I gotta say, in an airport, holding both luggage and a small child's hand, I both stand on the escalator AND block the whole thing. Please don't hurt me.
Airports are different.
Numfar! Do the dance of joy.
Elder ,'Power Play'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Apr 03, 2008 8:38:12 am PDT #9228 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ginger - Apr 03, 2008 8:39:24 am PDT #9229 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Counter services is one of the things I like about New York, because the counter person will yell at other people who try to get ahead of you. In most other places, the guy who pushes ahead gets served, while the other people stew and glare. Of course, the counter person will also yell at you if you don't have your order ready, but that part is under my control.
Tom Scola - Apr 03, 2008 8:39:44 am PDT #9230 of 10001
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Even on escalators not in airports, people with small children get exemptions.
erikaj - Apr 03, 2008 8:41:18 am PDT #9231 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Disabled people generally greet each other. Which generally isn't time-consuming till you're at an ADA event or something. maybe we got it from black people.
lisah - Apr 03, 2008 8:42:07 am PDT #9232 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Airports are different.
No they aren't! (But, yes, people with small children get exemptions...unless the children are old enough to be told to move to the right)
Steph L. - Apr 03, 2008 8:42:14 am PDT #9233 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Which generally isn't time-consuming till you're at an ADA event or something.
::snerk::
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 03, 2008 8:42:22 am PDT #9234 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
How wide do they make the escalators on the East Coast? Most of the ones here really aren't wide enough to comfortably accommodate one set of adults moving past another to the side.
Allyson - Apr 03, 2008 8:44:31 am PDT #9235 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Adding to my list of things that make me a crappy person, the sound of a child whining or crying sets my teeth on edge, unless the child belongs to me in some way. Like, Noah or my niece or someone like that crying has no affect other than nurturing said child.
Stranger kids? I have to get as far away from the crying as possible.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2008 8:47:14 am PDT #9236 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I, personally, use race as the last descriptor
I've been told "Oh, I don't even notice people's race."
Well, that's very nice. I do, though. And I don't attach a value judgment to noticing or not--it's what happens next that counts.
It's like saying I didn't notice if they were male or female. Or some other clear physical distinction. I'm all "Well, she's kinda light skinned..."
As for black women checking black women--I have been on the receiving end of some very cold stares from women with short natural hair--at least while mine was blonde. Cold enough that my sister asked if I had any previous history with the complete stranger we were just passing.
Jesse - Apr 03, 2008 8:47:19 am PDT #9237 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Airports are different because so many people have luggage and/or kids -- airport escalators are almost never wide enough to pass someone with luggage, IME.