Thankfully he returned for more of the story, otherwise we would have had to speculate on what type of complaining it was. After all when people don’t return to reveal more details, it’s all a guess because there’s 14 kinds of griping in a flying procedural delay.
You- off this plane right now for that.
In the last couple of years, we’ve flown cattle class to and from New York on China Airlines and to and from Japan on Japan Airlines. Both had seemingly uncensored R-rated movies on their personal entertainment systems.
What part of DC do you live in where you don’t hear the word fuck at least once a week, if not daily? I’m guessing you’re not east of the park.
I fly for (insert national name brand airline here).
When we are full enough that the agents think the overheads will overflow, they will offer everyone FREE baggage check to their final destination, even if somebody’s next flight leg after this one has lots of empty seats & therefore lots of overhead space. And if they don’t get enough takers and in fact the overheads do overflow and the last stragglers aboard can’t find a spot for their bag, those bags also get checked to the final destination for FREE.
I don’t often fly the other guys, but from what I hear my company’s policy is pretty typical of other name brand carriers.
This has been my experience. I rarely pay to check baggage anymore, because I know I’ll be able to hate check it for free.
Freudian slip?
I live right outside of DC, basically on the border of DC and Maryland. I take the subway to Waterfront; people are mostly pretty calm and quiet. I lived in Philadelphia for a lot of years - it was a little different there.
Yeah, this attitude is what pisses me off when it happens. It’s not a FREE awesome convenience for me. It’s having my stuff seized without advance notice, and suddenly needing to repack on the spot because I’m not going to let everything I’m taking leave my sight like that. I’ve never had anything seized for my whole trip, though. It’s always just been gate-checked, although they still treat it as a FREE awesome thing they’re doing just for me, even though it’s not.
Delta and United for sure.
I pack in such a way that if my carryon gets gate checked, I’m not worried about it. Usually I check luggage (Delta and free bags, unless I’m landing late enough that 20 minutes of sleep is worth the hassle of lifting a roller into the overhead) but for a short business trip, I can take everything in a small duffle that fits under the seat. If they insist on gate checking that, I’m pulling my purse and laptop bag out of it. (I regularly shock my male coworkers with “this is it!?” when they chivalrously offer to carry my bags.)
Yeah, I get that it’s FREE when it favors the airline. I’d happily check things for FREE when I arrive at the airport, but it’s not being offered then.
Ah, so not DC. Trust me, we say fuck a lot.
The fuck you say.
I think American Eagle even calls it “valet service.” :rolleyes: (But then again, I hate valet parking too, so maybe it’s appropriate.)
When I lived in Delaware, we never said “fuck”. We said “Phuck!”.
It’s fucking true. Just this week, I got a “fuck you white boy” within 15 seconds of walking out of my house in the morning.
No. “Valet service” is their term for this: The little baby jets have such tiny overheads that nothing bigger than a lunch box or clutch purse fits in them. So everything which would otherwise be your carryon stuff is collected from you at the aircraft door as your board & is returned to you at the aircraft door at the destination. Yes, you can’t get to it in flight. But it is not mingled with checked baggage, never goes to the central sort facility or a carousel and in theory can’t get lost.
The other express carriers use similar terms for the same service. Which they all offer because they all use the same jets.
- golf clap.
Didn’t read the whole thread, fuck me 
We took our son on a trip once and he arrived in a T-shirt that said “Fuck Math” We thought it was stupid but funny since he was a real live certified mathematician. While boarding the plane the boarding person requested he turn his shirt inside out. He thought that was silly, but being a mom I agreed that his shirt wasn’t appropriate with kiddies on the plane.
I’m pretty sure that if he had refused he would have been asked to leave the plane. Using the FUCK word on boarding probably sets off lots’o’alarms in the airplane folk’s minds. You have to wonder how fast and how far downhill things are going to go during the rest of the flight.
MHO
Okay, this was on an elevator and not an airplane, but I have to tell this again. Thais often wear English-language T-shirts without having the slightest clue of what they say. I stepped onto an elevator in an office high-rise one time. The only other passenger was this Thai lady, one of the prettiest Thai ladies I’ve ever seen, and you know how sexy some of these Thai ladies can look. She was wearing a T-shirt that boldly proclaimed in large font: “I FUCK ON THE FIRST DATE”
At least, I don’t think she knew what it said. 