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Eshek
Should she cross paths again, I recommend against French.
Try Turkish. Something like "e?ek" [read: jackass] would
summarize what she was trying to communicate.
No "jokes" this time?
Like the time Dukakis saw a staffer in GHWB's White House on a flight to Washington, DC and told an airline employee that the guy had a bomb?
No? Good.
The Duke is himself
Never sat next to him, but the last time I saw the Duke he was walking alone through the Fens near Simmons, picking up trash with one hand and carrying his briefcase in the other.
I don't think you will find any other person who has ever run for President doing something similar unless there were cameras around.
Did he have his tank helmet
Did he have his tank helmet on?
I saw that, too
Maybe 2000 or 2001 when I was living in the Fenway. I was walking home through the Fens and saw an older gentlemen ahead of me who kept bending down to pick up trash. No one was around and I was behind him, so its not like he was doing it for show. I hurried up so I could observe the behavior more closely and realized it was Governor Dukakis. I was beyond impressed. He can take my armrest anytime he wants, as far as I'm concerned.
When I was telling this
When I was telling this story to someone, he said Dukakis is the kind of guy who would sit in coach and that he takes the T to work. So the picking up trash story rings true, too. I'm sure he is very nice and I even voted for him, If I remember right.
Meanwhile, I'm getting hate-mail over at my blog--thank god you guys have a sense of humor.
Thanks, Adam ...250 hits today, about 240 more than usual.
Wow.
Can this blogger be any more whiny? I quote from the post:
Um, welcome to coach, my friend. I certainly hope you never have to ride the T or go to the movies.
Oh, the horror! Human contact! Send the kids to bed! Lock the doors!
Where is the logic in this? Based on what it sounds like, this argument is suggesting that a person "chooses" the aisle seat to get that extra breathing room/side armrest, and a person "chooses" the window to get the extra room and side armrest next to the window. So why should these two also get the middle armrests while the middle person, who is crammed in between, get the shaft and have to keep their arms to themselves? If anything, the mere fact that middle seat ends up being a sardine to begin with gives him/her a bit of leeway.
"Bubble-Girl"
Jiffywoob couldn't have said it better. I think this woman needs to get out more. I see Dukakis on the T all the time "rubbing elbows" with the common man. He used to do this as governor too. What other elected official (especially that high up in the food chain) ever did, or still does, that sort of thing? This woman really should somehow send him an apology because he headline degrades him.
Rubbing elbows
If she rubbed elbows with Cheney, he'd shoot her in the face.
I hate posts like these
I hate posts like these because it makes me hate humanity.
Aisle seat gets an armrest all to them self, the one my the aisle.
WIndow seat gets an exclusive rest, the one by the window.
What do you think middle seat gets?
Unfortunately for Dukakis, he got an enormous bitch who acts like being in public is a struggle.
Ive met the man, and you should send him an email to apologize.
I love unwritten rules
Actually, I don't. Particularly on public accomodations with an international clientele.
You do realize, of course, in your infinite experience, that many airliners don't have a window seat armrest? So much for that.
Unless this is an FAA regulation, your "etiquette tutorial" means crap. Otherwise, look up the real name for Lake Webster for clues.
(this is also why I generally don't mind being seated by a small child - I can usually keep them quiet, and I get more room bwahahaha!)
I have never, ever, EVER
I have never, ever, EVER been on a plane where the seat lacked an armrest outside of the emergency exit row.
And yes, I do have a lot of experience flying, over 700,000 miles according to my mileage reports.
Certain airlines, certain planes
First of all, I'm talking about the part of the seat that is by the window. These seats all share one with the center seat.
I will also add that if your 700,000 miles are on specific airlines, I believe you may not have encountered this. I suspect that certain aircraft owned by certain carriers are the biggest offenders - Boeing 757 cattlecar service, anyone?
On six cross-country flights and one international in the past year or so, I have noticed a lack of window seat armrests on at least 3 (total of 5 legs). On one of those I had the window seat on a non-stop to SFO. It wasn't just my seat, either - they did it to cram them in and preserve a minimal aisle width near the back.
A little harsh?
I just added this clarification to my blog post: By "the best airplane story ever" I mean "the most embarrasing airplane story ever." I find my own humiliation amusing.
I think maybe you guys are taking this a little too seriously.
And no, I'm not apologizing.
Too seriously?
Perhaps. But that's the tone it took on. No need to apologize, I just failed to see the logic in the first part, that the window and aisle seats deserve both middle armrests, while the middle seat dude has to scrunch up.
Also, let me ask you this: think about the experience you had with this passenger hogging "your" armrest. Now imagine it's not Dukakis, just some Joe Q. Public guy. Would that change anything?
The fact that you called a politician an ass is a bit amusing, but you set yourself up for misunderstanding by opening with your sense of entitlement via his own discomfort and your own convenience. Perhaps he was sneezing loudly as a hint to you that he had no space himself?
Too Seriously?
You're the one who got soooo upset that he tried to hog "your" armrest and then you even went to the extent to write about it. Who's taking this too seriously again?
don't you have something better to do?
"enormous bitch"...seriously?
it's supposed to be a funny and embarrasing story, take it that way.
Travelling with Dogs?
I didn't know Dukakis travelled with dogs.
Or was this a slur against a Kitty?