tonights topic - airport bars

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   saw on gutfeld tonight they are back = i didnt know they were gone , i havent flown but once since 1982 , that was to las vegas for shot show and it was not a trip that i spent much time in the airport either direction as the flight was direct , 
but back in the mid/late 70s i flew a few times for work , one that jumps to mind was when i delivered a bif on a project in kansas city , had to be turned in at the architects office by a certain time , i flew there in the morning took a cab to the location , found a pay phone and got in touch with the office where a group of people were filling in pricing to my estimate , accepting phone bids from subcontractors and revising our bid as they came in , i stayed on the phone for half an our listening to the revisions getting made and finally just before the time deadline i filled out the documents read back the prices to confirm what we were submitting and took the bid in and got it time stamped , then took the cab back to the airport because it was a closed opening , 

so my return flight was not for a little over four hours later so i sat in the airport bar sip[ping a beer and watching people come and go , i was one of a dozen others waiting for flights it seemed a normal thing to do , not sure when that changed but apparently it did - but now the trend is coming back 

after i left that job abd moved i worked for the quad cities contractor that i flw for a lot but we had a company plane and piolet so never spent time in the airport anymore , only once did we fly commercial , three of us flew to jacksonville florida but got routed though atlanta with a layover - didnt get in till layte , thats the night we encountered the hookers in the airport while moving from one terminal to another , it was about 1AM , only other commercial flight was the one i booked to come home and resign then moved here 

i dont like to fly and will avoid it at all cost but if i had to spend time [layover] in an airport they better have a bar