Originally Posted by
bdmaus
(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":
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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?
I hear you. I was at LAX, checking in, and overheard a guy behind me saying how soon his flight was leaving, and he didn't think he was going to make it.
Out of some (misplaced?) goodness, I actually offered for him to go go ahead.
So (collecting his girlfriend who had suddenly appeared from nowhere), he proceeds to take an age to check in.
Then I get to the gate, only to find him and his girlfriend are on *the same flight as me*