Mayor Pete: Airports are Romantic

[George K]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/12/16/pete-buttigieg-chasten-proposal-airport-ohare/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main

In accepting his pending appointment to be the next U.S. transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg spoke about how travel, in his mind, “is synonymous with growth, with adventure — even love.” Then he went for a laugh line, adding: “So much so that I proposed to my husband Chasten in an airport terminal. Don’t let anybody tell you that O’Hare isn’t romantic.”
Twitter users poked fun. How could a place full of tired, time-strapped travelers conjure up feelings of love? Especially in Chicago’s O’Hare, the world’s sixth-busiest airport.

After Buttigieg’s comments Wednesday, O’Hare Airport’s Twitter feed put “place of romance” in its bio and shared an image from Gate B5, where the magic happened. “Thank you for appreciating all the connections we make possible @PeteButtigieg,” the airport tweeted. “Looking forward to working with you as we continue to make our airport lovable for decades to come.”

The indispensable Iowahawk tweets:

"SWM seeks SWF for romantic strolls through human livestock chutes, genital patdowns from uniformed strangers, scarfing Cinnabons and shopping at Hudson News while waiting to hear if connecting flight to Cleveland is canceled?"

"Who among us doesn't enjoy a romantic TSA patdown?"

[Mik]

Idiot.

Pete, not Iowahawk.

[Doctor Phibes]

Is it just possible that Pete was being a little ironic?

[kluurs]

He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford and was Rhodes Scholar, but then he's a Democrat - so a man of contradictions...

[Loki]

@doctor-phibes said in Mayor Pete: Airports are Romantic:

Is it just possible that Pete was being a little ironic?

Problem is he was trying to be ironic and show his attachment to transportation in one sentence and it looks like a chocolate mess.

[Mik]

@doctor-phibes said in Mayor Pete: Airports are Romantic:

Is it just possible that Pete was being a little ironic?

No one likes a funny cabinet secretary.

[Doctor Phibes]

@mik said in Mayor Pete: Airports are Romantic:

@doctor-phibes said in Mayor Pete: Airports are Romantic:

Is it just possible that Pete was being a little ironic?

No one likes a funny cabinet secretary.

You could have fooled me.

Oh sorry, you meant funny ha-ha, not funny peculiar.

[George K]

@loki said in Mayor Pete: Airports are Romantic:

a chocolate mess.

||Don't bring his sexual orientation into this discussion, please.

||

[Mik]

@george-k

||Ewww||

[Jolly]

Ah, a man harking back to the romantic place where love first bloomed...Third stall on the right, I think he said...

[Copper]

Idiot

[Catseye3]

I approve of the O'Hare tweet. I thought it was sweet.

[Catseye3]

Though I will say I find railroad stations more romantic than airports. Vivien Leigh in a cool hat walking through the steam, etc.

[Doctor Phibes]

@catseye3 said in Mayor Pete: Airports are Romantic:

Though I will say I find railroad stations more romantic than airports.

I've spent many hours of my life standing here, in a manner very reminiscent of Omar Sharif looking out across the desert at sunset...ahhhhh, Warrington Bank Quay, the beauty of the surroundings only matched by the scent drifting across from the Manchester Ship Canal and adjacent Unilever soap factory.

[kluurs]

For the past few years, airports have become hell. I have friends who work for the airlines - feel for them. It's a very different world these days.

[Copper]

The TSA has to leave

Just go away, forever

[taiwan_girl]

I actually like airports and travel in general. The "anticipation" of going somewhere, etc. So, I kind of agree with the statement of the romance of airports.

I always have a good book, and can pass the time pretty easily. When i travel alot, have access to the lounges, so not a real burden. I would hate to add up the total amount of hours I have spend in airports. LOL

[George K]

@taiwan_girl said in Mayor Pete: Airports are Romantic:

The "anticipation" of going somewhere, etc.

[taiwan_girl]

@george-k