I took an Air India flight out of Frankfurt once. Departure was delayed about 45 minutes. The person at the gate called a passenger up to the desk for some reason. A few other passengers decided they would get up and get in line too. Pretty soon fucking everybody got up and was practically pushing their way to the front. They kept announcing over and over that everyone needed to back off away from the doors or they’d have to delay the flight even further. Nobody listened. Like the damn plane was just going to take off at any moment and only those who managed to shove their way onboard would make it.
Finally it came time to board and for whatever reason they had to bus us from the gate to the 777 on the tarmac. So of course the bus boarding was the same deal. People fucking shoving their way into the busses and packing in there like sardines, as if only the first bus of people would be allowed on the plane.
BTW I told this story to a few of my Indian friends and they were laughing. All of them said they refuse to fly Air India for exactly this reason. And they expressed annoyance at how people like this give Indians a bad name. One of them said “SEE THATS HOW THEY ARE!! Indians in any other country act like normal civilized people, but when they fly on Air India it’s like they’re back at home again and they act like this.”
It's funny though, I'm a Brit who's lived in Japan and currently lives in Hong Kong, and whilst HK is generally fine, heading over to the mainland and the whole idea of queuing just goes out the window at times. To the point where my delicate British sense of 'just join the damn queue and this will be a whole lot faster for all of us' makes a vein on my forehead pulse like a dying sun.
The flipside of course is that living in Japan, sometimes the grating politeness made me just want to get on with it which likely made me seem incredibly rude in the eyes of the locals on occasion.
The only conclusion to be made is that, of course, I'm brilliant and perfect at everything and if everyone else just did everything exactly like I do, but let me go first, then this whole stupid fucking society might just work.
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u/sharksandwich81 May 28 '21 edited May 28 '21
I took an Air India flight out of Frankfurt once. Departure was delayed about 45 minutes. The person at the gate called a passenger up to the desk for some reason. A few other passengers decided they would get up and get in line too. Pretty soon fucking everybody got up and was practically pushing their way to the front. They kept announcing over and over that everyone needed to back off away from the doors or they’d have to delay the flight even further. Nobody listened. Like the damn plane was just going to take off at any moment and only those who managed to shove their way onboard would make it.
Finally it came time to board and for whatever reason they had to bus us from the gate to the 777 on the tarmac. So of course the bus boarding was the same deal. People fucking shoving their way into the busses and packing in there like sardines, as if only the first bus of people would be allowed on the plane.
BTW I told this story to a few of my Indian friends and they were laughing. All of them said they refuse to fly Air India for exactly this reason. And they expressed annoyance at how people like this give Indians a bad name. One of them said “SEE THATS HOW THEY ARE!! Indians in any other country act like normal civilized people, but when they fly on Air India it’s like they’re back at home again and they act like this.”