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DH nearly knocked woman flying

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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?

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Thatsplentyjack · 11/10/2021 15:15

Why would I not still be here? Just because I didn't find the OP that funny, doesn't mean I can't read the rest of the thread.

EatSleepRantRepeat · 11/10/2021 15:17

@speckledcat

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.
Car hire problems in the US are the worst! We found when we got to our rental place that the travel agent had booked it for the week before we were due to arrive in the country, and they were completely out of cars in that category. Their call centre insisted on speaking to the branch staff who were 8 hours ahead of us and had just clocked off for the next 14 hours. We had no hotel booked in that town and it was full for a convention, but it would be the middle of the night when the UK branch reopened, eventually had to stump up over £1k on a credit card for a last minute booking and claim it back when we got home. Worst holiday drama for a while!
GreyhoundG1rl · 11/10/2021 15:19

@speckledcat

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.
Eh?
GrasssInPocket · 11/10/2021 15:23

Surely everyone on same flight as you has been caught up in exactly the same queues but made it ok?

Not if it's a connecting flight and you've only got five minutes to make it to the gate for your onward journey only to be confronted by a massive queue at security (this happened to me a couple of weeks ago...)

speckledcat · 11/10/2021 15:30

@GreyhoundG1rl what don't you understand?

nocoolnamesleft · 11/10/2021 15:42

Seems like a classic case of male privilege. Go charging in the direction he wants, and if the little woman doesn't dive out of the way in time, fuck her.

GreyhoundG1rl · 11/10/2021 15:47

[quote speckledcat]@GreyhoundG1rl what don't you understand?[/quote]
What was funny/disastrous about it.

SylvanasWindrunner · 11/10/2021 15:52

She spent ages arguing about her booking with the wrong company? And they eventually gave her an upgraded car even though she hadn't booked with them. She only realised later she'd got the company name wrong and her booking was with another company entirely!

You did well to get a car out of them, @speckledcat Grin

GreyhoundG1rl · 11/10/2021 15:53

@SylvanasWindrunner

She spent ages arguing about her booking with the wrong company? And they eventually gave her an upgraded car even though she hadn't booked with them. She only realised later she'd got the company name wrong and her booking was with another company entirely!

You did well to get a car out of them, @speckledcat Grin

I completely missed the point, duh! That was a fairly spectacular heist 😂
Hakunapotato · 11/10/2021 16:03

On the train, didn’t realise platform 6(?) was divided into a and b so I got on the train sat waiting to leave and the doors closed and it said the train was heading for London. Several hours away. I had to grab everything and run! Missed the train I should’ve been on and ended up luckily having my ticket validated for the next train. The first stop for the London train would’ve been a long journey too!

speckledcat · 11/10/2021 16:04

@sylvanasWindrunner

Yes, that was it exactly! It was a great car and the extra space made the holiday even better 😊

BoredZelda · 11/10/2021 16:39

I don't walk on when I see people being ganged up on, I say something.

“Ganged up on” 😆 It’s an Internet forum, love. She wrote a not funny story and asked if she was wrong to laugh about it. People answered. Run along and be the prefect somewhere else.

Reallyimeanreally2022 · 11/10/2021 17:13

* 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.*

@EatSleepRantRepeat

Channel that moral outrage to actually meaningful things rather than a mumsnet thread where the OP missed the mark for some and some are having a bit of a laugh at her expense. You start a thread on AIBU on mumsnet, you know you have to put your big girl knickers on.

lorca · 11/10/2021 17:14

How on earth were they allowed to board the wrong plane? I would find that a bit worrying tbh. we once got on a flight to Iceland and found someone in my seat. I asked to see his boarding pass and he was on the wrong plane - I was horrified as I thought that couldn't happen. God knows how he got through the gate.

EatSleepRantRepeat · 11/10/2021 17:24

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limitedperiodonly · 11/10/2021 17:39

We were at the airport in Rome and had paid for the VIP lounge which was a bit shabby to be honest but my mum, who was 80, loved it because it was posh. She wandered off to the loo. Suddenly the alarms went off and security staff rushed past us.

She'd opened the doors to the balcony to get a breath of fresh air. They didn't manhandle her or shoot her or anything but when we went to claim her an officer told us it was a very serious matter and we should take better care of our mother or there could be consequences. I couldn't say anything because I was going to laugh.

"She's a very difficult old woman," said DH. Turning to my mum he said: "What are you? A very difficult old woman. Now say sorry." The officer gave him a look of sympathy. He didn't see the secret look between DH and my mum.

Fun sponges do your worst.

Pythonista · 11/10/2021 17:43

@limitedperiodonly

We were at the airport in Rome and had paid for the VIP lounge which was a bit shabby to be honest but my mum, who was 80, loved it because it was posh. She wandered off to the loo. Suddenly the alarms went off and security staff rushed past us.

She'd opened the doors to the balcony to get a breath of fresh air. They didn't manhandle her or shoot her or anything but when we went to claim her an officer told us it was a very serious matter and we should take better care of our mother or there could be consequences. I couldn't say anything because I was going to laugh.

"She's a very difficult old woman," said DH. Turning to my mum he said: "What are you? A very difficult old woman. Now say sorry." The officer gave him a look of sympathy. He didn't see the secret look between DH and my mum.

Fun sponges do your worst.

You must have been HOWLING all the way home
Reallyimeanreally2022 · 11/10/2021 17:52

@EatSleepRantRepeat

You aren’t averse to some pretty nasty attitudes too

** EatSleepRantRepeat

I'm done with London. Lived and worked here for 18 years and in that time it's become even more soulless, expensive and insular. Most of the people I meet here have never left the m25-cornwall corridor, even the ones from abroad who came here to 'travel' (ie use cheap flights to weekend back and forth in Europe). The people I meet in London never actually been out in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds etc yet somehow think Hoxton-Shoreditch is the pinnacle of UK creativity.

Scrollonthroughtherain · 11/10/2021 17:55

Bad form to go looking through someone's posting history and bring it into a different thread.

Reallyimeanreally2022 · 11/10/2021 18:06

@Scrollonthroughtherain

Bad form to go looking through someone's posting history and bring it into a different thread.
When someone is taking the high road

It’s often quite revealing! Grin

EatSleepRantRepeat · 11/10/2021 18:26

I'm still wondering what you think I've said that's incorrect, @Reallyimeanreally2022 ? I'm talking generally about the people I have met and my experiences here in that comment, I haven't tagged anyone directly and I've not slagged off an OP for no reason unlike yourself. I stand by every word of it.

EatSleepRantRepeat · 11/10/2021 18:28

You're not the only person who can search a comment history, just the only one who seemingly has the time. I'm off sick today, god knows what some of the negative people on this thread do all day.

Scrollonthroughtherain · 11/10/2021 19:09

*When someone is taking the high road

It’s often quite revealing*

Its a dick move and it shows your inability to discuss the point at hand without searching for further material that's nothing to do with what's being discussed on this thread.

Reallyimeanreally2022 · 11/10/2021 19:21

@Scrollonthroughtherain

*When someone is taking the high road

It’s often quite revealing*

Its a dick move and it shows your inability to discuss the point at hand without searching for further material that's nothing to do with what's being discussed on this thread.

Odd.
Reallyimeanreally2022 · 11/10/2021 19:22

@EatSleepRantRepeat

I'm still wondering what you think I've said that's incorrect, *@Reallyimeanreally2022* ? I'm talking generally about the people I have met and my experiences here in that comment, I haven't tagged anyone directly and I've not slagged off an OP for no reason unlike yourself. I stand by every word of it.
Where did I “slag off” the OP?