How do people sleep at the airport?

Just as you read in the title of this post, I am wondering how people sleep at the airport.

This is something I never understood but it happens so often that it is impossible not to comment. For over two years now, I have been working in airports. I have been witnessed people who shop until the last second of their boarding time and missing their flight. I have witnessed people who sleep in the seats as they wait for their gate information. I once witnessed someone who came over to my shop and asked one of my colleagues to wake him up. And I have witnessed people who missed their flights altogether because they slept through their alarm as they waited for their gate information.

This just makes me wonder how can people do this? Is it such a common thing to do? Not just the sleep but how carefree people seem... Back when I was working at JD Sports, I was serving two men that were doing their last bit of shopping. As I helped them find what they wanted, they told me that this was the third time they had to buy a ticket to fly out in the past few days because they got to the gate too late as they were doing shopping. I joked around with them, and tried to hurry up serving them so they would actually make it on time when we heard the announcement “Could the remaining passengers of flight .... go to gate...” They laughed and told me they were on that flight. I think I was more panicked than they were. They slowly made their way out of the shop and went looking for their gate.

I am still wondering how they can spend so much money on flights they aren’t even taking and how they can be so chill about it the next time they fly out.

Along with this, I had people telling me that they missed their flight the day before because they fell asleep, and yet they still go around all the shops and calmly walk to their gates.

This might be because I am always so stressed when I am flying. I usually feel really sick during the flight so all I want is to make it go as quickly as possible. I like being on the plane early and trying to fall asleep before take off. So maybe it’s just me that gets very panicky and would rather be in a queue than having to worry all over again to fly.

If anyone has any answers please tell me. How do people do this? How can people be so relaxed?

Let me know in the comments if you’re like these people and you’re carefree when you’re flying.

Thank you for reading.

Sofia xx