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DH nearly knocked woman flying

285 replies

OneFlewOverTheOwlsNest · 11/10/2021 08:41

We were due to travel to Dublin and the security at the airport was ridiculously long - we were not going to make the flight. Once through security we literally sprinted to the gate, once there DH charged at the woman who was just closing the gate, she turned just in time to see him flying towards her and screamed “SHIT!!!” As he crashed into her - he caught her before she fell and breathlessly asked “we were stuck in security!”
She opened the gate back up and called the mini bus thing to come back whilst explaining that the two missing passengers had arrived - and nearly took her out in the process. I was mortified. The bus came back for us and the woman started laughing and said “Jesus, I need a drink”. I apologised profusely and she said it was ok, she just assumed she was being attacked for a minute. She then apologised for swearing (!!)
Once we were on the plane the pilot came on the tannoy apologising for the delay explaining that they had to wait for two late passengers. Everyone looked at us. I have never forgotten it and I do laugh when I think back but Christ, he could’ve been arrested!

Feeling shit today, AIbU to ask for your holiday disaster stories? (Lighthearted!!)

Also - AIbU to laugh about this now - years later - despite how “wrong” it was at the time?

OP posts:
grapewine · 11/10/2021 13:17

she sai5it was ok, she just assumed she was being attacked for a minute.

Yeah, no big deal Hmm
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grapewine · 11/10/2021 13:18

*said

Needhelp101 · 11/10/2021 13:20

I was once squeezing through restaurant tables at Austin airport when my heavy laptop case swung forward, knocking over a rather good-looking man's fill drink, sending a tsunami of beer across his full dinner plate before surging and flooding his crutch.

I was mortified.

He was lovely about it. It could have been the start of a romcom, except his girlfriend then turned up Grin

BoredZelda · 11/10/2021 13:20

Give your head a shake! It wasn't intentional, it was years ago and IT WASN'T OP!!! Have a sense of humour will you?!

Probably easier to have a sense of humour when you aren’t living with chronic pain and find yourself at the sharp end of this kind of twattish behaviour.

Unless this woman came out of nowhere, the fact he barrelled in to her when he would have seen her from some way off wasn’t just an accident. He saw her and kept going.

Alittlepotofrosie · 11/10/2021 13:22

*Probably easier to have a sense of humour when you aren’t living with chronic pain and find yourself at the sharp end of this kind of twattish behaviour.

Unless this woman came out of nowhere, the fact he barrelled in to her when he would have seen her from some way off wasn’t just an accident. He saw her and kept going.*

Yeah, we get it. What are you getting from continuing to go on at the op for? It wasn't her who did it.

Rosebel · 11/10/2021 13:23

@chocolatecentral6

Didn’t something similar happen in Home Alone 2? 🤣
That was what I thought too. Sounds almost exactly like Home Alone 2.
BoredZelda · 11/10/2021 13:23

attempting to find your car in the car park after you've return home is always fun!!

@Mulhollandmagoo even more fun when you turn up at 9pm in December and there has been a foot of snow. They all look the same then!

BoredZelda · 11/10/2021 13:27

Yeah, we get it. What are you getting from continuing to go on at the op for? It wasn't her who did it.

No, responding to a poster who is having a go at someone who is disabled with chronic pain for not “having a sense of humour”

But, yeah, we get it, you’ve made your point, having a go at anyone who isn’t wetting themselves laughing. Move on.

CornishGem1975 · 11/10/2021 13:30

Wow. MN is grumpy today.

WaterAndRichTea · 11/10/2021 13:42

He couldnt of been arrested for accidentally knocking her over

Weird how ‘security’ delays only affected you two from the whole flight though

Tillysfad · 11/10/2021 13:48

Not a classic anecdote, is it.

Hilarious as it might be, do you have anything that doesn't involve laughing about men flooring women?

Mulhollandmagoo · 11/10/2021 13:52

@BoredZelda Oh no, I think I'd have cried! as if arriving back from your holiday isn't bad enough. Luckily never arrived back in the snow....but I have gone to the wrong car park and been adamant its right and yomped around for ages haha, my husband was really smug when we finally found our car!!!

Loubilou09 · 11/10/2021 13:56

@Reallyimeanreally2022

That poor women Good on her for putting on a brave face

Your husband though Hmm

Were there a few of them then? I read that there was one woman?
BoredZelda · 11/10/2021 14:08

Oh no, I think I'd have cried! as if arriving back from your holiday isn't bad enough. Luckily never arrived back in the snow....but I have gone to the wrong car park and been adamant its right and yomped around for ages haha, my husband was really smug when we finally found our car!!!

@Mulhollandmagoo, luckily we had a minibus and whilst it still wasn’t easy as there were loads of them, easier than if we’d had a car. The 4 hour drive home was abandoned and we found a travel inn for the night!

I once came close to calling the police when I couldn’t find my car in a car park in Hull. Was working away from home and it took me an hour to find it. I thought I had looked on all the levels but kept missing the actual one I was on. I was in tears!

gogohm · 11/10/2021 14:11

Due to my obsessiveness about being on time, all my family's airport tales (complaints) are how many hours early we were! I really need to try to arrive a bit later.

HesterShaw1 · 11/10/2021 14:16

What the hell is wrong with some of you? You're acting like the mean girls at school.

Shodan · 11/10/2021 14:17

Well, if nothing else OP, you've provided a whole bunch of people with a story to recount when they're asked for their stories of how they set out to make someone else feel even more shit than they already do.

"Yeah some woman posted a lighthearted account of an embarrassing (to her) incident and asked for similar stories to cheer her up, as she was feeling shit today. So obviously I went on and tried my best to make her feel even worse! Lol."

So there's that.

Thatsplentyjack · 11/10/2021 14:45

@Mammma91

I don’t have one - but OP this post nearly made me wet myself 🤣🤣🤣 I’d need a drink after that too! At least he caught her and apologised!!! She saw the funny side of it - and you can all laugh it off now!
Slow day where you are then?
EatSleepRantRepeat · 11/10/2021 14:46

@BoredZelda

See, I was brought up to believe that if you can't say anything nice, you say nothing at all.

And yet you posted this….

Neither do I. It's the equivalent of eavesdropping in a cafe and shouting over "you're not funny!" at strangers every 10 minutes. I have no idea why they think it's a good use of their time given there are a million other threads they could be reading for entertainment, without being a dick about it.

Not sure which part of that post you thought was nice. 🤔

Because I get absolutely sick of the low-level bullying that happens on these threads. The OP has already said she's feeling shit today and was hoping someone would cheer her up, and people like you decide to try and make her feel worse for some reason. I don't walk on when I see people being ganged up on, I say something. The world would be a better place if more people did.
GreyhoundG1rl · 11/10/2021 14:48

@OneFlewOverTheOwlsNest

We were due to travel to Dublin and the security at the airport was ridiculously long - we were not going to make the flight. Once through security we literally sprinted to the gate, once there DH charged at the woman who was just closing the gate, she turned just in time to see him flying towards her and screamed “SHIT!!!” As he crashed into her - he caught her before she fell and breathlessly asked “we were stuck in security!” She opened the gate back up and called the mini bus thing to come back whilst explaining that the two missing passengers had arrived - and nearly took her out in the process. I was mortified. The bus came back for us and the woman started laughing and said “Jesus, I need a drink”. I apologised profusely and she said it was ok, she just assumed she was being attacked for a minute. She then apologised for swearing (!!) Once we were on the plane the pilot came on the tannoy apologising for the delay explaining that they had to wait for two late passengers. Everyone looked at us. I have never forgotten it and I do laugh when I think back but Christ, he could’ve been arrested!

Feeling shit today, AIbU to ask for your holiday disaster stories? (Lighthearted!!)

Also - AIbU to laugh about this now - years later - despite how “wrong” it was at the time?

Maybe you had to be there Confused.
Poor you, travelling with the modern day equivalent of Frank Spencer.
Thatsplentyjack · 11/10/2021 14:51

No idea why people have to be so sour faced. Maybe it was funny, maybe it wasn't. I suspect the po-faced brigade were also monitoring their neighbours during lockdown.

I think the opposite actually. To find this story hilarious you would need to be pretty boring, and I think it's more likely the boring people who were at home curtain twitching and reporting their neighbours.

speckledcat · 11/10/2021 14:51

Many years ago I booked a car in America through eurodollar in the UK. They didn't rent in the states so said they'd transfer me to their partner organisation. I heard them say what I thought was international car rentals. Booked my car and arrived in America. They didn't recognise the booking number and told me they didn't have any free cars. After lots of discussion by a tired grumpy me, I was eventually given an upgraded car. Rang my mum in the morning UK time, to discover that Dollars American partner was national car rental.

Alittlepotofrosie · 11/10/2021 14:55

No, responding to a poster who is having a go at someone who is disabled with chronic pain for not “having a sense of humour”
But, yeah, we get it, you’ve made your point, having a go at anyone who isn’t wetting themselves laughing. Move on.

I'm not wetting myself laughing. I didn't think the story was that funny but i don't think that the op deserves what she's getting from you and the other people like you.

I don't think having chronic pain means you can't also be a really irritating loudmouth though. You also don't get to have the last word on what's funny and what's not just because you have chronic pain.

FirewomanSam · 11/10/2021 14:55

Off-topic but why do some people insist on quoting the entirety of the OP when they reply? It does my head in.

EatSleepRantRepeat · 11/10/2021 15:11

@Thatsplentyjack

No idea why people have to be so sour faced. Maybe it was funny, maybe it wasn't. I suspect the po-faced brigade were also monitoring their neighbours during lockdown.

I think the opposite actually. To find this story hilarious you would need to be pretty boring, and I think it's more likely the boring people who were at home curtain twitching and reporting their neighbours.

Yet you're still here?