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Should you pick your partner from the airport? It can be the ultimate gesture or a lovebomb
Imagine someone came to pick you up at Bengaluru airport. Spend more than two hours in traffic to see you? And pay for a cab both ways? There’s no bigger confession of love.
The intimacy of picking someone up from the airport is unmatched for its cinematic value alone. The restlessness of a boyfriend waiting at the arrivals gate, with the loved ones of 100 other strangers, can be felt at the runway. Actually, not felt—he texts about it. And then he runs toward you with flowers in his hand when he sees you. Who doesn’t want a welcome like that?
Apart from the people who avoid looking sweaty and travel-sad in front of their partner, everyone wants to be picked up—at the airport, railway station, or metro station. From a lover girl’s point of view, it’s a moment decorated with heart eye emojis and a background score of ‘awwwww’. In fact, it’s one of those gestures that make a casual relationship very, very serious. Some people go through lives dreaming of such a thing. Love Actually (2003) and a million other romcoms have shown this a trillion times. Now, imagine someone came to pick you up at Bengaluru........