Airport Arrivals

DWCommuter

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces? There's also a look of expectancy on their mush as if those waiting should run up to them, drop on their knees and worship at the feet of the great aviator.

DublinWriter

So...what really happened? Didn't she turn up?

orourkeda

Perhaps we should put them back on a plane out of here

kfallon

Well don't stand around waiting for them then :rolleyes:

Caraville

They're probably just relieved to be off the plane so they look happy. I enjoy travelling but i always feel glad to get off the plane.

chin_grin

No. Unless you're confusing it for the "I want my bed. I want my bed. I want my bed." face. Rookie mistake.

unbeat

well ...maybe if theyre stuck in the 70's they'll think that. everyone else is imagining having a big sword and being able to slice their way past the fat the old and the children getting in their way.

ejmaztec

The OP should stand in front of the arrivals area holding a placard with "Mr Cunt" on it, just to see who approaches him.

jester77

DWCommuter wrote: »

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces? There's also a look of expectancy on their mush as if those waiting should run up to them, drop on their knees and worship at the feet of the great aviator.

If my limousine driver ever runs up to me when I come through arrivals, he would get a swift knee to the groin!

si_guru

jester77 wrote: »

If my limousine driver ever runs up to me when I come through arrivals, he would get a swift knee to the groin!

I come in thru' the VIP lounge... who wants to mingle with prols in arrivals..

aujopimur

Did you notice if the Pope, Queen Elizabeth or President Obama had this look about them

nicklauski

I prefer the people who walk out with a look of embarrassment on there face when the door opens and everyone sees they were trying to walk through a pane of glass to get to the other door.

Seen it happen loads of times the other day. Quite comical, as was the fella standing there in a white suit and a bunch of flowers. He was standing there for quiet some time too, the poor bugger.

DWCommuter

DublinWriter wrote: »

So...what really happened? Didn't she turn up?

Yeah she did. It was my mother who had the same look on her face. I told her to cop on and carry her own case to the car.

Shamrock883

I think it's more the fact everyone's staring at them the second they pass through the sliding doors.

I always take a micro-second to compose myself before walking through the doors into the arrivals hall because I know I'll be greeted by many faces staring at me, willing me to trip or fall or something.

Maybe I'm just paranoid?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I've usually got an I'm-just-off-a-fvckin'-plane-and-I-want-to-go-home-and-it's-STILL-half-a-fvcking-hour-away pissed off look on my face. Mind you, I usually fly Ryanair.

lucylu

DWCommuter wrote: »

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces? There's also a look of expectancy on their mush as if those waiting should run up to them, drop on their knees and worship at the feet of the great aviator.

Sounds like the OP is Jealous they didn't walk off a plane.:p

Minstrel27

I hate the crowd of people who stare at you when walk through the doors.

biko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZUfGBUSeY

The Shtig

Is it not expected someone would be happy after been on holiday?

GavRedKing

Nearly all my recent plane journeys have been made when either still drunk or extremly hungover so i wouldnt say I was smug going through arrivals, just not feeling great at ll and trying to hide it.

frag420

DWCommuter wrote: »

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces? There's also a look of expectancy on their mush as if those waiting should run up to them, drop on their knees and worship at the feet of the great aviator.

Yeah, they call them Pilots.

mikedragon32

More annoying is the whole extended family waiting in arrivals for the girls coming back from their fortnight in de Canaries. Soldiers come back from war to less of a crowd!

Personally, much prefer to keep the head down, walk out of the terminal and straight onto an aircoach!

Guill

They probably are doing the thing i do in my head as i walk through. Just pretending that everyone is here to welcome me home. Quick scan of the signs to see no mention of my name, die a little inside and get bus home...

df1985

Something stressful about airports so walking through arrivals is like knowing its all nearly over and you'll be home to your bed.

Some people who have been on a sun holiday or whatever will wear next to nothing home to show off their tan regardless of the weather at home. Then theres the people who may aswell have a "Im just home from (insert place)" tshirt on them.

DWCommuter

biko wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZUfGBUSeY

Send him to Dublin Airport and he'll change his mind.

DWCommuter

Minstrel27 wrote: »

I hate the crowd of people who stare at you when walk through the doors.

They probably hate you as well.

IamtheWalrus

DWCommuter wrote: »

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces? There's also a look of expectancy on their mush as if those waiting should run up to them, drop on their knees and worship at the feet of the great aviator.

I love the bit where you arrive in Dublin airport and there are loads of people standing watching, waiting on their loved ones. Gives me a feeling of self worth. There's very rarely anyone there to meet me so I take what I can get.

DWCommuter

DWCommuter wrote: »

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces?

Not really?

DWCommuter

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

I love the bit where you arrive in Dublin airport and there are loads of people standing watching, waiting on their loved ones. Gives me a feeling of self worth. There's very rarely anyone there to meet me so I take what I can get.

Yeah I accept that, but there's an awful lot weekend and day trip warriors who deserve a slap back into reality.

MargeS

df1985 wrote: »

Some people who have been on a sun holiday or whatever will wear next to nothing home to show off their tan regardless of the weather at home. Then theres the people who may aswell have a "Im just home from (insert place)" tshirt on them.

Then they get on the car park bus with their goose pimples on high alert. Their flip flopped feet in rain puddles and the women in singlets with their spare tyres and boobs spilling out every where!!

wrecks my head! Cover up FFS you're back in 13c Ireland. :mad:

Biggins

si_guru wrote: »

I come in thru' the VIP lounge... who wants to mingle with prols in arrivals..

Well as a cleaner, I suppose you have to do in there too!

DWCommuter

MargeS wrote: »

Then they get on the car park bus with their goose pimples on high alert. Their flip flopped feet in rain puddles and the women in singlets with their spare tyres and boobs spilling out every where!!

wrecks my head! Cover up FFS you're back in 13c Ireland. :mad:

Its the statement of the great unwashed.

Fratton Fred

I know the people you are talking about. They are also the ones that greet their relatives in the middle of the gangway so no one can get past them.

They also clap when the plane lands.

thecornflake

Fratton Fred wrote: »

They also clap when the plane lands.

Do you not clap when the plane lands ?

I clap, and i clap when the girl in tescos scans my shopping at the till, when the waiter brings my food, when the taxi driver brings me home and when the milkman comes. :rolleyes:

I hate people who clap when a plane lands . . . .. .or after a film . . . .

DWCommuter

Plane clappers are akin to smug arrival heads.

Clap because the plane did what its supposed to do and then walk through arrivals as if they have survived a holocaust.

Manic Moran

I've been known to come out of the arrivals gate, be stared at by all the people trying to identify if the person coming out of the gate is the one they've been waiting for, then announce "Yes! I've arrived! Thank you! Thank you for meeting me!" and then walking off, because nobody ever meets me and I have to take a bus or train or something.

NTM

Red Hand

thecornflake wrote: »

Do you not clap when the plane lands ?

I clap, and i clap when the girl in tescos scans my shopping at the till, when the waiter brings my food, when the taxi driver brings me home and when the milkman comes. :rolleyes:

I hate people who clap when a plane lands . . . .. .or after a film . . . .

I click my fingers, beatnik style.

Zebra3

I feel smug departing Dublin airport. :pac:

I feel depressed coming back through arrivals.

DWCommuter

Zebra3 wrote: »

I feel smug departing Dublin airport. :pac:

I feel depressed coming back through arrivals.

I know that feeling.

Conor108

I'd think it would be better if stuff like this happened EVERY day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB3NPNM4xgo

sunflower27

Hahaha - there's a lot of love in that room. And that's my b'day Where was I???

I HATE walking through arrivals - I actually get really nervous because everyone stares and then I get self-conscious that I am walking funny, so I make a point to try and walk normal, which of course means I don't and then I kind of trip... oh, I don't want to think about it. I'll be doing it Friday evening aaahhhhh.

Alter-Ego

Coming back into Dublin airport after being away is just depressing. I always want to hop on another flight and get the hell out of the country.

There's also the picturesque views from the top of the 16A on your way back into junkieville.

plein de force

I normally come back either looking depressed to be home or have a look of relief after a long flight. i can't see why anyone would be smug, it's just an average way of transport nowadays

but i do agree, clappers are very annoying unless the pilot took the plane out of a real severe problem

im invisible

I've come through customs on the way home from Amsterdam with a smug look on my face once or twice, was seriously paranoid before you seen me tho

TommyTippee

DWCommuter wrote: »

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces? There's also a look of expectancy on their mush as if those waiting should run up to them, drop on their knees and worship at the feet of the great aviator.

christ almighty

theboss80

Ugggh plane clappers and those who think a Ryanair or Thomas Cook plane is actually providing enough space for you to recline your seat back in my face. Hate them fuckers.

Owen

No matter where I stand in the arrivals section waiting for someone coming off a plane, even if I'm as far away from it as possible and I'm the only person there, the inevitable stream of passengers will always walk right towards me on their way out and come within half an inch of me making me constantly have to shift to avoid them.

Radharc na Sleibhte

DWCommuter wrote: »

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces? There's also a look of expectancy on their mush as if those waiting should run up to them, drop on their knees and worship at the feet of the great aviator.

When I land on my holidays in Spain I have this face
When I land back in Dublin

Maybe the smug lookers are on their holliers.

hmmm

Normally I've been up since 4 or 5am to get a plane to London, am wrecked from headbanging meetings and after a day of queueing and being ordered around by security, the eyes are falling out of my head and I am fit to kill anyone who gets in my way as I come through arrivals to head home to my bed. So I am probably one of those the OP is talking about, it's more zombie-ism than arrogance

Radharc na Sleibhte

theboss80 wrote: »

Ugggh plane clappers and those who think a Ryanair or Thomas Cook plane is actually providing enough space for you to recline your seat back in my face. Hate them fuckers.

You cant recline or Ryanair anymore can you?
There isnt enough leg room to slouch either.
You have to sit bolt upright.

policarp

DWCommuter wrote: »

Anyone ever noticed how people walking through an airport arrivals gate have this self important, I've just got off an airplane" smug look on their faces? There's also a look of expectancy on their mush as if those waiting should run up to them, drop on their knees and worship at the feet of the great aviator.

That's just a bit of jet-lag.
Tomorrow I'll be O.K.