At 4:19 am, local time in New Jersey, a Boeing 787 landed on the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport, 14 minutes behind schedule. He had two and a quarter hour of waiting until his next flight to Boston’s Logan International Airport. It is now only two hours, one minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Travelers on transit flights are well aware of the importance of this minute. The waiting time is not for a break and a coffee. The priority is to find the gateway to your next flight, especially if the time is short. It starts from the moment the first plane’s wheels touch the runway, to the moment the second one rise above it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first 30 minutes are spent in the process of landing passengers from the first plane, then finding the departure gate for the second flight, and the last 45 minutes of passengers boarding the second plane and waiting for take-off. . In the event that the take-off gate of the second flight is far from the landing gate of the first flight, with a short waiting time, and at an airport such as Newark International Airport, you must move quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Entered his next flight number on his smart seat TV screen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This flight lands at Terminal TB – BHOLD Gate B6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Your next flight departs from Terminal C – C80, gate B23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any passenger’s worst fears have just been realized: his next flight will take off from a different passenger building, and he will have to move faster than he expected, as two hours are barely enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the queue for exiting the plane, in the passport queue, in the queue for checking, in the airport lounge, in the queue for entering the second building, inspection, and going to the flight gate. He got past everyone, raising in his hands a permit authorizing him to break all the rules of common taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People gave him the way; some were excited to help him. Run, Sir, take my place. Hurry up, make a way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All travelers are well aware of this permit. There is no room for discussion of it. It has priority on it, and whoever is delaying it, is with no taste. He raised his smartphone. His screen shows a ticket for his next trip, calling everyone in front of him, a late passenger, a late passenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Barely arrived, 40 minutes before take-off, he advanced to the screen above the gate, gasping for breath, checking the flight number and destination, as passengers had just begun boarding the plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-A female voice behind him said, “Please, sir.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He turned to her, a woman in the mid-30s, white, green eyes, tall, athletic body, wearing a black sports suit with red stripes, with yellow hair with pigments of dark white that fell on her cheeks, holding a handkerchief, extending towards him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Robert: Thank you, thank God I managed to catch it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He looked at her as if he knew her: Have I seen you before, madam?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-The lady: Yes, we came together from Tel Aviv. I sat next to you the whole flight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Robert: Yes, yes, memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-The lady: Yes, I have never seen a person sleep on a flight as you did, it seems that you were very tired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-He looked away from her a little, his eyebrows furrowed, and the physicist began to make quick calculations: But, how did you manage to get here before me, so quickly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lady: I took the shortcut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– He furrowed his eyebrows more: Excuse me? Shortcut? Is there a shortcut between the airport terminals?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-The lady calmly and soberly: Yes, sir, there is always a shortcut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She turned her back and walked towards the entrance gate of the plane, leaving a suspicious look on his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Shortcut? What shortcut is this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– He followed her: Excuse me, my name is Robert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-She turned towards him, extended his hand to her, and shook his hand: Welcome, I am Natasha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-American?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-No, Ukrainian, and you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-English<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Welcome<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a reserved smile, I interrupted him with a barrage of traditional dating questions. She turned her face towards the gate and continued on her way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On schedule, at 6:20 am local time, an Airbus A319 took off from Newark International Airport for Logan Boston Airport, a quick flight of one hour and ten minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She must have been sitting in the back seats, as he entered the plane and looked at all the passengers between the entrance gate and his seat, not among them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The plane settled at an altitude of 36,000 feet, the captain turned off the seat belt signal. He left his seat, to the back of the plane, no sign of Natasha on the seats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the door of the bathroom, three people stood waiting for their turn, a usual scene after turning off the seat belt signal on any plane, often like him, they didn’t have enough time to use the toilets at the airport, waiting for the seat belt signal to turn off and rush to relieve themselves. If she is not in one of those bathrooms, where could she be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thankfully, one of the doors opened, Natasha came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In front of him the place is crowded, he stood side by side, turned his back towards one of the seats, then returned a little back, his butt was stuck in the seat cushion and his back was in the passenger’s shoulder, and the passenger moved his shoulder in a little, to prevent this embarrassment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He stuck to the kickstand more when she got to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She turned her body and turned her face towards him, and began to walk sideways, trying not to stick her back to the passenger behind her, and not to stick to the body of the passenger behind her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A common sight is the aisle of a commercial airliner, barely fit for one person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He smiled at her when their faces met<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-It seems the shortcut isn’t short enough to use the airport’s toilet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She stopped, her face completely in his, her gaze penetrating a few centimeters of space between them, holding a tissue in her hand, lifting it up, smiling, shrugging her shoulders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Looks like I didn’t fold the paper right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She continued her way leaving him for a second time and a shiver twitched inside his body, he froze motionless for a few seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Sir, sir,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– He looked behind him at the passenger, looking at him in confusion: What is wrong with you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Would you please get your butt off me; the aisle is clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He looked into the toilet, then to the front of the plane, walked back down the aisle, not far there was a head of yellow hair, and stood beside her seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– Madam, what did you say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– She turned to him: Excuse me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-the paper? What did you mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Natasha shyly: No, never mind, I was just kidding you, sorry, I did not mean anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
– The hostess interrupted him: Would you please make room, sir?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Addressing Natasha: Sorry, forgive me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He walked back into the toilet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inside, he looks at his face in the mirror: What is going on around me? A paper?! I told Mousa that the shortest way between two points is by folding a paper, spacetime, what exactly does this joke mean? Where is the sense of humor in, I did not fold the paper properly? Did she mean she stretched the distance between the airport buildings and arrived quickly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He looked next to the sink, dangling a paper from the box of tissues, the same one she was holding in her hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A voice in his head: You idiot, did she mean this? She held one of them in her hand and waved it in the middle of your face, yes, of course, she meant this paper by the sink, it wasn’t folded properly; She could not pull it out, she was late, this was the last one in the toilet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No, no, unreasonable! She talked about the airport and not the airplane toilet, and that’s after I asked her about her short-cut way, then she said that she folded the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Robert, what is wrong? You confused her, you had a few centimeters, millimeters between your lips and her lips, you are handsome and cute, look at your lips, they were almost glued to her lips, and you said a funny humor, you have an extraordinary sense of humor that always attracted women to you, your eyes lost her focus, she wanted to respond with a humor like her, she did not know what to say, in her hand was a piece of this paper, which was not folded well, she said the first thing that came into her mind, she considered it funny. Damn you silly, you messed it up, embarrassed her by returning to her in such a weird way, silly, how silly you are, you just lost a Ukrainian chick; because that lunatic who messed with your mind in Jerusalem, you have to decide now, Christine or this chick? Of course, Christine, you do not even know her, maybe she is taken. Focus with Christine, focus with the bird in your hand, you have to take a serious step about your relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looking at his face in the mirror more, remembering his ex-girlfriends, he said arrogantly: Yes, it is not the first time that my ways have confused women,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
why not, what a philandeur I am, my sense of humor, my lips, and eyes, my body, no woman can resist me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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