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Is it embarrassing to admit, op helped me understand the joke with the additional lines?

• tF73d78kq8t3R6n 6y ago
  I’m right there with you. Perhaps I’m extra dense because Florida.
  • kolinko 6y ago
    Why florida?
    • drewzero1 6y ago
      Far from SF? WI here, I can relate. No idea what people flying to SF are wearing.
• exmadscientist 6y ago
  Perhaps you, like me, were thrown because the first line is actually wrong. "The SFO airport gate" is actually "one of the gates at SFO", which is to say, it's a gate in San Francisco Airport. The better phrasing would be "gate for SFO". With that change, the first sentence lands perfectly for me (at least as far as I can tell). A single word can make or break the whole thing. Jokes are interesting like that.
  • deleted 6y ago
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  • slowwriter 6y ago
    This is the most HN discussion of a joke I've ever seen.
    • fsflover 6y ago
      But... it wasn't a joke!
      • slowwriter 6y ago
        Hahaha, that just makes it even funnier! :D
  • onlinejk 6y ago
    "... lands perfectly..." claps vehemently
  • SZJX 6y ago
    Exactly lol. Spent a minute trying to wrap my head around how the hell would one be able to find the gate to an airport while driving/taking public transport, by looking at other people's headphones.