Betcha they would have gone back and asked. My mom would have, but she's 82 and very much a Kettle.

I sat in front of a lady one time who had brought along some sort of hotplate or a little crock pot or something, and she was rather put off when the FA wouldn't let her plug it in. "How are we supposed to re-heat our lasagna?" was all I heard for the next two hours, over and over.

How much time is saved? Two or three minutes? The Kettle doesn't know any better. The impatient person behind them who takes it upon themselves to butt into their conversation is acting like a jerk.

You're right, eh. I should have let them go to the ticket counter to stand in line just to confirm with the TA that they were indeed sitting next to each other and then spend more time in the security line and potentially miss their flight. That would have been a jerk move.

You did not butt into their affairs through some desire to be helpful but because you were "impatient" and they were holding you up in the security line. Then you posted here to smirk about the two "kettles."

As unsophisticated as Ma and Pa Kettle were, on YouTube they "prove" convincingly:rolleyes: that 5 x 14 = 25 (parallels Costello's [of Abbott and Costello] "proof" that 7 x 13 = 28--Ma and Pa Kettle seem more convincing.:p