Terry Teachout isn’t enjoying his air travel experiences on his current trip. A selection of his Twitter updates from this morning:
First: I’m at LaGuardia and seized with an all-consuming hatred for air travel, every aspect of which is disgusting, degrading, and dehumanizing.
Second: I’d also like to throttle most of my fellow travelers, including all who are conducting cell-phone conversations within earshot of me.
Third: Finally, I’d like to offer a special welcome in hell to the people at Gate D6 who are reading self-evidently stupid books and magazines.
Fourth: Gee, you wouldn’t think that I’m H.L. Mencken’s biographer, would you?
Fifth: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Sixth: I guess I’m in what I like to call one of my exterminate-all-the-brutes moods. This, too, shall pass…
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve pretty much given up on air travel since my last flight experience. I’ll use it for extreme long distance or trans-oceanic travel, but otherwise, I’ll continue to avoid it as much as possible. (Probably my worst trip overlapped with one of the attempted terrorist attacks.)
