People Watching at Logan Airport — “28 to Make”

28 to make is a creativity challenge from CreativeLive. Participants create and share a quick sketch every day for 28 days. I’m doing the same but with words.

Each day in February, I’ll set a timer for 20 minutes and write a “sketch” inspired by the prompt for the day.

Day 27: People watching

It’s the penultimate day of the challenge. I’m waiting for a flight, and it’s people-watching time again. There are few places better for people watching than an airport.

The terminal I’m in has some construction going on behind temporary plywood walls that narrow the hallways and pinch everyone together. Everyone’s exaggerated airport self is right in my face.

Here are. 19 things I saw at Logan Airport.

(I wrote this on my phone. I’ll fix typos when I land.)

1. Rocking chairs facing big tinted windows.
2. Strollers. So many strollers.
3. Mac Miller’s album art in miniature on Spotify. RIP
4. Icelandair’s boring white and blue livery. I like that word, livery. Love that there’s a word for “aircraft paint job.”
5. Aer Lingus’ “Shamrock in the sky”
6. One thing I don’t see is how nobody at Aer Lingus realized that their airline sounds like something else.
7. The last Dunkin’ Donuts for a while.
8. My brother’s friend on his way home.
9. Headphones I want.
10. Cartons of cigarettes I don’t.
11. People who don’t seem to have much experience walking in public.
12. A baby actually learning to walk.
13. A guy who wants to make small talk at the urinal but still respects the “one stall rule.”
14. The inside of my sleep mask.
15. My camera on the x-ray screen.
16. A Yeti cooler as someone’s carry-on
17. Lines. So many lines.
18. An outrageous price tag on a water bottle.
19. Runway lights.