DYKWIA - The 2017 thread
Jul 13, 2017, 5:12 am
#691
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One could stick that on one's forehead (after the correction of one of the two "too"s 
) as a true sign of a wannabe DYKWIA.
That's more of a "DWYKWIA" ("don't [really] want you to know who I am?") 
) as a true sign of a wannabe DYKWIA.
Jul 13, 2017, 5:22 am
#692
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Closest to a DYKWIA for me, my wife and I were on the day flight JFK-LHR and largely due to still being on UK time we arrived at check in really early.
We rock up to the deserted club check-in where we are are rather disdainfully looked up and down by the staff member.
Snooty BA staff member "You know this is business class check-in?"
Me "Yes I know, we are actually travelling in First but there is nobody there yet"
He was quite friendly after that although he did seem disappointed that I knew where the Concorde room was.
We rock up to the deserted club check-in where we are are rather disdainfully looked up and down by the staff member.
Snooty BA staff member "You know this is business class check-in?"
Me "Yes I know, we are actually travelling in First but there is nobody there yet"
He was quite friendly after that although he did seem disappointed that I knew where the Concorde room was.
Jul 13, 2017, 5:29 am
#693
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I put my kids' BA bag tags on their Trunki Boostapaks that they carry as hand baggage; because I like the fact they don't have personal information on them, but if they do get left somewhere there's a good chance they will find their way back to us.
Once on a SH flight the CC helped her put her bag in the overhead and saw the card. "Oh, you've got Daddy's card on your bag in case you lose it?" to which my 5yr old daughter replies "No, that's my card. Daddy's has a guh and a luh on it. But he doesn't put it on his bag." CC mooches off and I see her scanning through the manifest and then coming back and declaring her as the youngest GCH she'd ever looked after.
Not quite sure if that particular example makes my daughter DYKWIA, but asking the Easyjet stewardess how her seat turned into a bed when we were on a flight the previous year certainly does
Once on a SH flight the CC helped her put her bag in the overhead and saw the card. "Oh, you've got Daddy's card on your bag in case you lose it?" to which my 5yr old daughter replies "No, that's my card. Daddy's has a guh and a luh on it. But he doesn't put it on his bag." CC mooches off and I see her scanning through the manifest and then coming back and declaring her as the youngest GCH she'd ever looked after.
Not quite sure if that particular example makes my daughter DYKWIA, but asking the Easyjet stewardess how her seat turned into a bed when we were on a flight the previous year certainly does
Jul 13, 2017, 6:45 am
#695
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I put my kids' BA bag tags on their Trunki Boostapaks that they carry as hand baggage; because I like the fact they don't have personal information on them, but if they do get left somewhere there's a good chance they will find their way back to us.
Once on a SH flight the CC helped her put her bag in the overhead and saw the card. "Oh, you've got Daddy's card on your bag in case you lose it?" to which my 5yr old daughter replies "No, that's my card. Daddy's has a guh and a luh on it. But he doesn't put it on his bag." CC mooches off and I see her scanning through the manifest and then coming back and declaring her as the youngest GCH she'd ever looked after.
Not quite sure if that particular example makes my daughter DYKWIA, but asking the Easyjet stewardess how her seat turned into a bed when we were on a flight the previous year certainly does
Once on a SH flight the CC helped her put her bag in the overhead and saw the card. "Oh, you've got Daddy's card on your bag in case you lose it?" to which my 5yr old daughter replies "No, that's my card. Daddy's has a guh and a luh on it. But he doesn't put it on his bag." CC mooches off and I see her scanning through the manifest and then coming back and declaring her as the youngest GCH she'd ever looked after.
Not quite sure if that particular example makes my daughter DYKWIA, but asking the Easyjet stewardess how her seat turned into a bed when we were on a flight the previous year certainly does
Jul 13, 2017, 8:52 am
#697
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My youngest (now a strapping 17-year old) was most put out a couple of years ago to discover that Easyjet don't do lounges...
He has done all his L/H flying in J so is already fussing about how to survive his upcoming LHR-HKG on the cheapest WT ticket
My fatherly advice ? "Suck it up, buttercup !"
He has done all his L/H flying in J so is already fussing about how to survive his upcoming LHR-HKG on the cheapest WT ticket
My fatherly advice ? "Suck it up, buttercup !"
Jul 13, 2017, 9:02 am
#698
Join Date: Jul 2013
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My youngest (now a strapping 17-year old) was most put out a couple of years ago to discover that Easyjet don't do lounges...
He has done all his L/H flying in J so is already fussing about how to survive his upcoming LHR-HKG on the cheapest WT ticket
My fatherly advice ? "Suck it up, buttercup !"
He has done all his L/H flying in J so is already fussing about how to survive his upcoming LHR-HKG on the cheapest WT ticket
My fatherly advice ? "Suck it up, buttercup !"
Jul 13, 2017, 9:08 am
#699
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My youngest (now a strapping 17-year old) was most put out a couple of years ago to discover that Easyjet don't do lounges...
He has done all his L/H flying in J so is already fussing about how to survive his upcoming LHR-HKG on the cheapest WT ticket
My fatherly advice ? "Suck it up, buttercup !"
He has done all his L/H flying in J so is already fussing about how to survive his upcoming LHR-HKG on the cheapest WT ticket
My fatherly advice ? "Suck it up, buttercup !"
Jul 13, 2017, 10:10 am
#700
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Closest to a DYKWIA for me, my wife and I were on the day flight JFK-LHR and largely due to still being on UK time we arrived at check in really early.
We rock up to the deserted club check-in where we are are rather disdainfully looked up and down by the staff member.
Snooty BA staff member "You know this is business class check-in?"
Me "Yes I know, we are actually travelling in First but there is nobody there yet"
He was quite friendly after that although he did seem disappointed that I knew where the Concorde room was.
We rock up to the deserted club check-in where we are are rather disdainfully looked up and down by the staff member.
Snooty BA staff member "You know this is business class check-in?"
Me "Yes I know, we are actually travelling in First but there is nobody there yet"
He was quite friendly after that although he did seem disappointed that I knew where the Concorde room was.
Jul 13, 2017, 10:18 am
#701
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Ha ha , my daughter did exactly the same many years ago . Arriving at our seat for an easy jet flight she said in a loud voice "where is the bed?". If I could have gone thru the floor into the hold I would have done. I'm sure I heard someone mutter "spoilt brat"
Jul 13, 2017, 12:34 pm
#702
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Jul 13, 2017, 2:28 pm
#703
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Jul 13, 2017, 3:03 pm
#704
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I put my kids' BA bag tags on their Trunki Boostapaks that they carry as hand baggage; because I like the fact they don't have personal information on them, but if they do get left somewhere there's a good chance they will find their way back to us.
Once on a SH flight the CC helped her put her bag in the overhead and saw the card. "Oh, you've got Daddy's card on your bag in case you lose it?" to which my 5yr old daughter replies "No, that's my card. Daddy's has a guh and a luh on it. But he doesn't put it on his bag." CC mooches off and I see her scanning through the manifest and then coming back and declaring her as the youngest GCH she'd ever looked after.
Not quite sure if that particular example makes my daughter DYKWIA, but asking the Easyjet stewardess how her seat turned into a bed when we were on a flight the previous year certainly does
Once on a SH flight the CC helped her put her bag in the overhead and saw the card. "Oh, you've got Daddy's card on your bag in case you lose it?" to which my 5yr old daughter replies "No, that's my card. Daddy's has a guh and a luh on it. But he doesn't put it on his bag." CC mooches off and I see her scanning through the manifest and then coming back and declaring her as the youngest GCH she'd ever looked after.
Not quite sure if that particular example makes my daughter DYKWIA, but asking the Easyjet stewardess how her seat turned into a bed when we were on a flight the previous year certainly does
Jul 13, 2017, 3:16 pm
#705
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I put my kids' BA bag tags on their Trunki Boostapaks that they carry as hand baggage; because I like the fact they don't have personal information on them, but if they do get left somewhere there's a good chance they will find their way back to us.
Once on a SH flight the CC helped her put her bag in the overhead and saw the card. "Oh, you've got Daddy's card on your bag in case you lose it?" to which my 5yr old daughter replies "No, that's my card. Daddy's has a guh and a luh on it. But he doesn't put it on his bag." CC mooches off and I see her scanning through the manifest and then coming back and declaring her as the youngest GCH she'd ever looked after.
Not quite sure if that particular example makes my daughter DYKWIA, but asking the Easyjet stewardess how her seat turned into a bed when we were on a flight the previous year certainly does
Once on a SH flight the CC helped her put her bag in the overhead and saw the card. "Oh, you've got Daddy's card on your bag in case you lose it?" to which my 5yr old daughter replies "No, that's my card. Daddy's has a guh and a luh on it. But he doesn't put it on his bag." CC mooches off and I see her scanning through the manifest and then coming back and declaring her as the youngest GCH she'd ever looked after.
Not quite sure if that particular example makes my daughter DYKWIA, but asking the Easyjet stewardess how her seat turned into a bed when we were on a flight the previous year certainly does