Have you seen the movie “The Terminal” with Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones? It’s about a man that gets stranded in an airport and has to live there. To be honest, I didn’t see it because I thought it looked ridiculous. But seeing this article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/09/spain.germany) made me think that the story is more feasible than I would have imagined.

It seems that a German woman trying to start a new life in Spain lost her job, ran out of money, and decided that she (and her cat Mumu) would just stay in the airport. And she’s been there for 10 years!!

I had to stay the night in an airport once. Due to some stupidity on my part (planning ahead doesn’t always work in your favor, people!) I landed at one airport at 11pm and flew out the next morning at 6am. Since it would’ve been far too much trouble to take a shuttle to an airport hotel, see if they had a room, and then wake up 4 1/2 hours later I just plopped down on one of the benches and tried to sleep. There were some others doing it as well, so I wasn’t alone. Being a light sleeper, I of course didn’t sleep very well. (There was also the paranoia that someone was going to try to steal my stuff that prevented me from sleeping – let’s not forget that). But after those few hours of little rest, I was certainly relieved and ready to hop on my flight home.

So I’m going to go with “negative” as my answer to whether or not I’d ever live in an airport. But hey, if it works for some then more power to them! I can think of a lot worse things to do than sit around and read books all day….