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I honestly wasn't going for a one-liner joke, I really do find the SFO gate this way when walking towards it.

Being HN, I figured I'd explicitly spell it out. On Twitter you'd be right.

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Is it embarrassing to admit, op helped me understand the joke with the additional lines?

I’m right there with you. Perhaps I’m extra dense because Florida.

Why florida?

Far from SF? WI here, I can relate. No idea what people flying to SF are wearing.

Perhaps you, like me, were thrown because the first line is actually wrong. "The SFO airport gate" is actually "one of the gates at SFO", which is to say, it's a gate in San Francisco Airport. The better phrasing would be "gate for SFO".

With that change, the first sentence lands perfectly for me (at least as far as I can tell). A single word can make or break the whole thing. Jokes are interesting like that.

This is the most HN discussion of a joke I've ever seen.

But... it wasn't a joke!

Hahaha, that just makes it even funnier! :D

"... lands perfectly..."

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Exactly lol. Spent a minute trying to wrap my head around how the hell would one be able to find the gate to an airport while driving/taking public transport, by looking at other people's headphones.

And you don’t even need an /s tag!

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