This happens repeatedly to people with connective tissue disorders (Ehlers-Danlos, Marfan’s, etc). It can also happen with the collarbone.

This ass hattery is nothing new, unfortunately.

Exactly. I think that we do often have to demonstrate that we are worth knowing and that we have things in common with them. Literally rule one in the propaganda playbook is to dehumanize your opponent; that makes it supremely easy to do things that harm them (be it legislating against their rights or rounding them up…

Wait, tell me again why this is satire?

Thanks for being one of those people!! There are so many people who take it for granted and don’t understand the level of trust they’ve been given.

It sucked in the moment, but he changed on the plane back into his own clothes and we got home. I returned them to the next Brooks Bros. I found. (Normally I wouldn’t but we were kinda strapped and he literally wore them for like a half hour.)

In the days before mobile booking sites etc. it was much worse. United’s mobile app actually handles employee travel surprisingly well. You can watch the numbers change in real time and rebook yourself accordingly as needed. Sooooooooo fabulous!! And less forced interaction with overworked gate agents so much less…

They won’t.

Heh, United is probably 45's favorite airline, now!

A member of my ex’s family got drunk on board once while using my pass privileges. Fortunately it didn’t go badly enough to warrant throwing him off or suspending my bennies, but wow did it teach me a lesson. The current in laws only get to use my passes because they have a flight attendant in the family so they have…

Side note, shit like this is precisely why United’s buddy pass system has been reeled way in over the past several years. People selling them to random strangers etc. who aren’t close to the employee and don’t know or care about the rules. My sister cares whether I get fired over her behavior or dress; some rando…

Omg right??

Ugh!! Yes, fuck Delta! (In fairness, a friend of mine wrote today on his airline blog that in the past decade they nuked the nonrev dress code; if that’s true I imagine they’re having a laugh at United’s expense right now.)

Airline staffer of 20 years, here.

omg I regularly horrify my teenagers by telling them what a song is actually about. I’ve managed to ruin at least a dozen songs that way. (Most of the time it’s sexual and they honestly didn’t realize it.) Good times!

I came here to say exactly this. Should’ve known someone would beat me to it :-)

Heh. My ex didn’t get it either. When I was about six, I got out of the bath and saw a man staring into my bedroom window. It turns out he was casing the house because we got robbed the very next day, but ever since then I have to cover the windows especially at night.

Exactly. Funny how when people ask 2A fans why they need so many guns, that’s not the point, is it? The point is they have a right to have them! This point should, then, be entirely comprehensible by the “what have you got to hide” crowd.

This x 1000000000