Bonesteel part 5- Back in SAV

Resolution of sorts, typed at a small in-airport cafe with a cold gluten-free muffin.

Just completed the 2 hour flight from Sioux Falls to Dallas. Ordinarily no problem, everyone's sleepy since the flight is 6am. All board the plane, and there's a free row in the back, directly behind me. A man flags down a flight attendant, I figure he's going to ask if he can sit there. He does.. and he invites this older lady from a few rows down to join, and she's ecstatic. 

RANT AHEAD: SKIP TO NEXT MARKER IF YOU CAN'T BE BOTHERED:
They spend the entirety of the two hour flight, literally without any pause, talking loudly about every relative they know. There is never a comfortable pause in conversation, it just keeps going and going and going. The girl sitting sitting next to me, the row in front of the talkers, smothers herself in her fleece blanket, which I suppose offers some soundproofing. My earplugs are useless against them, the man pounding on the seat in glee and the lady's cackling laughter. At this point I'm operating on roughly 2 hours of sleep.. Off the airbridge, they're all hugs and goodbyes, and fair enough, but no social awareness whatsoever, even having their big farewell in the path of foot traffic. Such people bring realization the phrase "hell is other people." I hope their next flights are seated next to screeching babies and the attendants give them the diet version of their drink and their planes fly into the sun. Or I did in the moment, anyway. Now I've settled into a general ennui and it seems they've moved my next flight's gate so I've got to hustle over to find the new takeoff point. 
I was hoping for a more relaxing denouement to my trip, but it seems it's going to be a hassle all the way back to Savannah. Cannot forget the headphones for the next trip. can't believe I didn't even consider it.

RANT OVER

Update after the FSD-SAV flight- got two entire rows of seats adjacent to me totally empty. Needed that respite from the usual crush of humanity.. and in some ways the trip to South Dakota was very much the same- an escape from the noise, traffic, impatience. There's definitely something very special about that region and the people that live there. I'd like to return someday..

Greenery gateway in Gregory