Goodness! As someone who has air traveled basically every month for the past 20+ years, the LAST thing you’d want to do if your plane is delayed is to leave the boarding area, go past TSA, and leave the airport!
Hugo, for as worldly and suave he is in Dawn’s eyes, is as dumb as a coal bucket.
Hugo’s flight was delayed so he left the airport, got an Uber or Lyft, and came to Chez Weston. Sure, makes all kinds of sense to me. How much time does he have?
This would be an awkward time for Mary to show up. Picture her pounding on the door: “Dawn? Dawn? Hello! Are you in there??! I have MUFFINS!!! (Hmm, I’ll use my master key...)”
If your plane is delayed, you say “Oh darn” or perhaps something more pungent and less family friendly. You then try to find out how long it’s going to be, try to find reasonably priced food (Hah!), a comfortable place to recharge your phone, buy a book or a magazine, and hunker down to wait. Only if the delay is projected to be 24 hours or more do you even think about leaving the airport. That’s the real world. Now, even in the Worthiverse, would you go seek out the weeping hysterical female you had to peel off you, and couldn’t wait to get away from?
So, one must show up two, three (?) hours ahead of your flight for security purposes, but Hugo will go though all of that again for a nooner. I once had a five hour layover at Dulles. I didn't leave.
This has got to be a dream/hallucination, right? Nobody, not even Moy, would expect readers to believe that Hugo left the airport -- and presumably his checked luggage (I was going to say "baggage," but that's Dawn) -- because his flight was delayed, right? Nobody can be that out of touch with reality, right? So it's got to be a dream, right?
I don't suppose there's any chance that KM will toss us a bone and let it just be that Hugo didn't want to spend the night at the airport. I am so hoping that in the morning he'll tell Dawn that he's changed his mind again and doesn't want to "do" long distance.
So, Hugo gets a free place to stay for the night (with benefits), a ride to the airport, and a hassle-free departure because he’s agreed to “do long distance”. Then he’ll get home and just ghost her. Winning scenario, at least from Hugo’s perspective.
Doing long-distance is still long-distance. Skyping isn't the same as being together. So unless they plan to visit each other every other weekend or so, there really isn't any point to it.
How many times have we all had an experience similar to this?: When I was in the Army, I made some great great friends, and we all said that we'd keep in touch with each other after we got out. We did for about six months or so, and then it just gradually faded away. I've never forgotten those guys, but I haven't seen any of them since. Life goes on.
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Goodness! As someone who has air traveled basically every month for the past 20+ years, the LAST thing you’d want to do if your plane is delayed is to leave the boarding area, go past TSA, and leave the airport!
Hugo, for as worldly and suave he is in Dawn’s eyes, is as dumb as a coal bucket.
Hugo’s flight was delayed so he left the airport, got an Uber or Lyft, and came to Chez Weston. Sure, makes all kinds of sense to me. How much time does he have?
This would be an awkward time for Mary to show up. Picture her pounding on the door: “Dawn? Dawn? Hello! Are you in there??! I have MUFFINS!!! (Hmm, I’ll use my master key...)”
If your plane is delayed, you say “Oh darn” or perhaps something more pungent and less family friendly. You then try to find out how long it’s going to be, try to find reasonably priced food (Hah!), a comfortable place to recharge your phone, buy a book or a magazine, and hunker down to wait. Only if the delay is projected to be 24 hours or more do you even think about leaving the airport. That’s the real world. Now, even in the Worthiverse, would you go seek out the weeping hysterical female you had to peel off you, and couldn’t wait to get away from?
Yeah, I guess so.
So, one must show up two, three (?) hours ahead of your flight for security purposes, but Hugo will go though all of that again for a nooner. I once had a five hour layover at Dulles. I didn't leave.
This has got to be a dream/hallucination, right? Nobody, not even Moy, would expect readers to believe that Hugo left the airport -- and presumably his checked luggage (I was going to say "baggage," but that's Dawn) -- because his flight was delayed, right? Nobody can be that out of touch with reality, right? So it's got to be a dream, right?
-- Scottie McW.
SUNDAY
I don't suppose there's any chance that KM will toss us a bone and let it just be that Hugo didn't want to spend the night at the airport. I am so hoping that in the morning he'll tell Dawn that he's changed his mind again and doesn't want to "do" long distance.
SUNDAY
So, Hugo gets a free place to stay for the night (with benefits), a ride to the airport, and a hassle-free departure because he’s agreed to “do long distance”. Then he’ll get home and just ghost her. Winning scenario, at least from Hugo’s perspective.
Doing long-distance is still long-distance. Skyping isn't the same as being together. So unless they plan to visit each other every other weekend or so, there really isn't any point to it.
How many times have we all had an experience similar to this?: When I was in the Army, I made some great great friends, and we all said that we'd keep in touch with each other after we got out. We did for about six months or so, and then it just gradually faded away. I've never forgotten those guys, but I haven't seen any of them since. Life goes on.
-- S. McW.
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