I love watching people deplane at the new LGA. You can always tell who had been there in the past and had no idea they were building an amazing replacement for that old shitty moldy turd of an airport.

It's like watching people walk into the new KCI for the first time, when they were expecting the shit hole semi circle toilets of the past :-)
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Almost every time someone calls something the hood it isn't. People sound so silly.
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When I was in highschool I did volunteer work (read: college application ammunition) and raised money for Cabrini Green before they tore it down.



Let me tell you something about the culture shock going from my sheltered Overland Park life to that.
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I've had people refer to my part of Denver as "the inner city". The most dangerous people here are disenfranchised lawyers.
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Once again... I'm aware that you're a hip urbanite.
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Congrats on surviving the hood :-)
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You want respect, you gotta earn it


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People around here call Leawood Leahood in an effort to make it very public they are sheltered and stupid.
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I had a flight get canceled at O'Hare once, and the airline said they'd put us up in a hotel. We got on a bus, and I think they drove us to Mogadishu. It took an hour to get there, we arrived at midnight, and there was no food available in the hotel at all. The area was pretty downscale and I wasn't going to go wander the streets in search of food in the middle of the night, so I went without.

The sad thing is that I got rescheduled for a really early flight, so I couldn't get any breakfast. I had a really busy morning with one meeting after another since I'd arrived late, and then had a lunch meeting scheduled with another person. I was absolutely famished when I showed up at the guy's office and said, "Ready to go to lunch?" The guy was in his forties, but opened his mouth to show me braces. "I just got my braces adjusted," he said, "so let's skip lunch and just meet here in my office."

I ate very well that evening.
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It is so fucking humid here in Norfolk VA. Like a wet blanket.
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The driver who picked me up from the airport last time I was in KC told me a story about a woman he picked up who had flown into MCI a few weeks earlier and then landed there again. Once she deplaned at the new airport she was hysterical because she thought somehow she got on the wrong flight.

Genuinely think there’s never been an airport upgrade in this country nearly as dramatic.
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Airport was small but easy. First time there.
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We're doing a major remodeling project in Denver. If I remember right, they're going to move the main terminal behind security whereas now it's ahead of security. The airport was relatively new when all of the post-9/11 changes hit, so it didn't get to display the original design for very long.

I think they'll also have a viewing area to the underground alien worker area, which will be cool.
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I had to run from Gate B to Gate L at O'Hare one time to catch a connection to Toronto while wearing dress shoes. Got blisters on my feet and I was so sweaty once I got on the plane. I changed into Jordan's once I got off the flight even though I was going straight to a meeting once I left the airport.
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Yeah, Norfolk is really small since it only really serves the southern side of Hampton roads. The northern side is usually served by Richmond.
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