Airports

What's up with homeless people in airports?

You're walking through the terminal to your gate, and you notice a somewhat disheveled individual with that smell, the ratty hair, and the absent look in their eyes... And you think - Where are they going? And, more importantly, how did they get in here?

It takes two things to get past security into the boarding area of airports these days - a ticket, and an I.D. Tickets cost money and since the homeless, by definition, do not have enough money to provide shelter for themselves - it seems as though air travel should be pretty a low priority on their shopping list (behind soap, a comb, and a dental appointment). But even if they collected enough for the airfare, do the homeless carry government-issued identification cards? I guess they must.

At least it explains the shopping cart I saw in the airport economy parking lot.