A Few Observations

I have been provided an opportunity to make a few observations.  Or, in more practical thinking, you might say I’m stuck in the Minneapolis Airport on a two-hour layover. 

Here are a few observations:

1. Tall, gawky men dragging along carry-ons by the telescoping handles are at least forty percent gawkier than normal.  And that’s an awful lot of gawky.

2. Some of the restrooms in concourse F also serve as “severe weather shelters.”  I am assuming a persistent blizzard does not qualify as a reason for everyone to muster there.  Finally, if I were an architect, I would, as a faithful Montanan, make the bars in each concourse also serve as severe weather shelters—not the bathrooms.

3. The key for my 2004 truck works well for stabbing open shrink-wrapped cheese snacks.  The fob for the new car is of no help at all.

4. It is possible for a girl of twenty-something to look compellingly similar to your male neighbor of eighty-something.

5. As you “people watch” in an airport and begin sorting people into “types,” it’s important to recognize that someone is doing the same to you. 

--Mitchell Hegman