I've done this before when someone is having a conference call without headphones. Sat down with my daughter who at that time would have been 5. Guy is shouting into a laptop and multiple voices are shouting back.

"Hey sweetie. Bet you don't know all the words to Let It Go..."
"Yes I do, watch... *deep breath*"
"I'm going to get some water, I need to hear you from over there."

The guy moved his call shortly after.

Waiting to board a TXL flight at T5 a couple of days ago. The gate agent announced that boarding would commence shortly and would be done by group number, so a queue started to form in the lane for Group 1. There were about a dozen people waiting when the gate agent started boarding, at which point a chap rushed across and ducked under the tensa barrier, to the front of the Group 1 line, dragging his wheelie behind him. He was first through the gate, first down the airbridge and first on board.

He was in row 2 of CE, and spent the first few minutes on board blocking the aisle while he slowly and carefully unpacked and arranged his stuff in the overhead bin. And then blocked the aisle again at TXL as he slowly and carefully removed all his things from the overhead bin.

Probably more of a **** than a DYKWIA, but anyway...

This sounds like the persons concerned have cases of SpS!!
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Reminds me of the suited **** we had on a JER-LGW in CE. He was one of the first to board, seated in 1D, but immediately felt it necessary to go and stand in the aisle to have an animated conversation with an acquaintance in 3D. After a couple or three minutes, having prevented the rest of the aircraft from boarding, he swam against the stream through the throng of irritated pax to resume his seat.

Was the singing to be background activity to the call? That sounds fun, we could do a "Songs from the shows" review ...

Bless :D

Well that's much the way of this forum. The Qatar one is even more focussed on premium travel: the couple of hundred seats behind the curtain must be an embarrassment ....

I thought it was for trim?

I just recalled something from last week I wanted to post but forgot about.

Arrivals at LCY, I was in 1C so I'm first off the plane, get into immigration, remember that passport is going to be faster than IDs, so I move over to the side, get my passport from my bag, and make it to the scanners, being roughly the tenth person in the queue.

The E-Gate doesn't work for me (it never does in the UK... somehow), agent tells me to go right (over to the regular desks). This is where the fun begins. One lady ahead of me also is in the same situation, as her passport didn't work either. If you've been to LCY, you know that there's no separate desks to catch failed automated passport checks, so you just go over in front of the queue that is standing in line for ID / Non-EU passports.

We let a family with small children first, because who cares about being first or second or third in line, and I guess the lady in front of me wasn't in a hurry. But suddenly, an American mom, traveling with her teenage son, who apparently thinks she runs the airport now, says: "You need to queue. We have children. You need to get at the back of the queue". The lady in front of me replies "The airport person told us to just go there because our passports didn't work". The American mom rambles and repeats herself. At which point I say: "If you just asked politely we'd let you go first. Since you haven't, we'll just go first." I watch to the side to see what the "children" she was talking about were, and I see her teenage son giving me the "Please don't hate me, I didn't choose my mom" look.

Sadly the lady whose passport didn't work wasn't on the ball like I did, and let them go first. Not that they took any chance, they bolted very quickly towards the first available desk. She then took the second available desk and I took the third, still making it out of the airport before the American mom, only half satisfied. I would've high-fived that lady if she managed to get the desk before them.

Not really. It's just that having served a long & hard apprenticeship back there some of us prefer to keep the thought of it suppressed in the dark corners of our minds. :p
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I'd like to add a bit more here: I must have arrived in the lounge at about the same time as RockyRobin - and heard the annoying conference call and the opera singer doing his rendition of 'Strangers In the Night'. I say opera singer, because he burst into opera three or four times over the next two hours or so. Pretty good voice too. But a bit annoying after the third, fourth, and fifth time. Especially when he said he tended to do this frequently on the tube in New York: 'To make people happy'. This was all at the end of the Gatwick lounge with the computers - 'the working bit' if you like. Still, he had a good voice. But if he had asked for money, I would have paid him to stop. :) On the other hand, he seemed to be genuinely creating a bit of happiness. Especially amongst the lounge angels. Probably. :)

I won't justify someone's DYKWIA attitude, but a breakfast with Alex Cruz is not like Easter brunch with the family. Of course there's going to be a focus on the airline and sure, status.

Me? I still help fill the void-behind-the-curtain for an (in)decent proportion of my long-haul trips. At least there's some joy in doing it on QR - the flights east of Doha are rarely half-filled: BA isn't half as joyful, though the new(ish) seat allocation system often rewards Goldness with an empty place next to me.

Had a "I don't know who you are" moment a couple of days ago. A passenger on my flight was escorted to the gate by airport staff and picked up by police officers at the destination. I have no clue who she was.