Thoughts about the airport

[podling]

Well so. Last night I picked astrophysicat up at Newark airport. In a weird moment of serendipidity, she'd brought me back a card with a chinese monkey zodiac thingy on it. Still recovering from the shock of it being the year of the sheep soon. Maybe the guy was just telling me he was a monkey the whole time and I misunderstood him? Hard to say, the lines of communication can get blurry with accents once in a while. For instance, they call me "Anjou" instead of Andrea, and the first few times I was really confused and kept thinking, "pear!". So anyway, it's fabulous to have her home. But there were some weird things about the airport...

Firstly, some of the parking construction is actually completed, and so I went in to the parking area a *completely* different way than ever before. And then was really confused by the path to the terminal. I don't even remember that being there!

So fine, I go into terminal C, which is apparently where they've been doing the most reorganizing and stuff. Terminal C is pretty much all Continental Airlines, I should point out. I'm starting to think they own the airport. But anyway, so now, in the areas that you can access without having a ticket, there's nothing! No soda machines, no little coffee shops (okay, there was a cart, but it was somewhere in baggage claim and I'd passed it without realizing it was the only one, and then I was like, acres away from it). I'm pretty sure the other terminals aren't like this yet, but they might be heading that way. There were also lots of new security things up, like huge scanner machines and such. Many of them were still inoperational, judging by their huge plastic wrapped states, but they were there. But why can I not get a drink and a snack while waiting??? That's all I'm asking for. Really. Terminal B (or is it A?) has a bar that you can get to fercrissakes!!! There were other people wandering around, looking like they needed snacks too. Cara claimed that beyond the security checkpoint is a golden land of snackfood and drinks and such, but I don't know. Seems all too mythological to me.

And the other thought I was having... just when *exactly* did Newark Airport become Newark *Liberty* Airport?

Last thought... always take the truck lane on the turnpike. :)

Comments

[littlefrogling.livejournal.com]

yeah, when i picked up the breaknappa from newark airport - this was like a year ago now - there was no snacks and no seats and people were actually saving each other spots on the floor. it sucked. and then when i got dropped of a philly airport by my mom - i forget where i was going - there was no food anywhere and we ended up eating in the hyatt. don't you think they'd *want* you to spend money while you wait around for someone?

[podling]

You'd think that, right? I guess it's mostly a safety issue, especially if there really is a golden land of snackfoods past the security checkpoint, but it's still kind of annoying. I mean, I was only waiting for about 5 minutes there, but I remember when she came from Vegas 2 years ago and I was at the airport for almost 2 hours. I keep just hoping that maybe they only destroyed terminal C, but I'm pretty sure it's not true.