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9 Jul, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I know this much, I’m not buying crawfish in an airport. I don’t even buy the airport sushi unless said airport is on the water. And I eat gas station food!
Airport employees are subcontractors of subcontractors twice removed. No sir and no ma’am.
You gotta eat seafood that’s as close as local as is possible and prepared by people whose house you can run up on if the seafood ends up being spoilt. These the rules.
I remind you that I grew up in airports. I…have my reasons for the things that I do.
Oh, but I just came up with a new curse! “May you get seafood sick in an airport bathroom.” 🥵

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A couple months ago I did a very systematic, possibly criminally nerdy overhaul of my whole packing situation. A label maker and packing cubes and diagrams were involved. It has already paid off. So much less stressful packing for a work trip now.
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