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The_Jazz · 03-16-2007, 05:24 AM

OK, I suspect that the OP is a cut-and-paste job from an email - not that there's anything wrong with doing that (or that it's ever a problem here). However, there is one big factual problem and one big logistical one. First, you can't pick up anyone at the gate anymore without a ticket for that day. Period. As some of you know, I log about 60,000-75,000 miles per year on various airlines, and I know this as well as I know my own name. That means I'm suspicious of everything after the first sentence. If this happened, clavus couldn't have been a witness.

The logicistical problem is the clerk asking the question at all. In a decent-sized airport like Portland, sales clerks are just like other clerks - they tend not to ask questions.

And I just thought of one other problem - there's no TSA provision barring beverages from being consumed off-premises.

To sum up, I don't think that this happened, or if it did that it happened as described or that it was anything more than a clerk screwing with someone, most likely out of boredom.

Clavus, I don't mean this personally at all (the exact opposite, actually), but I'm calling "shenanigans".

03-16-2007, 05:24 AM	#5 (permalink)
The_Jazz Asshole Administrator Location: Chicago	OK, I suspect that the OP is a cut-and-paste job from an email - not that there's anything wrong with doing that (or that it's ever a problem here). However, there is one big factual problem and one big logistical one. First, you can't pick up anyone at the gate anymore without a ticket for that day. Period. As some of you know, I log about 60,000-75,000 miles per year on various airlines, and I know this as well as I know my own name. That means I'm suspicious of everything after the first sentence. If this happened, clavus couldn't have been a witness. The logicistical problem is the clerk asking the question at all. In a decent-sized airport like Portland, sales clerks are just like other clerks - they tend not to ask questions. And I just thought of one other problem - there's no TSA provision barring beverages from being consumed off-premises. To sum up, I don't think that this happened, or if it did that it happened as described or that it was anything more than a clerk screwing with someone, most likely out of boredom. Clavus, I don't mean this personally at all (the exact opposite, actually), but I'm calling "shenanigans". __________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin "There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush "We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo Last edited by The_Jazz; 03-16-2007 at 05:52 AM..