T8191

Hey, don't be shy. Canada used to belong to Britain

... and France ... and the indigenous peoples, but they don't get their own Forum

evanderm

Ah, but you see, I'm not Canadian. I am in fact a BOTC and a BC (OTBD) as well in addition to my inherited (European) nationality (which isn't French; hint: we honour the King of Spain in our national anthem).

T8191

I give up

PeterT1953

What do you mean "used to"? When did that change?

LTN Phobia

It could well have been the latter. I have once been told by a rather amusing (and amused) cabin crew member, "You were sleeping and weren't moving at all, like you were dead!" with a somewhat nervous laugh.

I was just saying, for some reason I notice that the Prems and GGLs seem to have a tendency to forgo the service and sleep as much as possible (I tend to like eating so I eat but also sleep before and after, and have been known to even sleep between courses if they are slow).

Sleeping is probably not the most productive way to be DYKWIA though... Not many people are doing DYKWIA stuff when sleeping, unless they are into sleep-DYKWIA-ing.

T8191

Ahh, one could also argue that you are FAR too important/glamorous/intelligent to waste your life consuming airline food or attempting to watch IFE.

COOL, Lady LTN

JetAirways77W

LOL that post yesterday was very DYKWIA of me. whoops let me delete it

DavidPM

Wonderful - nicely done, and brilliantly effective. Please don't delete it - it'll amuse (and enrage) more yet

BadgerBoi

You sweet old fashioned thing, still clinging to the idea that there's such a thing as a British Empire

Hobbes01

Was he that Johan Cruyff chap?

Calchas

Dutchman who married an overseas territory British person????

evanderm

Sorry for taking the thread severely off topic, but born to Dutch parents in a British Overseas Territory.

Hobbes01

How is it off-topic to ask people if they know who you are?

paulwuk

Right DYKWIA today, claimed he was gold too. At 0855, just after doors close, I was sat in the ast row in WTP on a 777 (25J), when someone darts from behind and settles into 25G. I suspected a self-upgrader, but being charitable it could have been someone who had been talking to friends further back. Being uncharitable I wondered if the crew had allowed him to be upgraded, and later I was delighted to eat my thoughts.

The BO smell wafted across the aisle.

A lengthly taxi meant that wheels up wasn't until 0917. After takeoff, the cabin crew set around closing the curtains and doing other pre-seatbelt-off stuff. At 0930 one of the cabin crew, CB, arrived to talk to Mr X (who it turns out had self upgraded), and spent 3 minutes gently telling him that it wasn't possible for him to sit there, and BA had policies that it couldn't upgrade people on board. Mr X was very instant that "he was a gold card holder", and he had asked at both checkin and the gate, to be told that WTP was full. As it clearly wasn't, and he didn't want any food, he was entitled to just sit down and rest, and he had his own policy, so they were both right, and he would just stay there!

Making no progress CB went to get T, the CSM. He then arrives with the same story. Apparently this lowly gold card holder has a "right" to be upgraded. T wasn't having it, and pointed out there were many gold card holders in economy. I was biting my tongue when Mr X was saying how much business BA would be losing if he wasn't allowed to stay there. At 0937 Mr X returned back to WT, and my nostrils breathed a sigh of relief.

I do hope BA charge him for the 40 minutes he was occupying WTP.

LTN Phobia

I think you should have given him a bill for the olfactory assault.