April 10, 2026
Salty Bite: Airport Edition
Have you ever been to an airport and marveled at all the people who seem to be experiencing their first day on Earth? Us too! Claire and Mel discuss some recent bad behavior observed out in the wild. Join us to learn about the Airport Banhammer Game!
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Hello.
Hello.
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We're coming at you from deep
behind the Zion curtain.
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We're bringing you a wee salty
bite for a Friday treat.
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My name is.
Claire and I'm Mel.
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And together we are the salty
hoes.
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I love this, it's so.
Fun, so fun.
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Can I just?
Start with saying that.
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You can, yes, I agree.
Once again, the highlight of my
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week every week.
Oh, so much.
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We hope you're enjoying this,
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comments.
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Anything and yeah, it's
wonderful.
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Thank you for.
Listening, if you're not
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following us, please give us a
little follow, yeah?
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It helps us.
Yeah.
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I always just to hear that on
the podcast and be like, what?
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But now I.
Get it?
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Now we get it.
We get it.
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Well, this week we thought we
would do a little salty bites
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from the wild.
I love it.
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Stories from the wild.
Stories from the Wild and
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actually we're going to do an
airport edition.
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I love that, yes.
So we have noticed some things
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on our travels.
Would that be fair to say, Mel?
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I think that's fair to say.
I mean, the airport is always
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kind of a rich source of bad
behavior.
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Many stories I could tell about
the airport.
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As you know, I spend quite a bit
of time in airports.
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You're a WE traveler.
I I am, yeah.
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Actually, do you want to do you
want me to share the game that
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one of the airport games my son
and I play when we travel
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together?
OK, We have several actually,
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because we do travel together
quite a lot, lots of time in
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airports, whether it's be
waiting, whether it be waiting
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for a flight or on a layover or
whatever.
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But one of the airport games
that we play is called Ban
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Hammer Ban.
Hammer.
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Yeah, ban hammer.
Oh, I can't.
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Wait to hear this one.
OK, And this ban hammer, I mean,
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this is like Internet message
board slang, right?
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So if you are acting up on a
message board and you're banned
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by the moderator, sometimes it's
called you got the ban hammer.
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Really.
I never knew.
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That maybe you're not as finally
online as I am.
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I learnt a new thing today.
Yeah, it's very cool.
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Well, I've been catching up on
all the all the, you know, Gen.
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Z sling with my niece and nephew
and my son in the last week.
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But yeah, that's another story.
OK, I'll have to share that.
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I will.
Yeah.
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But for now, the banhammer.
OK.
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And so this is a way that I,
with my son, try to reframe
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people being just absolute fools
or assholes in public, because
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you do see a lot of that when
you fly.
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You do people lose their minds a
wee bit which it's but also Cam
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diner.
Right.
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So you see people being shitty
to service workers, for example,
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in the airport or I don't know,
taking their shoes and socks off
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in the lounge and putting their
feet up on furniture.
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I mean, right?
Like I have seen someone
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clipping their toenails.
In the God.
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In the lounge.
What?
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Yeah.
Why?
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Yeah.
That, you know, if you are
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gripped by, I get it.
Sometimes you walk a lot and
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you're like, oh, I should get a
pedicure.
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But there are bathroom stalls,
right?
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But also to like, just don't do
it in the airport at all.
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Period.
But like if it's an emergency
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which I can't understand how it
would be, but if it.
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Was.
I mean, sure, if you're like
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cutting off a little hangnail or
something, go do it in the.
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Bathroom not around food and
people.
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Yeah, with your nail clipping
like street falling to the floor
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like disgusting.
Were people trailed up?
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Like how were they raised?
Yeah, I mean, Raised by Wolves
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would be an improvement on some
of these people.
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'S behavior percent.
A wolf would not do that well.
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I mean, yeah, that's silly, but
yes, bad behavior.
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Right.
So when my son and I travel, we
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have this game called Banhammer
and it depends on how long we're
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traveling and how hard we want
to play.
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OK, right.
So.
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Like how challenging because
usually there's quite a bit of
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bad behavior, but often we'll
we'll give ourselves about 5
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right?
And so when somebody does that,
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we'll be like, oh, fan hammered
right And in our minds in our
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fantasy version, this person is
now banned from flying for a
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period of either one year to up
to a maximum of a lifetime.
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I love.
That you have like sentencing.
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Yes.
You're like, oh, that's a
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lifetime ban right there.
Exactly.
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Easy, Yeah.
So that's that's a game we play.
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And I think today we're going to
share some stories of people
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that really should be hit with a
ban hammer.
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Yeah, and we're going to do it
in not necessarily the context
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of dating, but human
relationships.
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Yeah, I think that's fair to
say.
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Yeah, I think that's fair.
So I this was kind of sparked by
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this week.
I was flying back from Chicago,
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which was very fun.
I do think I got minor frostbite
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on my knuckles, but apart from
that, are you OK?
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It was so cold.
Yeah, well, it is Chicago.
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But like I have like I'm Irish,
I'm robust.
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I lived on the North Atlantic
like for and I was like my face.
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Yeah, that wind whipping off of
Lake MI is no joke there.
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Was a wee bit of snow, like I
was wearing gloves, but yeah, it
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was very painful, but I digress.
So, so unlike me getting my V
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flight home and we're boarding
on the V jetway and there is a
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father and son in front of us.
So, you know, like probably the
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son's probably early 20s, so
older, I would assume the man
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would be similar to our age
range.
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Yeah.
And he was like, have you heard
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from your mom?
And he like, it was like
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tiptoeing initially.
And the kid was like, yeah, why?
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And he was like, well, she's
pissed at me.
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And so it got like, more.
And it was something, I mean, I
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wasn't trying to listen, but
they were speaking at a volume
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where I could not help but.
Right in a public venue, right.
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Like quite lightly because he
got quite animated and I guess
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it had something to do with like
a family event and a
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mother-in-law, just like.
Oh boy.
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The usual stuff that you hear.
And you're like, thank God I'm
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not married anymore.
Don't miss all of that good
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stuff.
But yeah, so he was like, well,
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yeah, like she hasn't text me
and she's mad at me.
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Like she's so mad.
And this was like, you know, the
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feature of the conversation was
like how mad and rational she
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was being.
My God.
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But short right to the sun
because he was poking and trying
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to get information.
And he was like, yeah.
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And he was like, I mean, I
haven't heard from her.
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And he was like, yeah.
Wow, sounds like the son might
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be used to playing these games
with his parents or his dad
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particularly.
Yeah, that's never fun for a kid
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to have to be the referee.
In a situation like that.
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Yeah, so I was like, OK, OK,
then we get onto the flight and
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I happened to be in the same bro
as these two lovely gentlemen.
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Delightful.
Yeah.
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Were you sitting next to them or
across the aisle?
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Well, so I was at the window and
by the grace of God, the middle
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seat was free.
Oh God, I love that.
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I love it so much.
The sun was then on the outside
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and then the dad was on the
other aisle seat.
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OK, so we get in, we get settled
and and you know, the we flight
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attendants give their re
announcement and then the
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captain comes on and it's like,
hi, my name's Emmy and I am your
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like captain today.
And the dad just turned around
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in like complete horror.
Why?
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Because the captains a woman?
Because the captain is a woman?
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Oh my God.
I would assume go fuck yourself.
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Nothing.
Yeah, like up, down, sideways,
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backwards.
It's an upside down.
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And so I was just like, I mean,
you've witnessed it.
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I just was like, OK, like the
Fury.
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Yeah, it's like if.
He says something.
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I lied.
I'm I'm gonna have to like.
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Yeah.
Say a thing.
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It's gonna go there.
I won't be rude, but I will just
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be like, Sir, it is 2026.
Like, come on.
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I and yeah, I just.
But he kind of, I think like
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checked himself because his son
was unresponsive like his.
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Yeah.
Like why are we amazed?
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At this, his son is Gray
rocking.
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Yes.
And as you say, must have some
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experience, but yeah, yeah.
And I, and I have to say it was
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the, the smooth, one of the
smoothest, smoothest landings
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that I've ever had.
Wow, Great job, Captain.
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Thank you.
Emmy.
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I think it was Emmy.
But yeah, great flight.
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I love it.
Love it, but it reminded me of a
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story that you had texted me
about before.
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That's right.
Yeah.
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You got a whole series of rage
texts from me from the the
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Venice airport, actually, that
sounds.
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Very lovely though.
Well, yeah, I mean, the airport
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was was fine, but I was flying
back from Italy with my son once
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again and we had to get up at
like 4:00 in the morning and
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like take a water taxi.
So we're at the airport, It's
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quite early.
I think the lounge opened at
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6:00 AM and we were like right
there ready to to go.
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All right.
So relevant to the story is that
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there was this family next to us
and it was a husband, a wife and
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two kids.
And I would say the kids were
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kind of in the the elementary
school to middle school age
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range.
I couldn't tell exactly how old,
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but definitely not quite high
school yet.
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Like, not teens, preteens, but
not little little either.
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But not like they could go on a
flight and be fine.
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Oh, yeah, sure.
Like, they weren't toddlers.
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They were like probably between
10 and 13, that kind of age
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range.
All right.
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And from overhearing them, which
once again, I was not trying to
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eavesdrop, but they came, you
know, in an empty lounge, sat
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right next to us.
And then we're talking loudly.
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So it was impossible not to
overhear them.
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You.
Couldn't not observe.
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Yeah.
And So what I gathered right
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away from the conversation that
the two parents were having was
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that they were flying back to
the States, just like my son and
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I were.
And the first leg was from
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Venice to Frankfurt.
Yeah.
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OK.
So short flight, right.
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Like, it's probably an hour and
a half, very, very short.
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And they had been two of them
had been upgraded to business
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class, OK, SO22IN economy 2 in
business, OK, for this very
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short flight.
And the husband was quite
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adamant that he and his wife
would take the business class
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seats and the two children would
sit by themselves back in coach.
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Oh, wow, yeah, right.
I mean, that's an interesting
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approach.
I was already so angry at yeah,
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yeah.
And the wife was like, I don't
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know, they're kind of young.
And he's like, nothings gonna
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happen.
He's like putting her down
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basically aggressively.
He's like, you're always
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worried, like it's gonna be
fine, like nothing, blah blah.
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Why?
Dare you be concerned about the
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welfare of our children?
Right.
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And what a bad.
Person.
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She's a terrible mother, My.
God, Yeah, Dear God.
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And then she was like, well,
look, she's like, I'll just take
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the daughter and sit back there.
And like, you and the son could
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sit up front with God because it
became clear that like this man,
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he is not taking one of those
economy seats.
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Oh.
Yeah.
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No, he's he's.
Sitting up his in business
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class.
Everybody else can go fuck
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themselves.
But then he that wasn't a
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solution for him either though
because it makes him look bad.
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I would think that, you know,
his wife and daughter are
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sitting back in economy while
he's sitting up in business.
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And clearly the problem here is
that he would look bad.
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Right.
And I mean, I was like.
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I was like.
Talking and well, I was texting
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you and I was talking to my son
and I was like, you absolute
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turd.
You and your son sit back in
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economy and your wife and
daughter sit in business.
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That is how it's done.
That's what you do.
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Yes, that is the answer.
Yes, it's very.
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Simple, would you?
Like me to adjudicate.
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Here, I mean, I was ready to.
I was so angry at this man, not
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just for the fact that he
wouldn't do that, which, you
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know, that is what he should do.
Yeah, right.
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That is the socially acceptable
thing, I think, to do.
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Well, and that's being the man.
Yes, right.
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That's stepping up and being the
man here.
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That's the kind.
Of man energy that we like where
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it's like, you know, because I'm
sure that she takes a lot of the
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looking after the kids and the
you know it's just like you sit
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up here and have a nice
experience yeah and also my
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daughter let me model what I
hope you will be treated like in
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the.
Future exactly, and also let me
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model to my son how he should be
treating women.
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Perhaps more importantly.
Yeah, right.
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Both of them would learn like a
little easy lesson, right?
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No.
But instead he is arguing with
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his wife in front of them,
putting her down right, telling
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her she worries too much, all
this stuff.
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And then he calls his kids over,
right?
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And they are both calling him
Sir instead of Dad.
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Yeah, I'm getting progressively
angrier.
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My God.
Yeah, and wow, I mean, this is
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not the energy I would expect
from like a man I was with.
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Wow.
And you're like, is it 1950?
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Like what just happened?
And you assume they've just had
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a vacation and like.
Yeah, they're coming home right
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from the holidays.
Well, yeah, I I mean, I actually
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remember back when I was married
and one of my husband at the
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Times colleagues was flying to
China and he got upgraded.
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His wife didn't.
Yeah, he took the seat and left
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her back in economy.
Can you believe that?
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OK.
Wow, I know wow is right.
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Wow.
And I feel like really, I think
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you have two legitimate choices.
Yes #1 you decline the upgrade.
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Like that seems like a.
No, and just sit together in
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economy or #2 you take the
upgrade and give it to your.
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Wife yes, like those are two
clear choices right there and we
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all know that I don't have the
best picker on.
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One time I was flying home from
Boston with a guy I dated for
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like a year.
He got an upgrade to 1st class
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and he actually came and asked
the man sitting beside me if he
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would like his first class seat.
Beautiful.
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And the guy was like wait what?
It made his night.
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He was delighted and I was like,
okay, that's hot.
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Yeah, super hot.
Super hot.
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Yeah, right.
Good manners.
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Yes.
OK.
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But unlike this guy who was just
being a tool to his wife.
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Yes.
Yeah.
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And everyone around can hear,
you know, in this lounge.
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And then we get on the flight
and my son and I are sitting
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right behind the man and his
wife.
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So we're in the last row of
business class and the kids are
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like 2 rows back in economy on
the other side of the plane.
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And there is a whole situation
going on with where the kids are
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sitting because there is this
incredibly pushy woman back
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there who's insisting that she
has to sit.
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I believe it was the aisle seat.
And she's kicking these kids out
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and making a big tantrum about
it.
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And like, you know, these poor
children are like, like, 10 or
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11 or something like that.
And so they're just like, OK,
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whatever.
Yeah.
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Like bullying them.
That's horrible.
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She was totally bullying them.
Yeah.
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And then the flight attendant
came back.
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And I mean, thank God for these
German Lufthansa flight
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attendant.
She was like, no, absolutely
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not.
You have to sit in the seat
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you're assigned.
Yes.
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And this woman is like, no, I
can't.
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Right.
Like I have to sit.
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And book another seat.
Yeah, no, exactly right.
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And then she, this woman, this
nightmare of a woman tries to
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upgrade herself to business
class.
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And the flight attendant, once
again, kudos to her, is like,
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yeah, no, get back and sit in
your seat.
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And for all this time, this man
sits there and does not
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intervene, right?
Does not like go back and switch
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and like, you know, move his
daughter up to business class.
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Or like what?
These are my kids seats.
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Exactly Like you can be kind
about that.
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And I'm assertive.
I mean, I could hear it, so I'm
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sure he could hear it.
Yes, Oh my God.
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All right, but there is a little
bit of karma sort of at the end
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of this.
What happened?
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OK, well, you know, we were
sharing the same overhead
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compartment, right?
So my son and I had our our
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rollies up there.
Yes.
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And he and his wife had his
rollies up there.
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And I guess unbeknownst to me,
because I wasn't, I was paying
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attention to the tantrum that
was being thrown behind me,
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Right?
You're looking out for the kids,
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probably more than he was.
Yeah, I was upset.
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I was like ready 1.
Radar with.
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Something, yeah, but luckily the
flight attendant had it in hand.
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But the the mom had put after
kind of the fact an umbrella up
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there.
Yeah.
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And so when we went to get
things out, I opened the bin and
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the umbrella fell out and hit
this man in the head.
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I didn't either do this.
I really, really didn't.
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But I was like also not sad
about it except for then I was
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sad about it because then, you
know, I apologize.
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I said I'm I'm sorry.
I just opened it and it fell
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out.
And he was like, he gave me the
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scruff.
It's fine, whatever.
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My God.
But then he like turned to his
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wife and said something shitty
about her putting the umbrella
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there.
My God.
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I know.
They literally say please be
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careful, contents may shift like
it was not your fault nor her.
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Fault.
Yeah.
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It was just a thing.
It was just the thing that
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happened.
My God like how often flying to
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Utah have you been?
Head up the back of the head
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with a ski boot at like often.
Yeah, or people's backpacks.
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People need to be a little more
careful.
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Maybe I should have been a
little more careful, but I
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didn't realize there was an
umbrella up there just.
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Opened an overhead.
Bin like there's nothing you've
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just done.
No, I think that was a gift from
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the.
Universe.
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Yeah.
I was like, well you kind of
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deserve that, EW.
EW, EW, yeah, that's.
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Just not good.
Yeah, Anyway.
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As you point out, there's 2
clear choices.
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Maybe you don't put yourself on
the upgrade list if you know
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everybody in the party can't go
on the upgrade.
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List yeah, true like that
sometimes they do and actually
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there was space up there so they
really could have upgraded all
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four of them but that it didn't
happen that was a.
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Third option that he also could
have had like.
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Oh, as a pay to upgrade?
Well, maybe his his kids.
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Possible use miles or something?
You know, yeah, maybe.
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I mean, it's a little tricky
sometimes when you're flying
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coach.
Yeah right.
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Cuz I booked these tickets
through United, but we were
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flying Lufthansa.
So that sometimes is an option.
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Sometimes it's not though, so.
I'm just like grasping.
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At straws for this, really.
And better.
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No, he was just kind of being a
jerk.
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Oof.
Yeah.
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Well, in the wild, it doesn't
look to be much better.
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So yeah, it's, it's just so much
fun to observe these beautiful
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things.
Yes.
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So of course we did deploy the
banhammer and we assigned him a
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10 year sentence without flying.
Oh, I think that that that was
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generous.
Yeah.
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I probably would have gone
lifetime on that one.
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But well, we were trying to hold
space for the possibility of
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growth and improvements.
Yeah, exactly that was.
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Very generous.
It was basically till his kids
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were like of age.
That's good.
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And and they could be like Dad,
don't be a jerk, let mom set up
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a coat or in the the fancy
seats.
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But I mean, they weren't even
that fancy.
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It's like a domestic flight for
like 90 minutes.
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They're just.
Maybe like 2 inches wider and
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some more legroom.
Yeah, it was not a big deal.
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Oh.
My God.
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Anyway.
Well, a shout out to you too,
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because I think you're an
awesome mom and I love the
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travels that you go on with your
Reese on.
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I think it is the cutest thing
ever and something so meaningful
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to him so.
You're my friend, Mama.
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We have a good time.
You're an awesome Mama too.
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Oh, thank you.
OK, friends, I guess we're gonna
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sign off now.
Yeah.
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All right.
Stay salty, stay salty.
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I'll be alert in the wild.
That's right, if you have any
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good airport stories or other
stories from the wild, please
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send them our way.
We would love that.
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OK, have a good.
Weekend talk to you next time.
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Get it?
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I love it.
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Stories from the wild.
Stories from the Wild and
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I love that, yes.
So we have noticed some things
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on our travels.
Would that be fair to say, Mel?
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I think that's fair to say.
I mean, the airport is always
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Many stories I could tell about
the airport.
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As you know, I spend quite a bit
of time in airports.
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You're a WE traveler.
I I am, yeah.
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Actually, do you want to do you
want me to share the game that
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one of the airport games my son
and I play when we travel
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together?
OK, We have several actually,
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because we do travel together
quite a lot, lots of time in
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airports, whether it's be
waiting, whether it be waiting
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for a flight or on a layover or
whatever.
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But one of the airport games
that we play is called Ban
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Hammer Ban.
Hammer.
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Yeah, ban hammer.
Oh, I can't.
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Wait to hear this one.
OK, And this ban hammer, I mean,
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this is like Internet message
board slang, right?
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So if you are acting up on a
message board and you're banned
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by the moderator, sometimes it's
called you got the ban hammer.
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Really.
I never knew.
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That maybe you're not as finally
online as I am.
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I learnt a new thing today.
Yeah, it's very cool.
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Well, I've been catching up on
all the all the, you know, Gen.
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Z sling with my niece and nephew
and my son in the last week.
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But yeah, that's another story.
OK, I'll have to share that.
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I will.
Yeah.
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But for now, the banhammer.
OK.
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And so this is a way that I,
with my son, try to reframe
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people being just absolute fools
or assholes in public, because
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you do see a lot of that when
you fly.
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You do people lose their minds a
wee bit which it's but also Cam
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diner.
Right.
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So you see people being shitty
to service workers, for example,
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in the airport or I don't know,
taking their shoes and socks off
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in the lounge and putting their
feet up on furniture.
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I mean, right?
Like I have seen someone
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clipping their toenails.
In the God.
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In the lounge.
What?
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Yeah.
Why?
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Yeah.
That, you know, if you are
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gripped by, I get it.
Sometimes you walk a lot and
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you're like, oh, I should get a
pedicure.
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But there are bathroom stalls,
right?
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But also to like, just don't do
it in the airport at all.
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Period.
But like if it's an emergency
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which I can't understand how it
would be, but if it.
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Was.
I mean, sure, if you're like
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cutting off a little hangnail or
something, go do it in the.
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Bathroom not around food and
people.
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Yeah, with your nail clipping
like street falling to the floor
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like disgusting.
Were people trailed up?
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Like how were they raised?
Yeah, I mean, Raised by Wolves
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would be an improvement on some
of these people.
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'S behavior percent.
A wolf would not do that well.
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I mean, yeah, that's silly, but
yes, bad behavior.
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Right.
So when my son and I travel, we
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have this game called Banhammer
and it depends on how long we're
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traveling and how hard we want
to play.
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OK, right.
So.
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Like how challenging because
usually there's quite a bit of
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bad behavior, but often we'll
we'll give ourselves about 5
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right?
And so when somebody does that,
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we'll be like, oh, fan hammered
right And in our minds in our
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fantasy version, this person is
now banned from flying for a
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period of either one year to up
to a maximum of a lifetime.
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I love.
That you have like sentencing.
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Yes.
You're like, oh, that's a
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lifetime ban right there.
Exactly.
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Easy, Yeah.
So that's that's a game we play.
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And I think today we're going to
share some stories of people
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that really should be hit with a
ban hammer.
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Yeah, and we're going to do it
in not necessarily the context
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of dating, but human
relationships.
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Yeah, I think that's fair to
say.
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Yeah, I think that's fair.
So I this was kind of sparked by
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this week.
I was flying back from Chicago,
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which was very fun.
I do think I got minor frostbite
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on my knuckles, but apart from
that, are you OK?
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It was so cold.
Yeah, well, it is Chicago.
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But like I have like I'm Irish,
I'm robust.
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I lived on the North Atlantic
like for and I was like my face.
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Yeah, that wind whipping off of
Lake MI is no joke there.
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Was a wee bit of snow, like I
was wearing gloves, but yeah, it
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was very painful, but I digress.
So, so unlike me getting my V
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flight home and we're boarding
on the V jetway and there is a
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father and son in front of us.
So, you know, like probably the
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son's probably early 20s, so
older, I would assume the man
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would be similar to our age
range.
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Yeah.
And he was like, have you heard
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from your mom?
And he like, it was like
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tiptoeing initially.
And the kid was like, yeah, why?
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And he was like, well, she's
pissed at me.
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And so it got like, more.
And it was something, I mean, I
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wasn't trying to listen, but
they were speaking at a volume
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where I could not help but.
Right in a public venue, right.
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Like quite lightly because he
got quite animated and I guess
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it had something to do with like
a family event and a
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mother-in-law, just like.
Oh boy.
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The usual stuff that you hear.
And you're like, thank God I'm
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not married anymore.
Don't miss all of that good
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stuff.
But yeah, so he was like, well,
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yeah, like she hasn't text me
and she's mad at me.
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Like she's so mad.
And this was like, you know, the
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feature of the conversation was
like how mad and rational she
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was being.
My God.
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But short right to the sun
because he was poking and trying
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to get information.
And he was like, yeah.
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And he was like, I mean, I
haven't heard from her.
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And he was like, yeah.
Wow, sounds like the son might
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be used to playing these games
with his parents or his dad
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particularly.
Yeah, that's never fun for a kid
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to have to be the referee.
In a situation like that.
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Yeah, so I was like, OK, OK,
then we get onto the flight and
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I happened to be in the same bro
as these two lovely gentlemen.
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Delightful.
Yeah.
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Were you sitting next to them or
across the aisle?
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Well, so I was at the window and
by the grace of God, the middle
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seat was free.
Oh God, I love that.
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I love it so much.
The sun was then on the outside
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and then the dad was on the
other aisle seat.
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OK, so we get in, we get settled
and and you know, the we flight
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attendants give their re
announcement and then the
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captain comes on and it's like,
hi, my name's Emmy and I am your
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like captain today.
And the dad just turned around
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in like complete horror.
Why?
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Because the captains a woman?
Because the captain is a woman?
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Oh my God.
I would assume go fuck yourself.
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Nothing.
Yeah, like up, down, sideways,
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backwards.
It's an upside down.
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And so I was just like, I mean,
you've witnessed it.
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I just was like, OK, like the
Fury.
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Yeah, it's like if.
He says something.
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I lied.
I'm I'm gonna have to like.
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Yeah.
Say a thing.
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It's gonna go there.
I won't be rude, but I will just
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be like, Sir, it is 2026.
Like, come on.
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I and yeah, I just.
But he kind of, I think like
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checked himself because his son
was unresponsive like his.
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Yeah.
Like why are we amazed?
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At this, his son is Gray
rocking.
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Yes.
And as you say, must have some
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experience, but yeah, yeah.
And I, and I have to say it was
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the, the smooth, one of the
smoothest, smoothest landings
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that I've ever had.
Wow, Great job, Captain.
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Thank you.
Emmy.
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I think it was Emmy.
But yeah, great flight.
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I love it.
Love it, but it reminded me of a
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story that you had texted me
about before.
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That's right.
Yeah.
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You got a whole series of rage
texts from me from the the
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Venice airport, actually, that
sounds.
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Very lovely though.
Well, yeah, I mean, the airport
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was was fine, but I was flying
back from Italy with my son once
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again and we had to get up at
like 4:00 in the morning and
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like take a water taxi.
So we're at the airport, It's
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quite early.
I think the lounge opened at
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6:00 AM and we were like right
there ready to to go.
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All right.
So relevant to the story is that
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there was this family next to us
and it was a husband, a wife and
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two kids.
And I would say the kids were
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kind of in the the elementary
school to middle school age
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range.
I couldn't tell exactly how old,
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but definitely not quite high
school yet.
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Like, not teens, preteens, but
not little little either.
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But not like they could go on a
flight and be fine.
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Oh, yeah, sure.
Like, they weren't toddlers.
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They were like probably between
10 and 13, that kind of age
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range.
All right.
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And from overhearing them, which
once again, I was not trying to
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eavesdrop, but they came, you
know, in an empty lounge, sat
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right next to us.
And then we're talking loudly.
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So it was impossible not to
overhear them.
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You.
Couldn't not observe.
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Yeah.
And So what I gathered right
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away from the conversation that
the two parents were having was
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that they were flying back to
the States, just like my son and
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I were.
And the first leg was from
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Venice to Frankfurt.
Yeah.
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OK.
So short flight, right.
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Like, it's probably an hour and
a half, very, very short.
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And they had been two of them
had been upgraded to business
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class, OK, SO22IN economy 2 in
business, OK, for this very
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short flight.
And the husband was quite
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adamant that he and his wife
would take the business class
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seats and the two children would
sit by themselves back in coach.
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Oh, wow, yeah, right.
I mean, that's an interesting
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approach.
I was already so angry at yeah,
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yeah.
And the wife was like, I don't
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know, they're kind of young.
And he's like, nothings gonna
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happen.
He's like putting her down
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basically aggressively.
He's like, you're always
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worried, like it's gonna be
fine, like nothing, blah blah.
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Why?
Dare you be concerned about the
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welfare of our children?
Right.
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And what a bad.
Person.
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She's a terrible mother, My.
God, Yeah, Dear God.
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And then she was like, well,
look, she's like, I'll just take
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the daughter and sit back there.
And like, you and the son could
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sit up front with God because it
became clear that like this man,
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he is not taking one of those
economy seats.
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Oh.
Yeah.
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No, he's he's.
Sitting up his in business
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class.
Everybody else can go fuck
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themselves.
But then he that wasn't a
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solution for him either though
because it makes him look bad.
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I would think that, you know,
his wife and daughter are
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sitting back in economy while
he's sitting up in business.
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And clearly the problem here is
that he would look bad.
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Right.
And I mean, I was like.
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I was like.
Talking and well, I was texting
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you and I was talking to my son
and I was like, you absolute
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turd.
You and your son sit back in
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economy and your wife and
daughter sit in business.
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That is how it's done.
That's what you do.
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Yes, that is the answer.
Yes, it's very.
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Simple, would you?
Like me to adjudicate.
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Here, I mean, I was ready to.
I was so angry at this man, not
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just for the fact that he
wouldn't do that, which, you
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know, that is what he should do.
Yeah, right.
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That is the socially acceptable
thing, I think, to do.
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Well, and that's being the man.
Yes, right.
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That's stepping up and being the
man here.
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That's the kind.
Of man energy that we like where
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it's like, you know, because I'm
sure that she takes a lot of the
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looking after the kids and the
you know it's just like you sit
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up here and have a nice
experience yeah and also my
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daughter let me model what I
hope you will be treated like in
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the.
Future exactly, and also let me
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model to my son how he should be
treating women.
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Perhaps more importantly.
Yeah, right.
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Both of them would learn like a
little easy lesson, right?
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No.
But instead he is arguing with
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his wife in front of them,
putting her down right, telling
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her she worries too much, all
this stuff.
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And then he calls his kids over,
right?
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And they are both calling him
Sir instead of Dad.
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Yeah, I'm getting progressively
angrier.
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My God.
Yeah, and wow, I mean, this is
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not the energy I would expect
from like a man I was with.
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Wow.
And you're like, is it 1950?
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Like what just happened?
And you assume they've just had
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a vacation and like.
Yeah, they're coming home right
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from the holidays.
Well, yeah, I I mean, I actually
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remember back when I was married
and one of my husband at the
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Times colleagues was flying to
China and he got upgraded.
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His wife didn't.
Yeah, he took the seat and left
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her back in economy.
Can you believe that?
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OK.
Wow, I know wow is right.
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Wow.
And I feel like really, I think
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you have two legitimate choices.
Yes #1 you decline the upgrade.
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Like that seems like a.
No, and just sit together in
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economy or #2 you take the
upgrade and give it to your.
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Wife yes, like those are two
clear choices right there and we
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all know that I don't have the
best picker on.
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One time I was flying home from
Boston with a guy I dated for
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like a year.
He got an upgrade to 1st class
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and he actually came and asked
the man sitting beside me if he
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would like his first class seat.
Beautiful.
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And the guy was like wait what?
It made his night.
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He was delighted and I was like,
okay, that's hot.
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Yeah, super hot.
Super hot.
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Yeah, right.
Good manners.
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Yes.
OK.
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But unlike this guy who was just
being a tool to his wife.
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Yes.
Yeah.
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And everyone around can hear,
you know, in this lounge.
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And then we get on the flight
and my son and I are sitting
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right behind the man and his
wife.
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So we're in the last row of
business class and the kids are
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like 2 rows back in economy on
the other side of the plane.
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And there is a whole situation
going on with where the kids are
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sitting because there is this
incredibly pushy woman back
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there who's insisting that she
has to sit.
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I believe it was the aisle seat.
And she's kicking these kids out
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and making a big tantrum about
it.
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And like, you know, these poor
children are like, like, 10 or
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11 or something like that.
And so they're just like, OK,
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whatever.
Yeah.
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Like bullying them.
That's horrible.
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She was totally bullying them.
Yeah.
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And then the flight attendant
came back.
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And I mean, thank God for these
German Lufthansa flight
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attendant.
She was like, no, absolutely
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not.
You have to sit in the seat
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you're assigned.
Yes.
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And this woman is like, no, I
can't.
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Right.
Like I have to sit.
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And book another seat.
Yeah, no, exactly right.
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And then she, this woman, this
nightmare of a woman tries to
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upgrade herself to business
class.
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And the flight attendant, once
again, kudos to her, is like,
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yeah, no, get back and sit in
your seat.
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And for all this time, this man
sits there and does not
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intervene, right?
Does not like go back and switch
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and like, you know, move his
daughter up to business class.
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Or like what?
These are my kids seats.
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Exactly Like you can be kind
about that.
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And I'm assertive.
I mean, I could hear it, so I'm
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sure he could hear it.
Yes, Oh my God.
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All right, but there is a little
bit of karma sort of at the end
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of this.
What happened?
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OK, well, you know, we were
sharing the same overhead
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compartment, right?
So my son and I had our our
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rollies up there.
Yes.
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And he and his wife had his
rollies up there.
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And I guess unbeknownst to me,
because I wasn't, I was paying
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attention to the tantrum that
was being thrown behind me,
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Right?
You're looking out for the kids,
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probably more than he was.
Yeah, I was upset.
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I was like ready 1.
Radar with.
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Something, yeah, but luckily the
flight attendant had it in hand.
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But the the mom had put after
kind of the fact an umbrella up
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there.
Yeah.
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And so when we went to get
things out, I opened the bin and
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the umbrella fell out and hit
this man in the head.
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I didn't either do this.
I really, really didn't.
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But I was like also not sad
about it except for then I was
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sad about it because then, you
know, I apologize.
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I said I'm I'm sorry.
I just opened it and it fell
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out.
And he was like, he gave me the
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scruff.
It's fine, whatever.
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My God.
But then he like turned to his
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wife and said something shitty
about her putting the umbrella
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there.
My God.
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I know.
They literally say please be
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careful, contents may shift like
it was not your fault nor her.
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Fault.
Yeah.
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It was just a thing.
It was just the thing that
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happened.
My God like how often flying to
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Utah have you been?
Head up the back of the head
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with a ski boot at like often.
Yeah, or people's backpacks.
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People need to be a little more
careful.
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Maybe I should have been a
little more careful, but I
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didn't realize there was an
umbrella up there just.
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Opened an overhead.
Bin like there's nothing you've
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just done.
No, I think that was a gift from
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the.
Universe.
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Yeah.
I was like, well you kind of
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deserve that, EW.
EW, EW, yeah, that's.
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Just not good.
Yeah, Anyway.
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As you point out, there's 2
clear choices.
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Maybe you don't put yourself on
the upgrade list if you know
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everybody in the party can't go
on the upgrade.
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List yeah, true like that
sometimes they do and actually
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there was space up there so they
really could have upgraded all
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four of them but that it didn't
happen that was a.
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Third option that he also could
have had like.
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Oh, as a pay to upgrade?
Well, maybe his his kids.
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Possible use miles or something?
You know, yeah, maybe.
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I mean, it's a little tricky
sometimes when you're flying
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coach.
Yeah right.
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Cuz I booked these tickets
through United, but we were
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flying Lufthansa.
So that sometimes is an option.
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Sometimes it's not though, so.
I'm just like grasping.
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At straws for this, really.
And better.
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No, he was just kind of being a
jerk.
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Oof.
Yeah.
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Well, in the wild, it doesn't
look to be much better.
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So yeah, it's, it's just so much
fun to observe these beautiful
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things.
Yes.
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So of course we did deploy the
banhammer and we assigned him a
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10 year sentence without flying.
Oh, I think that that that was
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generous.
Yeah.
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I probably would have gone
lifetime on that one.
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But well, we were trying to hold
space for the possibility of
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growth and improvements.
Yeah, exactly that was.
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Very generous.
It was basically till his kids
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were like of age.
That's good.
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And and they could be like Dad,
don't be a jerk, let mom set up
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a coat or in the the fancy
seats.
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But I mean, they weren't even
that fancy.
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It's like a domestic flight for
like 90 minutes.
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They're just.
Maybe like 2 inches wider and
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some more legroom.
Yeah, it was not a big deal.
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Oh.
My God.
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Anyway.
Well, a shout out to you too,
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because I think you're an
awesome mom and I love the
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travels that you go on with your
Reese on.
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I think it is the cutest thing
ever and something so meaningful
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to him so.
You're my friend, Mama.
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We have a good time.
You're an awesome Mama too.
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Oh, thank you.
OK, friends, I guess we're gonna
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sign off now.
Yeah.
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All right.
Stay salty, stay salty.
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I'll be alert in the wild.
That's right, if you have any
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good airport stories or other
stories from the wild, please
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send them our way.
We would love that.
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OK, have a good.
Weekend talk to you next time.
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Bye.