i'm not lyin' sure it seems like i'm tryin' to get back at you
Note to BNA:
I noticed when I got off the plane that the gate area smelled like sauerkraut. What's with that? I didn't see any places selling the stuff or anyone cooking it on a camp stove, so where was it coming from?
Generally, you're about what I would expect from an airport in a medium-sized southern city. Pretty friendly overall, but nothing spectacular, no cutting edge to be found. But I did expect a little more from you because you're Nashville. What I mean is if Vegas can put slot machines everywhere in its airport, then can't/shouldn't Nashville provide country singers? It would make arriving travelers happy to get there and departing travelers sad to leave, and shouldn't that be any airport's highest aspiration?
Also, your security checkpoint seems like an afterthought. It could benefit from a little more deliberation in the planning. Here, I've done some for you already: instead of have loooong tables leading up to the point where ID's and boarding passes are checked, and then really short tables where carry-ons are parsed and binned for their trip through the x-rays, switch those two thing around. ID check first, then long tables for plenty of space and time to get ready for the big show, see?
Also, when I went to leave Nashville, there was that sauerkraut smell again. I'd forgotten about it, but the reminder was enough to make me remember so well that now I'm even writing about it on the Internets. I may be half German, but I'm here to tell you it's not a pleasant smell for an airport. A better idea would be to pipe in some of the jet fuel fumes from the tarmac. Mmmm, jet fuel.
Song for the day, conspicuously missing from some music libraries I know: Wilco - Say You Miss Me
posted by Hans at 18:39
5 Comments:
Hey, that's my airport you talkin' 'bout a month late! I can answer many of your quandries:
1) Sauerkraut: actually, your whole point about the airport not being incredibly cutting edge is challenged by the sauerkraut smell. What you didn't know is that the Nashville airport is the first to have the InstaEthnoSmello2000 - where, based on the name on your boarding pass - detectors pick up on your enthnicity and you are escorted throughout the gate area with a smell associated with your name's ethnic origins. And only you can smell it. Pretty cool eh?
Oh, actually, it might have been from the new Noshville deli location that opened up there - they are putting local restaurants in the joint, and Noshville might have been in your gate area. Just guessing though.
Security: it's airport security. It's not supposed to make sense. And that's federal yo.
Country Stars: aww, that sucks, you missed the country singers. They actually do have some that are setup to sing as you leave security. You must have caught it at a time when no one was scheduled. But, one of the new places there is Tootsies (from downtown), and they supposedly have people playing as well.
10 April 2008 at 21:24:00 GMT-4
Oh, and Concourse C rules - Concourse B is for losers. You must have been in B. Or A. Dear God. Tell me your weren't in A.
10 April 2008 at 21:27:00 GMT-4
I was definitely in A.
Hey wait a minute, if B is for losers, then what is A for?
*Gulp!*
10 April 2008 at 23:41:00 GMT-4
I would just like to say that that Wilco song is in my library. I had to check, but there it was, plain as day. I say that only because I assume that everyone is talking about me all the time.
10 April 2008 at 23:45:00 GMT-4
Well, bully for your library. I only hope the fact that I may or may not have been talking about you at least got the song into your RAM as well.
And now that we're done talking about you, there is another library out there, like maybe somewhere in Nashville, that definitely didn't have the song a month ago, I know because I checked because I was trying to get it into your RAM.
Oh, there I go, talking about you again. Perhaps you're right.
10 April 2008 at 23:49:00 GMT-4
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