From Aronne James Merrelli Sent Sun, Apr 18th 1999, 20:50
From Aronne James Merrelli Sent Sun, Apr 18th 1999, 20:50
Excerpts from mail: 18-Apr-99 idm-digest V2 #623 by xxx-xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > If anyone has even been through the "neon tunnel" in chicago's O'Hare > airport they can relate to this one: I was running to catch my flight > home (Grand Rapids, MI), when I happened into the tunnel. As I rode the > moving walkway everything seemed to sync perfectly: the > bleepy computer generated music, the flashing of the neon lighting above > my head, the drone of the crowd, and the synthetic "please watch you step" > emitted by the walkway. I was completely amazed, and must have looked like > an idiot gazing at the ceiling in total bliss. Once I > was out of the tunnel, I cursed myself for not having a mini cassette > recorder. It was too cool. Hehe. A few months ago I had a layover in O'hare at some horrible time like 4-6 AM. I had to change terminals, so I passed through one of those tunnels. At the end of each walkway there was a recording playing back "The moving walkway is nearing its end. Please watch your step" or something to that effect; however the acoustics of the tunnel accentuated only the two syllables "ing wa". And since it was 4 am, there was practically no one there so it was echoing down the tunnel... So as I passed down the tunnel, all I heard was weird progression of echoing "ing wa.. ing wa..." and the weird lights and bleepy music... It have just been the fact that I was really sleepy-groggy at 4 AM, but it was _really_ trippy at the time. :) It would have been cool to get a recording of it though, thats for sure. aronne.