You’re not just a jerk, you’re the lowest, most worthless piece of fucking scum I’ve ever had the misfortune to share a planet with.
Let the poor woman in front of you next time, you selfish, antagonistic, self-righteous dick. In fact, fuck it: let everybody on in front of you. You don’t deserve to fly. Go and join the Hare Krishnas - if they’ll have you - and hand out flowers in the airport. At least then you’ll only ruin two minutes of someone’s life, not hours.
In Munich were you? Nazi.
I wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire, you stupid cunt.
Well I probably travel more than just a few people on this board (700,000 miles + lifetime) and I have been late to the airport causing a plane to wait exactly, let’s see now carry the one, take off my shoes to make sure I counted right, zero times.
::: Rick double checks his math::: Yup, zero times. I only have three brain cells working on a good day, and I seem to be able to make it to the airport on time, I don’t think it is unreasonable for me to expect other passengers to do the same.
Though not required on domestic US flights, airlines definitely take this very seriously. Google “Positive Passenger Bag Match” for more info. jjimm is correct – for those passengers who don’t make it but check baggage, it is often a tedious process to find and remove that one black bag that looks like the rest.
Endemic, you’re kidding, right? Why should you even consider feeling bad about this situation?
I understand why people sometimes get pulled to the front of the line (though this is not a universal policy and varies from airport to airport), but it really irks me when this happens. Show up on time for your flight. If you can’t do that, accept it, and rebook for a later flight. Under no circumstances should someone either inconvenience other travelers or receive special treatment just because they showed up late and their flight is about to push.
I hate line jumpers. And I don’t particularly like the “nice” people who enable them either. This is my time you are so freely giving away to someone who couldn’t be bothered to show up on time (and yeah, things happen - which is why you leave for the airport to be there TWO HOURS before your flight departs). There are dozens of things I’d rather do than stand in line - pee sixty times before boarding, sit down and read a book, shop the other side of security, watch a movie on my laptop, check email - those are things I’m not doing standing in line.
I’ll bet she was purty and he’s kicking himself because he could have played hero for a beautiful woman. Don’t worry Endemic, she wouldn’t have taken you to the bathroom to fuck your brains out.
If anyone needs to cut a line (and I mean NEED, not WANT), then you ask the line attendants or security people. I’m assuming this is for an airport. It’s not some random schmoe’s job to let you cut. Endemic, you’re fine. In the future, tell people to ask the security peeps if they can run through because they need to make a flight.
If she was hot, I have absolutely no respect for you. But you could have asked her if she was interested in a mile high rage fuck when you were on the plane.
Endemic, if you feel badly about such things, perhaps instead of letting her cut into line ahead of you (and everyone else in line), you could have given her your space, and then taken her space at the end of the line.
Yes but you and I are in the minority most times. People are so wrapped up in their own selfish little bubbles that they don’t give a fat baby’s ass about actually making it to places on time.
What the fuck are you apologizing for? For not making a decision for yourself and every person behind you to let another person into the front of the line? You can make the decision for yourself, but you’d be a major jackass for putting another body in front of all those other people. Some of them were worried about missing their flights too. Wake up and act indignant when someone selfishly tried to impose on you.
I’m one of those people who ALWAYS arrive in plenty of time for my flights. The only time i’ve ever been in any danger of missing the plane is when the security line was so long that there’s no way i could have anticipated it. That has happened a couple of times, both at BWI, and both in the year or so after September 11.
On both occasions, BWI staff would walk down the line every five or ten minutes, calling out flight numbers, and bringing to the front of the line the people whose flights were leaving soonest. It worked great.
And those people should be allowed to inconvenience me (who gets there two hours early) why?
Frankly, they shouldn’t accept your luggage if you arrive at the airport unable to clear the security line in time. “Sorry, ma’am, bag checking is closed for that flight - you can try and make to to the gate and gate check that bag or I can see about scheduling you on a later flight.”
This is what we do at the airline I work for. We allow baggage up until 30 minutes before departure, because TSA seems to be able to clear bags than people, but after that, we’ll take it with the caveat that it probably won’t make the flight.
Check in is allowed (generally) up until about 20 minutes before departure, but this is mostly as a courtesy. As in, sure, here’s a boarding pass-- but I’m telling you now, you probably won’t make it. If not, the person at the gate can rebook you. There are occasions where check in observes a stricter time cut off if the security line would absolutely prevent the customer from making it through.
For all those people that are saying upset about people not getting to the airport early- sometimes it’s not their fault. I always try extremely hard to leave a lot of time between connecting flights, but that doesn’t work so well when the first flight is running hours lateatful… I’ve had times where I’ve literally run through an airport, and it hasn’t been my fault. A nice woman let me cut in front of her that time, and I was very grateful.
Which is why you speak to the gate attendant and if necessary, the person running security to say “I have connecting flights” The airline should make sure you get through the airport efficiently without having to depend on your fellow passengers being doormats.
I don’t know if this cancels your guilt out but I got into a tangle with a woman in Sydney airport who wouldn’t let me jump the customs queue. It wasn’t actually intentional to start with - people are funneled into one exit channel from the bag-checking area and we ended up at the first third of the line. We were running with all our bags and child in tow (because the connection time was a bit tight by then and transferring to a domestic flight from international at Sydney involves a transfer to another terminal) but when I realised a sort of line had formed and that I was not at the end of it, I breathlessly and in an obviously panicked way explained to the person I could have cut in front of that we have a domestic flight to catch, please can we cut in? Now bear in mind here, that there’s no delays after this point, it’s just a matter of handing your clearance card to the officer so the delay I was requesting of her and every-one else behind her was precisely the length of one luggage trolley, two adults and a child. She rudely refused to let us in and actually jammed her trolley across in front so I couldn’t pass. Well, hey, maybe she has another flight to catch too. The man behind her gracefully let us in with a big show of courtesy. I then watched the aforementioned selfish horror head out to the taxi rank.
I reckon if I can stay mad at her, you can stop feeling guilty.
Your case is the exception, rather than the rule, though. 99% of the gripers that I’ve come across are the ones who just couldn’t be bothered to show up to the airport in time.