Quit hitting on me and help me out

[feezable]

A bit OT, but an old lady stopped to help my son and me cross the road in Saigon. Not a word was spoken, giggles and smiles were exchanged and it became one of our favourite moments in Vietnam.

 

[RooFlyer]

A bit OT, but an old lady stopped to help my son and me cross the road in Saigon. Not a word was spoken, giggles and smiles were exchanged and it became one of our favourite moments in Vietnam.

I know what you mean! Once I'm ashamed to say that I had to resort to walking across in the 'lee' of a mid aged lady who struck out across a frantic road without fear, whereas I had been looking for a suitable break for 5 mins or so.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

This week, an engineer in his 50s just stood there in the aisle, his hands clasped, as I played Olympic weight-lifting with my suitcase right in front of him. Just stood there, looking intently at the sticky carpet. Probably afraid to chip a nail or something.

I put the above question to SO (a LAME) as to what he would do if someone with a grossly overweight piece of 'hand luggage' was expecting him to place it in the overhead locker for them & he said he'd say to them "let's ask the crew where it can be stowed safely". He wasn't particularly worried about chipping a nail, but was more concerned that an overweight piece of baggage could fall out & seriously injure the passengers sitting underneath it.

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She's a textbook example of just another champagne socialist who is clearly way out of her depth when it comes to commenting on things that happen in the real world & highly likely displays one or more of the following traits:

a) orders a vegetarian meal not because she's vegetarian but to get attention
b) has more than 2 cats at home
c) has daddy issues
d) cries when she's drunk
e) expects upgrades to business class

If the journo simply cannot manage travelling air travel without a heavy bag she could always take her husband with her. https://www.facebook.com/MichaelSmithNews/posts/418455768213344

Just some other snippets from the article which goes from bad to worse.

Being a female who knows her way around an annual report on a 6am flight offers a unique perspective.
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Due to sheer laziness, I often end up in the middle seat, therefore in the middle of a fascinating peacock display.
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The other day, on a one-hour Sydney to Melbourne flight, ring-less Peacock #37 took 58 minutes to sheepishly drop into conversation that he had a wife. Um, well, congratu-bloody-lations. I don't know about you mate, but I'm not here, squished into seat 10E, looking for options.
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Which brings me to the final dismount. Even before the seatbelt sign goes off, the jackets get put on, the suitcases get territorially placed in the aisle, and the competitive rush to get off that plane begins. Of course, I'm left to struggle with my own bag. It's not that I expect help, it's just the harshness of it all I find a bit surprising.
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And, when I helped a fellow female traveller retrieve her bag a few rows back, her smile of thanks stayed with me all day.
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The cynic in me finds the whole experience bemusing. I mentioned this to a friend who works in politics and is also a 6am veteran. He said, “I told you. Everyone falls in love with girls on these domestic flights".

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/exe...help-me-out-20140213-32jur.html#ixzz2tggdjcoK


THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW
Katarina Kroslakova is the editor of The Australian Financial Review's Life and Leisure
magazine.

Katarina Kroslakova with husband Mike Smith & friend Barnaby Joyce

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[Rox]

I know how she feels. I have to beat the other pax back all the time. It's *so* tiring to be hit on when you're just walking around the street, and in the confined space of an aircraft, I just know every male, straight or gay, is dying to crack on to me. And most of the women too.

I'll obviously have to change my flying habits and start leaving earlier...

 

[Reggie78]

As an example, QANTAS list their carry on baggage weight limit to be 7kg. I'd like to know if 7kg is deemed as heavy...

If it's heavier than that, there's always under the plane...

 

[Pushka]

As an example, QANTAS list their carry on baggage weight limit to be 7kg. I'd like to know if 7kg is deemed as heavy...

If it's heavier than that, there's always under the plane...

I do weights at the gym and it isn't heavy to carry at all. It's the lifting above the head that many might struggle with plus the balance needed to jiggle everyone else's luggage out the way and do it quickly while the line of passengers waits for you.

But that's really just each persons issue to deal with though.

 

[Mal]

Yep. Another wanabee Princess (not an actual Princess ) moaning and groaning about how her laziness and over inflated self worth causes her issues when flying.

It is sad she is given media space TBH..

 

[Reggie78]

I do weights at the gym and it isn't heavy to carry at all. It's the lifting above the head that many might struggle with plus the balance needed to jiggle everyone else's luggage out the way and do it quickly while the line of passengers waits for you.

I do understand that part. Being one of those travellers who prefers to wait for the throngs to be the first to sit and wait get out of the way, I regularly end up having to put my bag under the seat in front, because everyone else want's to put their huge carry on's above.

The airlines have listed dimensions and weights of carry on baggage, I just wish that they would police it more. IMO, they'd save a lot of time loading/unloading planes...

 

[DietCoke]

heh, first thing I looked for...

Me too.

I was going to go with some version of: if you can't lift it, don't pack it.

Me too. Would have called her an entitled and narcissistic cough, but that would be offensive to lady parts and narcissists.

I don't understand the aggression on either of the feminist spectrum. I don't expect any male to assist me in achieving anything, and would never rant at someone for not helping. Likewise, I would never rant at someone who did offer, I would either say "thanks, that's lovely" or "oh no thanks, I'm alright, nice of you to offer".

What's wrong with being a normal, rational, level-headed human being?

 

[burmans]

Katarina Kroslakova with husband Mike Smith & friend Barnaby Joyce/

Given the company you suspect she's actually not a champagne socialist even if you do need to question her taste!

 

[ozbeachbabe]

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Given the company you suspect she's actually not a champagne socialist even if you do need to question her taste![/COLOR]

You can take the girl out of the Eastern Bloc.....or as they say in the LOTFAP "once a red, always a red".

 

[ReLoad]

Personally I'm really disappointed that young attractive women don't help me with my massively oversized shipping crates that I travel with into the overhead bins, let alone hit on me.

As an overweight balding man I have found chivalry is dead, I can't remember the last time I didn't have to bribe my wife with prada to hit on me.

I mean for gods sakes DYKWIA!

What a nothing article from a nothing journo.

I thin

 

[ReLoad]

What's wrong with being a normal, rational, level-headed human being?

Can you please stop that nonsensical common sense baloney, there is no place for that sort of thing.

 

[burmans]

You can take the girl out of the Eastern Bloc.....or as they say in the LOTFAP "once a red, always a red".

You may say that but based on what I've seen some of the girls can be somewhat "capitalist" in what they are looking for, or at least all thos emails I get give that impression. As for her choice, well clearly she's after his money/power, it cant be his good looks or humanitarian instincts after all.

 

[legroom]

Have I missed some posts earlier ?

In one sentence, the morning flights are described as a "meat market" while further on, it became a "microcosm of high society".

Somehow she had transferred / projected her own self worth onto the whole plane: thinking of men (meat market), AFR reporter (high society).

Who would allow suitcases to be placed along the aisle before landing ?

Seems I have wasted 1-2 min reading vacuous stuff - yet again - from a frustrated middle seater.

 

[Must...Fly!]

I put the above question to SO (a LAME) as to what he would do if someone with a grossly overweight piece of 'hand luggage' was expecting him to place it in the overhead locker for them & he said he'd say to them "let's ask the crew where it can be stowed safely". He wasn't particularly worried about chipping a nail, but was more concerned that an overweight piece of baggage could fall out & seriously injure the passengers sitting underneath it.
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Frankly I'd be concerned about my own health. I'm no LAME but I've been asked a few times to help with bags. Unless they are an obviously old couple who would greatly struggle I don't help. Similar story, just this morning I was asked to by a younger woman to help her put her bag on the belt, after she was ignored by other people around her. She ended up doing it herself as I was (1) otherwise occupied and (2) not going to help anyway. Of course, the bag weighed 28kg. If you can't lift it, don't pack it.

 

[VPS]

As a shortish middle aged-ish woman who used to do a lot of business travel I often had men give me a hand to get my carry on from overhead and I never said no - I'm also a firm believer if you can't lift it and can't manage your luggage yourself don't take it - the journalist doesn't deserve the attention we're giving her