I know I cursed American three hours ago, but that was before I had two beers and a long conversation about hockey with the beautiful (think Goran Visnic) Czech bartender Tomas Ptakec, who completely ignored the gorgeous 25 year old girl three seats down to talk passionately about hockey with me, ending our conversation with an admiring, "A woman who really knows hockey, this is good thing. Most women, they do not know hockey like this," at which point the guy sitting next to me chimed in, "I'M impressed."
So when it came time to board, the crew of this flight decided to make their own rules, totally trashing the whole Group 1, etc, protocol. After letting the first class people board, the next announcement went like this:
"Annnd if you are NOT travelling with a rolling bag and are carrying one or two small carryons, you may now board at your leisure."
Leaving the bloated wheelie suitcase crowd to cool their heels. And they were stepping people aside (guys, it's always the guys who think the rules don't apply to them) who tried to sneak past.
It was beyond awesome, it was FUCKING awesome.
American should make this a standing policy and give it an actual name;
PUNITIVE BOARDING.
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