RGMG when children are used in public protests. In particular when said children are too young to understand what is being protested and they are breaking the law by having the protest in the first place. Not cool.
RGMG when children are used in public protests. In particular when said children are too young to understand what is being protested and they are breaking the law by having the protest in the first place. Not cool.
The problem in the scenario you are referring to would be that any non-violent protests would be illegal.
I also think your argument in general about kids not belonging because they can’t endorse the protest is flawed. Kids learn about values from their parents and communities. How do you expect children to learn what values their parents believe are worth fighting for. Taking a kid to a protest is teaching them about civil disobedience and fighting for what they believe in.
The problem could be the issue the parents are teaching them about but that occurs with or without attending the protest.
Twice in the last week I've turned left from 14th St to Southland and both times I was cut off by the ####head in the inside lane. Neither turned right before Macleod Tr but they just had to get in their favourite lane immediately.
RGMG when people to don't sit in their booked seat on their flights.
When I boarded my flight two days, ago, someone was in my seat. He and his g/f wanted to sit together and told me I could sit in her seat, which was a cramped middle seat. I have a bad knee and when possible avoid those seats. I politely told them that I had paid for that seat including because of my knee. They said they couldnt' sit in their assigned seats because someone else was in there, but refused to tell me which seats those were. I said if there was a family with kids trying to sit togehter, I would make sure they can do that. They continued to argue with me until the flight attendant had to get involved.
Why do people do this? it puts the other person in an awkward position where you feel like you are somehow the bad guy in the whole thing.
Again, if there is a young child needing to sit with a parent, I'm 100% fine with accomodating that. But I'm not going to take a worse seat so you and your partner can sit together.
And then on the second flight dude next to me had taken something and was out of it. He spent most of the flight full on sleeping on my chest and shoulder. I'll be honest, I was intimidated by him. He was very large, grumpy, and just seemed off. I didn't want to have a real problem with him while hurtling through the sky.
Long day of travel.
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RGMG when people to don't sit in their booked seat on their flights.
When I boarded my flight two days, ago, someone was in my seat. He and his g/f wanted to sit together and told me I could sit in her seat, which was a cramped middle seat. I have a bad knee and when possible avoid those seats. I politely told them that I had paid for that seat including because of my knee. They said they couldnt' sit in their assigned seats because someone else was in there, but refused to tell me which seats those were. I said if there was a family with kids trying to sit togehter, I would make sure they can do that. They continued to argue with me until the flight attendant had to get involved.
Why do people do this? it puts the other person in an awkward position where you feel like you are somehow the bad guy in the whole thing.
Again, if there is a young child needing to sit with a parent, I'm 100% fine with accomodating that. But I'm not going to take a worse seat so you and your partner can sit together.
And then on the second flight dude next to me had taken something and was out of it. He spent most of the flight full on sleeping on my chest and shoulder. I'll be honest, I was intimidated by him. He was very large, grumpy, and just seemed off. I didn't want to have a real problem with him while hurtling through the sky.
Long day of travel.
No one clipped their toenails next to you so you should consider your flights essentially first class.
RGMG when people to don't sit in their booked seat on their flights.
When I boarded my flight two days, ago, someone was in my seat. He and his g/f wanted to sit together and told me I could sit in her seat, which was a cramped middle seat. I have a bad knee and when possible avoid those seats. I politely told them that I had paid for that seat including because of my knee. They said they couldnt' sit in their assigned seats because someone else was in there, but refused to tell me which seats those were. I said if there was a family with kids trying to sit togehter, I would make sure they can do that. They continued to argue with me until the flight attendant had to get involved.
Why do people do this? it puts the other person in an awkward position where you feel like you are somehow the bad guy in the whole thing.
Again, if there is a young child needing to sit with a parent, I'm 100% fine with accomodating that. But I'm not going to take a worse seat so you and your partner can sit together.
And then on the second flight dude next to me had taken something and was out of it. He spent most of the flight full on sleeping on my chest and shoulder. I'll be honest, I was intimidated by him. He was very large, grumpy, and just seemed off. I didn't want to have a real problem with him while hurtling through the sky.
Long day of travel.
That's BS. Sit in your seat and ask someone else to change. If people really want to sit together they'll offer the "better" seat in trade (ie their window for a middle). If they have 2 middles then they didn't want to sit together enough to pay for it which doesn't seem like my problem.
At least in Canada anyone with kids under 12 gets free seat selection even on basic fares, which I would agree is the group I'm willing to switch for, but that shouldn't be necessary any more.
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When the plane crashes and all that’s left is part of a body in a seat - that seat will tell investigators who you are. Do you want to be the fat guy or the skinny girl?
RGMG when people to don't sit in their booked seat on their flights.
Even if you were willing to move this can totally slow down takeoff when they do the count.
I see this all the time, and most of the time the people in question just give the blank stare as if they can't understand that they're the person being spoken to or don't understand what's being said. It's highly obnoxious. Your boarding pass has a seat number on it clearly indicated.
Unless you have permission to change seats from a flight attendant, IMO, should be an immediate deplane and you lose your seat. I'll accept the excuse of "I misread the row" if you're in 6C instead of 7C, because that happens, but then you return to your seat immediately.
I switch seats all the time - I ask a flight attendant if I can do so, they say "as soon as we're in the air I'll see what I can do", and they either can or can't make it happen. That's how it should work.
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I don’t think there is any reason why you should feel the need to justify wanting to sit in the seat that’s printed on your ticket.
The only thing I would ask is if the seat they want me to switch to is better (not likely) or if they’d paid me.
So side story. We were flying back from Amsterdam and the seats were 3-3-3. Because we originated in Malta on a partner airline it would not let me pick seats at any point from booking through to boarding. So we were stuck with two in the middle and a window seat a row back.
So we board and I ask the young guy in the third of the middle three if he was with anyone else and he said no. Then I asked if he wanted my window seat and that would let us three sit together. At first I figured this guy is getting a big win, he can get a window seat for a 9 hour flight.
So we switch and then turns out a woman and her annoying baby come and sit next to him.
Sorry bud, no take backs. Enjoy your flight. I enjoyed mine.
Pay attention if heading north on Deerfoot at McNight BLVD construction as the right lane is totally shut down abruptly where the turnoff used to be for hitting McNight West. I take that every day and I've seen several close calls this week where people had to slam on their brakes because of the abrupt end or swerve left into traffic or right into the pylons. Homever is in charge needs to add some more signs or something because people aren't picking up on the lane ending until it's too late.
RGMG when people to don't sit in their booked seat on their flights.
When I boarded my flight two days, ago, someone was in my seat. He and his g/f wanted to sit together and told me I could sit in her seat, which was a cramped middle seat. I have a bad knee and when possible avoid those seats. I politely told them that I had paid for that seat including because of my knee. They said they couldnt' sit in their assigned seats because someone else was in there, but refused to tell me which seats those were. I said if there was a family with kids trying to sit togehter, I would make sure they can do that. They continued to argue with me until the flight attendant had to get involved.
Why do people do this? it puts the other person in an awkward position where you feel like you are somehow the bad guy in the whole thing.
Again, if there is a young child needing to sit with a parent, I'm 100% fine with accomodating that. But I'm not going to take a worse seat so you and your partner can sit together.
And then on the second flight dude next to me had taken something and was out of it. He spent most of the flight full on sleeping on my chest and shoulder. I'll be honest, I was intimidated by him. He was very large, grumpy, and just seemed off. I didn't want to have a real problem with him while hurtling through the sky.
Long day of travel.
I'd snap.
I'd ask if its a better seat, if not then nope. God, just reading that gets me riled up. People are the worst.
I swear if I ever get terminal cancer, I am renting a Hummer for a weekend and righting all the selfish wrongs people commit on the road a la DeathProof.
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Pay attention if heading north on Deerfoot at McNight BLVD construction as the right lane is totally shut down abruptly where the turnoff used to be for hitting McNight West. I take that every day and I've seen several close calls this week where people had to slam on their brakes because of the abrupt end or swerve left into traffic or right into the pylons. Homever is in charge needs to add some more signs or something because people aren't picking up on the lane ending until it's too late.
Ya, my wife mentioned getting caught out by that at night. Sounds super sketchy.
