Traveling is a rich opportunity for observations – here I am combining two airport stories. Airports are places for a lot of “goodbyes” and “welcomes”. As we were marching towards the TSA station there were two older women looking and waving after their friends that had entered the maze of ribbons guiding the queue. They were standing side by side right in the entrance of the maze. An airport is a busy place! When we wanted to enter, they were blocking the path and had clearly no intention of leaving soon nor any awareness of where they were actually standing. So, after some seconds of hopefully courteous patience I ask them to excuse us for wanting to walk in and they let us through with no complaints. After we passed security, we proceeded to our gate. Along the way we noticed a water station and decided to fill our flasks, that we had to empty before the security control. A women beat us to station and so we lined up behind her. She juggled two bags, a coffee, a phone and her water bottle. Eventually she filled her bottle but then she did not clear the station. Peaking around her shoulders we noticed that she was actually on the phone and now standing there. With a little gesture from the side, we made her notice us and she let us go about our business. Phone in hand is the most obvious reason when people behave untimely or inconsistent with their main activity – not using their senses for the overall situation and a flow of events that requires some level of participation by them. The women in the entrance of the security line were not on their phones but perhaps this is a case where a behavior fortified over a long time of phone use has become a habit limiting awareness and behaviors that are supposed to take queues from one’s environment. If people acting this way hold up traffic or other people, it is nuisance but not any real danger. A lady I saw just days ago, stepping onto a bicycle path without even looking up was endangering herself and also the riders that scrambled to avoid the collision.