Even on escalators not in airports, people with small children get exemptions.
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
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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.
Tom Scola - Apr 03, 2008 8:39:44 am PDT #9230 of 10001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
erikaj - Apr 03, 2008 8:41:18 am PDT #9231 of 10001
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
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.
Kristen - Apr 03, 2008 8:47:30 am PDT #9238 of 10001
In most other places, the guy who pushes ahead gets served, while the other people stew and glare.
My favorite line-cutter was at Hartsfield airport. This guy tried to cut ahead of a bunch of us on the security checkpoint line. It was 5 am, hardly any screeners were working yet and the line just wasn't moving. So he tried to do that slow inching up, clearly hoping that no one would notice.
The kicker was that the guy was about 6'7". I pointed out to him that men who are 6'7" really don't blend into the crowd well enough to be successful line cutters.
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2008 8:50:07 am PDT #9239 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The periodic table is just a theory (satire)
