Who buys luggage at the airport luggage store?
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Who are the curious airport shoppers?
Welcome to Search Engine. I'm PJ Vogt. No question too big, no question too small. It's the holidays here at Search Engine headquarters. In this season, like all seasons, the questions continue to roll in, providing our team, I would argue, the sharpest take on the national pulse of probably Any news outlet? Anywhere? We know the world because we know the questions that people in the world have. And that's how we know that the most pressing concern, the thing Americans most wonder about currently, has to do with our nation's airports. We got not one, but three listener questions, all on the same topic.
Hi, Search Engine. My name is Tiffany.
Hi, I'm John Morris.
And I'm Leah Siegel. And I have a question I'm hoping you can help me answer. What's the deal with airport shops?
Who the fuck buys luggage in airports?
Or are people buying luggage at the luggage store at the airport? I just cannot buy that anyone goes to the airport, probably waits and pays to check a suitcase, clears security, and then decides to buy another suitcase right before getting on their flight. Do they have a handful of clothing? Who needs a whole new bag in the airport after we've gotten through security?
Perhaps it's like a babushka doll type thing where you buy a bigger luggage and then put your luggage inside. But I don't know.
Who buys luggage in an airport? To spell out the paradox here, every passenger, in theory, goes to the airport with the amount of luggage they need. The luggage store is only accessible to passengers. I've never seen a fellow passenger with loose clothes spilling out of their arms. And yet, the store is there. It does not make sense. Of course, nothing about an airport makes sense if you make the mistake of paying attention to it. The airport is where we are required to suspend our curiosity about its myriad weird rituals and just follow the rules. Bottled water is treated like a deadly weapon. Our phones are put in a special airplane mode because otherwise the plane will explode or something.
We are told to respect the grand medical tradition of the emotional support golden doodle. To survive on a plane is to turn yourself for half a day into an incurious person. Our show this fall was starting to feel, no offense, maybe a little smart, taxes, inflation. It's okay to be smart sometimes, but it's also a relief to take a very silly question to a very smart person. So this week, we have found a bonafide cultural historian of airports, and we have the entire story, not just who buys luggage at an airport, but why there's a luggage store, why there are stores at all, why there is security, why there's an airport. How we ended up with this strange building we take for granted.
Thank you.
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Okay, first things first, do you mind just introducing yourself? My name's Alistair Gordon. And we are talking to you because we have a highly specific question about airports, which sort of, for us, as sometimes happens, spiraled into larger questions about airports. It started out with, I was just wondering why people sell luggage at airports. It then turned into, like, why have we decided to have a sort of luxury mall prior to our experience of air travel? And it just made me want to understand, like, how did we end up with the airport as we have it? And so I was hoping you could tell me that story. Like, where does it even begin?
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