I think Sedaris wanted to target all of us as readers. Although our initial thoughts may think the audience is those who have been in an airport, but hiss message on judgement carries out much further than the walls of the air port. I do believe he came to this writing idea from an air port experience, but wanted his purpose to apply to all life situations.
This story was published not long ago so much of what is socially going on the world now is similar. We have an African American President. We have the war in Iraq, and much more.
His message about how we all judge others is a serious one, but he lightens the criticism and pinger pointing by that of the use of humor. I do think his purpose is a successful one. It made us all sit back and take a second look at our life both in and outside of the air port and how we do judge others without knowing them.
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