First 121 flight was IAD-GSP. Gate C22 at IAD. Departure was delayed (nice stormy/windy day in D.C.), sitting in the gate area waiting for the IOE Capt to show up (he got the notice that it was delayed, I didn't) I got to sit and talk to the IAD Airport Police and file a report after some drunk got ****ed at United Customer "Service" (shocker I know) and punched a hole in the wall in the concourse. Nerve racking sitting in the gate area and looking around seeing all the faces that would soon be putting their lives in my hand. The funny thing is that as soon as the cockpit door closed, I realized that it was just another airplane. You pull back the houses get smaller...you push foward the houses get bigger. After that it was no sweat.