![]() ![]() ![]() And complimentary White Claws, cappuccinos and whiskey were more readily available than a water fountain. Lost the shirt off your back? Here are three to replace it and one for a friend. SXSW was a well-oiled machine where nobody seemed to have lost anything. In contrast, I found Austin to be laid back, eager to please, and cool-calm-collected. At times, I wondered if I’d walk down the breezeway to find a stagecoach instead of an airplane. Watching me shake with laughter, she suggested that I Google my flight number every 10 minutes to make sure I was still at the correct gate. When I brought it to a gate attendant’s attention that the only thing I wasn’t hearing over the loudspeaker was the multiple gate changes, she asked me if I knew how to Google. I would have wondered why they get such a generous cattle call, but one of my flights changed gates four, yes four, times. When security isn’t piping the message, “If you left a green belt in one of the security bins, please return to retrieve it” or “There was a black bag sitting on a table in the café on concourse xyz, if you can describe it…” then they’re giving the mic to a desk agent so that she can rattle off the list of passengers who haven’t made it to the gate their aircraft is leaving from. Having covered South by Southwest “in place” during quarantine, this was my first time putting boots on the ground in Austin! I arrived somewhat disheveled from being on an airplane for the first time in four (five?) years.
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