Originally Posted by
smith80678
Alot of times if you just ask, they will give it to you. I once asked this FA is I could have a pair of her underwear and she said "ok".
At least you ask! It would be more than a larceny if you just took her underwear
Originally Posted by
OUTraveling
Thief. The morally correct action is to buy the used underwear from a vending machine.
Originally Posted by
OUTraveling
Virgin Atlantic discontinued Orville and Wilbur their cute salt and pepper shakers. Just because the airline will let you get away with it doesn't mean we need to take advantage. Same goes for hotels, we all assume every hotel room no matter how posh or nice is covered in bodily fluid. Just a wide awake nightmare of a CSI episode meets the Real World season 29. Now we can all add to that or we not wipe off on the curtains. As much as I could deal with a vinyl wrapped latex luxury hotel I think we have to have some restraint. Thats what I would think of the various stolen mugs, spoons, ear phones... This guy wipes it on the the rugs and curtains.
Originally Posted by
orbitmic
Similarly, why is it common sense that one cannot keep the little plastic ramequins that airlines use on many Y meals (or again for CE desserts) and which BA pays less than £0.10 for, but can keep the earphones that they hand out in WT and could very easily clean and use again (indeed, some airlines do it).
Ultimately, common sense is precisely judged by the fact that an immense majority of people would make the same guess as to what is or is not acceptable. In this particular case, the sheer number of people on this thread reporting to keeping airline crockery or salt and pepper shakers suggests that it is perhaps not quite as "commonly" sensed as you suggest...
Originally Posted by
golfmad
Common sense is subjective and comes down to a test of reasonableness. Different people will probably make slightly different choices regarding minutae (pens in hotels) but most will probably agree about the important stuff (reusable items from airlines*).
*I exclude BA F pajamas from this list.
I think its an entitlement thing less so than common sense. My mother took earphones that had the two prong connector. How the hell could we use them? My mother felt we were entitled to have a deck of cards for the flight for each seat. She took that to mean we should get a new deck each flight for each seat. Like I said we never played cards on the trips. There was a deck that had been used but dozens upon dozens of unopened decks. Both bathrooms had boxes of lotions and shampoos and more in the closets too. Just like the Virgin Atlantic Orville and Wilbur salt and pepper shaker and playing cards before that there will come a time that after all the small thefts it add up to discontinuing the niceties. I guess if you feel entitled to take something take it. But dont be surprised at tearing open little paper packets for salt and pepper in the future.