Wear the jacket, keep a tie in your pocket.
I can’t go to a Big Meeting in my rumpled “looks like he slept in it (because i did) suit”.
But yeah, I do wear nice chinos and a blazer, just in case. Once, it even got me a free upgrade.
Still, my suit bag is hardly one of those huge oversized rolling bags.
You just need to pack Tim Taylor style with a suit in a pouch.
I don’t do “business casual.” I have suits for court appearances and other important meetings. Jeans for everything else. On Alaska Air flights, most of us in First Class are way below business casual. Could be the Alaska thing. Or the Seattle thing.
I like these kinds of threads. Sometimes I know they can sound a little demanding and there may be disagreement. But, other times, I read something and realize “oh shit, I do that and he is right”. I was always the get a good spot, not pushy or shovey or anything, but I stood right on the darn thing. If everyone stayed one yard back it would be ideal and perfect so next time I will join your movement.
I think what happens is one person see another go forward and it is like dominos 
I would imagine folks like you sit back and watch that silently saying “You damn idiots, if you ALL just stood 3 feet back, this would go a lot smoother and you would not have to go road warrior on anyone”.
Um…no. That is a glossary - used only for JBER, by the looks of it - that was typed using double spaces after the period (probably someone like yourself that learned to type on typewriters long before digital). No page numbers, no headers, no footers, no documentation, no author info, nothing. Just because some old fart created a local glossary for in-house using double spaces does not mean it’s somehow your ‘industry standard’. For example, the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) has publisheda ‘principles, guidelines & best practices’ document that has shock single spaces after periods! How about SERI (Society for Ecological Restoration International)? They have a ‘Science & Working Group’ document available that is…single spaced. Canada’s Parks Agency? ‘Principles & Guidelines for Ecological Restoration’ - you guessed it, single spaced. One more - USDA (Ecological Restoration Implementation Plan)…yep, single spaced.
Perhaps you should contact them and let them all know they’re not following your idea of ‘industry standard’ :rolleyes:
I’m still open to cites that double-spacing is actually required in some industry that apparently only publishes by chiseling out statements in rock tablets, since I can not think of a single publishing style guide I’ve ever looked at (AP, AMA, APA, ACS, CBE, LSA, CMOS etc.) all say single spacing.
Back on topic: if you spill something on you mid-flight and don’t really have a change of clothes handy, get four-five cans of club soda or tonic water from the flight attendant, go into one of the bathrooms ASAP, take off the coat/shirt etc. and drench it in the club soda and wash out whatever the spill was. Up in the air your clothes will dry out fast; on a JFK-NRT flight once we helped a woman after the FA spilled a beer all over her shirt. One of the female FAs grabbed an clean t-shirt from her bag to wear, she washed out the shirt in the bathroom, and we hung it up to try in the FA sleeping lounge in the back. I think one of the FAs might have even ironed it for her IIRC.
Just drop your stupid fucking pedantic hijack, you bigot.
Pretty sure one of those words doesn’t belong in there. Fucktart.
Your continued bashing of seniors or people who are older than you are is tiresome and bigoted. Take a fucking break, okay? Yes, it’s true that those who learned to touch type many years ago were taught to double space. It’s a muscle memory that is almost impossible to break. But watching you run your fucking piehole about how older people are teh stoopid is an ad hominem attack and unnecessary.
And no fingernail polish remover.
I still remember the moron who generated a massive acetone stench doing this on a flight many years ago.
Thank you for saying this so better than I did. 
Also, be sure not to make racist tweets right before boarding a long flight. Just a thought.
Yeah, i just started a thread about that over in MPSIMS.
My flight from San Diego to San Francisco yesterday was relatively uneventful, although there’s not usually too much that can ruin such a short flight anyway.
We boarded about 30 minutes late due to a late-arriving plane, and of course things were slowed somewhat by people with oversized carryons, and people who just will not get out of the goddamned aisle quickly enough. Overall, though, a relatively painless flight. That’s one of the benefits, i think, of getting away a bit early, and not waiting until the really busy flying days just before Christmas.
Don’t grab, press; when things get bumpy, press against those overhead bins. And I say this as someone with equilibrium issues and ankles which give way unexpectedly (I’m told it’ll stop after adolescence, that was 30 years ago).
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I apologize for quoting myself in order to resurrect a thread that’s been dormant since Christmas, but i thought that some of you folks might be interested to hear that United has decided to start taking the carry-on size limitation more seriously.
It was all fine until they started charging to check bags.
That’s why I fly southwest. First two bags free.
The best tip for first-time flyers (and those who’ve been flying for a long time) remains: Check your seat assignment against the handy little chart posted by all the seats. It saves all the time-consuming reshuffling that occurs when a dimwit (that’s you) sits in the wrong seat and has to get up and find the right one.
I fly SW like perfectparanoia, there are no seat assignments.