• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Airport annoyances

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
sparcboxbuck;2276306; said:
Come on... you can get across ORD in less than 20 minutes, end to end, if you don't have to go through security. Dulles is a bit worse... worst airport for a tight connection... Dallas, hands down. That place is huge.
Click to expand...
I've done the end-to-end run there several times. At one point, I was going for an interview and they scheduled flights for me with landing and takeoff at the same time, and told me it would work. It should not have, but it did, because the real schedule was to take off whenever everyone on the list showed up - about a half hour after takeoff time. Judging from how the last few sauntered in, that was definitely business as usual. Intra-Texas flights seem very casual.
 
Upvote 0
Deety;2276918; said:
I've done the end-to-end run there several times. At one point, I was going for an interview and they scheduled flights for me with landing and takeoff at the same time, and told me it would work. It should not have, but it did, because the real schedule was to take off whenever everyone on the list showed up - about a half hour after takeoff time. Judging from how the last few sauntered in, that was definitely business as usual. Intra-Texas flights seem very casual.
Click to expand...

Little known fact: Morgan Freeman has established a series of worm holes through ORD.
 
Upvote 0
Can't wait till the 21st when I have to take my family (wife & 2 young kids) to Jax. Nothing like going through the airport and flight with a 17 month old who can't stay still.

I'm just going to hold my middle finger up on the plane as people walk by with the "oh shit, it's a baby" look on their face. I'm also going to let my 5 year old kick the seat in front of him the entire flight. Why? Because I want you to be as miserable as me for 3 hours.

Why am I doing this? because I love my in-laws just that fucking much. Let's just squeeze 12 people (3 families) in a 3 bedroom house for 10 days and see how well that goes. Great idea, I'm stoked.
 
Upvote 0
Flew from Cleveland to Charlotte to Houston last weekend. Realized if I have any hope of making a connection not to fly into Charlotte. Barley made it on my way out to Houston. Lots of stuff to do in the airport during the layover I had on the way back. Didn't like Hopkins at all. Bush wasn't too bad.
 
Upvote 0
darbypitcher22;2277356; said:
Flew from Cleveland to Charlotte to Houston last weekend. Realized if I have any hope of making a connection not to fly into Charlotte. Barley made it on my way out to Houston. Lots of stuff to do in the airport during the layover I had on the way back. Didn't like Hopkins at all. Bush wasn't too bad.
Click to expand...

I rather like Charlotte's airport.
 
Upvote 0
Merih;2277360; said:
My least favorite airport, by far, has to be Frankfurt (Germany). Place feels like a dungeon. Top notch home base airline in Lufthansa, but I haaaaaate being in that airport with a passion.
Click to expand...

My mother is from Luxembourg, as such, while growing up I traveled Europe extensively to go see family. Frankfort's airport is the butt of almost all travel jokes in our family. Without question, the absolute worst (major) airport in a first world country.
 
Upvote 0
DA-Bucks;2277344; said:
Can't wait till the 21st when I have to take my family (wife & 2 young kids) to Jax. Nothing like going through the airport and flight with a 17 month old who can't stay still.

I'm just going to hold my middle finger up on the plane as people walk by with the "oh [Mark May], it's a baby" look on their face. I'm also going to let my 5 year old kick the seat in front of him the entire flight. Why? Because I want you to be as miserable as me for 3 hours.

Why am I doing this? because I love my in-laws just that [censored]ing much. Let's just squeeze 12 people (3 families) in a 3 bedroom house for 10 days and see how well that goes. Great idea, I'm stoked.
Click to expand...
So what you're saying is, you plan to be one of those "airport annoyances," then continue on to be one of those "airplane annoyances." Great idea, I'm stoked.

Let me remind you that it was you, not one of the rest of us poor schmucks, who impregnated your wife.

Or at least, that's my assumption. Pretty sure it wasn't me, at any rate.
 
Upvote 0
sparcboxbuck;2277413; said:
My mother is from Luxembourg, as such, while growing up I traveled Europe extensively to go see family. Frankfort's airport is the butt of almost all travel jokes in our family. Without question, the absolute worst (major) airport in a first world country.
Click to expand...

It's a shame because the city itself is great
 
Upvote 0
DA-Bucks;2277344; said:
I'm just going to hold my middle finger up on the plane as people walk by with the "oh shit, it's a baby" look on their face. I'm also going to let my 5 year old kick the seat in front of him the entire flight. Why? Because I want you to be as miserable as me for 3 hours.
Click to expand...

MaxBuck;2277414; said:
So what you're saying is, you plan to be one of those "airport annoyances," then continue on to be one of those "airplane annoyances." Great idea, I'm stoked.
Click to expand...
Good thing I won't be in that seat your boy will be kicking...because he'd be kicking it for about 3 seconds before shit became a lot more miserable for you.

While I feel your pain about having to spend time with the in-laws and having to deal with a restless kid on a crowded flight (I myself have "been there, done that"), your approach to the situation just begs for serious blowback.


DA-Bucks;2277344; said:
Let me remind you that it was you, not one of the rest of us poor schmucks, who impregnated your wife.

Or at least, that's my assumption. Pretty sure it wasn't me, at any rate.
Click to expand...
:lol:
 
Upvote 0
Yea, I was being serious about giving people the finger on the plane and letting my kid kick the seat.

It was more of a sarcastic commentary of the situation of having to fly down to JAX for a ridiculous situation.

Unless you've flown with two small kids you don't know the annoyances of having to take them through the airport. In the past I've gone on 22 hr dives to south florida just to avoid this very situation that is coming up in 8 days. I'd still rather do that than have to deal with airport security, baggage checkpoints, changing a baby in the plane bathroom, etc. So spare me your whines about listening to a baby cry. Sometimes parents can't avoid flying with small kids.

Just try to be a hardass to dad who's on the second leg of a flight after it has been delayed for 5 hours (happened last year, not a doucher - but an 7:30 pm flight that was delayed till 12:30 and returned home at 4:30 AM). I guarantee you the plane's returning to the airport and we're both getting arrested.

The best part of that delay was that it resulted in free airline tickets which is what made this [not] awesome trip possible.
 
Upvote 0
Thump, don't pretend to know about my family. Maybe you would ask a 94 year old woman who is basically immobile to travel to Columbus in December, along with the other family members in the area, but then again that's probably why you're slovenly, single, and in your mom's basement.

And the free plane tickets expire 1 year after issuance which would be the first week of January. So we're "taking advantage" of our free flights.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top