“Look, I know it’s no one’s fault, it’s the weather, but I just spent $50 on a cab so I wouldn’t be late for this flight y’all cancelled. Not your problem the fifty bucks, but I need to get on that next flight.” He’s leaning way over the counter invading the Air Canada’s rep personal space. I imagine his breath redolent of Jack or Jameson’s.
Air Canada has just cancelled every other flight into their Eastern seaboard destinations. Airports are normally a hotbed of personal drama but right now Terminal One of Pearson International Airport is like a Law & Order marathon on A&E.
“You know how many calories are in that Starbucks drink? Eight hundred. Yeah, Eight hundred calories,” says the irritated coach to his collegiate athlete. We are standing in line at Customer Service when the kid saunters up with the Venti cup.
The Connecticut blonde is going off again, “Why am I standing in line if all I want to do is leave the airport? Why do I have to stand in a line to leave the airport? My flight is cancelled, I just want to leave.” The businessmen have stopped paying attention, so her questions have become rhetorical.
“Canada is kicking my ass right now.”
8 min @ Pearson International Airport, 5.15.13
all quotes heard at Terminal 1
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