third time's the, etc
Dec. 20th, 2017 08:21 pmI arrived at the airport early today for my 5:30 flight. The small domestic arm of YVR's never very busy, and with a Nexus card security takes ten minutes tops, so I generally figure if I'm there an hour before takeoff I'm fine. Today I had an hour twenty.
The boarding pass printed BOARDING TIME 4:50 but the terminal said DELAYED NEW DEPARTURE TIME 8:00 PM. I shrugged and breezed through security. At least I wouldn't lose any checked bags in the shuffle; I carried everything with me.
Including my book, which wouldn't fit in my carryon and which I was carrying around loose with me. Except I wasn't. I'd put it down on the terminal shelf to check in and hadn't picked it back up. Dammit.
At least there was plenty of time to go out, get my book (where I'd left it), and go back through security. Even though the Nexus lane for the small domestic arm closes at five and I had to go through the normal lane.
I had dinner (the most aggressively neutral truffle-mac-and-cheese I've ever experienced) and read my book and watched the departure time tick over from 8 to 8:10 to 8:30 to 8:50.
At that point I decided that if I'm going to be driving for two hours after I land I should take my contacts out. Surely they'll sell me contact solution and a case in the airport.
Indeed they would. On the other side of security.
And all the security lanes for the small domestic arm close at seven, and it was now 7:30.
Oh well. At least the larger Nexus lane stays open late.
So here I sit, waiting another half hour for my plane. I've finished my book (I've got plenty more). I desperately need something to drink but I'm tired of hauling a very full satchel and a viola over half of YVR. I like YVR but I like it a lot less when I'm loaded down. And also overheated: I'll appreciate my very nice fuzzy green boots a lot more when it's -13 than I do in the airport where it's 18.
On the bright side, as of about a month ago Canada decided to start allowing small knives on flights again. So that's nice.
The boarding pass printed BOARDING TIME 4:50 but the terminal said DELAYED NEW DEPARTURE TIME 8:00 PM. I shrugged and breezed through security. At least I wouldn't lose any checked bags in the shuffle; I carried everything with me.
Including my book, which wouldn't fit in my carryon and which I was carrying around loose with me. Except I wasn't. I'd put it down on the terminal shelf to check in and hadn't picked it back up. Dammit.
At least there was plenty of time to go out, get my book (where I'd left it), and go back through security. Even though the Nexus lane for the small domestic arm closes at five and I had to go through the normal lane.
I had dinner (the most aggressively neutral truffle-mac-and-cheese I've ever experienced) and read my book and watched the departure time tick over from 8 to 8:10 to 8:30 to 8:50.
At that point I decided that if I'm going to be driving for two hours after I land I should take my contacts out. Surely they'll sell me contact solution and a case in the airport.
Indeed they would. On the other side of security.
And all the security lanes for the small domestic arm close at seven, and it was now 7:30.
Oh well. At least the larger Nexus lane stays open late.
So here I sit, waiting another half hour for my plane. I've finished my book (I've got plenty more). I desperately need something to drink but I'm tired of hauling a very full satchel and a viola over half of YVR. I like YVR but I like it a lot less when I'm loaded down. And also overheated: I'll appreciate my very nice fuzzy green boots a lot more when it's -13 than I do in the airport where it's 18.
On the bright side, as of about a month ago Canada decided to start allowing small knives on flights again. So that's nice.