Yet one more sign of how lazy people are getting - I’m in southern Indiana and the people moving out of urban areas into rural communities due to lack of work or more likely govt entitlements - are bringing with them lice, bed bugs, and other pestilence...they don’t care to even send their kids to school wearing the proper undergarments. I’m longer flying due to TSA and the stupid disgusting people that have encountered more and more...the last flight I took - some dude got on there and thought it was perfectly find to kick off his shoes so everyone in the shuttle cabin could smell his feet...fat, lazy, non-bathing POS...public transportation is a joke anymore...I’d rather drive 12 hrs straight in my own SUV, have control over where I stop and what I eat, and know when I’m going to show up - compared to getting to the airport2 hrs before my flight - spending 40 min’s to 1 hr in TSA bullsh*t while they steal from my suitcase, and have to pay for overpriced airport food being served by whoever, and crawl onto a plane that smells - overcrowded with people doing all kinds of nasty stuff...and then either wait out on the tarmac - or wait for over 1 1/2 to get fuel - or some other flight delay - and then show up - rent a car - and get out of the other airport -— yeah, I might spend more time on the road - but it’s my comfort over time...
Parking was sparse and expensive in the city where I attended my first college. A girl I was going with convinced me to try taking the bus from our rural town into the city for classes.
I don’t think it lasted two weeks. Not only was I late for classes, but my fellow passengers were like the guy you described on the plane. Some people acted like the bus was their living room or personal chauffeur service (and I strongly suspected some thought it was their bathroom). Then there was the general air of hostility. That was twenty years ago. I can’t imagine what it is like now.
That lesson taught me the value of one’s own car. Be careful with it, maintain it, be thankful for it.