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22 December 2024 - Washington

I hate United Airlines. But, sometimes, to save a few hundred dollars I do things that I hate. Just not through Newark ever again. I gave myself a 6 hour layover in DC getting to Atlanta, which seems to have been enough. On the way back I allocated 9 hours. Here in DC it's been a disorganized mess, but eventually I got my bags and myself in the right place. And I now have a couple hours to chill before my flight to Atlanta. It's 2AM Zürich time, but I slept on the flight over the ocean. This despite the entitled Gen Zer in the seat next to me who believed the armrest was his. In the old days, "Hi, I'm Bradley" and "Hi, I'm Daniel" were enough to build a report between seats that was amicable. Not today. Maybe it's not just a Gen Z thing, maybe it's Christmas. Still, I didn't really need the periodic elbow war.

Last night I wanted to watch Die Hard 2. Makes sense since I flew into DC, right? Sadly it was nowhere available on Netflix or for purchase. So moral me didn't watch it. I used to justify stealing films because there was nowhere to buy True Lies legally. Maybe I have a new cause celebre? Iwona and I watched "Carry On" the night before and I thought that since I was flying into Dulles on Christmas that Die Hard 2 was necessary. Apparently not. It's very boring and annoying. Maybe it would be a good business model though. Give the flyers the Die Hard experience on their way through the airport. Yippee-kay-ye...

I still don't exactly understand how it feels to be a foreigner in your home country. Er, why, not how. I was born a few miles from here, in Baltimore. Black woman in charge; fine by me. But the black woman with the facemask left over from covid serving me is not how I remember this place. I changed. It changed. It's hard not to feel that it shouldn't have. I guess a lot of my compatriots feel the same. Pre-9/11 air travel was the apex- the unreachable goal to which one strives. And yet ... they stopped. Trump's America doesn't have a place for bullshit. Rightly so. But I feel that they're just hiding it, like in Rome or Constantiople before.



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