DYKWIA - The 2017 thread
Feb 27, 2017, 12:44 pm
#106
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Feb 27, 2017, 1:07 pm
#107
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Everyone is far too well-behaved at the moment - I think I shall have to throw a loud strop in the lobby between the FLounge and CCR tomorrow 
Feb 27, 2017, 1:29 pm
#108
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Listing to music in a public place without headphones is something which you'd expect from thoughtless teenagers who had not learned empathy, not adults.
Feb 27, 2017, 9:05 pm
#109
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Right - I shall endure the abuse I deserve, and post my DYKWIA moment.
Flying MH J is my least preferable product to Asia. I slept 3 hours of a 12 hour flight, and reached KL feeling exhausted...knowing I had a 2 hour layover, and then a 45 minute flight to SIN ahead.
I went up to the MH Lounge during the layover, and was told to head to Gate H2, no less than 20 minutes before departure time.
So, 40mins before, I head to H2 and see a lengthy queue. As I was in J, and as I was in a massive mood (phone not working properly, meetings delayed etc), I decided to skip the queue (nobody objected), went through the security machines, and waltzed down the escalator - where I found boarding had commenced already. This further annoyed me, because I was of the belief they would wait to board J
Knowing I needed space for my handbaggage, I promptly walked straight past the boarding queue, flashed my boarding pass, and walked onto the plane to find my seat.
However, I was rudely stopped upon walking onto the plane. Why you may ask? Well, because I was about to board a flight to Bangkok and not Singapore...the SIN gate had been changed to H4, and I hadn't bothered to check.
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy.
M
Flying MH J is my least preferable product to Asia. I slept 3 hours of a 12 hour flight, and reached KL feeling exhausted...knowing I had a 2 hour layover, and then a 45 minute flight to SIN ahead.
I went up to the MH Lounge during the layover, and was told to head to Gate H2, no less than 20 minutes before departure time.
So, 40mins before, I head to H2 and see a lengthy queue. As I was in J, and as I was in a massive mood (phone not working properly, meetings delayed etc), I decided to skip the queue (nobody objected), went through the security machines, and waltzed down the escalator - where I found boarding had commenced already. This further annoyed me, because I was of the belief they would wait to board J
Knowing I needed space for my handbaggage, I promptly walked straight past the boarding queue, flashed my boarding pass, and walked onto the plane to find my seat.
However, I was rudely stopped upon walking onto the plane. Why you may ask? Well, because I was about to board a flight to Bangkok and not Singapore...the SIN gate had been changed to H4, and I hadn't bothered to check.
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy.
M
Feb 27, 2017, 11:37 pm
#110
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Right - I shall endure the abuse I deserve, and post my DYKWIA moment.
Flying MH J is my least preferable product to Asia. I slept 3 hours of a 12 hour flight, and reached KL feeling exhausted...knowing I had a 2 hour layover, and then a 45 minute flight to SIN ahead.
I went up to the MH Lounge during the layover, and was told to head to Gate H2, no less than 20 minutes before departure time.
So, 40mins before, I head to H2 and see a lengthy queue. As I was in J, and as I was in a massive mood (phone not working properly, meetings delayed etc), I decided to skip the queue (nobody objected), went through the security machines, and waltzed down the escalator - where I found boarding had commenced already. This further annoyed me, because I was of the belief they would wait to board J
Knowing I needed space for my handbaggage, I promptly walked straight past the boarding queue, flashed my boarding pass, and walked onto the plane to find my seat.
However, I was rudely stopped upon walking onto the plane. Why you may ask? Well, because I was about to board a flight to Bangkok and not Singapore...the SIN gate had been changed to H4, and I hadn't bothered to check.
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy.
M
Flying MH J is my least preferable product to Asia. I slept 3 hours of a 12 hour flight, and reached KL feeling exhausted...knowing I had a 2 hour layover, and then a 45 minute flight to SIN ahead.
I went up to the MH Lounge during the layover, and was told to head to Gate H2, no less than 20 minutes before departure time.
So, 40mins before, I head to H2 and see a lengthy queue. As I was in J, and as I was in a massive mood (phone not working properly, meetings delayed etc), I decided to skip the queue (nobody objected), went through the security machines, and waltzed down the escalator - where I found boarding had commenced already. This further annoyed me, because I was of the belief they would wait to board J
Knowing I needed space for my handbaggage, I promptly walked straight past the boarding queue, flashed my boarding pass, and walked onto the plane to find my seat.
However, I was rudely stopped upon walking onto the plane. Why you may ask? Well, because I was about to board a flight to Bangkok and not Singapore...the SIN gate had been changed to H4, and I hadn't bothered to check.
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy.
M
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Feb 28, 2017, 12:04 am
#111
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Right - I shall endure the abuse I deserve, and post my DYKWIA moment.
Flying MH J is my least preferable product to Asia. I slept 3 hours of a 12 hour flight, and reached KL feeling exhausted...knowing I had a 2 hour layover, and then a 45 minute flight to SIN ahead.
I went up to the MH Lounge during the layover, and was told to head to Gate H2, no less than 20 minutes before departure time.
So, 40mins before, I head to H2 and see a lengthy queue. As I was in J, and as I was in a massive mood (phone not working properly, meetings delayed etc), I decided to skip the queue (nobody objected), went through the security machines, and waltzed down the escalator - where I found boarding had commenced already. This further annoyed me, because I was of the belief they would wait to board J
Knowing I needed space for my handbaggage, I promptly walked straight past the boarding queue, flashed my boarding pass, and walked onto the plane to find my seat.
However, I was rudely stopped upon walking onto the plane. Why you may ask? Well, because I was about to board a flight to Bangkok and not Singapore...the SIN gate had been changed to H4, and I hadn't bothered to check.
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy.
M
Flying MH J is my least preferable product to Asia. I slept 3 hours of a 12 hour flight, and reached KL feeling exhausted...knowing I had a 2 hour layover, and then a 45 minute flight to SIN ahead.
I went up to the MH Lounge during the layover, and was told to head to Gate H2, no less than 20 minutes before departure time.
So, 40mins before, I head to H2 and see a lengthy queue. As I was in J, and as I was in a massive mood (phone not working properly, meetings delayed etc), I decided to skip the queue (nobody objected), went through the security machines, and waltzed down the escalator - where I found boarding had commenced already. This further annoyed me, because I was of the belief they would wait to board J
Knowing I needed space for my handbaggage, I promptly walked straight past the boarding queue, flashed my boarding pass, and walked onto the plane to find my seat.
However, I was rudely stopped upon walking onto the plane. Why you may ask? Well, because I was about to board a flight to Bangkok and not Singapore...the SIN gate had been changed to H4, and I hadn't bothered to check.
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy.
M
Feb 28, 2017, 12:19 am
#112
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Poor msm....Bangkok is so much more fun! 
Feb 28, 2017, 3:30 am
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Feb 28, 2017, 12:35 pm
#114
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Feb 28, 2017, 1:14 pm
#115
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"However, I was rudely stopped upon walking onto the plane. Why you may ask? Well, because I was about to board a flight to Bangkok and not Singapore...the SIN gate had been changed to H4, and I hadn't bothered to check.
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy."
Excellent ^ but I wouldn't have admitted that, especially on here
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy."
Excellent ^ but I wouldn't have admitted that, especially on here
Feb 28, 2017, 9:26 pm
#116
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"However, I was rudely stopped upon walking onto the plane. Why you may ask? Well, because I was about to board a flight to Bangkok and not Singapore...the SIN gate had been changed to H4, and I hadn't bothered to check.
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy."
Excellent ^ but I wouldn't have admitted that, especially on here
So, a very very embarrassing walk back up the jetway, past the same people I had skipped past, up the stairs, past security, and over to H4.
I am now ensconced in my hotel in SIN, feeling less tired, and a lot less grumpy."
Excellent ^ but I wouldn't have admitted that, especially on here
M
Mar 1, 2017, 4:55 am
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I have done the same thing. Pushed past a queue and then realized it was the wrong queue. When confronted I think I said something appropriately DYKWIA like "Oh course, New York is Wednesday. Today is Monday."
Mar 1, 2017, 5:02 am
#118
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Mar 1, 2017, 5:06 am
#119
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Mar 2, 2017, 7:34 am
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In the priority line at Tampa, waiting to board the BA flight to London, us Club World passengers were patiently waiting to shuffle on early, when an elderly couple push past us to the head of the queue. I politely point out that there is a queue. The man retorts grandly, 'we have priority because we are in Club'. I reply that everyone in the queue has the same priority because we are all Club passengers. His dear lady wife chimes in, with an unmistakeable air of triumph, 'But WE are FULL FARE passengers. Most of the people here look as if they have had free upgrades, or are using air miles'. Micro-seconds before a riot breaks out, a staffer appears and insists the couple go to the back of the queue. Which they reluctantly do, amid much huffing and puffing and threats to 'take this insult up at the highest level'.