Lately I have been traveling quite a bit, and there is one thing I have noticed going in and out of airports all the time. There are so many middle age dudes that are trying so hard to have the look of “baller”. If you do any of the things mentioned below in this post, well….. you are not a baller.

First off, if you are at an airport wearing khakis, a blue blazer, scuffed up penny loafers, and a 6 year old laptop with an actual card bearing a cellular antenna attached to get wireless………you are not ballin dude.

This is 2008, not 1968. There is no reason to travel in suit or even business casual, unless you are getting off the plane and going directly to a meeting, then you get a pass. The khaki’s / blue blazer combination however is so far from baller that I’ll just stop here.

And to make yourself look even more non baller, go ahead and walk around with the gay bluetooth earbug in your ear everywhere you go at the airport, because obviously this shows that your very important. Surely pulling a phone out of your pocket when it rings would be way too much work. Then when you actually get a call on your earbug, talk as loud as you can so the whole terminal can hear that you are “talking business”. People will genuinely be impressed and envious…..Um No.

Then when you get on the flight (in coach of course) make sure to have a banana and a bottled water in your carry on brought from home because you don’t want to spring the five bucks for a snack box.

Whether you make 25K a year or 2.5M a year; people in airports don’t give a fu** about anyone else or other peoples social or financial status. Most people I know just want flights to be on time and to get where they’re going. Why is it that some people at airports love to play the role of “I am a baller” but can’t back it up properly.

Since this has been on my mind lately, I have noticed these types of travelers even more, and to be honest it is really quite comical. If you want to know who the true ballers at airports are, they are usually the ones sitting in the terminal looking like normal people, dressed in regular clothes, waiting on a plane……

“Baller” at the airport is someone who looks like the regular “Joe”, but is flying on a $10K first class ticket and just sits in the terminal reading a business magazine minding their own business.

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