High-heel cowboy boots

According to Wikipedia – Atlanta airport is the busiest in the world in terms of passenger numbers - some 35 million people pass through each year.

I’m sitting in Atlanta airport waiting for my connection to DC. I can hear the familiar sound of a passenger running. To the left he emerges, running, and pushing a stroller rocketing a small toddler. The handles of the stroller are laiden with a big Louis Vuitton handbag and another large carry-on tote bag.

The next thing you know he starts running back past me in the other direction, this time without the stroller. A few moments later the familiar sound starts again. He’s running past me a second time from the original direction with a second stroller. Hmmm, strange. Moments later a woman in high heel cowboy boots starts running a few metres behind him. And the little airport vignette all comes together.

They’re obviously late for the flight – understandable – it’s a huge airport. They each have a stroller to push with a kid in it, and because she’s wearing stupidly high boots she can’t run and push her stroller in time for them to make the flight. Instead of taking off her damn boots and running through the airport barefoot, they leave one of their kids in the stroller unattended at the boarding gate in the busiest airport in the world. Hmmm. God bless America – some of them need all the help they can get.