These in-laws don’t want to pick up anyone from their local airport, but their family members aren’t so sure about their reasoning.
Sometimes you’re the flyer, and sometimes you’re the person driving another flyer to the airport. Yin and yang, right? People feel all kinds of ways about driving people to the airport — a lot of folks strongly dislike doing that particular chore, and they’re not shy about telling that to everyone around them. It’s understandable, because there are often long lines of traffic snarling around airports, not to mention confusing signage and miles of gates to drive around before finding the right one. Sometimes other cars are already taking up all the spots, so you have to keep driving around until you can squeeze in. And a near-universal human experience is driving halfway to the airport, only to get a message from your traveller companion that the flight has been delayed, and they aren’t even in the air yet, let alone at their destination. Ugh!
Now, to avoid this, there are several options. You can rent a car, for example. If you catch the rental service on a good day (read: not a major holiday of any sort), you might get yourself a pretty decent car to zoom around with. Or you might be left with no car if they don’t hold your reservation, as often happens. So silly how that works!
Another option is to take public transportation home from the airport, and you can feel your shoulders slumping in exhaustion just thinking about it. That means that you, your carry-on, your checked luggage, and your travel companions are now going to take an air train, some buses, or some subway trains in order to get where you’re going. You’ll need to carve out extra time to take your luggage down elevators, since you can’t use the stairs while hauling all that around with you. And you just have to cross your fingers and hope that you and your luggage can actually fit on a crowded train or bus successfully, otherwise you’ll be left waiting for the next one. I’m exhausted in solidarity of this kind of trip — if you’ve done it even once, you know how badly you just want to get home after a long journey, but suddenly, there are a dozen steps you need to follow just to lug you and your heavy bags home.
This person shared their in-laws’ absolute refusal to go near the airport, which is both amusing and rather infuriating for the affected travelers. Check out their story below, and see who you agree with — the travelers, or the wise Boston parents who won’t go near that airport for any reason.
Author: Kayitsi.com
