DYKWIA | 2022 edition
#316
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#317
Join Date: Aug 2017
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Much of the A1 North of Baldock has 2 lanes and no hard shoulder. I've been driving up and down it for 20 years without incident. You have to drive to the conditions and expect the unexpected. And the bends driving North towards Black Cat roundabout that cannot be taken at the speed limit makes any motorway bend look like a ruler.
In the UK we used to know what a motorway was - hard shoulder, long slip roads, no stopping except in an emergency, only certain classes of vehicle allowed etc. Taking away the hard shoulder makes things very different.
Anyway that’s my rants for the day done. I now need to go and prepare for a very long motorway drive!
#318
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I must have taken a wrong turn, I could have sworn the title said this was the DYKWIA thread, not the road safety thread?
#319
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#321
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: UK - Hampshire & London
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There must be some DYKWIA behaviour out there atm?
Any spots of that interesting creature the retired military officer accompanied by his CINC-NAG-HOME? getting red in the face and huffing and puffing that things are “ridiculous!”
EDIT: Not you Uncle T!
Any spots of that interesting creature the retired military officer accompanied by his CINC-NAG-HOME? getting red in the face and huffing and puffing that things are “ridiculous!”
EDIT: Not you Uncle T!
#322
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hahaha ... Thanks f0r the Edit ... just in time!!
#323
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I think with the chaos at the moment in Heathrow it's more Do You Know Where You And The Rest Of This Plane Is Going To Stay The Night behaviour....
#324
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Deleted. Going too far off-topic
#325
Join Date: Dec 2021
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The other evening I was heading back to LCY from BHD with Jasper (my PA), everyone was nicely lined up downstairs waiting to board apart from this one chap to the side leaning up against the wall. Once boarding started and the queue began to move this aforementioned individual had the sheer audacity to just push into the queue ensuring people could see his boarding pass, Jasper pointed out to him there was a line to which he replied "its one of the perks of his status". What goes through some peoples minds that this would be acceptable is beyond me.
#326
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The other evening I was heading back to LCY from BHD with Jasper (my PA), everyone was nicely lined up downstairs waiting to board apart from this one chap to the side leaning up against the wall. Once boarding started and the queue began to move this aforementioned individual had the sheer audacity to just push into the queue ensuring people could see his boarding pass, Jasper pointed out to him there was a line to which he replied "its one of the perks of his status". What goes through some peoples minds that this would be acceptable is beyond me.
#328
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#329
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The other evening I was heading back to LCY from BHD with Jasper (my PA), everyone was nicely lined up downstairs waiting to board apart from this one chap to the side leaning up against the wall. Once boarding started and the queue began to move this aforementioned individual had the sheer audacity to just push into the queue ensuring people could see his boarding pass, Jasper pointed out to him there was a line to which he replied "its one of the perks of his status". What goes through some peoples minds that this would be acceptable is beyond me.
If you've flown from LCY a bit, and/or someone's pointed out that the giant priority queue really is all gold cards and club europe, then pushing through all the other priority people is DYKWIA
(I say that as someone who got shouted at asking staff to let me push into a 200m long queue for priority security at Berlin last month, on the grounds that it clearly couldn't be all priority and still that long. Turns out that half the queue didn't have priority and really were in the wrong place, but there was also a huge huge number of very grumpy priority people....)
#330
Join Date: Apr 2012
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A funny one which I could predict way before it happened tonight.
We arrived for the delayed 756 to BSL tonight. Half the flight (slight exaggeration) were gate checking their bags. The pen for priority boarding was closed off, but there was an obvious queue building in front of it. A couple arrives and the woman almost waved her boarding pass around for all to see, pointing group 1 to her husband, trying to look around at other people's passes to check where they "belonged". Obviously unacceptable to her, there are about 10-15 people in front of her.
Fast forward 20 minutes and the families are called forward. Once she sees the last stroller out of the groups 4-9 queue, she shoots forward to be first on, waving her husband to follow. Sadly, it worked, they got on straight away. The rest of group 1 was called about the same time, and we're finally on our way (about 1 hour late).
We arrived for the delayed 756 to BSL tonight. Half the flight (slight exaggeration) were gate checking their bags. The pen for priority boarding was closed off, but there was an obvious queue building in front of it. A couple arrives and the woman almost waved her boarding pass around for all to see, pointing group 1 to her husband, trying to look around at other people's passes to check where they "belonged". Obviously unacceptable to her, there are about 10-15 people in front of her.
Fast forward 20 minutes and the families are called forward. Once she sees the last stroller out of the groups 4-9 queue, she shoots forward to be first on, waving her husband to follow. Sadly, it worked, they got on straight away. The rest of group 1 was called about the same time, and we're finally on our way (about 1 hour late).