Hi Friends on Facebook and Friends in Life,

Hope you had a sunshine filled weekend!  I’m currently sitting at LAX airport fluking out on internet service.  Today was going to be the first day that I wasn’t going to be able to write a Perfect Lunchtime Read because I thought I’d have no access to internet but the internet airport Gods granted me access to the “Valet Airport Internet” connection. Booyah!  I love it when the unexpected happens for the better and I also love being at the airport.  

Being at the airport is like being inside a brain.  There’s no better place to people watch than at the airport.  The emotions and thoughts run high. People are terrified, happy, sad, nervous, excited, confused, anxious, selfish, selfless, annoyed, proud…its a vortex of every emotion you could imagine.  

From the moment you arrive at the airport you’re either saying goodbye to someone you hate to leave or can’t wait to miss.  Then you join a line up of travellers that are late for their flights, on time, have never travelled before, travel all the time or don’t have a seat at all.  After you check in on the machine or airlines service agent you continue to my favorite part of the airport experience, the security gate.  

Most people hate the security gate but I love it!  The only time I don’t like it is if I’m in a rush but if I’m not I love the experience.  Nothing beats the facial expression on an annoyed airport security employee or a confused traveller.  There’s always a traveller that has no idea what they could wear through the metal detector.  I’m not sure what part of ‘metal detector’ they don’t understand but people will walk through with their belt on the machine will start beeping.  They’ll stop in their tracks and stare at the security guard with a dumb face on and for the millionth time that day the security guard will say “do you have any change in your pockets, metal on your belt or anywhere else on your body?”  The traveller will then shake their head and start patting themselves down to signify that they’ve done a thorough check.  Then the security guard will say “please place your arms out to the sides” and wave their wand all over the passengers body.  If your lucky you’ll see the traveller mumble ‘nope, nothing see…nothing, I have nothing”.  During this time the securities face is all business, he’s on a hunt for metal and he won’t quit until he finds something.  The passenger just keeps shaking their head and staring at the wand as it passes over their body.  The best part is when the security wins.  (Bee bee bee bee bee bee beep).  ”Ah ha!  Guess what playa, your chain is fake and so are your rings.  I’m gonna need you to take off all your jewellery and place it in a tray”.  Mr. Know-it-all traveller is now embarrassed as he removes his fake gold and silver while the security guard is smiles like they just got a raise.  The whole procedure is the most entertaining 5 minutes you could ever experience.  

Now I must return to keeping an eye on my luggage while watching nervous flyers triple check their boarding pass.

Till tomorrow!

Ciao for now :)

Lils 

JUST Distracted

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