Have you ever been trapped at an airport for hours, waiting for your next flight in total, lonely misery? I just experienced this (not for the first time might I add) the other day and developed a handy list for coping when one finds themselves in this dire situation:

1) Walk around the duty-free stores and look at all the nice things that you can’t afford.

2) Maintaining a good physique is important, especially while bored. A good way to do this is run back and forth throughout the airport. People will just think you’re running to catch a connecting flight, you won’t look weird at all. Walking up the “down” escalator is also a great workout. This actually will look pretty weird no matter what, but I’ve seen someone do it so never say never.

3) If you are in an airport in a foreign country whose language you are not familiar with, a cool thing to do is buy a magazine in that language and try to guess what it says.

4) Try to log in to the wifi over and over again. It will never work but it will give you something to do.

5) Eat a lot of food. The fact that you are forced to endure such an extensive waste of time will alleviate any guilt you may have about eating too much.

6) Pet other people’s dogs. And children if they’re ok with it.

7) Ponder the meaning of life.

8) People-watch and make up stories about where they are coming from, where they are going, and why. Like maybe that pretty girl in the fancy heels is actually a hit man and she’s traveling to her next job, like who really knows?