DYKWIA | 2019 edition
Sep 7, 2019, 9:23 am
#526
Join Date: Aug 2008
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For mustard corduroys to be given any precedence they need to be inserted into rubber boots.
Sep 7, 2019, 9:33 am
#527
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Bristol
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This is now officially a DYKHID thread 
Sep 7, 2019, 9:49 am
#528
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: London
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Sep 7, 2019, 11:52 am
#530
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jan 2009
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The rude T5 lift DYKWIA that I had the misfortune to encounter the other day had red trousers on! What is it with them???
Sep 7, 2019, 12:10 pm
#531
Join Date: Nov 2004
Programs: BA GGL, LH FTL
Posts: 3,578
My personal theory - they show a complete disregard of others people's optic nerves. People capable of that are capable of anything.
And yes, it's primarily a sin of the 50+ community.
Sep 7, 2019, 2:38 pm
#532
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Sep 7, 2019, 4:20 pm
#533
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 18,619
What the heck happened to this thread? 
Sep 7, 2019, 5:29 pm
#534
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 1,736
Let me get in back on track.
LBA. On arrival at bag check in they had slightly adjusted the barriers for the the already confusing priority and other queues.
I am Gold- flying in CE connection to 1st
Approached the queue. 3 in priority- 1 in other queue. 1 desk open
1st person in priority went up- not priority but had a booking query which they managed and then checked them in. Turns out we we were the only priority people on the priority queue- but not in a hurry so waited.
A new couple approached and went to the KLM desk. The KLM agent then opened a new BA desk as these people were priority!! no check as to whom in the current queue may be priority
In the lounge the chap approached us and told me he was priority, which was why he had asked for another desk to be opened . I didn't respond
Flights was called and we were 1st in the queue. No priority boarding at LBA . The chap then went to the desk and declared that he was priority and formed his own queue which others joined. I know the desk staff quite well as I fly from LBA a lot. They were beyond bemused. I stood my ground and boarded first but then his new queue then boarded before the rest of the plane including the group 1 who were waiting in the right queue .
Blue on his boarding pass in CE. He didn't have red trousers on although I suspect that he owns some.
Last edited by Barnaby100; Sep 7, 2019 at 5:36 pm
Sep 7, 2019, 6:20 pm
#535
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
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Posts: 2,563
Uhm.... red trousers... i must get a pair (always thought they were a bit naff)
Sep 8, 2019, 7:17 am
#536
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Argentina
Posts: 40,211
Queue jumpers are everywhere not just airports. I was queuing the other day for a treat and had to put up with two DYKWIA's who refused to join the back of the line.
Sep 8, 2019, 10:08 am
#537
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Post of the month, that, I reckon!
Sep 12, 2019, 1:35 am
#538
Join Date: May 2010
Location: BTS/KSC/VIE
Programs: LH
Posts: 347
A very mediocre DYKWIA situation on OS flight today. E95 so seating is 2-2. Guy seats himself 1F, well business dressed, looks like seasoned flyer. Within a minute gets approached by purser and asked to show his BP. Purser looks at it and says:" Would you please move to your seat 10F?" Guy does not argue, just says he did not notice it and moves back.
Maybe if he was wearing red pants, he would get away with it.
Maybe if he was wearing red pants, he would get away with it.
Sep 12, 2019, 3:17 am
#539
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
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A very mediocre DYKWIA situation on OS flight today. E95 so seating is 2-2. Guy seats himself 1F, well business dressed, looks like seasoned flyer. Within a minute gets approached by purser and asked to show his BP. Purser looks at it and says:" Would you please move to your seat 10F?" Guy does not argue, just says he did not notice it and moves back.
Maybe if he was wearing red pants, he would get away with it.
Maybe if he was wearing red pants, he would get away with it.