When you enter a BA lounge at the airport one thing is immediately apparent, these people don't like each other. To qualify for the lounge including free food and drink you must hold a first or business class ticket. At LHR I think the first class gets an even better lounge than us Club World slackers.
The SFO lounge looks like each passenger has been equipped with a strong repulsive magnet. So they all are forced to stay as far away from each other as possible. You know how magnets can repel. If there are say 10 chairs and 5 people they will occupy every other one, trying to stay as far away from each other as possible.
The wild card is if there are (god forbid) children in the mix. Having a few of my own I've seen this happen, believe me. Children have a tendency to go wherever they like, and they do. Grabbing snacks and drinks, leaving them half eaten and drunk and sitting in lots of different chairs as if they all needed testing. I guess that's what the London Times is for, to hold up and protect the proper Brit from having to acknowledge that there are other beings about.
Now transport to LHR lounge. They have a separate room for children so that problem is taken car of. But what about the other passengers? My contention has always been that in a room full of people of different races, the Brits will ignore each other (they haven't been introduced after all) and the Africans will discover a common relative within a few minutes time.
So that's what they do! They are soon talking about Aunt so-and-so or uncle whatever and spoiling the whole atmoshere for the Brits.
Well I say good. There's enough ignoring each other in the world already, let's find out who each other is.
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