Now that I am out and travelling again I have had the opportunity to view a few new airports. Both of these airports have been recently renovated and made all nice and spiffy. I am referring to Detroit and Richmond.
These are nice airports. Detroit especially. When I was there last year it was about as crappy as the bowel of a week-long constipated horse. But now it is nice and clean and shiney and it has some awesome inside tram thing. All this money was spent on making these airports nice, making sure they have nice shops and stuff, and they succumbed to the same flaw that every other airport does: they weren't designed for people with suitcases. Do you know what I mean?
The security voices on the intercom are constantly telling us not to leave our bags, but try going into the food court or into the candy store or the thimble and shot glass store or into the other crap stores with a bag. You cannot do it. You are bumping into shelves and tables and people and their bags. You are knocking things over, you can't carry anything. You suck, basically.
Try going potty. You have to leave your bag yards away so you can put it down and pee against the wall. You can't have it anywhere near you because when people are in airports they get all gross and pee on things they shouldn't. Luckily I haven't been unfortunate enough to have to use one of the stalls, but how is someone supposed to take their suitcase into a normal-sized stall with dangerous looking puddles of water or sticky spots on the floor? The potty is a perfect area for someone to slip something into or out of your bag, either that or pee on it.
C'mon airport people, design your airports for people with luggage. You are a bunch of small-eared buttjacks.
