Airport lounge rules beaten 😁

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Hi can I have a double gin and tonic please?
Sorry we only do singles.
OK can I have a gin and tonic and a gin please?
Yes.
Me pours gin into gin and tonic
🤔

No, but if you read my post instead of jumping on me so dismissively and aggressively, I did say that if everyone's weighs more, then that puts pressure on the lockers ability to stay shut. Also, not all aircraft are made equally either build quality or size of overhead storage bins. So an aircraft that allows 10 kg bags may have small overhead lockers that can only fit a couple of large bags in, so the locks stay shut with a slight overload. Others have very large lockers that may take 6 bags and the locks may not cope with an overload in all those bags.

And sorry if I just wanted to make people aware why there are rules. I was not rude, I just wanted to explain there is another side to this.

I'm ex-cabin crew and I have been on flights where over head bins have come open, both in-flight and on landing and seen people injured, by even a fairly light bag, but because the bin was overloaded by "just another 500g being snuck in" to several. I witnessed a cabin crew injured in such a scenario. She was taken off the flight on a stretcher and didn't work again.

We're not allowed to claim for alcohol on work expenses so it's a bit of a badge of honour if you can ever find a way around this.

So 'burger and a pint' type deals are very popular, and if the receipt doesn't overtly specify alcohol, it's fair game.

Best one was when I was travelling with a colleague who I was quite good friends with and the hotel bar had some odd deal that was something like a fishcake and a glass of wine for £8.

We both ordered this and when we saw the receipt just said something like 'fish cake deal' we ordered 2 more each over the evening so ended up drinking nearly a bottle of wine each and the 3 fishcakes was dinner.

Snakebite ❤️ Those were the days! 😂

Yeah, I don’t want your bag falling on me if the lockers open. I’ve seen it happen several times and it’s nasty. The rule is there for a reason so stick to it.

😂😂 Oh the disappointment must have hurt

At uni there used to be a fruit/tropical alcoholic drink called 'Castaway' that was mixed with Diamond White in a pint glass to make 'Blastaway'.

Yes I loved that!

There was a big place like this in Hammersmith I used to go to in the 90’s. 😂 Lots of people from Australia, NZ, SA and some Scandies. Great music and we met so many people.

I am seriously impressed.

The Walkabout in Shepherds Bush? Sticky carpets? Live music? Casual snogging and occasional naked crowd surfing??

Yes! 👏🏻 That was it.

You know what though, I’m sitting next to one of those crazy ones right now..brought him home with me about 25 years ago. 😂 Who would have thought it would be more than casual snogging.

I blame it all on Snakebite.

That stuff is so sticky that you literally could not separate even if you wanted to.

I couldn’t even drink half a pint of those back then. Not eating or sleeping much did that to you (and no money!) but I do remember how sticky it was.

Anyone else thinking about nipping out for a bottle of cider and few tins of lager to recreate their youth?

Absolutely! If we can be home before nine. 😂

YABU for putting tonic in your gin. 😉

Blimey are you always this snippy?

Sounds like a daft rule but it's actually really sensible, if only people were sensible enough to use their heads and adhere to it 🙄

100% agree that's the likely reason for the rule as being drunk on an aircraft can be downright dangerous BUT given they are happy to serve the same amount of alcohol in a single order to the same customer it makes a total mockery of the rule! If they want to police how much a person purchases on their premises then surely the rule should be a single and all other drinks have to be non alcoholic.
I'd have done the same as you OP (if I'd have been quick witted enough to think of doing it and I certainly will be quick enough in future lol)

Ha ha. Silly rules. 🍸

Sorry I always had the blackcurrant 😳 Around the early 2000's though must have been a long standing rule.

did the lounge include unlimited alcohol? A lot of them now enforce a limit of 3 or 4 drinks. So your one drink, would now be two.

I think the snakebite issue might be to do with weights and measures rather than mixing the two drinks tbh. It would be very difficult to free pour two exact half pints into the one glass.

I think you mean you will be graced by the best pub crowds 😉

#snakebite