We missed our connection from Istanbul to Frankfurt so we stayed another night. We were told that we were on the 8:30 am direct flight to SF the next morning. We weren’t. We were booked on the 1:15 flight. We hung out at the airport the next day for seven hours waiting to check in. The airport is almost a half mile from one end to the other. I walked it several times, looking at my fellow passengers and shopkeepers, some of whom appear here in my blog. No one is smiling.