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Old Sep 12, 2018 | 6:03 pm
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catcher1
 
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Southern California
Programs: AA EXPlat, 2.4MM; HHonors Diamond
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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.
Now you resort to a bunch of red herrings.
This is about a simple request to borrow a pen. You don't have to be a nanny to lend a pen, in my view you just have to be a decent human being. Even if it "grates on your nerves."
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