A Terminal Experiment

At J.F.K., in Search of 'The Terminal':

At breakfast — eggs and toast in a plastic-foam container — I was joined by the Japanese couple. Susumu, a photographer back home in Tokyo, said that his girlfriend, Natsumi, in a black-mesh cowboy hat, had a toothache: her right rear lower gum was inflated like a tiny red Parker-House roll. Eager to be of service, I went to the nearest newsstand and bought a $2 bottle of Anbesol, for which I was charged $9.79. (Airport living, though Spartan, is not cheap. Over three days and two nights I spent $157 without consuming anything more decadent than a tuna sandwich.)

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