Linehopper: Same family as gate lice?
Dec 4, 2009, 6:06 am
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Linehopper: Same family as gate lice?
AA #1129 12/3 DFW-AUS.
Mrs. Dallas49er and I are waiting to board, and assigned 3E & F, standing at the entrance to PriorityAAcess. GA announces F boarding. As we approach the ticket reader, with others in 1st behind us, from out of NOWHERE, a young man races down the other line and extends his BP in front of my wife.
The GA says "I believe these people were in front of you".
Young man: "But I'm in First Class!"
Lady behind me: "All of us are in First"
Guy Behind her: "Back of the line,......Dude!"
Embarrased, he does the walk of shame to the back of the line. The lady behind me says as he goes by, "I'm sure your father would be so proud of you, if you knew who he was."
All over in less than 10 seconds. Wanted a cattle prod.
Mrs. Dallas49er and I are waiting to board, and assigned 3E & F, standing at the entrance to PriorityAAcess. GA announces F boarding. As we approach the ticket reader, with others in 1st behind us, from out of NOWHERE, a young man races down the other line and extends his BP in front of my wife.
The GA says "I believe these people were in front of you".
Young man: "But I'm in First Class!"
Lady behind me: "All of us are in First"
Guy Behind her: "Back of the line,......Dude!"
Embarrased, he does the walk of shame to the back of the line. The lady behind me says as he goes by, "I'm sure your father would be so proud of you, if you knew who he was."
All over in less than 10 seconds. Wanted a cattle prod.
Dec 4, 2009, 6:10 am
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Dec 4, 2009, 6:30 am
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ROFL !!
Dec 4, 2009, 6:38 am
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Dec 4, 2009, 8:13 am
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Cheers.
Dec 4, 2009, 8:18 am
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Mike
Dec 4, 2009, 8:19 am
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+1 Agree totally. That comment was cruel and not funny in the least.
Dec 4, 2009, 8:45 am
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When I 1st started travelling in the early '80s, I might have either been that young man or one of the people who said something.
But now, my goals are: 1. To get my bags reasonably close to my seat, 2. Perhaps have a PDB, 3. And get to my intended destination reasonably close to the time it's supposed to (with the understanding that wx and mx happen). My old tag line used to be: The things that used to really "cheese" me off, now just kind of irritate me." Youth is truly wasted on the young.
Back OT (kinda): I was just trying to piggyback one kind of behaviour, line jumping, onto another behaviour-gate lice.
Dec 4, 2009, 9:36 am
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I know starting a new thread on FT is about as exciting as being first in line to board a plane, but perhaps this would have been better appended to that other useless thread.
Dec 4, 2009, 9:43 am
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Dec 4, 2009, 9:49 am
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Once the GA told the guy that the people he was cutting were ahead of him, IMO everyone else should have kept quiet and let the GA continue to handle it. If the GA seemed like s/he was going to let the guy cut, then people could have chimed in...but as it's being told, the GA deserves a ^
Dec 4, 2009, 9:53 am
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What would not have been funny is if the line-crasher actually didn't know his father...
Dec 4, 2009, 9:56 am
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I do have a finely honed sarcastic streak though.
Dec 4, 2009, 10:57 am
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I try to sit in 3F whenever I can, and try to be the first on board for just this reason. It's amazing the number of times that people sitting further back will try to snag this space for their own bags.