What cheeses me off

[TheRealTMA]

Snap send solve. Sort those suckers out straight away.

Well no not if it’s private property. Needs to be reported to the management. I’m sure the OP is on to it!

I politely approach those who park in the clearly marked disabled spot at our local post office centre car park and point out their indiscretion. I particularly like the complaints of young people, those in gym gear, and mothers with children, who all say “oh didn’t see the sign but it doesn’t matter, I’ll only be 5-10 minutes”. Grr.

 

[Quickstatus]

Disabled parking should be strictly enforced.

 

[prozac]

Well no not if it’s private property. Needs to be reported to the management. I’m sure the OP is on to it!

I politely approach those who park in the clearly marked disabled spot at our local post office centre car park and point out their indiscretion. I particularly like the complaints of young people, those in gym gear, and mothers with children, who all say “oh didn’t see the sign but it doesn’t matter, I’ll only be 5-10 minutes”. Grr.

Many shopping centres pass their carparks over to local council to manage and this allows rangers to issue fines.

 

[RooFlyer]

WCMO is people who check into a hotel, then take the staff's time up by wanting directions to every attraction intown; how the trains work, how far to a supermarket, can I catch a bus ....

But worse, those hiring a car in not their country - this takes long enough but then asking about the road rules; how do the tolls work, what are the speed limits etc etc Go for a spin around the Arc de Triomphe and find out for yourself!

 

[Pushka]

There are three rooms booked by family in this hotel in Malta. Tonight each of us (women) commented how the room service people were messing around with our private stuff. In my case putting all the deodorant and toothpaste back into the bag and zipping it up and also removing the plug adaptor and then winding all the charger cords around if. I always make sure the cords are out of the way of cleaning staff. So Don’t touch my personal stuff. I think this is a girl thing.

 

[love_the_life]

Many shopping centres pass their carparks over to local council to manage and this allows rangers to issue fines.

Much of our parking (paid) is now run by private companies of which Wilson is the largest. This includes centres and on street.

 

[hydrabyss]

So guess WWCMO today.
Got my disability parking permit yesterday. To shops today. All 6 disabled spots taken. Only 1 was displaying a permit.

I like how it extends the parking time allowed and no more having to pay parking meters on the street.

 

[DejaBrew]

So Don’t touch my personal stuff. I think this is a girl thing.

Not just a girl thing. I also don’t appreciate when my things get moved around and I similarly ensure it’s all out of the way before getting any sort of housekeeping.

 

[Flyfrequently]

also removing the plug adaptor and then winding all the charger cords around

. I think this is a girl thing.

Not necessarily @Pushka
Mr Flyfrequently loses his s*** if I wrap cords around the charger

 

[Quickstatus]

spin around the Arc de Triomphe

I have and I've even drove into the middle then from there drove outwards to one of the exits. Was Ok.
TL;DR : Drive like the French.

 

[RooFlyer]

So I’m in Muscat on a leisurely return home unwinding after a pretty busy couple of weeks in France.

I’m at the moment at the Movenpick with a wonderful pool which I was fully intending to use against the heat.



WCMO is, per instructions from ‘the ministry’, the pool and the pool deck is closed from 11 am to 4 pm because of the heat. FFS. Max today of 31 !!!!

 

[Dmac59]

So I’m in Muscat on a leisurely return home unwinding after a pretty busy couple of weeks in France.

I’m at the moment with a wonderful pool which I was fully intending to use against the heat.

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WCMO is, per instructions from ‘the ministry’, the pool and the pool deck is closed from 11 am to 4 pm because of the heat. FFS. Max today of 31 !!!!

According to AccuWeather the current temp is 30, but feels like 40?
Still should be able to cool off in the pool though

 

[VPS]

You stop to let someone walk across you in the supermarket car park and instead of walking about 4 metres straight across, they meander down the middle for about 10 metres

 

[anat0l]

WCMO is airlines who make it nearly impossible to work out what the fare class code is for a given fare, which thwarts one's intention to find out how much the FF earn will be. For the programme native to the ticketing carrier, fine (except for bonuses etc.); for partner programmes, impossible.

Yes I'm well aware that Qantas is no saint in this regard, but then you have the types like Cathay Pacific where within Economy there are different fare sub-types. Sometimes selecting a different sub-type changes the fare class code, but other times it does not. ITA Matrix gives some idea of what class codes there could be, but it's hard to check - other than guessing based on fare amount - what the exact fare configuration is. And of course, it might be "available" on ITA Matrix but impossible to book on the carrier's website.

 

[serfty]

Sometimes selecting a different sub-type changes the fare class code, but other times it does not. ITA Matrix gives some idea of what class codes there could be, but it's hard to check - other than guessing based on fare amount - what the exact fare configuration is. And of course, it might be "available" on ITA Matrix but impossible to book on the carrier's website.

Even ITA cannot always help. Online, MH economy fare generally book into O class - even flexi! Basically what you would be buying is O class with an add-on.

To get 'real' flexi, you need a TA.

 

[Pushka]

Priority luggage. Lisbon. There were six people left waiting for luggage last night at midnight. We were all the business class passengers. Guess they think priority means priority boarding.

The Neo planes. Jetstar uses them, as does TK, KMMalta and Lufthansa. And every one has been different. Jetstar is jetstar, think Sardines. KMMalta in J was pleasant enough. One J on Lufthansa was excellent. The other one in J was horrid. Not even charger ports. Interesting that not one passenger on any flight reclined. So no fights. On the horrid one we were the last row in J. Awful. We could see how crammed the row behind us was. We didn't reclined but no space so kept on being bumped.

 

[SYD]

WCMO is airlines who make it nearly impossible to work out what the fare class code is for a given fare, which thwarts one's intention to find out how much the FF earn will be. For the programme native to the ticketing carrier, fine (except for bonuses etc.); for partner programmes, impossible.

Yes I'm well aware that Qantas is no saint in this regard, but then you have the types like Cathay Pacific where within Economy there are different fare sub-types. Sometimes selecting a different sub-type changes the fare class code, but other times it does not. ITA Matrix gives some idea of what class codes there could be, but it's hard to check - other than guessing based on fare amount - what the exact fare configuration is. And of course, it might be "available" on ITA Matrix but impossible to book on the carrier's website.

Strangely (at least for QF), the QBR portal shows fare class at the time of booking. So no real reason not to on the regular QF booking engine.

For CX (and others), you can take (or send) the details from ITA Matrix to a TA to book for you…a varying degree of PITA depending on whether you have a regular TA.

One reason I don’t like Google flights is it fails to show a lot of detail available on ITA Matrix. Pity, be abuse if you click thru to book with CX, it ought to be selecting those fare classes you’re after.

Alternately, I believe some of the OTAs will show booking class?