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Old Sep 12, 2018 | 1:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Proudelitist
I don't suffer fools, and there are plenty of them in the air. It comes down to people not knowing how to travel and being ill prepared for it. Bags so heavy they have to impose on other passengers to lift them, ignorance of how to reserve seats or that seats are differentially priced so they end up demanding swaps or poaching, people trying to swim upstream after landing to get their bags from 9 rows back (and then trying to make their way back to their row for some bizarre reason) , people who don't prepare properly for TSA checks, and traveling without the common sense basics like a pen or a means to tell time.

It may not be a big deal for occasional fliers, but for those of us up there several times a week, it begins to grate on the nerves because it happens so incredibly often. I get tired of being a nanny to Kettles or worse to frequent fliers who should know better.

So yeah, the line in the sand is drawn.
I absolutely 100% agree with all of this. However - never fly within the former USSR nations then, lol. Take it from someone who travels from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka and everywhere in between in and out of Moscow on a regular basis!

Originally Posted by Proudelitist
I am going to start carrying a pen without ink around, just to teach these fools a lesson in how to travel.

THIS! Genius idea.
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