i am in ft. lauderdale visting john for the week. i flew because i found a $23 roundtrip flight on spirit (how do they keep running these specials? i'm sure they should be bankrupt by now...) and that's a lot cheaper than the 100 or so dollars i would spend on gas and tolls to drive here. last night, i got off the plane, made my way downstairs, and out to passenger pick-up. there is a small vestibule area there; you pass though one set of automatic sliding doors, walk through a short hallway, and then through another set of doors that lead outside. i decided to forgo the exit that everyone else was using (and therefore jamming up) and move on to the empty one on the left. as i activated the first set of doors and walked through them, chimes sounded - dum da da dum DUM! - and masculine, computerized voice said, "you are beautiful."
i'm sorry, did i take a wrong turn and end up on a stolen state-of-the-art spaceship? did i just pass through sirius cybernetics' latest product? because it's really the only explaination for complementary sliding doors in an airport. if so, where's marvin to cynically complain about them, and what about ford and arthur? and where's my tea? and if it's not the case, is there someone sitting in some booth saying these things and watching for reactions? because i didn't hear any of other passageways making comments as i passed....
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