[exmadscientist]

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.

[slowwriter]

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

[fsflover]

But... it wasn't a joke!

[slowwriter]

Hahaha, that just makes it even funnier! :D

[SZJX]

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.

[onlinejk]

"... lands perfectly..."

claps vehemently