Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven

[bigbells]

A happy day to all mothers and anybody who ever had one!

I was annoyed and very respectfully mentioned to the one agent that I fly Southwest a lot and have never run into this problem. He just told me that they don't make as much money as Delta did. Arrrrrrgh!

That agent needs a serious attitude adjustment.

That's what Southwest does. You still board by zones, but your boarding ticket gives you a number and people line up in order and choose whatever seat they want when they board. It works great.

Why couldn't the first one of you to board save the adjacent seat for your spouse?

I wonder how much more expensive it would be to charter a private airline.

If you have to ask, you can't afford it. It's ridiculously expensive.

Because we traveled so much we got a Known Traveler Number.

I fly less than once every two years but I am a Known Traveler. It comes in very handy at the big and busy hubs. Smaller airports not so much. I've only flown Delta on my last 5 flights, going back to 2006.

Tiniest asparagus I've ever had, from a couple of months ago. One pound had 83 spears... yes, I counted them as I broke off the ends. It was good despite the puniness.

Fattest asparagus I ever had was today. One pound had 19 spears. It was likewise very tasty.

My creative juices were flowing. Chicken breast cooked in beef stock and the water that steamed the asparagus, with lots of black pepper and turmeric. Canned organic diced tomatoes, and the flourish: honey drizzled lightly onto it.

 

[MikeE3]

Why couldn't the first one of you to board save the adjacent seat for your spouse?

We had assigned seats. Taking someone else's seat could have been disruptive.

 

[bigbells]

We had assigned seats. Taking someone else's seat could have been disruptive.

OK, I'm confused. I thought your wife said that Southwest doesn't have assigned seats.

 

[Kenna]

Happy Mothers Day to all our Mothers!

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[2legsshrt]

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I'm sure they would make me take off my legs, never know I might be a prosthetic bomber. If I have to take off my shoes too they can help me get them back on or carry me to my seat. Not an easy task.

 

[2legsshrt]

I wonder how much more expensive it would be to charter a private airline. TSA is bad enough. But, it looks like TSA is causing even more problems than just the direct annoyance/abuse.

If you're part of the Kings Court nothing we pay for it. Have thought if I ever his one of those big lotteries charter a plane and stop and pick up all the people you want to come then on to some nicer place, like Amsterdam. Party till you drop. Which for me wouldn't be long. Probably just the airplane ride and I'd be dropping into my plush bed at a 5 star Hotel.

 

[MikeE3]

OK, I'm confused. I thought your wife said that Southwest doesn't have assigned seats.

Maybe I'm confused to ... to your response. Let's try again.

It was our Delta flights, that we pre-booked our seats together, 4 flights altogether. These are the seats that were changed for each of our flights when we got our boarding passes. You can't really take someone else's seat without talking to them and agreeing with the switch. We were able to do that on one leg of the return trip.

Southwest doesn't have assigned seats. You are assigned a boarding group/number that determines the order of passengers getting on the plane. Once on the plane you can take any seat available. Janet and I are usually in the same group with sequential numbers. So most of the time we board together. It has rarely happened that one person gets on before the other and then, yes, that person will hold a seat for the other.

 

[Janet H]

@bigbells Yep, on Southwest you could save a seat for someone in your party if they end up getting on later in the line. I wish Delta or other airlines would do it that way. People self-seat and then there's no switching around. If you're flying alone it's great because people often travel in pairs and there's always a 3rd seat available so you can choose whatever area in the plane you want (unless you're one of the last people in line to board).

 

[clnire]

Happy Mother's Day to all mothers, past, present and future!

 

[bigbells]

@JanetH, your posts left me confused about which airline you were actually flying. I saw ways to read it that you were flying Southwest, as well as ways to read it that you were flying Delta. Then, David Ock seemed to me to read it that you were flying Southwest, so I went with that.

Anyway, I wonder if the change of airplanes could have been due to the need to inspect the engines on Boeing 737s. Splitting up people who bought their tickets at the same time, and presumably paid for them with the same bank card, is incomprehensible.

 

[runamok]

Ohla! I'm out of durance and back amongst the living. What's been going on?

 

[runamok]

I've moved my happy donkey to of all places; Omega,?Ga. Can you believe that? I've moved north into the deep South. Go figure.

 

[runamok]

Where is everyone?

 

[runamok]

Ok I'll fall into sleep now so if anyone remember's me ,we will catch up later.

 

[Bea-FL]

Our kids are growing up. Here they are sharing the chicken yard with out two old ladies. The old ladies are at the front…they have the red wattles and combs.

 

[DavidOck]

I've moved my happy donkey to of all places; Omega,?Ga. Can you believe that? I've moved north into the deep South. Go figure.

Welcome home! Now you need to change your location, unless of course you're in a witness protection plan?

 

[Flowersoul]

I've moved my happy donkey to of all places; Omega,?Ga. Can you believe that? I've moved north into the deep South. Go figure.

Welcome back....

Our kids are growing up. Here they are sharing the chicken yard with out two old ladies. The old ladies ate at the front…they have the red wattles and combs.

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This evoked such a warm and reminiscent feeling within me of my childhood when Grandmom & Grandpop raised these. I so remember the chicken coops in the.back of the house in Sea Isle City, NJ

 

[Bea-FL]

Ok I'll fall into sleep now so if anyone remember's me ,we will catch up later.

You must have been around before my time but

 

[MikeE3]

Ohla! I'm out of durance and back amongst the living. What's been going on?

Hello ... you have been gone for quite awhile. Last we heard from you your said:

"Yeah I'm south of Ken A, gettin my .... kicked by Matthew. I'll be up all nite."

And that was a couple years back.

 

[clnire]

Ohla! I'm out of durance and back amongst the living. What's been going on?

welcome back! Glad to see (read) you! Lots of comings and goings...