I'm sitting in the gate 14 lounge at the Qantas terminal at Canberra Airport. Saying that it is the gate 14 lounge is a little misleading because the airport is so small that its really just one pool of chairs servicing three gates.
The lounge is quite full, in fact there are a lot of people standing, but only about half the seats are taken. I think it has something to do with the fact that if anyone sits next to each other they will instantly choke and die - or so it would seem.
At the times I tend the fly the lounge is usually sparsely populated with the occasional business traveller waiting for their twin prop flight out to Sydney or Melbourne.
Using my superior powers of observation I have come up with a theory for the increased number of travellers this evening. This afternoon I took a quick drive down to the Hyper-dome at Tuggeranong to get a haircut. Unfortunately my usual barber was closed and the queues at the others were either too long, or the price for a mens haircut was just too high for me to bare. Anyway - back to my reasoning.
Whilst walking back to the car (via Muffin Break) I spied a stage with a series of fashion models strutting their stuff. I could tell that they were fashion models because the angle formed by the line of their shoulders and hips was 90 degrees.
This combined with the fact that the average person in the check-in queue looked like they had been sprayed with a paint and then gone six rounds with a whipper snipper (judging by their haircuts) leads me to believe that a number of the flights out of Canberra this evening will be populated by models and their entourage.
As a seasoned traveller I am somewhat concerned. I know that I should refrain from taking flammable liquids on to the plane, but I lit a match this crowd then the explosion created by hair igniting could be seen from space.