I've done that sort of pre-boarding when I have bad migraines. It's been a lifesaver.
Right! I told the lady who complained that you can never tell what someone is dealing with just by looking at them. She bitched that she hadn't done pre-boarding when she was undergoing chemotherapy. Like, somehow the people pre-boarding were getting away with something that she hadn't been able to do. or something. Again, not really a ton of sense making. I *may* have sighed dramatically and said "I'm so embarrassed for white people" which is when she called me nasty. Well, I'm no Ruth Bader Ginsburg in my ability to control my anger, that's for sure.
I have used pre-boarding over the last year after the back surgery because I was generally okay walking or sitting, but standing for long periods made my back seize up. God knows what people thought about me -- probably that I was fat and lazy.
I mean, as I've gotten older, I've gotten more mentally stringent about people who don't feel like they have to follow the rules everyone else does. Like people who get up when the seat belt sign is still on. THE SIGN IS STILL ON. And I'm sure people occasionally pre-board when they don't need to, just to make sure they get room for their suitcase.
But honestly, so what? You're lining up to get on a giant metal tube. No one is going anywhere. At least I keep my judgment internal, and also NOT BASED ON RACE.
And I'm sure people occasionally pre-board when they don't need to, just to make sure they get room for their suitcase.
Yeah, I don't really know how the airline determines who can pre-board but I'm certainly not going to try to judge. It's never so many people that there aren't loads of seats available all over the plane (even on SW where seats aren't assigned). This was a larger group than i've normally seen pre-boarding but it took just a couple of minutes to get them all onboard so it wasn't THAT many people.
This reminds me that I need to make sure my dad, who has Parkinson's and mobility issues and a heart thing that tires him easily, has pre-boarding for our flight together at the end of the month. And figure out how to organize getting him a wheelchair in the airports.
It's definitely harder on Southwest because preboarding actually means they can/will get a better seat. Unlike on airlines that assign seats, where its max a benefit of being able to fit your suitcase on.
The outrage of "Someone's getting away with something!" over petty things exhausts me. Oh, the transaction you just made takes an extra $2 out of your bank account for 24 hours to cover unexpected things, but you always get it back. But you're outraged that the company is, what, making a quarter of a cent interest somehow? In a universe of outrages, that's what makes your blood pressure spike to Krakatoa levels?
I still treasure the memory of coming back from the New Orleans F2F. At the airport, I was checking my bag and this woman comes up with a large-ish handtruck of luggage and starts to push in front of me ... and the nice man told her he'd get to her when he had my one bag taken care of. Later, standing in the interminable security line, airport staff were going through to pull out the people whose flights were leaving early so they didn't miss it ... and the same woman goes up ... and shortly thereafter is sent back (complaining loudly) because her flight didn't leave for a while.
Sometimes there is some justice.
The outrage of "Someone's getting away with something!" over petty things exhausts me.
Right? It's not "I'm not getting what I need" it's "Somebody is getting something they don't deserve". Tiresome.
Eh, that's basically the same sentiment behind annoyance with someone trying to cut line, etc. I'll certainly admit to having called out a loud-enough-for-public-embarrassment "The line ends behind me back there" to people who were trying to slip in.
Seeing driving behavior in Boston, I've discovered there's a definite difference between aggressive and assertive. Assertive means that you want to claim your share of the road, aggressive means that you're actively trying to steal it from other people.
Some of Boston's worst drivers are people who say please and thank you, hold the door for you, would never dream of cutting in line at the grocery store. Yet get them behind the wheel. SIGH.
