YacozA

Assuming this is true, this person should be stripped of their "testing" capabilities and given a lesson on MNPI. Also maybe a lesson on how to not be a DYKWIA!

sunshinebob

rumbataz

There's another place where the sun doesn't shine that would have been better...

Tobias-UK

Ah so, but he was too busy talking through it

DYKWIA

Ouch!!!

OverTheHorizon

LOL people who handle genuinely sensitive information are absolutely close-lipped about every aspect of what they do, even among security-cleared colleagues behind big steel gates and inside who know's what layers of electronic protection. They simply do not chat about their work and would never ever say a word about it in public.

The guy above was a just a prat I think

OverTheHorizon

Also, imagine readng this thread and realising a post was about you* !!!





















* Printing & Breakfast notwithstanding

slayers_88

I think this is my favourite thread in this forum! So entertaining! (except when it goes off topic). Not sure this is strictly a DYKWIA story, but there it goes.

This January I was flying the SVQ-LGW route with my friend in the last row of CE. On the other side of the aisle there were a man and a woman in probably their late 30s (they seemed travel companions, but not sure they were a couple). They disembarked before us, and as soon as they reached the airbridge, the man expanded as much as he could with his arms and luggage, to make sure he was occupying the whole corridor and nobody was able to overtake him. Probably for him, flying in CE means you are entitled to leave the airport before anyone seating behind you.

Well… said man was not walking particularly fast (not sure this was on purpose), and eventually the corridor widened, so some people started overtaking him (yes man! It’s Gatwick, some people need to rush to get their trains and not risk having to wait 30 mins for the next one), and this was obviously annoying him! How dare they! As we were reaching the escalator, we were getting closer to him. We were not planning on overtaking him (yet), but he might have thought so, as he suddenly run to the escalator, expanded his arms so each piece of luggage covered one of the entries to the stairs, and then landed the 2 pieces of luggage on the stairs with a big “bang” sound whilst he shouted (in the most hooligan way) “IN YOUR FACE”.

Me and my friend just looked at each other like “Did I just see what I think?” as you do not expect such behaviour for someone that age! Even his travel companion must have been embarrassed about that. However this man seemed quite proud of his “feat”. I told my mate not to overtake him after the escalator. So as we approached the passport control at Gatwick, they turned right following the “UK/EU passport” control sign. However, from that side, following the “Non UK/EU passport” sign gets you to the e-gates much faster.

I hope he noticed us at the beginning of the queue when he arrived!

shady

This post was originally meant to be about a guy who was boarding BA706 in priority lane. Full flight meant some carry ons had to be gate checked. I didnt get in time to witness the beginning of the conversation but I have arrived on time for the show. The guy got angry on the agent protesting about his decision and refusing to comply. The agent calmy repeated that he had agreed with the T&Cs and they allow only 1 item on board. The guy has become more and more rude and starting to throw his passport and BP at the agent.His final argument was, that EasyJet had never issue with the carry on. I could hear everyone around me to burst in laugh when he repeated this sentence again and again. In the end he has given up on the bag and proceeded to board.

This post is howecver about a woman who seeked one of the CC after boarding and I witnessed even better story. She was angry about having to gate check the bag and was demanding explanation on what basis was she selected. Poor CC had no idea, just explained, the flight is busy. She started to point out on empty spaces in the bins. CC replied that boarding is still in progress. Then she pulled out a new argument. She has been selected because she is a woman, that gate agents are only selecting women so all men are allowed to take their carry ons on board. With her voice rising and rising I have joined the conversation and said that I have seen man being forced to gate check his carry on. That made her speechless and with no more arguments she just sat down. Nevertheless the CC called the GA to explain it anyway, that there is no gender profiling in place. Yes, the GA was a woman.

Yeoman5

I flew back from JNB on Tuesday night. While waiting at the gate BA announced a 30 min delay in departure due to the "late arrival of the catering". Finally they announced they'd be boarding soon and asked "special needs" (the GA's words, not mine) passengers to come forward when a chap ran down to the gate, ducked under the barrier hollering "First! First! Surely you'll be boarding First first!?" He was politely requested to take a seat.

Annalisa12

what a tool.

Vinotraveller

Sounds like a complete loony on a GLA-LHR flight some weeks back. He boarded last into the CE cabin looking somewhat flustered and decided to empty the belongings of another passenger out of the overhead locker, when they objected his response was somewhat abusive but fortunately CC intervened, made him stow his bag elsewhere and he seemed to behave himself for the rest of the flight from what I could see, until we were proceeding up the jet way at LHR when he pulled a similar stunt to what you detail above and tried to stamp on the feet of another passenger who overtook him, followed by shouting obscenities at them. I think he was quite lucky that his victim did not either retaliate or report him to staff (at least I assume he was not reported as they both went their separate ways).

DYKWIA

I arrived into DXB on KLM last week. After getting off the shuttle at T1 arrivals, there is an escalator that goes about 20 feet down next to some stairs. I had my quite heavy carry on bags so I used the escalator, and there were a couple of Chinese cabin crew behind me. I felt a sharp tap on the shoulder, and looked around. Some Dutch guy had reached over the Chinese and was indicating that I should start walking down the escalator... for the remaining 10 feet. I gave him a hard stare, and I would have probably said something I'd regret if it hadn't been at DXB

ThatT1Feeling

I've had a couple of borderline DWKWIAs in the last couple of weeks.

Won't state the airport - but Gent standing right at the front of the Group 1 line with 20 mins to go to boarding, making sure he said hello to the GAs as they arrived, looking around in what I perceived as a self-important way.
First to board, again being very vocal with the GAs.
Turns out I was sitting next to him - he's been flying the same route weekly for years - was a bit DYKWIA'y in that he kept inferring that he knew all the flight crews on the route and then started hinting about there being a BA tier "higher than Gold" as I'd asked him if hew flew BA a lot. In fact he turned out to be really good company, funny, self-deprecating and not as self-important as I had thought. Was also entertaining when the CSD came to us and said it was great for him to have 2 x GGLs sitting next to each other so he could greet us both together

Second one - gent boards a shorthaul back to LHR last week. Drops his bag into a CE overhead and, when CC call after him, he shouts "I'm a Gold Card Holder" and carries on to quite far back on the plane. The CC decide not to pursue it. When we land at LHR, there's a problem with the airbridge and we have to de-plane from the rear door onto buses. Mr GCH is stuck in his seat waiting for the flight to empty so he can recover his carryon. I enjoyed that

DYKWIA

I may know who you are on about here...