Wednesday, February 15, 2006
OPINION://See you there!
What are phones used for?
OPINION://See you there!: "I’ve got a bit of a running gag with my little brother. (OK, he’s taller than me, and officially old, but still my little brother.) We both spend a lot of time in airports. Airports are boring. Cell minutes are cheap. Often one of us will get a call from ‘tother, which always begins: “You’ll never guess where I am”. The answer is, 80% of the time, just off the corridor in the domestic lounges at Heathrow Terminal 1. Incidentally, growing up two miles from Heathrow gives you a totally distorted view of the world. Your isochrone map looks different to everyone else’s. Twelve hours’ journey from your front door lets you visit half of humanity, give or take. Allow me a day, and where in the world did you say you wanted to meet? (OK, it took 30 hours to here, and two weeks’ walk to there, but you get the idea.) I can only imagine folk who grew up in other “crossroads of the world” like Dubai or New York quite understanding what I’m on about, and what a shock it is to have to get one of these strange “connecting flight” thingies. (Seriously, I’d been flying for two decades before experiencing one.) Anyhow, one day a few years back my brother was picking me up at LHR. Arrangements were deliberately fuzzy — I think I was in f"
OPINION://See you there!: "I’ve got a bit of a running gag with my little brother. (OK, he’s taller than me, and officially old, but still my little brother.) We both spend a lot of time in airports. Airports are boring. Cell minutes are cheap. Often one of us will get a call from ‘tother, which always begins: “You’ll never guess where I am”. The answer is, 80% of the time, just off the corridor in the domestic lounges at Heathrow Terminal 1. Incidentally, growing up two miles from Heathrow gives you a totally distorted view of the world. Your isochrone map looks different to everyone else’s. Twelve hours’ journey from your front door lets you visit half of humanity, give or take. Allow me a day, and where in the world did you say you wanted to meet? (OK, it took 30 hours to here, and two weeks’ walk to there, but you get the idea.) I can only imagine folk who grew up in other “crossroads of the world” like Dubai or New York quite understanding what I’m on about, and what a shock it is to have to get one of these strange “connecting flight” thingies. (Seriously, I’d been flying for two decades before experiencing one.) Anyhow, one day a few years back my brother was picking me up at LHR. Arrangements were deliberately fuzzy — I think I was in f"
