More Annoying Airport Travelers

Here are 5 more types of annoying people you’ll meet at the airport:

1. Café staff who won’t acknowledge your order until you’ve said it right

Why can’t I just order a small coffee? Why does it have to be called Tall, Regular, Medio or Royale?

The guy at the counter often simply refuses your request if you can’t be bothered to squint at the tiny prices and words on the menu board and say it just right. Mispronunciation will be met with disdain and a pained correction. I know that this particular establishment is trying very hard to jump on the bandwagon of the business whose name will not be mentioned but rhymes with “car-sucks”, but does it have to make a caffeine dose so difficult?

2. Zombie children

Ungrateful, whiny little terrors who beg for overpriced chocolate at the airport shops, run around unsettling passengers trying to sleep.

OK, it could be said that whiny, screaming, crying kids are annoying everywhere in the world, but particularly at airports when one’s mood ebbs at its lowest and you’re so frazzled you absorb irritation like a slug absorbs salt, eventually unleashing it all in a loud scream.

3. The perfumed beauty right in front of you in the X-Ray queue

Despite just-adequate air conditioning struggling to cut through the sweat of millions of unwashed bodies in stasis, some decide to separate themselves from the masses by drowning themselves in their own perfume. Unfortunately it has the effect of overpowering people behind them in queues. Their distinctive smell often has a tendency to irritate your nostrils, but only yours, meaning you suddenly have a sneezing fit when it’s your turn to walk through the scanner, arousing suspicions from airport security staff. It’s best to let the person behind go ahead in these cases.

4. People who stand right at the “mouth” of the luggage carousel

Yes, we know that they’re eager to collect their stuff and get out of here, but aren’t we all?

Travellers of this type usually push past everyone else to be off the plane first and then rush so that they can reserve this spot where they can view each new bag passing through and grab theirs 10 seconds before everyone else. You have to especially look out for this type, as if there’s a good chance they might take your bag by accident and you’ll be powerless to stop them, not having got a chance to see it for very long. People like this do quite often make you lose faith in humanity.

5. The taxi driver who refuses to take your bags out of the back

So you finally get to the airport only to found he isn’t co-operating. With a dark shrug he gestures that that’s not what he’s being paid to do. So you get out and do it yourself, after which you hastily give him a wad of cash only to find him driving off the same second it leaves your hand.

The golden rule of choosing an honest driver is one that doesn’t have a moustache. Strange but true.

Photo of travelers waiting for their flight at Hamburg Airport by Jasmic

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Paul Crompton is an avid reader and has a passion for cars and technology, primarily. He loves traveling to whichever exotic travel location which is cheap. His dream is to become an advertising executive.