DCA Cell Phone Waiting Area

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If you are picking up a loved one at National Airport, say a hot pregnant wife for example, you will be sent on a circuitous route to the Cell Phone Waiting Area. An annoying drive yes, but not the stupid distant cell phone lot at IAD that is closer to Leesburg than the airport.

The DCA parking lot is packed with occupied yet idle cars on a Sunday night, reminding me of a red light district or gay cruising zone. We all stay in our vehicles till we get the private notice that its time to move on.

And I now have mine. Time to roll…

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”

3 thoughts on “DCA Cell Phone Waiting Area”

  1. I never thought of it as the Red Light District, I wonder if that name has actually taken on real results instead of a metaphorical one.

  2. The IAD one is out of the way but at least there’s a decent amount of space in it. The DCA one and its ~30 spots is more trouble than it’s worth.