so i'll tell you what

[fox]

The daily parking garage at BWI has cameras over every space reporting to a digital readout in the main lanes that tells you in real time whether there are empty spaces in that aisle or not.  I am in love with this feature, and would like it to be instituted at real airports (National, Dulles) as well as others I occasionally drive to (Cleveland).  I am not, however, in love with the distance from the daily lot to the terminal, nor with the frequency of the buses that bring you from spot A to spot B, nor with the fact that my flight which was meant to take off at 6:50 is now delayed until 8:13.  BAH.

The ticketing lobby, though, has a shiny shiny white floor that I swear someone must go through and sweep and wax like every half-hour, because that is some clean, un-scuffed linoleum, is what.

[ETA:  Things it's fun to hear at the security checkpoint:  "That's not a quart-sized bag?"  "No, sir, that's a gallon."

Am at the concourse bar now, drinking Killian's and playing with the computer and talking a very nice lady through cleaning up her desktop and making her computer run faster.  Hee.]

Comments

[meri-oddities.livejournal.com]

BWI is a real airport for those of us in the suburbs. *g*

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

BWI is my favorite parking airport for that reason. That, and although it's far, at least it's a garage I can park at without feeling like I"m wasting tons of money. (Plus sometimes they have coupons!). National is still my favorite (because of the metro--parking there sucks), but BWI is right up there, and Dulles is WAY behind in the running.

Also, I spoke to the FBI(?) about you today. She asked me if I was one of those "fiction writers." Heh. Unfortunately, I was not able to remember the details of your work study job from freshman year (hell, I barely remember the details of MY work study job from freshman year!!), but I was able to assure her that I'd seen your apartment in Edinburgh...and that as far as I knew, you had no plans to violently overthrow the government. (Y'know, I'm not sure she specified the AMERICAN government. Hmm....)