Sitting at my gate waiting to board for my flight back to Atlanta so I can pack up my belongings and have them shipped to California.

There’s a chick nearby who opened a rectangular Tupperware that had 4 large hard boiled eggs. She took out a plastic spoon and scooped a whole egg and put the whole thing into her mouth. She chewed for quite some time. She did the same with the remaining 3 eggs.

She closed up the Tupperware and put it into her backpack.

She pulled another container out, filled with something that looks like oatmeal? Started eating that with same spoon.

There’s a brother who’s been talking business but then, “Oh shit, it’s my wife. Fuck.”

I saw the back of the head of a woman with dreadlocks holding a baby. She had headphones on and I was wondering how she could listen to the baby. Then the baby started crying, its head kind of backwards. The woman stood up and pushed the stroller away. A little later, she came back with the baby, now calm. But then it started crying again and I heard, “Oh no, not now.” But in a man’s deep voice! I looked and it was a man! Traveling alone with an infant. Impressive.

Listening to some Africans speaking French. I love it.

I bought banana bread and an iced latte before and a bag of pepper jerky so I can stink up the plane later, but hey, protein! The lady helping me was super nice because I was nice to her. Other people behind the counter were working on a large order, I assumed for this Chinese group of people who clogged up the whole area. They were talking loudly in bad English. Rude, standing in everyone else’s way, I shoved through, knocking my backpack into them.

Flight to LA has been delayed because of mechanical issue. They say it’s been fixed and the plane is airborne but, dude, if my plane has mechanical issue, I am not getting on it. How can they convince people that it is really truly fixed?

I really hate how the modern phones are not ergonomic to be a listening device. It’s ridiculous to hold a slab against your ear. When I do, the phone gets all sweaty, ewww (!) and my ear gets hot.

But the main reason I hate modern phones is because it causes noise pollution. People don’t have any hesitation to just talk openly and loudly in public. And because it’s not ergonomic, they put it on speaker and hold the phone in front of their face, so I hear the person they are having the call with.

I don’t want to hear anybody’s business. And some of them do it as a show off, like they are so busy and important. One guy is talking super loud, saying the same thing over and over and pacing so everyone can tell he is on the phone and he’s a big cheese at work. Probably limburger.