Reflection on Etiquette
Two things from the weekend.
One, if you're attending a convention with over 8,000 others, along with hundreds of presenters and exhibitors, it's not really polite to (a) walk down the hall staring at your phone, (b) walk backwards while talking, (c) stand in the middle of the hall at typical American conversation distances perpendicular to traffic flow and chat, or (d) stop dead at the bottom of an escalator or just through a door to check which way you want to go next.
Two, if you really want to sit in first class so you can sprawl out in your seat, then don't buy Southwest Business Preferred. That doesn't get you a bigger seat or more room, it just gets you on the plane first. You still have to share with us plebes in B or C boarding groups who end up in the middle seats.
And one more thing ... if you want to talk with your spouse all the way from Boston to Baltimore, don't take the aisle and window seats and expect the person in the middle to be be happy with your conversation, your leaning over to look at sentences in Nooks or iPads or magazines, your handing each other stuff, and your wanting to hold hands while the plane lands. Suck it up and sit next to each other, dammit.
KTHXBAI.
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2 Comments:
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At 4:28 PM, November 22, 2010
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 5:14 PM, November 22, 2010
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->On point three, I know that people book the A+C or D+F seat combos with the hope that no one will be seated in B (or E), and that if someone is, that person will be happy to switch with one member of the couple, putting the couple together and giving the other passenger a better seat than she'd expected.
Booking agents have specifically suggested this "trick" to me.
Of course, if they make that choice and then don't ask to swap with you, I think you have the implicit right to accidentally put your elbows in their faces, spill your drink on whatever they're passing back and forth (tomato juice is perfect for this), and even to explicitly ask them just what the eff they were thinking.
Sure, I have no problem with hoping the middle seat won't be booked, or that the SW flight won't be full so no one will sit there.
But once it's clear that the plane is full, you stop acting like you own the space that I'm sitting in.
If the flight hadn't been so short and they hadn't been so old, I'd have been really obnoxious to them.
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