Check out this amusing list of types of annoying travelers you may find in an airport lounge:
1. The Traveling Chess Team
Probably the nerdiest group of kids you’ve ever seen. They’re nearly all male, have prominent jutting teeth, wear horn rimmed glasses, and have their overcoats tied round their waists, exposing their school team t-shirts. What makes them annoying is the fact that they’ll play chess anywhere, either sitting cross legged on the carpet pensively plotting their next move, while you have to sidestep past with difficulty, or wasting a usually precious seat just to accommodate the chessboard.
2. The Campers
These are a very frightening bunch of people, who sport 6 o clock shadows and greasy hair, and appear to be starting a ghetto in the airport, with their blankets, sleeping bags, and sometimes even small tents. Often they sport thermos flasks, refilled from the toilet taps. Often they smell of rotting airline food that they hoarded and smuggled off their last flight. What makes them particularly annoying is that they put their bags on the seats and then lie down on the floor directly under them, making the act of furtively removing their bag and sitting down impossible. Please guys; this is an airport, not a refugee camp.
3. Metrosexuals
Young, professional city workers who incessantly slurp on a steaming oversize Venti Latte. Characteristics of the breed are: Bluetooth headset attached to right ear, equipped with the latest branded leather carry-on bags, may or may not tote a laptop. Male versions have slick gelled hair and executive suits. Either an iPhone or Blackberry is crucial to the survival of this specie. It’s just the occupied look that they have which gets you, they always seem to have something to do while you sit and stare dumbly. They’re annoying because they’re probably much wealthier than you, as well as better dressed.
4. The Pretentious Artsy Type
Most likely a lone university student, or a recent graduate. He or she probably majored in philosophy or social sciences, whatever they are. They’ll usually sit there, engrossed in some awful new-age thinking “insightful” novel, the sort of what which guarantees spiritual enlightenment or forever lasting satisfaction in a relationship, all to give an illusion of depth about their character. They’re annoying because of their concealed air of smugness and attempt of no-conformism, all the while fitting into the “non-conformist” stereotype. They’re probably anti-car, anti-corporation, and recycle all their old books too.
5. Stag Night Lads
They’re noisy, opinionated, and seem to have difficulty pronouncing the country they’ve either came from or are going to. You’ll try to move away from where they’re sitting, but then you discover that you are not the only one to think of this, and that there is not seat out of their immediate proximity. And it gets even worse, as you board the plane and discover that you’ll be having the pleasure of their company the entire flight. As always, business class is the best solution.
Photo of Las Vegas Airport, Nevada originally posted by Omar Omar
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