DYKWIA | 2018 edition
May 20, 2018, 2:48 am
#212
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Split between MAN & AKL
Programs: BAEC GGL/CCR, SkyMiles Gold, Mucci deux fois
Posts: 619
May 20, 2018, 10:21 am
#213
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Warwickshire, England
Programs: BA Executive Club Gold, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 222
Going through security at BHX (don't ask - I didn't book the flight!) , and I was behind a guy at security who was arguing about not being able to take a huge bottle of shampoo through in his hand luggage. "This is ridiculous. I've taken this bottle as hand luggage on several flights without problem" (clearly a lie), and generally just being an idiot. After several minutes, he finally gave up, left the bottle to be put into the bin and sulkily walked through the scanner, like a petulant child. I put my laptop etc into the tray and walked towards the scanner. As I was walking past the security guy in question, we made eye contact, and at exactly the same time, both said "what a d*ck head" and then cracked up laughing...
May 20, 2018, 4:50 pm
#214
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 1,225
Currently in Club MCO about to board BA2038 and listening to a chap recite his iTunes playlists (the titles of the songs) by year on speaker. He’s currently at 2007. Turns out he’s on our flight too. He’s got a lot of Celine Dion and Whitney Houston on it.
May 24, 2018, 12:28 am
#215
Join Date: May 2010
Location: BTS/KSC/VIE
Programs: LH
Posts: 346
Today morning at breakfast in Hilton, I was waiting at fried eggs station for one lady to put them on her plate. When she is finished a guy with airpods in ears rushes in front of me and tries to cut the "line" saying "I am a diamond member".
May 24, 2018, 1:29 am
#216
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: AA EXP/LTP, BA GGL/CCR/GfL, HH D/LTD, SPG/MR Plat/LTP
Posts: 10,076
Could have been worse, had he brought his giraffe along...
May 24, 2018, 2:05 am
#217
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Brexile in ADB
Programs: BA, TK, HHonours, Le Club, Best Western Rewards
Posts: 7,067
May 24, 2018, 2:08 am
#218
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Programs: BA Silver - hard drop from GGL :( SPG Gold, Hilton Diamond, AC E50k
Posts: 567
Thni he is referring to a quite funny animation on YouTube about a Hilton Diamond member. Search on Hilton Diamond on YouTube...
What a numpty. Wonder what he would have said if challenged... “it is a well known Diamond benefit to be able to cut the line for the egg station”...
What a numpty. Wonder what he would have said if challenged... “it is a well known Diamond benefit to be able to cut the line for the egg station”...
May 24, 2018, 2:10 am
#219
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Hotels.com Gold
Posts: 576
Maybe it was a dare and someone else was egging him on.
May 24, 2018, 2:19 am
#220
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Provincie Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
Programs: MUCCI Gold
Posts: 2,512
It's these kind of situations that really need the perpetrator to be left with egg on their face.
May 24, 2018, 2:27 am
#221
Join Date: Jun 2016
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 1,166
how egg-citing!
seriously though - that's beyond DYKWIA and into totally ridiculous and bad manners - at that point, you may as well cut the line on the basis of "I'm richer/taller/stronger/ruder than you" and take the fig-leaf of the loyalty programme out of the equation entirely...
seriously though - that's beyond DYKWIA and into totally ridiculous and bad manners - at that point, you may as well cut the line on the basis of "I'm richer/taller/stronger/ruder than you" and take the fig-leaf of the loyalty programme out of the equation entirely...
May 24, 2018, 2:55 am
#222
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
Beware of fake Diamond members.
May 24, 2018, 3:33 am
#223
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Bridport, Dorset
Programs: Mucci, BA Bronze, Hilton Gold
Posts: 2,130
BA First Wing last Friday: a passenger just refuses to take her shoes off.
Reason: she doesn’t want to walk on the floor without shoes on. It’s literally one metre and she isn’t even barefoot.
Is a bit petulant at the time before realising she won’t get far if they can’t scan her shoes.
I don’t quite understand the need for these little dramas.
Reason: she doesn’t want to walk on the floor without shoes on. It’s literally one metre and she isn’t even barefoot.
Is a bit petulant at the time before realising she won’t get far if they can’t scan her shoes.
I don’t quite understand the need for these little dramas.
May 24, 2018, 3:49 am
#224
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: UK / India
Programs: SPG Gold, BA oik, TK pleb, EY Hoi Polloi
Posts: 87
Maybe it is because it's all theatre?
May 24, 2018, 3:59 am
#225
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Glasgow
Programs: BAEC Silver, Sixt Platinum, HHons Diamond
Posts: 927
BA first wing last night at about 7:20pm. I was (unusually for me) checking-in a bag and an Italian women at the desk beside me was having a mega melt-down as she and her daughter had purchased cheap HBO fares but expected to check-in multiple large suitcases free of charge. Phrases such as "you are going to suffer for this, I am a very important customer" were being directed at the long suffering agent and her supervisor who had been called over. They handled it well and I am delighted to say stood their ground and charged the women the appropriate fee.
Then they sat next to me in the 1st lounge dining room and requested "off-menu" items from the kitchen. When they were informed it was not possible she insisted that the waitress go and speak to the chef as she couldn't possibly eat anything else on the menu. When the waitress came back and explained the chef confirmed it was not possible she then happily ordered the Chicken Curry! Not the reaction I was expecting from her but I was pleased the waitress didn't get the hard time I was expecting.
Then they sat next to me in the 1st lounge dining room and requested "off-menu" items from the kitchen. When they were informed it was not possible she insisted that the waitress go and speak to the chef as she couldn't possibly eat anything else on the menu. When the waitress came back and explained the chef confirmed it was not possible she then happily ordered the Chicken Curry! Not the reaction I was expecting from her but I was pleased the waitress didn't get the hard time I was expecting.