Airports...

Since I have already claimed that I love reading...so the mere thought of writing what I feel about airports has reminded me of the book "Airport" by "Arthur Hailey". Nice book..one gets to learn a lot about how airports used to operate (the book is written in kind of old context when airports were not that hitech). Infact all the books by Mr. Hailey teach lots about particular industries...for example, Final Diagnosis about Doctors, Money Changers about Banking and Wheels about Automobile industry. Am gonna have all of these in my library so that my kids get to read them early enough. Oops am digressing away from the topic, the main reason I logged in to my blog today was to write about airports...so lets continue that.

5 emotions which surpass me when I am at some airport:

1. Restlessness
2. Super Sophistication
3. Fashion parade (am not sure if its an emotion, but lets count this in)
4. Boredom
5. Lonely

Restless because there is never enough space to stretch my legs. I have to sit at one chair all coiled up. And I never feel like getting up and checking out the shopping outlets there. There is this strange feeling and it increases when I enter the aircraft. I wish those super sonic aircrafts start again so that the time of journey is reduced.

Super sophisticated: There always is an aura of sophistication in an airport. People are well dressed, well behaved...i mean very well behaved, I have never seen anybody litter at airports (strange but true). Try yawning at the airports and you will confront several eyes watching you with disgust...well, its coming from personal experience. And guess what, nobody stares at foreigners at the airport (airports are safe haven for foreigners :))

Airports are fashion parades in true sense. I have never observed such diversity in dressing styles anywhere else. People really come very well dressed to travel,I find it amusing. Railway stations always have to contend with people in their night wears or with the last dress they would want to wear when they go out. To be very honest, I have picked up a style or two from the airports..:)

Airports are sooooo boring...yes they are. Nobody talks to each other, and forget about talking to strangers. Railway stations are so much fun in that sense. And no smiles around too. I have rarely seen people smiling (other than the staff as they are paid for this).

I cant explain why I feel lonely there but I do. Its the only place where I actually need my mobile phone because I am always calling people from airports.

So the long and short of this is that I dnt like flying. Given a chance and no of holidays I would always prefer to travel by train. Its fun and its cheaper too.