Originally Posted by
akalra1187
Nothing really wrong with this, and definitely not hillarious like the OPs story.
There's nothing wrong with trying to get a better level of service, particularly if for any reason you didn't travel so much in the last year but do plan to take your loyalty back to an airline with upcoming travel.
She sounds like she was polite enough in her approach. I don't get why you were eavesdropping...
No one could not but hear the whole thing unfold. I was standing no more than 2 meters away from the receptionist desk.
The DYKWIA attitude became obvious when the queue stetched outside the hallway but she kept going at the receptionist, with all these weird excuses of which I recounted what got stuck.
She clearly knew the rules. Instead of stopping this scene at the second no, she was more than trying her luck without any regard to other passengers.