DYKWIA | 2018 edition
Apr 29, 2018, 6:07 am
#136
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Henley-On-Thames
Programs: BAEC Silver (but only temporarily) AVIS Presidents Club, Starbucks Gold
Posts: 486
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.
"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.
ML
Apr 29, 2018, 6:14 am
#137
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: LH SEN; BA Gold
Posts: 8,405
I had this a couple of years back in the AA lounge at LAX. a very loud American guy seemed to want everyone to know about this deal he pulled off. I would have thought being Americans someone in the lounge would have gone over and told him to turn it down. So, I sat two seats from the guy, and got my Dictaphone out, (Yes some of us still use these things), switched it on, recorded him for a couple of minutes, downloaded it to my laptop, then with the laptop volume at 100% played back his conversation...
ML
ML
Apr 29, 2018, 6:34 am
#138
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Olde Dominion
Programs: DL Silver - uh huh!
Posts: 948
Apr 29, 2018, 7:16 am
#139
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: London
Programs: BA LtG, Flying Blue Plat
Posts: 274
Had a couple complain to crew on Comair yesterday that they thought they were the only ones in club and I should go elsewhere. Rather ironically they were surrounded by self-upgraders during landing who were wanting to take pics...
Apr 29, 2018, 7:24 am
#140
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,554
I had this a couple of years back in the AA lounge at LAX. a very loud American guy seemed to want everyone to know about this deal he pulled off. I would have thought being Americans someone in the lounge would have gone over and told him to turn it down. So, I sat two seats from the guy, and got my Dictaphone out, (Yes some of us still use these things), switched it on, recorded him for a couple of minutes, downloaded it to my laptop, then with the laptop volume at 100% played back his conversation. Got a ... look from the guy, and gestured to him my spare cheapo in-ear headphones. So, he gets his own one's out (looked like Bose), puts them on but what was worse was he was still talking loudly (I think even by Americans standard). So, I turned the Dictaphone back on again and I still have the WMA file stored on an old laptop. Maybe I should upload it?
ML
ML
Apr 29, 2018, 8:25 am
#141
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 81
I had this a couple of years back in the AA lounge at LAX. a very loud American guy seemed to want everyone to know about this deal he pulled off. I would have thought being Americans someone in the lounge would have gone over and told him to turn it down. So, I sat two seats from the guy, and got my Dictaphone out, (Yes some of us still use these things), switched it on, recorded him for a couple of minutes, downloaded it to my laptop, then with the laptop volume at 100% played back his conversation. Got a ... look from the guy, and gestured to him my spare cheapo in-ear headphones. So, he gets his own one's out (looked like Bose), puts them on but what was worse was he was still talking loudly (I think even by Americans standard). So, I turned the Dictaphone back on again and I still have the WMA file stored on an old laptop. Maybe I should upload it?
ML
ML
Apr 29, 2018, 10:46 am
#143
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: All over the place often South Wales and Lake District
Programs: BA Gold for Life Accor Platinum
Posts: 4,552
That's rather overthinking it in a way that only a FTer could. In my book someone is only being DYKWIA when they have the attitude of a DYKWIA. When I wear the pyjamas I don't take on that attitude. I just want to be comfortable. If BA supplied pyjamas to Club passengers the way many airlines do their J passengers, I'd use them. They don't so I'll use what I have in hand be they QF J, QR J or BA F pyjamas. I won't be lording it over anyone. I know my place in the same sense that Ronnie Corbett knew his place in that famous sketch with Messers Barker and Cleese.
Apr 29, 2018, 1:30 pm
#145
Join Date: May 2012
Programs: BA Gold, HHonors Diamond, IHG Platinum, Senior Railcard & Bus Pass
Posts: 983
Apr 29, 2018, 1:38 pm
#146
Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club, easyJet and Ryanair
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: UK/Las Vegas
Programs: BA Gold (GGL/CCR)
Posts: 15,922
Apr 29, 2018, 2:33 pm
#147
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Aberdeenshire
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 153
I had this a couple of years back in the AA lounge at LAX. a very loud American guy seemed to want everyone to know about this deal he pulled off. I would have thought being Americans someone in the lounge would have gone over and told him to turn it down. So, I sat two seats from the guy, and got my Dictaphone out, (Yes some of us still use these things), switched it on, recorded him for a couple of minutes, downloaded it to my laptop, then with the laptop volume at 100% played back his conversation. Got a ... look from the guy, and gestured to him my spare cheapo in-ear headphones. So, he gets his own one's out (looked like Bose), puts them on but what was worse was he was still talking loudly (I think even by Americans standard). So, I turned the Dictaphone back on again and I still have the WMA file stored on an old laptop. Maybe I should upload it?
ML
ML
Apr 29, 2018, 4:43 pm
#149
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,554
Apr 30, 2018, 7:37 am
#150
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: TPA/DFW/K15
Programs: AA EXP, Mar AMB, HH LT DIA
Posts: 1,649
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.
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.