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Jan 5, 2011 | 8:47 am
#16
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flying lax-dtw today. bunch of weird-o behavior on plane.
1- guy sitting next to me, with aa ex-plat tags on his bag, sits down and snags flight attendent to ask if she needed his boarding pass? eh? does aa ever require boarding passes after you're on?
2- lady from coach comes up front to talk to flight attendant, with baby in arms and two kids, lugging all their carry ons. tells the flight attendant that the people in the bulkhead row won't swith seats with them. flight attendant says there's nothing she can do, and that it's up to the passengers, as they have assigned seats. lady starts complaining about how she can't believe how adults can act that way and not switch seats with her.
3- as we're taxiing and taking off, the guy behind me is whistling the whole time?
4- and finally, just gross- after dinner, the lady across the aisle from me was picking her teeth with her fingers and wiping the resulting contents on the seat back in front of her.
1- guy sitting next to me, with aa ex-plat tags on his bag, sits down and snags flight attendent to ask if she needed his boarding pass? eh? does aa ever require boarding passes after you're on?
2- lady from coach comes up front to talk to flight attendant, with baby in arms and two kids, lugging all their carry ons. tells the flight attendant that the people in the bulkhead row won't swith seats with them. flight attendant says there's nothing she can do, and that it's up to the passengers, as they have assigned seats. lady starts complaining about how she can't believe how adults can act that way and not switch seats with her.
3- as we're taxiing and taking off, the guy behind me is whistling the whole time?
4- and finally, just gross- after dinner, the lady across the aisle from me was picking her teeth with her fingers and wiping the resulting contents on the seat back in front of her.
Jan 5, 2011 | 8:52 am
#17
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I'm not sure how AA handles coats. a long time ago, Delta boarding passes had a little hold punched in the smaller part (the side you would keep). The FAs would then collect your BP stub along with your coat and thread the stud through the hanger. That way, they knew which coat was yours.
AA does not use this system (at least not on flights I've been on) - often, their hangers have a little white tag tied to the hook, on which the cabin staff member writes the seat number (although just as often the hangers are missing the tags).
Jan 5, 2011 | 9:08 am
#18
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I can get all the stuff Ed mentioned in the Skyclub and First.
Jan 5, 2011 | 10:36 am
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Jan 5, 2011 | 11:11 am
#20
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The really scary part here, if I read this post correctly, is that she wiped her fingers on the back of the seat in front of her, regardless of what was on them, and then put them in her mouth.
Jan 5, 2011 | 11:14 am
#21
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On BA, the cabin staff tears a small hole to attach the cardstock BP to the hanger (at least on my last two longhaul flights) . They do seem to be careful not to tear near the barcode, as that is what the dragons will scan at the lounge entrance.
Jan 5, 2011 | 12:19 pm
#23
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I think we've all seen annoying behavior. But thanks to the cost of air travel, preemptive FAs, and perhaps the understanding that the only way out gives you a 30,000 ft first step straight down, keeps the freaks out of the picture or otherwise keeps their inner weirdos in check. We so rarely see white coat and butterflynet material, just "Passenger 1A/DYKWIA", the grandma who's flying for the first time who tells you about all her operations, little Braeddyn's first trip to Disneyworld and in the old days, hijackers.
For for all the rest there is interstate bus service.
And we flyers are no doubt all the more poorer for it.
Jan 5, 2011 | 2:14 pm
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Jan 5, 2011 | 2:17 pm
#27
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Jan 5, 2011 | 6:04 pm
#28
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Mostly unventful so far today... still have atl-lax though.
Jan 6, 2011 | 5:29 am
#29
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A few years back I had a very respectable 60ish man sitting next to me headed to SFO. He struck up a conversation then mentioned very casually, "All these ***'s in San Francisco are going to burn in ***. It's in the bible, you know". I thought, how do I always get stuck next to the whack job...
Jan 6, 2011 | 1:15 pm
#30
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On Amtrak, I had a seatmate that mentioned he liked to pray a lot, and that he might speak in tongues. Fortunately this was just a 90 minute run, not cross-country. I was a little disappointed; he didn't actually speak in tongues while I was there -- maybe I should have asked him to. 
I also wonder if it was just a gambit to get an open seat next to himself.
I also wonder if it was just a gambit to get an open seat next to himself.