Admirals Club newspaper theft
May 5, 2010, 5:17 pm
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Admirals Club newspaper theft
This may be covered elsewhere, But I wasn't sure what to topic put it under.
At 7:15 this morning I was in the big K-H ORD Admirals Club when I watched as a well dressed man pulled the NY Times and the WSJ off the "Library Bars" that hold the papers.
At first I thought it was just because it was easier to read the paper without the bar. I watched him disapprovingly as he did this since the papers are on the bars specifially to keep them in the club. But NO, he took the papers, folded them and then left the club.
I gave him the hairy eyeball while he was doing this. I mean come on you can't pop for the $3.50 for the 2 papers. And its one thing to take the paper at 8:00 PM when you are on a late flight and most of the traffic is gone for the day, but at 7:15 AM?
Did I handle this correctly?
Have others encountered this?
What else should I have done?
I didn't think I should make a scene, but what a rude thing to do.
At 7:15 this morning I was in the big K-H ORD Admirals Club when I watched as a well dressed man pulled the NY Times and the WSJ off the "Library Bars" that hold the papers.
At first I thought it was just because it was easier to read the paper without the bar. I watched him disapprovingly as he did this since the papers are on the bars specifially to keep them in the club. But NO, he took the papers, folded them and then left the club.
I gave him the hairy eyeball while he was doing this. I mean come on you can't pop for the $3.50 for the 2 papers. And its one thing to take the paper at 8:00 PM when you are on a late flight and most of the traffic is gone for the day, but at 7:15 AM?
Did I handle this correctly?
Have others encountered this?
What else should I have done?
I didn't think I should make a scene, but what a rude thing to do.
May 5, 2010, 5:18 pm
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Most airline lounges have papers that you're free to take. I guess he really wanted them. Personally, other than giving him a tsk, tsk, tsk, I would just go on with my life.
May 5, 2010, 5:21 pm
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<redacted> Taking $2 worth of "news" papers is about the only way to justify cost of AC over a year
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May 5, 2010, 5:26 pm
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The world is just full of twits.
May 5, 2010, 5:27 pm
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Who cares.
May 5, 2010, 5:32 pm
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May 5, 2010, 5:39 pm
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I always thought the bars were on the papers to prevent you from taking them into the bathroom.
May 5, 2010, 5:58 pm
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Must be a common occurrence to take newspapers from the AC. The guy sitting next to me in a flight from DFW this morning had both the WSJ and USA Today, prominently displaying the AC sticker.
May 5, 2010, 6:02 pm
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This may be covered elsewhere, But I wasn't sure what to topic put it under.
At 7:15 this morning I was in the big K-H ORD Admirals Club when I watched as a well dressed man pulled the NY Times and the WSJ off the "Library Bars" that hold the papers.
At first I thought it was just because it was easier to read the paper without the bar. I watched him disapprovingly as he did this since the papers are on the bars specifially to keep them in the club. But NO, he took the papers, folded them and then left the club.
I gave him the hairy eyeball while he was doing this. I mean come on you can't pop for the $3.50 for the 2 papers. And its one thing to take the paper at 8:00 PM when you are on a late flight and most of the traffic is gone for the day, but at 7:15 AM?
Did I handle this correctly?
Have others encountered this?
What else should I have done?
I didn't think I should make a scene, but what a rude thing to do.
At 7:15 this morning I was in the big K-H ORD Admirals Club when I watched as a well dressed man pulled the NY Times and the WSJ off the "Library Bars" that hold the papers.
At first I thought it was just because it was easier to read the paper without the bar. I watched him disapprovingly as he did this since the papers are on the bars specifially to keep them in the club. But NO, he took the papers, folded them and then left the club.
I gave him the hairy eyeball while he was doing this. I mean come on you can't pop for the $3.50 for the 2 papers. And its one thing to take the paper at 8:00 PM when you are on a late flight and most of the traffic is gone for the day, but at 7:15 AM?
Did I handle this correctly?
Have others encountered this?
What else should I have done?
I didn't think I should make a scene, but what a rude thing to do.
May 5, 2010, 6:03 pm
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I'm also sorry that your AC experiences have been so bad that you feel this is the only way to get value. I've received great help in IRROPS cases, including spontaneous rescheduling of international flights with upgrades intact within about 5 minutes of their noticing a problem that it's paid for itself several times over. I don't feel the need to filch papers to the detriment of others to justify my purchase.
Cheers.
Last edited by JDiver; May 5, 2010 at 7:55 pm Reason: deleted redacted comment
May 5, 2010, 6:15 pm
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My response to why people do things like this is always either out of ignorance or arrogance.
For frequent travelers, often the papers in hotels and such are free, so I could see someone truly not aware, but more than likely it is arrogance and they just care about themselves.
It always seems that the person who does this is the fifty year old businessman yapping on his blue-tooth, crowding around the gate prior to boarding, who wants everyone know just how important he is.
For frequent travelers, often the papers in hotels and such are free, so I could see someone truly not aware, but more than likely it is arrogance and they just care about themselves.
It always seems that the person who does this is the fifty year old businessman yapping on his blue-tooth, crowding around the gate prior to boarding, who wants everyone know just how important he is.
May 5, 2010, 6:22 pm
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The real tragedy here isn't that he stole the newspapers.
The tragedy is that he reads the WSJ, which is a practice that has been proven to be hazardous to your stock portfolio!
The tragedy is that he reads the WSJ, which is a practice that has been proven to be hazardous to your stock portfolio!
May 5, 2010, 7:57 pm
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May 5, 2010, 7:59 pm
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"Well dressed" doesn't mean "well educated" and doesn't preclude "cheap and sleazy". One wonders if his house has hotel bathrobes and towels, etc. 