During my recent 14 hr adventure through 4 cities to make it home from NY, I visited several airport bathrooms. This is one in Baltimore which was much like the others except for the odd added touch of cut flowers in a vase on the counter. And the Baby Station sign, which if you examine closely enough appears to show someone crushing the chest of a baby with so much pressure that it is bending the table underneath it.
I had several hours of downtime that day and I thought about the person responsible for those flowers a lot. Here are some of the questions I had:
- Was flower placement part of the regular bathroom cleaning duties or the result of a first-time bathroom cleaner’s overzealous nature? Perhaps a displaced British butler/gardener who just thought it was the Right Thing to Do?
- Why go to the trouble of using real flowers if there was no plan to replace them when they died and would only further depress wayward travellers? Or did someone fire the butler after his first day because he just didn’t fit in?
- Did the butler (yes, I’m going with butler at this point) intend to choose the color of the flower to match the baby-crushing sign, or was that a happy accident? I vote for the former.
- Ok this one isn’t a question. I am fairly sure the person who put those damn flowers there was just like Chance the gardener in the movie Being There, and you should check out the trailer by clicking on the pic.
