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Looks like this Kiss & Fly area where pickup will be is at the car rental center.
by ajmurmann 1y ago
Looks like this Kiss & Fly area where pickup will be is at the car rental center.
- rconti 1y agohuh. I didn't even know this existed.
- ajmurmann 1y agoSame. I go to the rectal car center at least 4 times each year. I just was there on Saturday and had no idea either. Still don't know what it is other than Waymo pickup.
- owlninja 1y ago>rectal car center Known nickname or typo?
- SirFatty 1y agoOr both :-D
- ajmurmann 1y agoDefinitely phone autocorrect issue. I'm gonna leave it though
- blindriver 1y agoHow often do you type "rectal" for that to become an autocorrect default for you??
- apwell23 1y agoOP is a urologist
- buckle8017 1y agoI use Google keyboard without customized auto correct. It really likes to change random words to inappropriate things. But I guess that's the people who are typing on phones a lot are typing about.
- ghurtado 1y agoIf you are over 50, and serious about not getting colon cancer, maybe a little bit more than one would expect.
- pryelluw 1y agoOtherwise known by its popular name “Cloaca-Rent—A-Car”
- bombcar 1y agoIt - along with cell phone waiting lots - are ways for people to drop others off and avoid the traffic around the terminals themselves. Which can be bad - I often find it easier to just pay for a few minutes parking on dropoff/pickup.
- smelendez 1y agoI did always find the term kiss and fly confusing and weirdly intimate, as if everyone is getting a ride to the airport from a spouse or parent. Definitely a throwback to another era.
- bombcar 1y agoI think it's also a regional thing; I'd never heard of it.
- rconti 1y agoChatGPT tells me it originated at Paris CDG in the 1990s where it was "depose minute" but then also cites LA Times from the 1950s as the first source of the term[1]. I've seen it in Germany as "Kiss und Ride". So it's not really a regionalism, but I also don't think it's super common. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_and_ride?utm_source=chatgpt.com#Kiss_and_ride_/_kiss_and_fly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_and_ride?utm_source=chatg...
- rconti 1y agoYeah, but the SFO cell phone lot is particularly bad, and traffic to the terminals is bad. On the flip side, there are airports like Cleveland where people just park their car at arrivals and disappear for 20 minutes.
- whycome 1y ago> rectal car center That's way mo' information than needed thanks. But seriously. I wonder why they have a designated pickup point if it would make sense to spread the cars out to alleviate traffic bottlenecks.
- ghurtado 1y agoWhat's even better is the variety of names this thing has. I'm my area, it's the "cell phone lane"
- kotaKat 1y agoOh, this makes a bit of sense. The Avis/Budget fleet team will be part of managing the vehicles, so they can be quickly cleaned and fueled up when they slide into the airport, too. https://www.avisbudgetgroup.com/avis-budget-group-announces-multi-year-strategic-partnership-with-waymo/ https://www.avisbudgetgroup.com/avis-budget-group-announces-... (Dallas, but they do this in other cities, too.)