(apologies if you've just read this in the BA forum!)

While checking-in in Sydney recently, I had what some of you might term "quite an experience":

It quite busy, being school holidays and around 8:30am. I had finally reached the head of the Qantas Club check-in queue. No flights had been called.

A desperate-looking woman clutching a baby walks up to me and asks if she can go ahead of me because her flight is leaving. Feeling in no particular hurry, having left plenty of time to make my flight, I aquiesced.

Then suddenly out of nowhere appears her *husband*, two large suitcases and *his golf clubs*.

They then march up to the counter and spend the next five minutes arguing with the poor checkin person about their seats.

I was pretty miffed. I can't imagine what the people behind me in the queue were thinking... I dared not look back!

Am I the only one who has ever fallen for this sort of sucker-punch?

I think next time this happens I'm likely to retort with "Sorry you should have left for the airport earlier" - but what kind of schmuck would that make me?