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Who doesn’t love an airline lounge when you have time on your hands and you need space from the swarms of people flocking around those tiny connected chairs in an airless waiting area of a gate?

Corporate road warriors - Let us Unite and pay tribute to the holy "lounge."

Those relaxing open spaces with giant TVs, cocktails (virgin and otherwise) and that great “hotel lobby” smell.

Sidebar - reading - optional - Hotel Lobby Smell Defined: You know when you stay in a really nice hotel and you walk into the lobby and the air conditioning brushes against your skin and there’s this very pleasant scent that you can’t quite identify except you are sure you smelled the same scent in an outdoor sportswear store at Mont Tremblant or Whistler Blackcomb and the great thing is the scent stays on the clothes you buy for at least a few days so people think that you smell especially good – not that you don’t?

 

You could bring some work with you and send a few emails, create a slide presentation, connect on LinkedIn, tweet on Twitter, Check in on Foursquare (risky because they may wonder why you are checking in from the lounge for 3 days straight), watch YouTube videos, call a friend that lives in whatever city you are in and ask them to meet you for a bite or a cocktail before your plane leaves (even though you are not getting on a plane and you are really in your home city where – let’s face it – if you really wanted to see that person – you would have done so before you took this big voyage to the airport lounge).