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- Thread starter Cruel Halo
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Most people are legitimately stupid. That becomes more apparent every day. At least you'll get the joy of knowing her rage after you get her booted.
"I'm already here, you can take that seat (pointing)"
Yeah... ummm... that's not how assigned seating works.
Yeah... ummm... that's not how assigned seating works.
flew from DFW to GRI the other day. 2 seats together. I'm in isle, lady next to me gets asked if she wants to move so we could be more comfortable. Lady declines, and i don't get extended the same offer as i was flying with someone who was in the row in front of me.....
I'm still angry at that.
I'm still angry at that.
I wonder if it was something like this: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/ne...irline-will-land-someone-in-court/ar-BB1qDReZ
I will see that and raise you a stay at a hotel on a honeymoon where a little league tournament was being played (Omaha) and they were all staying at said hotel....
I don't get this one either. Unless you fly Southwest, your seat is clearly marked on your boarding pass. Do not understand where these people think they have the right to sit in better seats. When I fly Alaska or Delta, I always sit in the upgraded area just behind first class in an aisle seat. I am not giving up my aisle seat. Sometimes my wife and I on long flights like the ones from Seattle to Raleigh-Durham, NC to see her mom, we will book the aisle seats across from one another as my wife doesn't want to get stuck in a middle seat. The closest I ever came to being asked to move by another passenger was when a woman in the middle seat kept mentioning her husband. I am a little hard of hearing, so it took me a few minutes to realize her husband was sitting in the middle seat directly behind her. When I turned to look, he gave me this strange little wave. I never said anything about their seating situation, nor did I offer to change places with him.
The last time I really enjoyed watching the Huskers was when I lived in Florida. I'm back too. So, this can't be some coincidence, can it? It has to be a fate thing!!
And getting dumber. A study published about 10 years ago made the claim that the average IQ in the Western world had dropped 14 points over the course of the 20th century. Based on what we're seeing today, I'd wager it's dropped another 14 since the beginning of this century. No joke.
My favorite flying story from flying for over 40 years.
I was on a smaller plane (2X2) about 20 rows (80 seats) going from Atlanta to Charleston West Virginia. We were all on the plane and I had an aisle seat with the window seat open. There were no more than 15-16 passengers on this plane and there were 4 vacant rows behind me. I decided to slide over to the window.
Just before they could close the door for this marvelous 55 minute flight, on comes hard boiled business woman onto the plane. She proceeds to my row and proclaimrd to me that the window is her seat, ignoring the fact that there are 8 window seats open behind us with no one sitting in the aisle seat and she's the last person on the plane. I asked her since I was settled if she could just take one of the other seats and her response was: "No, get your *** out of MY seat". She then summoned the flight attendant to let her know that I was sitting in her seat. The flight attendant asked her to take one of the other seats and she again refused and pitched a fit.
I, being the kind and considerate person that I am, then relented and said "OK ma'am, I'll move so you can have your assigned seat. She actually said "about time". I got up and she sat down, then I proceed to plank my fat *** in the seat next to her. She was shocked and asked me why I wasn't taking a seat in another row, and I informed her that this seat is MY assigned seat. I road next to her the entire trip. The flight attendant laughed which pissed her off even more.
What a great day!
That's fantastic. I've flown into Charleston twice a long time ago. Isn't it the airport that's basically scraped onto the top of a pretty serious hill-almost-wants-to-be-a-mountain? Like you're getting really close to some really rough terrain and wondering just WTF they're planning to land?
You are spot on. Lived in that area for a couple years about 25 years ago. It is on a mountain top and a shorter runway. Gets a bit windy. Not the best combination. A couple times we had to avoid deer and turkeys.
They look like hills when the Rockies are the mountains you're used to seeing. Anyway, you're right, if you can fly into the side of it it's a mountain.
My dad was born a raised about 30 miles south. When he was a kid same airport. The have actually extended the runways since. But back in tje day pilots got hazard pay landing in Charleston because the runway was shorter and if you didn’t get stopped you were literally in Downtown Charleston.
It's a beautiful area, would love to explore there someday. I was probably there in 2000 or 2001.
It’s gorgeous they have snow shoe resort in the NE . The greenbrier in the SE and the Hatfield-McCoy trails kind of in the middle.
I was fly back from Barcelona and a good looking gal sat next to me, the the airline attendant moved her cause it wasen't her seat...seemed wrong.
but another time I was coming from across the pond and I was cramped looked over and there were 2 empty seats next to a good looking gal, so I asked if I could move.....so you win some and lose some.
my first flight was from la to san diego...I was probably 3 ft tall...I looked across the isle and there was a large bald businessman..buy the end of the flight this man had a cigar in one hand, a vodka in the other and a marlin monroe type flight attendant siting on his lap, and they were both laughing loudly...
I knew then I was born 100 years too late
but another time I was coming from across the pond and I was cramped looked over and there were 2 empty seats next to a good looking gal, so I asked if I could move.....so you win some and lose some.
my first flight was from la to san diego...I was probably 3 ft tall...I looked across the isle and there was a large bald businessman..buy the end of the flight this man had a cigar in one hand, a vodka in the other and a marlin monroe type flight attendant siting on his lap, and they were both laughing loudly...
I knew then I was born 100 years too late
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Dude this happened to me yesterday too. Full plane. I was one of the last to board so the plane is almost full. I’m around 6’3” 245 and had an aisle seat. Got to my row and there is a girl in my aisle seat and the middle seat is open. I nod and say “that’s me”. She gets up and proceeds to step out into the aisle and take a step back and motion to me to enter the row and take the middle seat. I go “my seat is D, the aisle seat, yours is the middle.” She scowls and goes “oh. Yeah.” I go “nice try though”.
I’ve had it happen 2-3 times now over the last year or so with people just trying to passive aggressively get me to take the middle seat. And every time I’m like “no chance”.
People that do this stuff and count on other people just submitting or being too kind to say something really bothers me.
About 30 years ago I boarded the Delta 4.5 hour flight from Atlanta to LA. I had a first class window. Was pleased to see a gorgeous 35-something gal on the aisle. Long black hair, ice-blue eyes, ample chest, low-cut blouse. She was Russian traveling from Kiev to San Fran through LA. She spoke English well with an accent I found sexy. She smelled like alcohol and body odor, which was not a bad thing. During the flight she put down about six double vodkas and lectured me the whole time (with a smile) about being an imperialist. She sounded like Pravda, accused US of "engaging in mischief" around the world and "fostering hegemony", stuff like that. She bemoaned the collapse of the Soviet Union and said the "sub-humans" in the republics won't be able to govern themselves without Russian help. One thing she said that always stuck with me is Russians hate no longer being the other super-power and someday a strong leader will emerge and get Russia back on track. She considered Gorbachev a traitor and said Russia needed an "issen-man" (iron-man) to set things right. When Putin came to power years later I was like "Uh Huh", he is supported by people like her. BTW, she was born and raised in Kiev, but referred to Ukraine as being "Russian".
I have to admit, looking into those ice-blue eyes while she was bouncing around accusing me of being an "economic and cultural imperialist" made that 4.5 hour flight seem like 30 minutes.
