What cheeses me off

[JohnK]

My wife disagrees with that sentiment when she looks in our garage and sees there's so much junk ("potentially useful") she can't get her car in.

In Sydney we had footy card collections as kids. Most were thrown out by mum and dad in the 90's without us knowing. Some of those can be quite valuable.

My apartment is a mess. Constant arguments with wife. I don't want a clean apartment/house to impress visitors. Not that we have visitors. Odd couple comes to mind.

 

[love_the_life]

Charity collectors who are always outside supermarkets and large shops who shake their cans at you every time you shop there.

Or the chuggers who try to get you to sign up - even if a worthy cause cannot make a small one off cash donation.

 

[Pushka]

Or the chuggers who try to get you to sign up - even if a worthy cause cannot make a small one off cash donation.

That cheeses me off. Those are likely paid for their work too.

 

[Pushka]

Or people who click on their indicator to take your park just as you’ve raised the boot lid to unpack several bags of shopping and from a trolley that you have to return. This person clearly lip read and finally moved on.

 

[Guvner]

Or the "opposite" when you are waiting to take a spot and the incumbent sits in their car for 5 minutes, with the reverse lights ablaze, whilst checking their messages and voicemail.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Getting very fed up with these self-important people who can't plan their flights correctly then expect others to accomodate them and get annoyed when their lack of manners is pointed out to them so they whinge on SM and TikTok.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/business-class-passenger-refuses-to-swap-seats-for-womans-birthday/news-story/1557e2a6b621087b1eb1cc37f81ff3b9

 

[Lynda2475]

Getting very fed up with these self-important people who can't plan their flights correctly then expect others to accomodate them and get annoyed when their lack of manners is pointed out to them so they whinge on SM and TikTok.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/business-class-passenger-refuses-to-swap-seats-for-womans-birthday/news-story/1557e2a6b621087b1eb1cc37f81ff3b9

If you failed to select (or pay for) your preferred seat when booking dont expect someone who did to move for you.

It is not the end of the world if you dont sit next to your partner/friend for a flight (I care not if it is your birthday), if that is very important to you then plan ahead, dont expect someone else (who rightly selected an eligible seat) to sit in a dud/worse seat because of your laziness when booking.

And before people say it could be a last minute upgrade (well just be happy you got one and accept it wont come with your preferred seat) or the person may not have status (well thems the breaks, fly more if you want the privilege that comes with status).

You can ask politely, but have to be prepared to accept a No without a fuss if it doesn't suite the person who has the seat does not want to accommodate your poor planning.

 

[blackcat20]

Getting very fed up with these self-important people who can't plan their flights correctly then expect others to accomodate them and get annoyed when their lack of manners is pointed out to them so they whinge on SM and TikTok.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/business-class-passenger-refuses-to-swap-seats-for-womans-birthday/news-story/1557e2a6b621087b1eb1cc37f81ff3b9

The person has a point though, it was an aisle to aisle swap, and really, it doesn't do any harm to be nice occasionally.

 

[RooFlyer]

Getting very fed up with these self-important people who can't plan their flights correctly then expect others to accomodate them and get annoyed when their lack of manners is pointed out to them so they whinge on SM and TikTok.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/business-class-passenger-refuses-to-swap-seats-for-womans-birthday/news-story/1557e2a6b621087b1eb1cc37f81ff3b9

And what a priceless example of why we shouldn’t be obliged to swap

But, @TheRealTMA - news.com.au ? Surely you aren’t reading on the Dark Side, helping to prop up Rup?

 

[Pushka]

Or the "opposite" when you are waiting to take a spot and the incumbent sits in their car for 5 minutes, with the reverse lights ablaze, whilst checking their messages and voicemail.

Agree but I might do this but without brake or reverse light engaged. Might have door open.

 

[Lynda2475]

it was an aisle to aisle swap

But how far forward or back? It makes a difference re ability to get preferred meal, may have proximity to a bassinette (no thanks).

For example I will never agree to move into row 1 on a QF737 because I do not want my handbag in the overhead bin, I want it with me at my feet. I consider 1C/D a downgrade over 2C/D.

Coming back from CNS I was moved from 2D to 1A (5 mins before boarding) and without consultation because someone who got a last minute upgrade wanted my seat to sit next to a friend. Luckily I had screen shot of my original seat on boarding pass from 2 hours earlier when I arrived and dropped bag) and I insisted on being moved back to 2D as I had chosen row 2 for a reason and done so 10 months out.

The friend gave me stink eye the whole flight, but not my problem.

Now on my flight from SYD-WLG a few weeks later I was asked nicely at the lounge if I would swap from 2D to 2A and given it was a short flight I agreed as was still row 2. But request was asked nicely, not a demand from a entitled so and so that was lucky to get an upgrade.

 

[Pushka]

The person has a point though, it was an aisle to aisle swap, and really, it doesn't do any harm to be nice occasionally.

Sure. But given that he's appeared in his rant topless, why? We can't assume it was a polite request either.

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But how far forward or back? It makes a difference re ability to get preferred meal, may have proximity to a bassinette (no thanks).

For example I will never agree to move into row 1 on a QF737 because I do not want my handbag in the overhead bin, I want it with me at my feet. I consider 1C/D a downgrade over 2C/D.

Coming back from CNS I was moved from 2D to 1A (5 mins before boarding) and without consultation because someone who got a last minute upgrade waned my seat to sit next to a friend. Luckily I had screen shot of my original seat on boarding pass from 2 hours earlier when I arrived and dropped bag) and I insisted on being moved back to 2D as I had chosen row 2 for a reason and done so 10 months out.

The friend gave me stink eye the whole flight, but not my problem.

Now on my flight from SYD-WLG a few weeks later I was asked nicely at the lounge if I would swap from 2D to 2A and given it was a short flight I agreed as was still row 2. But request was asked nicely, not a demand from a entitled so and so that was lucky to get an upgrade.

Third row both seats. So no material change. I'd expect it was the manner of asking that was the issue.

 

[TheRealTMA]

But, @TheRealTMA - news.com.au ? Surely you aren’t reading on the Dark Side, helping to prop up Rup?

Slow day. Got up very early for new cleaners who didn't turn up so run out of thikngs to do but read free online trash.

Also watching England vs NZ on Kayo. Good match coming to an interesting end.

 

[TheRealTMA]

The person has a point though, it was an aisle to aisle swap, and really, it doesn't do any harm to be nice occasionally.

No they don't. Book your seats or suck it up. They can ask but if the answer is a perfectly reasonable, no, then stop trying to do a Harry and suck it up Bro. Maybe it's even possible that the TikTokers were not prepared to pay for seat allocations and just hasstle other PXs.

 

[drron]

Call me bro and you won't get an affirmative answer either.

 

[Ade]

But request was asked nicely

This. To me, this makes a difference. Ask nicely and I will always try to help where possible. We are not sure at this point, if the initial request made by the individual was polite or rude, but assuming the individual was polite, it would have been good if the individual did not keep on pressing. I mean, you asked nicely, but was turned down, so better to have left it at that. There is no point in pushing/stressing your request when it was denied in the first place.

For instance, interactions such as below, is not going to help your case, eh? excerpt from the *news* article, see what I did there? ;-)

“She was like is there a problem? It’s my birthday and I’d like to sit with my partner,” Jay explained.

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I'd expect it was the manner of asking that was the issue.

I think so as well. It was more the manner of asking rather than what was asked ...

 

[Katie]

Getting very fed up with these self-important people who can't plan their flights correctly then expect others to accomodate them and get annoyed when their lack of manners is pointed out to them so they whinge on SM and TikTok.

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/business-class-passenger-refuses-to-swap-seats-for-womans-birthday/news-story/1557e2a6b621087b1eb1cc37f81ff3b9

I guess he wishes he'd been sitting next to Martin Short ...

Martin Short swapped plane seats with a 7-year-old girl so she could sit with her father. The dad turned out to be Chance the Rapper.

"What an awesome person!" Chance the Rapper wrote of Short on Twitter. "SHOUTOUT TO JACK FROST."

www.insider.com

(though a 7yo child is very different to an adult partner!!)

 

[TheRealTMA]

I guess he wishes he'd been sitting next to Martin Short ...

Martin Short swapped plane seats with a 7-year-old girl so she could sit with her father. The dad turned out to be Chance the Rapper.

"What an awesome person!" Chance the Rapper wrote of Short on Twitter. "SHOUTOUT TO JACK FROST."

www.insider.com

(though a 7yo child is very different to an adult partner!!)

I thought regulations say it is not permitted to seat children, especially a 7 yo girl, next to an unrelated and unknown male?

 

[Katie]

I thought regulations say it is not permitted to seat children, especially a 7 yo girl, next to an unrelated and unknown male?

The article says Short gave up his seat to the child, so it seems Short and Mr The Rapper were seated next to each other.

I assume given the people involved, this flight was in the US or Canada. I would assume any regulations would vary by airline; I've read various comments here on AFF about unrelated men not being seated next to children, but I'm sure I've read of Dr Ron or others who've experienced exceptions to that??

 

[Hvr]

The person has a point though, it was an aisle to aisle swap, and really, it doesn't do any harm to be nice occasionally.

It seems that the pax would be on a different side though.
I choose aisle seats where my right arm is on the aisle. Easier to hold the left arm in for the person on that side.
It's not just an aisle seat choice, it's a total seat preference choice.