DYKWIA | 2018 edition
Jul 24, 2018, 7:22 am
#466
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: London, or thereabouts
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Flight home last week from a nice sunny vacation: Man in basically beach attire, but sporting an expensive-looking leather bag from a rather well-known fashion label. Maybe it's just me, but it does look very odd. I have no problem with people dressing casually, or even skimpily, but that he was pairing it with such a nice bag...
Envy rant aside, he basically pushed between two queues waving his presumably-J ticket in the air (there were no flashes of gold seen anywhere on the bag). At least he did have the conscience to shout "excuse me" at nobody in particular while stomping on their toes. To his dismay, after all the hard work put into the pushing and shoving, they were only pre-boarding infants and those needing extra time. [sad face].
Envy rant aside, he basically pushed between two queues waving his presumably-J ticket in the air (there were no flashes of gold seen anywhere on the bag). At least he did have the conscience to shout "excuse me" at nobody in particular while stomping on their toes. To his dismay, after all the hard work put into the pushing and shoving, they were only pre-boarding infants and those needing extra time. [sad face].
Jul 24, 2018, 9:43 am
#467
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Join Date: Nov 2015
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Flying AA192 HKG to LAX last week. The usual secondary "liquid check" in the jetway. I am in J so it's pretty much only J and F in this part of the line.
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Jul 24, 2018, 10:17 am
#468
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 2,237
Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Jul 24, 2018, 10:18 am
#469
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: LHR
Programs: BAEC Gold, SkyTeam Elite Plus, Sixt Gold
Posts: 418
Flying AA192 HKG to LAX last week. The usual secondary "liquid check" in the jetway. I am in J so it's pretty much only J and F in this part of the line.
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Jul 24, 2018, 10:43 am
#470
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, NY
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Flying AA192 HKG to LAX last week. The usual secondary "liquid check" in the jetway. I am in J so it's pretty much only J and F in this part of the line.
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
We next saw him at JFK whilst waiting for our bag and he marched through baggage claim in a similar determined way almost oblivious to anything around him. Quite bizarre...
Jul 24, 2018, 11:37 am
#471
Ambassador: Emirates Airlines
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 18,618
Flying AA192 HKG to LAX last week. The usual secondary "liquid check" in the jetway. I am in J so it's pretty much only J and F in this part of the line.
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Anyway, boarding starts and off I go down the airbridge and take the first corridor on the left. I get halfway down and realise that this isn't connected to anything, so have to turn back. Of course, the next half a dozen people have followed me thinking I must know what I'm doing... I ended up about 10th to board and had to put my bags in the next bin
*Alcohol consumption played no part in the above. Probably.
Jul 24, 2018, 2:04 pm
#472
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Bristol
Programs: BA GGL, UA Plat, DL Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,380
not quite a dykwia incident, but at ams, easyjet sometimes use the g gates which are contact gates rather than the usual front and rear steps. I usually make sure i'm there nice and early (generally the first in the speedy boarding queue) so i can store both my bags as i normally sit in the first row.
Anyway, boarding starts and off i go down the airbridge and take the first corridor on the left. I get halfway down and realise that this isn't connected to anything, so have to turn back. Of course, the next half a dozen people have followed me thinking i must know what i'm doing... I ended up about 10th to board and had to put my bags in the next bin
*alcohol consumption played no part in the above. Probably.
Anyway, boarding starts and off i go down the airbridge and take the first corridor on the left. I get halfway down and realise that this isn't connected to anything, so have to turn back. Of course, the next half a dozen people have followed me thinking i must know what i'm doing... I ended up about 10th to board and had to put my bags in the next bin
*alcohol consumption played no part in the above. Probably.
Aug 4, 2018, 7:56 am
#475
Join Date: Aug 2018
Posts: 11
Witnessed an excellent display of DYKWIA behaviour on a GLA-LHR flight a few years ago. Priority queue was quite long (as is often the case on this route). “Gentleman” appears, huffing and puffing at the length of the queue. He’s a bronze cardholder after all, and all these people can’t possibly be priority. Needless to say, he was directed to the back of the queue to much smirking and eye rolling around him.
Land in LHR and unsurprisingly he attempts to barge to the front from about row 8. Complete disregard for those around him.
As we make our way towards the exit, he pushes through the security gates and out the door. When I exit, I see him loudly remonstrating with land-side security. Turns out, in his haste to be first off the plane, he missed the signs for baggage claim and ran right past it... Extremely satisfying to witness!
Land in LHR and unsurprisingly he attempts to barge to the front from about row 8. Complete disregard for those around him.
As we make our way towards the exit, he pushes through the security gates and out the door. When I exit, I see him loudly remonstrating with land-side security. Turns out, in his haste to be first off the plane, he missed the signs for baggage claim and ran right past it... Extremely satisfying to witness!
Aug 4, 2018, 7:59 am
#476
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Scotland
Posts: 377
Flying AA192 HKG to LAX last week. The usual secondary "liquid check" in the jetway. I am in J so it's pretty much only J and F in this part of the line.
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Although the jetway has an aircraft entrance for F and J and a separate one for Y, they were only using the Y entrance. An F pax gets out of sorts regarding having to have his bag checked, and starts protesting "But I am in FIRST!! I am IN FIRST" ...the Hong Kong security guards don't care and start checking his bags anyhow while he acts shocked. Then he tries walking down the entrance marked First and Business Class...but it's closed. Not even connected to the aircraft. A guard tries to stop him and he turns around and repeats his mantra "BUT I AM IN FIRST!!". The guard repeats himself: "Only one entrance, for everybody". The DYKWIA's response? You guessed it..."BUT I AM IN FIRST!!"
Aug 4, 2018, 9:53 am
#477
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: HKG
Programs: BA GGL & CCR
Posts: 600
Flight home last week from a nice sunny vacation: Man in basically beach attire, but sporting an expensive-looking leather bag from a rather well-known fashion label. Maybe it's just me, but it does look very odd. I have no problem with people dressing casually, or even skimpily, but that he was pairing it with such a nice bag...
Aug 4, 2018, 1:03 pm
#478
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: London
Programs: BA GGLfL, WoH Lifetime Globalist, HH Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 711
AMT, that’s quite a leap of faith, from the OP’s description, to identify the make of bag and the sexual orientation of the person!
Doc Copper
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Aug 4, 2018, 4:04 pm
#480
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,610
Apropos of nothing, reading just brought to mind that wonderful Raymond Queneau line from "Zazie dans le Metro": "...les hommes d’affaires en tête au pas accéléré avec leur porte-documents au bout du bras pour tout bagage et leur air de savoir voyager mieux que les autres." (In front, and walking briskly with their briefcases in hand, the businessmen, with their manner of knowing how to travel better than everyone else)