be.

Ick.