Notes to airport authorities:
Buy toilets that flush correctly. Do not have it flush while I am sitting on the seat. When it does come time to flush, do not have it flush so much water that it sprays beads on the seat. We all know what I am talking about here. Clearly, toilets can be designed so that they don't do these things. If they can't, then don't make them automatic. Maybe airport management has secret non-flushing, non-spitting toilets and does not know the plight of the traveler. BTW, we aren't just talking about one airport here...almost every airport with automatic toilets suffers from this stupidity.
Enhanced security procedures (as the intercom keeps telling me) are in effect. Does not mean just glancing in my trunk? How can that help? They don't look under the car, they don't look in the spare tire, they don't examine the 40 lbs. bag of dog food in the trunk, either. What are they looking for that I have to submit to a search just to park in short term parking?
If the illusion of security is what they are going for, I see the illusion.
The pay phone behind me keeps going ding. Not ring, but just ding. I may dismantle it before I finish this post. It is maddening. I would move, but I have a power outlet here. The period in between dings appears to be random as well. I wonder how much the phone company paid for that feature.
These benches are horrible. They are concrete with a blue, rubber coated lattice with holes just about the size of those in a six pack. It is numbing on the posterior.
The water fountains do not work.
There are giant red pillars in the baggage claim area. They added them during the airport remodel. They appear to have no structural significance - if they were just structural, then they could be MUCH smaller. But they aren't. They are at least four foot in diameter and are spaced in such a way so that you have to dance back and forth from one side of the claim area to another to be able to see across the area. What a waste.
Ding.
The airport authority is running a sale on parking deck parking. Now $6.50 instead of $10 per day. How about you not run sales and just charge us a lower price everyday? How about posting the price for long term parking at the entrance to the parking deck? Since when did quasi-governmental entities start having sales?
Ding.
Kim's flight has arrived. I hope that there is no followup rant from a restaurant.
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