Questions from my trip

As I was traveling this weekend, I was struck by several ponderables.

Why on escalators and moving sidewalks can they not get the timing right so your feet and the handrail go at the same time? The handrail always goes just a tad bit slower.

At the baggage claim: Why must people stand right up against it to wait for their luggage? And, when they see it come out of the hole, why do they have to run around the thing to get their bag as soon as possible? Do they not realize that it goes in a circle and will come to them?

And I guess this isn’t really a question, more an amazement at how many people don’t really watch the news. The new carry-on restrictions started on Thursday. That’s been a top news story for days, along with why. And yet there was a youngish twenty or so girl in the airport aboslutely amazed that they made her check her bag with her make-up in it. I guess there are people who really are clueless about the world around them.