Airport Courtesies?
Having traveled to Maine and back via our fabulous air transportation system, I was reminded (through witnessing) of two of my airport pet peeves. Now I could rant about how all three of our check bags got lost and it took us 18 hours to get 2 of them, and although they setup a yesterday evening delivery for the third bag I didn’t get it until 2:30 today, but who wants to read about that?
Instead, I thought I’d point out a few things that you can do in an airport to really annoy people—or should you want to be a courteous airport citizen—two things to avoid.
1) The Escalator Stop: This is particularly bad with larger groups of people, but also annoying with a single person. Quite simply it is when a person gets off an escalator (especially down escalators) and stops, not moving out of the way. When large groups do this you are quite stuck, and if not paying attention (I was) you could actually get hurt tripping over people or the escalator. Feel free to look around and converse with your group, just do it out of the landing area for the escalator!
2) Rolly Bag Etiquette: Now the rolling bags are a fabulous invention, but people simply don’t know how to “drive them� (it reminds me of wings at Dragon*Con. All those people wearing wings kept poking or hitting people with the wings because they were simply not used to them). Please keep in mind that you have a few extra feet behind you when moving around, especially when turning. I got hit by several people’s rolley bags when standing still. And why do these people seem to stop suddenly? It makes it much harder to avoid running into the rolley bag.
I know it’s been another large break in posts. I got a bunch planned and will try to do one a day until I get caught up, or find something better to do 