[Dion]

This guy makes a great point.

A couple of years ago, a situation arose on an Air France flight that now bears repeating and over which I still occasionally seethe. On the outbound flight from Atlanta to Paris, I had been fortunate enough to be upgraded to business class, which is always nice when it happens, but on the return from Paris to Atlanta via Chicago I was in "last class," as I've come to call it, but I had a bulkhead aisle, so it wasn't so bad. (I thought.)

As luck would have it on that particular flight, every single restroom in economy was out of order except for one. That meant one lavatory for more than 200 passengers on an eight-hour flight, ooh-la-la. My seat was located right behind the working lavatory, which was in the middle of the aircraft, and for the entire eight-hour flight, the line for that single restroom was backed up all the way to the rear of the plane. For all those long, excruciating hours, I had fannies (nicest word I can think of) in my face, and every time the plane hit any turbulence I was jostled and shoved until I wanted to scream. Don't even ask how many times my toes were stepped on, as I lost count after the first couple of dozen.

I couldn't move to another seat, as the flight was jammed-packed and no seats were left open. When I asked the flight attendants to please, please, please open the restrooms in business class to economy class, this is what I was told — and verbatim, I might add: "No, we can't do that. It would upset the business class passengers."

Upset the business class passengers! Well, dang! Let's sure as heck not do that! For gosh sakes, how could anyone is business possibly be "upset" over such an extraordinary occurrence as all of the bathrooms breaking down at once?

I was absolutely stunned by the utter conceit and lack of common sense of the Air France flight attendants.

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