Waiting for my flight at DCA
August 15th, 2010I was waiting for my flight at Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), which kept getting delayed a half-hour at a time, and started jotting down some notes for a blog post. Now I’m going back and writing up the blog post and I have no idea why I thought this would make a good post. I’m writing this paragraph after having written the rest of this and I was so bored writing this that I was practically falling asleep. If I was falling asleep writing it, I can’t imagine how boring it must be to read it. So why am I posting it? Because I took the time to write it dammit so I’m posting it. It’s been way too long since I wrote a blog post so you’ll get what I give you.
So as I said, I was sitting at the airport waiting for my flight. I saw an attractive woman walk by in a gray skirt with a pale yellow blouse. I’m bad at knowing what colors match and usually don’t pay attention to these things, but a while back I was wondering to myself if I could wear a pale yellow oxford with light gray slacks. (I don’t know if there are better terms to use than “light gray” and “pale yellow”. I’m colorblind so I have a hard enough time identifying the right color, let alone subtle shades. I had a disagreement with a girlfriend once because I called my suit “gray” and she said it was “charcoal”. I’m sure she was right, but in my mind it’s classified as “gray”, with subcategory “dark”.) When I’m unsure if something I’m going to wear will match, and I don’t have a girlfriend to ask, I will of course turn to the single man’s replacement girlfriend, the Internet. (Get your minds out of the gutter, people.) Women on the Internet - and they seemed to be exclusively women talking about this – UNTIL NOW - had conflicting positions on this important “yellow & gray” topic. Some LOVED the combination and others didn’t like it. Not knowing who to believe, and not trusting my own instincts, I decided against that combination.
So when I noticed that woman was wearing that exact combination, I thought “she looks like the type of woman that would know fashion and she likes the combination so maybe I should try it”. She walked into the restroom but I decided to keep an eye on the door so I could get another look. But not one minute later, a woman walked by wearing a pale yellow skirt and a gray cardigan sweater. I don’t know what she was doing, but she kept walking back & forth so I got a good look at her. Still wasn’t sure what I thought of the combination. Yes I was acting creepy I suppose, sitting on the floor (DCA has serious lack of seating around gate 35) watching for a woman to come out of the restroom and meanwhile constantly “checking out” this other woman. But I don’t think she noticed me there, and if she did I was prepared to say “Don’t flatter yourself honey. You’re cute enough but that cardigan is too big for you making you look frumpy. And for the record, I was noticing your choice of matching yellow with gray.” If I said that, maybe she wouldn’t have posted something on Holla Back DC about me.
I eventually got bored of looking at frumpy cardigan girl but I never saw bathroom girl come out. I must have missed her, but it amused me to think maybe she was in there for a really long time. Like maybe she had stopped at Cinnabon across the hall and was feeling the effects now. Yes these are the ways I amuse myself is to think of things like this. I hate how Cinnabon pumps that smell into the air, trying to tempt you to eat one of their delicious treats. Luckily, I saw a stand-up routine by Louis C.K. about Cinnabon (warning – contains very naughty words) and I think of that every time I see that Cinnabon. It effectively neutralizes any desire I may have.
Then I was amazed… I saw two other people wearing yellow and gray. It’s like when I’m reading something and see a word I’m unfamiliar with, and look it up, then all of a sudden I’m seeing that word everywhere. I saw a man in a gray suit with a yellow shirt, and an older lady with gray shorts and a yellow polo shirt. Then again, I saw a woman wearing a neon pink blouse with a lime green pantsuit, so maybe I shouldn’t judge what’s appropriate to wear from people I see at the airport.
OK this is the point where I got so bored writing this post that I gave up. I actually wrote that much weeks ago and I just left it unpublished. I have more notes here, and the handwriting is so bad I’m surprised I can read it at all. I think it’ll make for a better post to just list my notes and comment on them:
gray w/ yellow – frumpy cardigan gray yellow shorts wide hips [I was a little more rude in my notes]
gray skirt yellow blouse -> other girl in bathroom - long because of Cinnibon - pump smell in air Louis C.K.
man in gray suit w/ yellow shirt
argue with ex-gf over charcoal suit
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also in airport
wireless sucks, AT&T sucks [I can never get a good wireless signal in DCA even though it's supposedly free, AT&T service really does SUCK but that could be a whole post on its own]
Gordon Bierch [sic] way too small… want to grab seat @ bar but crowded. can take it to go and drink in airport but then i’m just an alcoholic [This was intended to turn into some strange rant about how Gordon Biersch is the only place to grab a drink on this concourse and it's usually packed.]
fun to drink w/ strangers [Was going to talk about how it can be fun to sit at airport bar because you get to talk to people from all sorts of different places and you're probably never going to see them again, so at the end you just say goodbye and that's that]
bad handwriting
not enough seating by 35
pants w/ zippers by ankles [This one confused me reading over my notes, then I remembered that I had seen a girl wearing this and I thought at the time I might be able to tie in something about that along with my other fashion comments... but I can't think of why I'd want to comment on that now.]
limited food options @ GB, don’t honor card unless you mail them receipt + then there’s postage [boring rant about how I have a Gordon Biersch card so you can get points but the airport bar doesn't support that unless you mail in the receipt, and how they don't have many food options at that GB]
old lady yellow polo + gray shorts
also saw woman wearing brite [sic] pink pants + lime green pantsuit so mite [sic] not mean anything
tattoos - suitcase or briefcase w/ heart inside it [another random observation that a girl had a tatoo like that on her arm and I couldn't figure out what the heck that was supposed to mean. She loves to travel? Her heart likes to wander (i.e. doesn't like to settle down into a relationship)?]


