Off to SFO
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 09:40 last edited by
I’ll be staying on Mission at the Marriott Marquis attending a conference at the Moscone center. It’s the American Thoracic Society’s annual conference.
I’ve heard SFO has been cleaned up a lot in the last year. We’ll see, this area was dripping with drug addled freaks not long ago.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 09:42 last edited by jon-nyc
Some woman just asked me to give my aisle seat up for a middle seat in another row so her husband could sit here. Imagine the nerve. It’s a 5+ hr flight.
I told her that normally I would do it but she’s Muslim and Islam is foul.
Ok, actually I just said I’m too tall for a middle seat.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 11:45 last edited by
Darn, there is a good comedy sketch somewhere (I can't find it) where a wife asks another person to switch seats so she can sit next to his husband and the husband is secretly shaking his head "no" to the person being asked lol.
Came across these instead.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 15:51 last edited by
That second video is correct, "your poor planning is not my emergency"
On a recent flight, I was in bulkhead, which I like if in economy because of the extra room. Flight attendent comes up and asks if I would be willing to switch with a lady who is traveling with a baby. I asked where she was sitting, and it was like three rows behind me in a middle seat. I politely said no.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 15:55 last edited by jon-nyc
The ironic thing is I am in the aisle and Mayla is in the window seat. As of yesterday at check-in, the middle seat was still empty. But as often happens, it was asigned last minute.
So here I was unwilling to move to a middle seat even to sit with my own better half, and she’s asking me to move to a middle seat so she can sit with hers.
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The ironic thing is I am in the aisle and Mayla is in the window seat. As of yesterday at check-in, the middle seat was still empty. But as often happens, it was asigned last minute.
So here I was unwilling to move to a middle seat even to sit with my own better half, and she’s asking me to move to a middle seat so she can sit with hers.
wrote on 16 May 2025, 15:56 last edited by@jon-nyc 555
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The ironic thing is I am in the aisle and Mayla is in the window seat. As of yesterday at check-in, the middle seat was still empty. But as often happens, it was asigned last minute.
So here I was unwilling to move to a middle seat even to sit with my own better half, and she’s asking me to move to a middle seat so she can sit with hers.
wrote on 16 May 2025, 16:06 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Off to SFO:
The ironic thing is I am in the aisle and Mayla is in the window seat. As of yesterday at check-in, the middle seat was still empty. But as often happens, it was asigned last minute.
So here I was unwilling to move to a middle seat even to sit with my own better half, and she’s asking me to move to a middle seat so she can sit with hers.
Yeah, we would do the same. I'm surprised you didn't upgrade to first for that long a flight.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 17:03 last edited by
This is my 7th west coast trip in 14 months. Paying 2500x2 for the flights would get old fast. I do pay for ‘extra space’ seats or premium economy.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 17:30 last edited by
Ha my wife and I do that too, either aisle-aisle or window-aisle, I never understood the urge "to sit together" unless maybe it was to be with your kid.
I grab exit row seats any time I can, the leg room is even more than 1st class!
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This is my 7th west coast trip in 14 months. Paying 2500x2 for the flights would get old fast. I do pay for ‘extra space’ seats or premium economy.
wrote on 16 May 2025, 17:50 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Off to SFO:
This is my 7th west coast trip in 14 months. Paying 2500x2 for the flights would get old fast. I do pay for ‘extra space’ seats or premium economy.
Prices out of NYC must be high. I seldom pay more than $700-$900.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 17:52 last edited by
$1400 to SFO.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 18:04 last edited by Horace
I still reflect on the one time I moved for a young lady who asked me to, so she could sit with her husband. I wouldn't do it again. Somehow it also became my job to go tell her husband that we were to switch seats. He took the news with a wince. I suspect they had already discussed the possibility of her asking the person next to her, whomever that may be, to switch, and he did not want to. So, she asked anyway. Well, his punishment is that he has to live with her, I guess there is some justice there anyway.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 18:16 last edited by Doctor Phibes
A British friend of mine was once on a plane and pretended to be a newly wed so that he could sit with some floozy he'd just met at the terminal, and then got shit-faced on the plane with her, all the while pretending they'd just got married.
I've occasionally considered telling his actual wife what he did. He seemed to attract these people - I once traveled on a train with him from London, and this girl came over and started talking to us about how she liked watching scrotums. It was a very strange journey. At the end of it he asked me why I didn't get her phone number, as she seemed to like me.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 18:21 last edited by jon-nyc
Dude stop talking about me like I’m not here. And I’m not British, so enough of the insults already.
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Dude stop talking about me like I’m not here. And I’m not British, so enough of the insults already.
wrote on 16 May 2025, 18:49 last edited by Doctor Phibes@jon-nyc said in Off to SFO:
Dude stop talking about me like I’m not here. And I’m not British, so enough of the insults already.
When I said she liked watching scrotums I wasn't actually talking about you, but I understand the mistake.
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wrote on 16 May 2025, 18:55 last edited by
Phibes ran with it before I could.
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wrote on 19 May 2025, 18:59 last edited by
Just passed a homeless guy with a hand made sign that said ‘Fuck U Pay Me’
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wrote on 19 May 2025, 19:35 last edited by
Points for honesty
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wrote on 19 May 2025, 19:36 last edited by
It must be extra hard for them these days since few people carry cash.
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wrote on 19 May 2025, 20:26 last edited by
They have Venmo. Even the destitute must conform.