Sunday Thoughts
Things you wouldn't want to hear at the airport:
"Nick, where's my red bag?" (words spoken by a young woman at LAX)
A look of panic came across her face as her boyfriend paid for a big stack of magazines. I'd guess they were boarding a long flight, and Nick had misplaced the aforementioned red bag. Let's hope Nick found the bag.
Also seen on a flight from LAX to Austin: a very large (as in muscular) Armenian-looking guy with enormous, Popeye-like biceps. He was beside a striking, olive-skinned, 40-year-old woman wearing an expensive-looking dress with a plunging neck line. They were in business class and had a look about them that said: "Stay away." At the baggage claim in Austin, he lugged at least 6 gigantic suitcases off the luggage belt to the cart. I could see a tattoo on his arm with Armenian letters. She was acting like she was helping, but he clearly knew it was his role to collect and assemble the luggage. He was literally shoving people out of the way to get to their red-tagged suitcases whenever he saw one.
My question: Were they a couple? Or was he there to "take care" of her? Perhaps I'd rather not find out the answer to that question.
Did you know that a latte at Starbucks costs more in Texas than in California? What's up with that? In Fresno, I can buy a latte for $2.60 tax free. In Texas, it's $2.65 plus tax. Can someone explain this me? Are Texans wealthier? Does it cost more to import coffee to Texas? Is my sampling of California Starbucks too small? Or do Texans just have no idea they're paying more than elsewhere since so many of them never leave the Lone State Nation? IMWTK.
"Nick, where's my red bag?" (words spoken by a young woman at LAX)
A look of panic came across her face as her boyfriend paid for a big stack of magazines. I'd guess they were boarding a long flight, and Nick had misplaced the aforementioned red bag. Let's hope Nick found the bag.
Also seen on a flight from LAX to Austin: a very large (as in muscular) Armenian-looking guy with enormous, Popeye-like biceps. He was beside a striking, olive-skinned, 40-year-old woman wearing an expensive-looking dress with a plunging neck line. They were in business class and had a look about them that said: "Stay away." At the baggage claim in Austin, he lugged at least 6 gigantic suitcases off the luggage belt to the cart. I could see a tattoo on his arm with Armenian letters. She was acting like she was helping, but he clearly knew it was his role to collect and assemble the luggage. He was literally shoving people out of the way to get to their red-tagged suitcases whenever he saw one.
My question: Were they a couple? Or was he there to "take care" of her? Perhaps I'd rather not find out the answer to that question.
Did you know that a latte at Starbucks costs more in Texas than in California? What's up with that? In Fresno, I can buy a latte for $2.60 tax free. In Texas, it's $2.65 plus tax. Can someone explain this me? Are Texans wealthier? Does it cost more to import coffee to Texas? Is my sampling of California Starbucks too small? Or do Texans just have no idea they're paying more than elsewhere since so many of them never leave the Lone State Nation? IMWTK.
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