Some thoroughly unoriginal observations from my visit to T5 today
Dec 11, 2019, 1:57 pm
#16
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My winning smile and demure ‘good afternoon’ was thoroughly ignored and I promptly put up the shutters. I do not require chat but I demand acknowledgement. Goodbye 61J.
*sure it’s not you dear?
Dec 11, 2019, 2:02 pm
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Oh the shade T8191! I am in club and despite what the deadheading Welsh mixed fleet cabin crew from downstairs asked me by the club kitchen not 5 minutes ago, have no intentions of heading down the back!
Dec 11, 2019, 4:22 pm
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I always think it’s a bit like being at a bar. If the people either side of you have been waiting longer, you let them put their tray in, but if they’re not ready, it’s fair game to jump in. Walking straight in and shoving your tray in to the first space that comes along when it’s obvious that others are waiting is akin to deliberately getting served out of turn at a bar - almost a hanging offence.
Dec 11, 2019, 4:43 pm
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I think we’re better than this. (Subscription not in danger).
Dec 13, 2019, 5:00 am
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Oh agreed; sadly I type this as I stare through the frosted plastic into a dour, charmless face of misery.*
My winning smile and demure ‘good afternoon’ was thoroughly ignored and I promptly put up the shutters. I do not require chat but I demand acknowledgement. Goodbye 61J.
*sure it’s not you dear?
My winning smile and demure ‘good afternoon’ was thoroughly ignored and I promptly put up the shutters. I do not require chat but I demand acknowledgement. Goodbye 61J.
*sure it’s not you dear?
Dec 13, 2019, 5:17 am
#22
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I normally embrace less than mature senses of humour, but jokes about male massage/beauty therapists and facials are far too 1970s Benny Hill and ‘oooh a male nurse!’ for me. I also think there’s a risk of unintended homophobic sentiment.
I think we’re better than this. (Subscription not in danger).
I think we’re better than this. (Subscription not in danger).
Dec 13, 2019, 7:57 am
#23
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Agree, and it helps if the security officer pro-actively polices this, which they usually do at LHR. The other day at Schiphol I had various people push their trays in front, whilst I was at station 1 with no room to extend my tray onto the conveyer. All the while the security officer was having an argument with a passenger about the new screening process (you leave all your liquids in your bag)- very frustrating
Dec 13, 2019, 8:05 am
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The trick to it is to nudge the top left corner of your tray into the gap between two trays, then as the front tray glides forward swing the rest of the tray onto the main belt.
Dec 13, 2019, 8:08 am
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