Pet airport lounge hates

[rikkitikkitavi]

The food being touched by bare hands and the extreme waste of food I see on tables after people have left. why so greedy!

The food being touched by bare hands and the extreme waste of food I see on tables after people have left. why so greedy!

I once upset a lady in the QF J lounge during rush hour , a tray of pies were placed and people were on the them like flies on the proverbial, it was so funny I started making seagull noises I explained it wasn’t directed at her in particuost rather the the flock in general, which failed to mollify her. I just find something very amusing about wealthy adults being reduced to greedy children over a free snack.

 

[Pushka]

I once upset a lady in the QF J lounge during rush hour , a tray of pies were placed and people were on the them like flies on the proverbial, it was so funny I started making seagull noises I explained it wasn’t directed at her in particuost rather the the flock in general, which failed to mollify her. I just find something very amusing about wealthy adults being reduced to greedy children over a free snack.

Oh dear. I make the same noises when I see that behaviour.

 

[QF WP]

That's the difference - they don't see it as a "free" snack. They see it as an opportunity to eat their fare in NPPP's.

Another option is to say "mine, mine" (from Finding Nemo):

 

[JohnK]

Oh dear. I make the same noises when I see that behaviour.

Why? I didn't realise it was wrong to grab food from the buffet especially pies, sausage rolls or hot dogs.

 

[Pushka]

Why? I didn't realise it was wrong to grab food from the buffet especially pies, sausage rolls or hot dogs.

Of course it’s fine. It’s the scene when the dish is put down and within seconds it is engulfed by hands and empty within seconds. It’s the mob thing not the individual thing. It’s funny, I laugh. I don’t usually eat anything in the lounge except something to go with the sparkling. Pies ain’t it! It isn’t a gripe just an observation.

 

[Matthews]

I can usually be tolerant of most poor etiquette in airport lounges and give-in to people who are in an environment in which they are not familiar. But it's when parents use the lounge as a nursery that really annoys me. I know they love their children but they must understand that others really don't share the same emotion. Performing Yoga exercises is not really as attractive as many people think. In fact, it usually very embarrassing and slightly ugly. But perhaps everyone who is given permission to enter thinks that's their license to act as they please. Airlines really need to return to exclusivity and make lounge entry available to top tier and experienced travellers.

 

[JohnK]

Of course it’s fine. It’s the scene when the dish is put down and within seconds it is engulfed by hands and empty within seconds. It’s the mob thing not the individual thing. It’s funny, I laugh. I don’t usually eat anything in the lounge except something to go with the sparkling. Pies ain’t it! It isn’t a gripe just an observation.

Survival of the fittest? Pies are very popular. So are sausage rolls. If I've just missed a batch and I can see they are bringing out another batch then I wait to get some. If people see that as swarming then do be it.

 

[Matt_01]

Survival of the fittest? Pies are very popular. So are sausage rolls. If I've just missed a batch and I can see they are bringing out another batch then I wait to get some. If people see that as swarming then do be it.

‘Survival of the fittest’ I will come back to that point.

IMO there is just to many examples of rude, loud, and inconsiderate behaviour in lounges these days. On the odd occasion I fly VA dom, in the MEL lounge about 5-10 minutes prior to the serving of pies, fish and chip or whatever (assuming this food service is on the cards) as it has been around 6 months since I was in the VA lounge. The seagull behaviours are on show to everyone and a line starts to form.

So back on to the ‘Survival of the fittest’, when VA do serve out the half size pies I am amused at some of the guests who grab a couple, then grab a couple for their mate and a couple more for their friend, then go back to the table for 1. In most cases the person at the table for 1 is not an example of fittness.

Just saying and each to their own.

 

[TomVexille]

Gah, boomers facetiming and watching videos without headphones again

 

[rikkitikkitavi]

Why? I didn't realise it was wrong to grab food from the buffet especially pies, sausage rolls or hot dogs.

If you shoulder people to get in striking distance and snatch the food then sorry, but you’re funny.

 

[rikkitikkitavi]

That's the difference - they don't see it as a "free" snack. They see it as an opportunity to eat their fare in NPPP's.

Another option is to say "mine, mine" (from Finding Nemo):

Brilliant!

 

[Vic]

Because people aren’t that careful. Bugs don’t hang around on dry tongs but on warm moist hands they just simply breed. I could never guarantee being able to remove just one roll and not touch another. And my hands aren’t big. Why risk it?

Wow? Seriously? You have to use you're whole hand to get a breadroll?
I can very easily pick up an isolated bread roll using just my forefinger and opposable thumb. No need to rumage around in the bowl with my whole hand. Just lucky I guess.

The thing about tongs that I dislike, is those people who use the wrong tongs (the tongs in any other bowl of food) to pick up ham or chicken or salami sliced meat. So we get cross contamination of meat bacteria all over other foods.

 

[JohnK]

If you shoulder people to get in striking distance and snatch the food then sorry, but you’re funny.

Me? Not in my nature to push and shove. But I will wait if food is coming out.

Mexican beef fajitas brought out in SYD VA lounge yestersay afternoon. As soon as people saw food coming out a line started to form. I don't see anything wrong with that behaviour

 

[Pushka]

Wow? Seriously? You have to use you're whole hand to get a breadroll?
I can very easily pick up an isolated bread roll using just my forefinger and opposable thumb. No need to rumage around in the bowl with my whole hand. Just lucky I guess.

The thing about tongs that I dislike, is those people who use the wrong tongs (the tongs in any other bowl of food) to pick up ham or chicken or salami sliced meat. So we get cross contamination of meat bacteria all over other foods.

I’ve found that’s not quite how it works. If the bread rolls are touching each other it’s almost impossible to take one without say your knuckles touching other bread rolls. And I’d suggest most are in too much of a hurry to delicately manage not to touch anything even if completely accidentally. If I saw anyone collecting bread from the bread basket without using the tongs I’d assume that the rolls are contaminated. I’d not take one.

 

[Flying Fox]

My usual pet hate is people who talk on phones/facetime etc without a headset (as others have also stated).

I would like to add to this people who decide to watch youtube/videos/TV etc on speaker without headsets.

I think it comes down to people who create unnecessary noise pollution.

 

[CBRtraveler]

People who take an excessive amounts of things from the lounge like 30+ bags of T2 at the Auckland lounge

 

[opusman]

It’s the mob thing not the individual thing. It’s funny, I laugh.

Agreed, I don't think it's about "greed" as such, it's just one more thing in the experience of air travel that you're competing against others for. You compete for check-in priority, security priority, boarding priority, you compete to see who can get closest to the baggage carousel, and you compete to make sure you get your fair share of party pies.

 

[opusman]

I hate people touching my food but don't understand this obsession with public cleanliness. We've been living with bacteria all our lives. Why the obsession now?

For once I agree with JohnK, the obsession with cleanliness and hygiene has gone way too far. There's good evidence lack of exposure to (relatively) harmless pathogens is responsible for the huge rise in allergies for example. I went to school in the 70s and don't remember any kids with any sort of allergies (except bee-stings maybe), let alone peanut allergies. Now there's probably several in each class!

 

[Pushka]

For once I agree with JohnK, the obsession with cleanliness and hygiene has gone way too far. There's good evidence lack of exposure to (relatively) harmless pathogens is responsible for the huge rise in allergies for example. I went to school in the 70s and don't remember any kids with any sort of allergies (except bee-stings maybe), let alone peanut allergies. Now there's probably several in each class!

The only allergy I remember as a young child was a friend who was highly allergic to all nuts. I’m pretty much retired so this goes back a long way now and not a ‘new age’ thing. Started off as a toddler and her brothers would give her a nut because they knew she would be sick. An older brother idea of fun. As a teenager and young woman that progressed to breathing issues and then eventually into anaphylactic shock. So peanut allergies are not necessarily an invention of modern age.

Husband is allergic to dog dander. He develops asthma if in a room even where a dog has been let alone one in the room. People wouldn’t regard me as a hygiene nut so that was just a chance thing. And that didn’t develop until his twenties which is weird.

But the hygiene concern these days is different. However given the people you see waltzing out the bathroom without washing their hands means I’m not a great fan of buffets and if I see someone touching food then I’m probably not going to eat. I don’t need to eat that much.

 

[get me outta here]

There’s been some interesting articles in the last few years on people who got tick bites becoming dangerously allergic to many things esp meat(?). A doctor who had few of her patients suddenly develop this problem and she delved into it.

Sometimes there’s lots of things out there that one doesn’t know about but that doesn’t mean that it’s not happening, or didn’t happen. They have always been people with asthma, allergies and associated problems, including the gut.