DYKWIA | 2018 edition
Oct 5, 2018, 3:51 am
#691
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: All over the place often South Wales and Lake District
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As am I. My wife moans that that is the only way I am organised - she's is right of course, as are all wives, by default. I've usually got two cameras and several lenses - one medium format digital and the other a full frame mirrorless. Often get stopped for secondary screening at many airports so I always get to the airport in good time, and leave lounges early in places like FRA or TXL where security is at the gate...what I love is when I proactively start taking some of my gear out, and they tell me not to bother, and then after screening, tehy ask me to take out the items they told me not to ...
Oct 5, 2018, 4:11 am
#692
Join Date: Jan 2016
Programs: BAEC Silver, Avis Preferred, Hilton Gold
Posts: 521
As am I. My wife moans that that is the only way I am organised - she's is right of course, as are all wives, by default. I've usually got two cameras and several lenses - one medium format digital and the other a full frame mirrorless. Often get stopped for secondary screening at many airports so I always get to the airport in good time, and leave lounges early in places like FRA or TXL where security is at the gate...what I love is when I proactively start taking some of my gear out, and they tell me not to bother, and then after screening, tehy ask me to take out the items they told me not to ...
Oct 5, 2018, 4:47 am
#693
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Oct 5, 2018, 4:54 am
#694
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jan 2009
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Not me personally, as I appear to be near-invisible to agents but there was a really nice, polite gentleman who got picked on like this and he told me later that this kind of thing was the reason why he cut right back on BA because it upset him. Not in a DYKWIA way, but he said found confrontational attitude from the agents quite unpleasant and he didn't want to put up with it too often.
Oct 5, 2018, 7:30 am
#695
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: SYD
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I get the opposite. My safety boots have ceramic toe caps and shanks which do not cause an issue. Yet security are surprised when I do not set the scanners off. At least most of my flights are in Australia where they are used to PPE on flights.
Oct 5, 2018, 7:33 am
#696
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
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Oct 5, 2018, 8:38 am
#697
Join Date: Jan 2016
Programs: BAEC Silver, Avis Preferred, Hilton Gold
Posts: 521
In any case I tend to find that the person before the scanners tells me to leave them on then the person after makes me take them off, fusses and then wants a pat-down of my feet. So off they come regardless...
Oct 5, 2018, 8:47 am
#698
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland
Programs: BA gold
Posts: 3,902
removed.
Last edited by Stez; Oct 5, 2018 at 12:29 pm Reason: clearly not appreciated...
Oct 5, 2018, 9:23 am
#699
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,756
Can we get back to DYKWIA? And not DYKWMBA?
Oct 5, 2018, 3:00 pm
#700
Join Date: Feb 2012
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Oct 5, 2018, 10:05 pm
#702
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Don't worry, the thread has an honourable history of the perp in the tale being shamed 
And indeed, quite often the poster is self-elevated to DYKWIA status as (typically) he sits in 1A with a glass of champagne while the queue-jumper slinks past, through the curtain and into oblivion.
There's something of a not-unreasonable understanding that Senators travelling on Lufthansa will get well looked after in the event of any sort of operational problem. Without belittling your position, I'd imagine rescuing a non-M&M passenger on a redemption flight fuelled with BD miles would not be high on the list of priorities when push comes to shove in reassigning flights.
It doesn't seem too terrible to expect this: i imagine that most GCH would hope to be favoured over, say, Malaysian Enrich OWE when things go awry on a BA service.
Taking your version of events, the Senator's behaviour appeared boorish. But it really is worth remembering that the reasons behind journeys are many, and the urgency involved can be high. Heart attacks hit parents, kids get hospitalised and homes get flooded.
When these things happen, it's easy to forget the the niceties of orderly queues; and that's when you're going to pull whatever strings you have available to get attention.
So perhaps it's best to give the boorish some slack. There may come a day when you need to shout a bit to get attention.
And indeed, quite often the poster is self-elevated to DYKWIA status as (typically) he sits in 1A with a glass of champagne while the queue-jumper slinks past, through the curtain and into oblivion.
There's something of a not-unreasonable understanding that Senators travelling on Lufthansa will get well looked after in the event of any sort of operational problem. Without belittling your position, I'd imagine rescuing a non-M&M passenger on a redemption flight fuelled with BD miles would not be high on the list of priorities when push comes to shove in reassigning flights.
It doesn't seem too terrible to expect this: i imagine that most GCH would hope to be favoured over, say, Malaysian Enrich OWE when things go awry on a BA service.
Taking your version of events, the Senator's behaviour appeared boorish. But it really is worth remembering that the reasons behind journeys are many, and the urgency involved can be high. Heart attacks hit parents, kids get hospitalised and homes get flooded.
When these things happen, it's easy to forget the the niceties of orderly queues; and that's when you're going to pull whatever strings you have available to get attention.
So perhaps it's best to give the boorish some slack. There may come a day when you need to shout a bit to get attention.
Oct 5, 2018, 10:15 pm
#703
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: London
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Don't worry, the thread has an honourable history of the perp in the tale being shamed
And indeed, quite often the poster is self-elevated to DYKWIA status as (typically) he sits in 1A with a glass of champagne while the queue-jumper slinks past, through the curtain and into oblivion.
There's something of a not-unreasonable understanding that Senators travelling on Lufthansa will get well looked after in the event of any sort of operational problem. Without belittling your position, I'd imagine rescuing a non-M&M passenger on a redemption flight fuelled with BD miles would not be high on the list of priorities when push comes to shove in reassigning flights.
It doesn't seem too terrible to expect this: i imagine that most GCH would hope to be favoured over, say, Malaysian Enrich OWE when things go awry on a BA service.
Taking your version of events, the Senator's behaviour appeared boorish. But it really is worth remembering that the reasons behind journeys are many, and the urgency involved can be high. Heart attacks hit parents, kids get hospitalised and homes get flooded.
When these things happen, it's easy to forget the the niceties of orderly queues; and that's when you're going to pull whatever strings you have available to get attention.
So perhaps it's best to give the boorish some slack. There may come a day when you need to shout a bit to get attention.
And indeed, quite often the poster is self-elevated to DYKWIA status as (typically) he sits in 1A with a glass of champagne while the queue-jumper slinks past, through the curtain and into oblivion.
There's something of a not-unreasonable understanding that Senators travelling on Lufthansa will get well looked after in the event of any sort of operational problem. Without belittling your position, I'd imagine rescuing a non-M&M passenger on a redemption flight fuelled with BD miles would not be high on the list of priorities when push comes to shove in reassigning flights.
It doesn't seem too terrible to expect this: i imagine that most GCH would hope to be favoured over, say, Malaysian Enrich OWE when things go awry on a BA service.
Taking your version of events, the Senator's behaviour appeared boorish. But it really is worth remembering that the reasons behind journeys are many, and the urgency involved can be high. Heart attacks hit parents, kids get hospitalised and homes get flooded.
When these things happen, it's easy to forget the the niceties of orderly queues; and that's when you're going to pull whatever strings you have available to get attention.
So perhaps it's best to give the boorish some slack. There may come a day when you need to shout a bit to get attention.
Based on OP telling it was the continued attempts that made it DYKWIA for me - try it (understandably), if you get dinged take your medicine
Oct 5, 2018, 10:28 pm
#704
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I simply suggest that there might be complex reasons behind boorishness, so perhaps better to take a more generous, less priggish, view of others' behaviour - conscious that one day you might be the squeaking wheel that needs oiling.
Oct 5, 2018, 11:39 pm
#705
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
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So actually I don't believe there's any excuse for behaving like that in a situation where's there's hundreds of people with their own problems, certainly to the extent of just butting in when someone else was being served.
I guess we're all cut from slightly different cloth.