What cheeses me off

[prozac]

But they don't do their job very well?

@JohnK entered Thailand 17 June
MrsJohnK entered Thailand 17 June
MissJohnK entered Thailand 17 June

and just by sheer coincidence all 3 are departing Thailand on 05 July. Who cares how all 3 are related. This is clearly not a case of child trafficking unless Thailand was a transit point. But then look at their travel history.

It's not very difficult to use common sense but it is a lost art.

John, I would be grateful in this situation as you know that if your daughter was ever taken it is likely she would be found before she came to harm.

 

[Quickstatus]

Who cares how all 3 are related.

They obviously do.

 

[Pushka]

But they don't do their job very well?

@JohnK entered Thailand 17 June
MrsJohnK entered Thailand 17 June
MissJohnK entered Thailand 17 June

and just by sheer coincidence all 3 are departing Thailand on 05 July. Who cares how all 3 are related. This is clearly not a case of child trafficking unless Thailand was a transit point. But then look at their travel history.

It's not very difficult to use common sense but it is a lost art.

Many here have explained why this is happening. It is to protect children. Profiling exists for a reason. Sadly it fits your family. It also fitted mine. It would take them much longer to trace your travel history and which to be honest proves nothing, than simply to hand over the birth certificate. This is common sense. No common sense in getting riled up about it.

 

[drron]

As my memory is slowly disappearing into the setting sun I am even more prone to leaving things behind. Twice this year I have been fortunate. The first in January at Changi when I left my phone in the try. As soon as I sat down I knew what had happened. As I was walking back one of the agents walked over and said I bet you have come back for this.

Second time it was not my memory but my wallet obviously fell out of my pocket on the QF flight to DRW. I realised it wasn't there when I reached the gate and immediately reported it to the Gate Agent. She went back onto the plane and returned with my wallet.

 

[Pushka]

As my memory is slowly disappearing into the setting sun I am even more prone to leaving things behind. Twice this year I have been fortunate. The first in January at Changi when I left my phone in the try. As soon as I sat down I knew what had happened. As I was walking back one of the agents walked over and said I bet you have come back for this.

Second time it was not my memory but my wallet obviously fell out of my pocket on the QF flight to DRW. I realised it wasn't there when I reached the gate and immediately reported it to the Gate Agent. She went back onto the plane and returned with my wallet.

I'm making my life simpler to make me remember easily. Sometimes this means my 'simpler' means I forget things to pack. . This week. . Like a sewing kit. My bathers are broken, they need a sewing kit. I had a huge blister. I needed a needle. I'd not packed one. I did the job with Scissors. Not by pricking. Cutting. My bathers. I'd packed two.

I'd deposited our dirty clothes yesterday at a laundry yesterday at a laundry in Sanur Bali. I'd forgotten where the laundry was. . After an hour in the heat I stumbled across it. Phew. I hate JET LaG.

Last year I left my iPad on Qatar in Adelaide. I got it back.

 

[JohnK]

They obviously do.

No. This person clearly did not know what they were doing.

Also my wife had already left. I hand over 3 passports and she calls back my wife totally ignoring me standing in front of her. If she'd used half her brain she would have seen same surname in all 3 passports I handed over.

That's common sense.

We're travelling back out of 2 different airports in January 2025. Wife/daughter leaving from Chiang Mai and I'm leaving from BKK. Wouldn't that be fun if Chiang Mai immigration asks to see the dad as they've done in the past in other government offices and don't let wife/daughter depart Thailand.

P.S. Trust me when I say this is a corruption angle and nothing to do with child trafficking. Only some of them try it on.

 

[Flyfrequently]

I'm making my life simpler to make me remember easily. Sometimes this means my 'simpler' means I forget things to pack. . This week. . Like a sewing kit. My bathers are broken, they need a sewing kit.

Mr Flyfrequently's button popped on his favourite shorts in Bali recently. Concierge promptly sent up a sewing kit - for the life of us, neither could thread the needle as I use one of these at home.

Enter our room attendant, threaded it in a flash.

 

[sanne]

But they don't do their job very well?

@JohnK entered Thailand 17 June
MrsJohnK entered Thailand 17 June
MissJohnK entered Thailand 17 June

and just by sheer coincidence all 3 are departing Thailand on 05 July. Who cares how all 3 are related. This is clearly not a case of child trafficking unless Thailand was a transit point. But then look at their travel history.

It's not very difficult to use common sense but it is a lost art.

On a family safari to South Africa we had to have the original birth certificates of every child to show customs.

 

[prozac]

Mr Flyfrequently's button popped on his favourite shorts in Bali recently. Concierge promptly sent up a sewing kit - for the life of us, neither could thread the needle as I use one of these at home.
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Enter our room attendant, threaded it in a flash.

I think I still have a little sewing kit from the 1960's that contained a threader like that. It was a promotional kit by the aussie branch of French pharmaceutical company Roussel.

 

[Pushka]

I think I still have a little sewing kit from the 1960's that contained a threader like that. It was a promotional kit by the aussie branch of French pharmaceutical company Roussel.

I have a sewing kit. Several. Just forgotten to pack one of them.

 

[JohnK]

Just to continue with our lovely return home from latest trip.

Arrived at BNE airport around 7:00pm and I had luggage trolley with 5 bags and wife carrying 2 bags and daughter with us. We were extremely tired as we left Chiang Mai the day before and had 4 flights.

Went to B2 to wait for Alpha parking minibus. There are 3 benches. Couple sitting on 1 bench, teenage boy and sister sitting in another bench and the rest of the bench taken by a bag and their 2 parents sitting on 3rd bench doing things on their phone oblivious to life around them.

The couple on first bench moved over and offered my wife a seat. She said thank you but refused and sat on low railing behind the 3 benches. I'm standing leaning on trolley and the boy gets up to play bouncing a ball and his 2 parents constantly saying something to them and only a little girl and duffel bag occupying entire bench. This went on for 10 minutes until Alpha bus arrived.

I was standing watching all this shaking my head and not looking very happy. I really wanted to tell the parents that the 2 kids had very little hope in life as they were being raised by morons but my wife would not let me say anything.

The parents should have called the kids over and offered one bench to the 3 of us but instead just made sure they were comfortable. I would not have let a 60 year old standing there while I was sitting down.

 

[Quickstatus]

@JohnK yes there are many inconsiderate people in the world, and yes you are tired and your body is sore. But, it is often better to be a "half glass full" person.

 

[Quickstatus]

memory

remember

Should we have a memory fading thread.

One sign of cognitive decline is forgetting to do trouser zip up

 

[Denali]

Our office server room needs work so Im nominated to be on site Sunday 7am and I get here about 6.30am just in case/gives me a chance to open and settle down.... its currently 8.10am and theyre not here yet.

 

[serfty]

Should we have a memory fading thread.

One sign of cognitive decline is forgetting to do trouser zip up

Maybe, but some may forget to post ...

 

[SuePa]

MIAT changed my flight from Hong Kong to Ulaanbaatar. I now have 5.5 hours to hang around Hong Kong Airport, and worse, I arrive at Ulaanbaatar at 4am. I am so not looking forward to this flight!

 

[tgh]

One needs to live cognitive decline to understand it….

 

[Pushka]

Just to continue with our lovely return home from latest trip.

Arrived at BNE airport around 7:00pm and I had luggage trolley with 5 bags and wife carrying 2 bags and daughter with us. We were extremely tired as we left Chiang Mai the day before and had 4 flights.

Went to B2 to wait for Alpha parking minibus. There are 3 benches. Couple sitting on 1 bench, teenage boy and sister sitting in another bench and the rest of the bench taken by a bag and their 2 parents sitting on 3rd bench doing things on their phone oblivious to life around them.

The couple on first bench moved over and offered my wife a seat. She said thank you but refused and sat on low railing behind the 3 benches. I'm standing leaning on trolley and the boy gets up to play bouncing a ball and his 2 parents constantly saying something to them and only a little girl and duffel bag occupying entire bench. This went on for 10 minutes until Alpha bus arrived.

I was standing watching all this shaking my head and not looking very happy. I really wanted to tell the parents that the 2 kids had very little hope in life as they were being raised by morons but my wife would not let me say anything.

The parents should have called the kids over and offered one bench to the 3 of us but instead just made sure they were comfortable. I would not have let a 60 year old standing there while I was sitting down.

I guess none of us know how tired other people are too. But if your wife refused a seat then likely others take that as cue she didn't want to sit? Couldn't you have seated at the bench that only had the girl and bag? I'd politely ask them to move the bag.

 

[JohnK]

I guess none of us know how tired other people are too. But if your wife refused a seat then likely others take that as cue she didn't want to sit? Couldn't you have seated at the bench that only had the girl and bag? I'd politely ask them to move the bag.

I'm too nice a person. I don't like to impose. I was waiting for the parents to offer.

 

[prozac]

I'm too nice a person. I don't like to impose. I was waiting for the parents to offer.

I'm not. I would have asked they consolidate.