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Post by lagatta on Jul 31, 2018 17:10:06 GMT
I was joking about stomping, of course you have to be sweet as pie to them.
I always try to get an aisle seat, but that is so I can more easily get up and walk around - and pee.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 31, 2018 19:48:33 GMT
You are an old, old lady now and they must obey! And you are enough past whippersnapperhood to know that you'd better watch your ass! .. British Airways upgraded my grandmother to business class ... she was no longer normal ... ... they needed to get her to a better place. ... Just a few ideas for fine tuning your behaviour at the airport, Bixa. Don't laugh. I'm capable of major whoredom if it means luxury flying. How can taller people survive unless they are in a bulkhead? As I was boarding a plane once, I passed a poor guy who was easily professional football player size. He had that miserably resigned look of "why is this happening to me" that dogs get when you bathe them. What ticks me off is that in bulkhead you have to store all your stuff overhead. I get around that a little bit by using a fanny pack (no deadly projectile purses allowed, even if you wear them cross-body). But the seats are so damned narrow, that you struggle to even stuff the sweater or (inadequate) airline blanket next to you when not needed. If you protest sweetly and reasonably, as opposed to stamping your feet and making a scene, mightn’t you get upgraded to first class? Well, 1st is too much too hope for. But I'm always nice to the airline desk people, as they take all the crap for situations they had no part in creating. It's been my experience that if they can help you, they will. As an English person the thought of a fanny pack is quite unnerving
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Post by questa on Jul 31, 2018 23:02:20 GMT
In Oz they are called 'bum bags' much to the delight of giggling 6 year-olds. 'Fanny pack' has never caught on...thank heavens!
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Post by mich64 on Jul 31, 2018 23:49:13 GMT
I understand your frustration Bixa, perhaps getting to the airport as early as you can, you could have a pleasant conversation with an airline representative who can reassign your seat since you did pay for a bulkhead seat. Hope that works out for you. We too have yet to be notified officially that our return flight from Toronto to home has been permanently cancelled due to flight reductions effective October 1st. At this point it looks like our 3 hour layover will now be 7. As soon as I am notified, I will call promptly and see what our options are. I even called the other night to check on my reservation and they said the status is the same, but I know quite differently is the case.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 1, 2018 2:42:09 GMT
Our Florida reservations are always revised multiple times before we actually fly, sometimes adding HOURS to an already long day. But we fly in a different season than when we book the tickets, and the schedule changes every year around the same time. You’d think the airlines could”train” their computers to anticipate these annual flight reductions after the main tourist/snowbird season tapers off.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 1, 2018 10:09:30 GMT
Kerouac you were once 1 m 87. Now being old and decrepit I am sure you fit even on Ryanair aircraft.
It is also my experience to be nice to people behind desks. If it fails I become disagreeable but remain polite. When all fails I just say I stop discussing and want a manager or just somebody else.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2018 16:46:51 GMT
I always try to get an aisle seat, but that is so I can more easily get up and walk around - and pee. Words to live by! As an English person the thought of a fanny pack is quite unnerving The one I have is not attractive, but it redeems itself slightly by being more in the shape of a rectangular sporran than those sort of roll things I think of as fanny packs. The one I have is called a kangaroo pack. In Oz they are called 'bum bags' Ewwwww ~ that sounds like those bags that carriage horses have to wear so their droppings won't drop. we too have yet to be notified officially that our return flight from Toronto to home has been permanently cancelled due to flight reductions effective October 1st. At this point it looks like our 3 hour layover will now be 7. Soooo maddening, Mich. Knowing your research skills, I'm betting you find something good before time to leave, You’d think the airlines could ”train” their computers to anticipate these annual flight reductions after the main tourist/snowbird season tapers off. Yeah, really!!! we had to disembark take a bus go to Aachen then take a regional train and change in Koeln. Where I boarded my original train ... how did they do ? Yikes! That sounds like something from The Twilight Zone.
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Post by mossie on Aug 1, 2018 18:52:32 GMT
Where I boarded my original train ... how did they do ? They pushed it, but they didn't think the passengers would be any help
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Post by mich64 on Aug 1, 2018 20:26:04 GMT
Soooo maddening, Mich. Knowing your research skills, I'm betting you find something good before time to leave, Bixa, I will keep calling each week! At some point they have to advise me of the permanent change they have made on the flight that I have already booked and paid for. There is a plane load of people that are going to have be rebooked. I am hoping if I get the call in first, we will get booked onto the last flight of the night which is probably already fully booked. They are going to use a different plane from then on, but it only has 15 more seats, so I have no idea what their plan is for all the people on our flight? It will be interesting.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 4, 2018 18:05:55 GMT
I broke a glass that I have been using. It was for Kriek Boon, a brand of kriek with which I am not familiar, but I found it on a windowsill in Brussels one morning in 2013 when I was walking around and decided to rescue it. Perhaps I extended its lifespan, since bar glasses rares live for long, but who knows? Stangely enough, in the same sink that killed the Kriek Boon glass, there was also the little Vietnamese diah that I picked up from the beach at Nha Trang in Vietnam in 2004. I still use it often for soy sauce or other minor items, but I have no idea how old it might be. 20 years, 50 years, more? How does one lose a little dish that washes up on a beach?
I guess this isn't a trauma at all except for the broken glass...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2018 5:14:24 GMT
I have a contact lens stuck somewhere in my right eye.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 21, 2018 5:38:58 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2018 15:18:26 GMT
Eeewwwww!
I managed to get it out before going to bed, thank you.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 22, 2018 16:38:52 GMT
I have some water in the elbow. Called Hygroma in french. not too much inflamed but for once that I went to the swimming pool with colleagues, I had to stop after 15 min. Tsss.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 23, 2018 0:15:18 GMT
Lots of aches going around.
I spent the day lolling on the bed after getting a Shingrix shot yesterday. Feels a bit like the flu.
Shot # 2 in 8 weeks. (Shingrix is the newer shingles vaccine.)
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Post by tod2 on Aug 26, 2018 12:52:10 GMT
Whatagain - Is that also called 'Tennis Elbow'? I think if you had a really mod doctor he would drain it. My husband has had the same thing in his testicles and has it drained about once a year. It never seems to go away and although seems strange is very common amongst men.. I have had it twice in my knee and that is called a 'Baker's Cyst'. It is very painful so I now prevent it by an annual Cortisone injection into the knee. Seems to work.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2018 1:54:49 GMT
I have 16% left on my laptop battery and the electricity just went out. It's raining like mad outside, so who knows when it will be restored.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2018 1:59:29 GMT
But wait! The electricity did not go out. It was the 99-year lightbulb here in the dining room that failed. Oh well.
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Post by mossie on Sept 1, 2018 8:14:44 GMT
The wonders of modern science! Time is passing at a faster rate than when those bulbs were made.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2018 12:38:14 GMT
Running faster and faster just to stay in one place!
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 1, 2018 22:54:25 GMT
Dammit -- six mice in less than a week! 4 of them have been very small, so I suspect that they are brothers and sisters of the same family. But how big is the family?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2018 22:59:15 GMT
You are going to get the plague and it will be your own fault.
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Post by questa on Sept 2, 2018 7:50:36 GMT
Bixa, don't forget...
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Lassa Fever Leptospirosis Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis (LCM) Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever Plague Rat-Bite Fever Salmonellosis South American Arenaviruses (Argentine hemorrhagic fever) Bolivian hemorrhagic fever Sabiá-associated hemorrhagic fever Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever Tularemia
None of the above is much fun.
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Post by mickthecactus on Sept 2, 2018 7:55:51 GMT
I thought Tularemia was one of those modern children’s names.
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Post by lagatta on Sept 2, 2018 11:35:41 GMT
Hmm, no cat?
There are also dogs that are very good ratters.
And ferrets.
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 2, 2018 12:16:06 GMT
I thought Tularemia was one of those modern children’s names. Another might be Shigella. Or Chlamydia. Or maybe those would just be the Ugly Sisters in a medical students' panto.
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Post by tod2 on Sept 2, 2018 14:56:09 GMT
Kerouac - what about a visit to Rue Aurouze?
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 2, 2018 15:41:55 GMT
Oh, it's just a distraction for us. We know that the municipal authorities vaccinate all of the mice before releasing baskets of them in front of every building.
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Post by questa on Sept 3, 2018 1:07:22 GMT
Another might be Shigella. Or Chlamydia. Or maybe those would just be the Ugly Sisters in a medical students' panto I helped write a sketch for a hospital revue, early 60s. Can't recall all the names but there was Professor Gastrocnemius, the Cervical twins...not identical, Mother Superior Vena Cava. Polly Cystic ...housemaid Beri-beri ...a dog that was never seen on stage. Lady Choleo-Lithotomy owner of beri-beri
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 3, 2018 1:56:20 GMT
So Mick, Patrick, and Questa will be writing our cozy Christmas play this year?
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