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As they say in my business, "Don't get into arguments with people who buy ink by the barrel."
 
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So I was listening to prime time on 1080 and they were talking about moving seats so someone (usually a family) can sit together.

They were saying now that you have to buy to choose your own seat, they aren’t giving it up unless it’s the same seat in an aisle very close.

I think I agree with that. Now that I have to pay to choose a seat, I am not moving for a family. Sorry not sorry

Is that a dick move?
 
Everything about flying sucks. The people, lines, all of it. When I was growing up my dad worked for the airlines and we traveled a TON. We had to dress up. Long flight, short, domestic or over to Europe, slacks and button down. And many others did the same. Now it’s Jerry Springer in the air. It’s not exclusive enough. Which sounds bad but it’s created an situation where flying is like riding TriMet. I’ve flown on brand new (unpainted, no seats yet, no staff) planes from Seattle to Amsterdam. I’ve flown standby from Honolulu to LA to Vegas to Seattle to Portland just to get home in time from school in like 4th grade. And some gooooood stories flying alone. The old days.
 
ehizzy3 said:
So I was listening to prime time on 1080 and they were talking about moving seats so someone (usually a family) can sit together.

They were saying now that you have to buy to choose your own seat, they aren’t giving it up unless it’s the same seat in an aisle very close.

I think I agree with that. Now that I have to pay to choose a seat, I am not moving for a family. Sorry not sorry

Is that a dick move?
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Its totally up to you and no it wouldnt be a dick move to not give up your seat.
 
ehizzy3 said:
So I was listening to prime time on 1080 and they were talking about moving seats so someone (usually a family) can sit together.

They were saying now that you have to buy to choose your own seat, they aren’t giving it up unless it’s the same seat in an aisle very close.

I think I agree with that. Now that I have to pay to choose a seat, I am not moving for a family. Sorry not sorry

Is that a dick move?
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If it’s a worse seat no chance it’s a dick move. They shouldn’t even approach you though if it is. If it’s aisle for aisle etc then I would do it especially if kids involved. I’ve picked my seats out and for some reason it gets changed prior to the flight. Sometimes they do stupid shit so it might not be their fault.
 
Traveling from St Louis to Seattle in January. Bus broke down about half a mile from St Paul in a snowstorm. A bunch of west coast kids without real winter gear. We struggled to walk the half mile. A coffee shop kindly stayed open past closing so we could stay warm until new bus arrived.
But worse was the bus that broke down three times between Berkeley and Houston.
A funny travel story. I went by car to a political convention. Driving from Berkeley to Oberlin. Seven women. And everywhere we stopped someone would ask are you "girls" traveling all by yourself? Are you "girls" all alone in that big van?
There were seven of us. But no man so we were alone. Crap, we could have had a male dog and wouldn't be "alone".
 
My trick is that me and my wife book the window and aisle seat for all our flights, leaving the middle open. Odds are middle seat won't get filled if the flight is not full, but a window and aisle will get filled. If someone has the middle seat between us we just ask if they would prefer an aisle or window instead so we can sit together. Works great.
 
A friend of mine was involved in a mid-air plane accident. She was associated with Charlie Pride and they were returning to Nashville from wherever in a chartered jet. Anyway, the other plane clipped part of their tail. The plane could still fly...and land, but couldn't veer left nor right in any way. So, get this......there "happened" to be an airport staight ahead of them. They were able to call ahead, secure the needed landing strip, and safely land the plane.
 
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A friend of mine was involved in a mid-air plane accident. She was associated with Charlie Pride and they were returning to Nashville from wherever in a chartered jet. Anyway, the other plane clipped part of their tail. The plane could still fly...and land, but couldn't veer left nor right in any way. So, get this......there "happened" to be an airport staight ahead of them. They were able to call ahead, secure the needed landing strip, and safely land the plane.
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ehizzy3 said:
So I was listening to prime time on 1080 and they were talking about moving seats so someone (usually a family) can sit together.

They were saying now that you have to buy to choose your own seat, they aren’t giving it up unless it’s the same seat in an aisle very close.

I think I agree with that. Now that I have to pay to choose a seat, I am not moving for a family. Sorry not sorry

Is that a dick move?
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Heard the same discussion ( was that you in my rear view tailgating me???!!!)

and no its not. Not at all. Families can also choose to pay to sit together.
You heard what Mike described as the downside of not moving though, right?

Sometimes it might be worth the move regardless. Lol.
 
When I landed in Danang from the Philippines in my Navy white uniform with a duffle bag Danang was under mortar attack...I waited scared to death in a hut until an officer told me to board one of two Huey's flying out to my ship in the gulf....I picked the second one....the one in front of me got shot out of the sky right in front of me...mine made it safely to the ship. Close call. I could have easily been onboard that chopper.
 
riverman said:
When I landed in Danang from the Philippines in my Navy white uniform with a duffle bag Danang was under mortar attack...I waited scared to death in a hut until an officer told me to board one of two Huey's flying out to my ship in the gulf....I picked the second one....the one in front of me got shot out of the sky right in front of me...mine made it safely to the ship. Close call. I could have easily been onboard that chopper.
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Holy shit!
 
riverman said:
When I landed in Danang from the Philippines in my Navy white uniform with a duffle bag Danang was under mortar attack...I waited scared to death in a hut until an officer told me to board one of two Huey's flying out to my ship in the gulf....I picked the second one....the one in front of me got shot out of the sky right in front of me...mine made it safely to the ship. Close call. I could have easily been onboard that chopper.
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Damn, that's a wild experience.. I was just about to mention the time that I got stuck in the SLC airport. Doesn't really compare.
 
Shaboid said:
Damn, that's a wild experience.. I was just about to mention the time that I got stuck in the SLC airport. Doesn't really compare.
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I know right? I was gonna post about a flight almost touching down in Vegas and then pulling up at the last second to circle around and try again. I was a tad rattled, but now feel like a total wimp after reading riverROCKmans testimonial!
 
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I know right? I was gonna post about a flight almost touching down in Vegas and then pulling up at the last second to circle around and try again. I was a tad rattled, but now feel like a total wimp after reading riverROCKmans testimonial!
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I hate flying so much I would have passed out if that happened on a flight I was on.
 
One time when I was a kid we were flying back from visiting family in Venezuela. The flight home was from Caracus to Houston, then Houston to Seattle, and then Portland. This was January and Seattle was in between waves of a nasty NW ice storm.

We fly into Seattle and then circled... and circled... and circled... finally the captain comes on and says they're having problems deicing the wings of the plane. So the plane continues to circle Seattle, now doing a wider pass out over the Sound (dumping fuel) while the flight attendants come row by row of seats and is telling people to take things off like watches, necklaces, earrings, etc. Anything that could fly off of your body if we crash. And tell us when it comes time to land to cross our arms against the seatback in front of us and to lay our heads against it.

WTF?!? They're teaching us crash positions?!?

So we finally are going to land. They have us take crash positions. One of the images seared into my mind is looking over at my mom, her eyes are shut and she's silently praying. I mean her lips are moving so fast she could be an auctioneer.

We hit the runway so fast and hard, FUCKING HARD. Hard enough that some of the overhead bin doors popped out. The engines screaming as they're reversed. The plane intermittently shuddering as the pilots apply and release the brakes. We must have used every inch of the runway until we stopped. The airport fire trucks with lights flashing finally caught up to us.

Everyone was fine but that was the hardest landing I've ever experienced.

So we're at the far corner of the airport. Just sitting there in the plane. Firefighters and mechanics walking around the plane. The flight attendants push the bar carts into the aisles and announce it's open bar while we wait for the little tractor to tow us to the terminal. My parents have never been big drinkers but even they grabbed some little bottles and fixed a drink.

Anyway, they towed us back to the terminal and we had to wait for a new plane so we could complete our trip to Portland.
 
I had a camping trip from hell.

we went to Paulina lake years ago. We set up our camp and immediately have to evacuate because there was a fire nearby. The fire was set by some dude who sold equipment to the state to put out wildfires. 6 hours later we get the okay to come back to camp. That night a bear comes to our campsite and is literally nosing up on our tent to where we can feel it breathe. My uncle shoots off his gun to scare it off. The next day I’m teaching my cousin to fish and she goes to cast and I get a treble hook stuck in my ear. It was deep. Had to get it pulled by pliers and then went to St. Charles in Bend for stitches

The 3rd night the forest ranger comes to our camp and says they’re expecting snow. It was late august.

on the plus side we caught a shit ton of fish on that trip
 
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MickZagger said:
I had a camping trip from hell.

we went to Paulina lake years ago. We set up our camp and immediately have to evacuate because there was a fire nearby. The fire was set by some dude who sold equipment to the state to put out wildfires. 6 hours later we get the okay to come back to camp. That night a bear comes to our campsite and is literally nosing up on our tent to where we can feel it breathe. My uncle shoots off his gun to scare it off. The next day I’m teaching my cousin to fish and she goes to cast and I get a treble hook stuck in my ear. It was deep. Had to get it pulled by pliers and then went to St. Charles in Bend for stitches

The 3rd night the forest ranger comes to our camp and says they’re expecting snow. It was late august.

on the plus side we caught a shit ton of fish on that trip
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Treble hooks are a bitch to even get out of a trout sometimes if they swallow them deep....that sucks you had that happen...I've only been close to a small black bear once in the woods and I was cutting wood with a chainsaw when I saw it...it wandered off. They cross my property now though at times.
 
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