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Re: Do We Owe Fellow Travelers Our Seating Information?
DIR By: Dr. F.
Date: June 19, 2018, 11:40 am
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--- Quote from: lmyrs link ---
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> Unfortunately, the sheer volume of gate lice at every single
boarding gate has basically made it necessary for everyone who
is in an earlier boarding group to systematically walk up and
down the line and ask people which group they're in. If everyone
would stay out of the way until it was their turn, it would make
life immensely easier and more efficient.
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LOL at "gate lice." I know *exactly* what you mean.
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Re: Do We Owe Fellow Travelers Our Seating Information?
DIR By: Luci
Date: June 19, 2018, 12:02 pm
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I like to be in position so as to inconvenience the number of
people. I also ask because I often can’t understand what is said
over the speaker.
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Re: Do We Owe Fellow Travelers Our Seating Information?
DIR By: ladameestmorte
Date: June 19, 2018, 12:40 pm
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--- Quote from: Bada link ---
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> If you're already lined up and their number is close to yours,
they're just trying to figure out where to stand in relation to
you. (Oh, you're B21? Ok, I'm B23, I must be just back here.)
That's totally fine in my book.
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> Or if they lost track of who is boarding, then asking is fine.
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> Is that what happens to you? Or something else?
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It's only happened a couple of times; I just wasn't sure why
they'd ask because there's only a 5 spot differential with the
numbers and I didn't think it was very confusing. A lot of
people made good points, though, about not hearing the
announcement, overcrowding, etc.
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Re: Do We Owe Fellow Travelers Our Seating Information?
DIR By: Moose
Date: June 19, 2018, 1:56 pm
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--- Quote from: Lexophile link ---
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> [quote author=Moose link=topic=396.msg5980#msg5980
date=1529413130]
> My best friend Nora and I have flown First Class or Business
class several times and we almost always get asked by someone or
told by someone -- usually a male in business casual type attire
-- "uhm, first class is boarding in this line."
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> Yes. Yes we know. We are traveling in jeans and fandom
related tshirts because it's comfortable and we are usually
heading to some sort of geek related event. We know we look
young, but we are both in our 40s. But we do belong here, thank
you, and the end of the line is right there.
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> We had one guy keep tossing us dirty looks in first class all
the way from Atlanta to Vegas once ::)
>
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Wow. Just - wow.
I hope you smiled and waved at that guy every time he flashed
you a dirty look. I probably would have said something like, "I
know it's hard to look away from this much awesome, but I'm
spoken for."
[/quote]
Hahahaaa...that would have been awesome. Now I want to go back
in time just to do that. I just cannot imagine being that
concerned with who else is in first class with me. Dude, I
don't get first class every time, so all I want to do is watch
my movie, eat my cookie and enjoy it.
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Re: Do We Owe Fellow Travelers Our Seating Information?
DIR By: VorFemme
Date: June 19, 2018, 2:59 pm
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--- Quote from: Hmmm link ---
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> [quote author=VorFemme link=topic=396.msg5996#msg5996
date=1529419749]
> If I am traveling with my mother, I put her into her position
in the que (and keep an eye on her to make sure that she stays
in it - she may be wearing her hearing aids - but she may not
have understood the information that came through them) before I
get into my own position.
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>
> I have had to get out of position to go get her when her
attention wanders - her attention span is shorter than it was
even ten years ago.
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This sounds like a perfect reason for needing to board early.
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We were at a bus station and I was not traveling with her. She
kept trying to get in line with the continuing passengers
instead of the much shorter line for new passengers. I just
held her hand until the first line of passengers finished going
through door A and the driver came over to take the tickets of
the two or three passengers at door B. She did fine on the
trip....she just couldn’t hear the directions clearly over the
background noise. I was having trouble, so I checked at the
desk. She just figured that lining up with everyone else was
the best thing to do. She got to her destination on time.
(Edited to pull the post out of the quote tree)
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