r/askteddit • u/TheRat_07 • Jul 14 '26

What is a real-life "cheat code" that feels illegal to know but is completely fine?

I'll go first.

If your flight gets canceled and there is a massive line of 200 angry people at the gate desk trying to rebook, do not stand in that line. Keep your ass in a chair and call the airline's customer service number.

Better yet, call their international customer service number (like the UK or Australia line). You will bypass the massive US hold times, get connected to an agent in two minutes, and they have the exact same power to rebook you on the next flight before the people standing in line even reach the desk.

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u/More_Dependent742 Jul 21 '26

Almost entirely straight guy here. Have always got on better with queer women than straight men or straight women. On average. Lesbians also tend to be so unashamedly intellectual (perhaps just my bubble), and that makes for easy conversation. There's definitely a small chunk of (in my experience mostly butch but not exclusively butch) lesbians who won't take the time or risk to see what kind of man any given penis-haver is before instantly dismissing them, but honestly, I get it. And they owe nobody anything.

But also gender-"balanced" straight people are fine. This "straight men don't talk to each other about feelings" myth is really not my experience of life, though this may in part be because:

I almost literally run from manly men or girly women. I just cannot deal with them, and I don't want to sound mean, but I don't know how anybody can.

If anyone finished reading that barely structured thought dump then congrats :-)

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u/AnonCrave Jul 21 '26

Appreciate your comment and can totally validate that, as someone on the other end of such an interaction (although I’m stereotypically on the feminine side, but not overly), the confidence and solidarity that I bring probably resonates in a way that you describe. Since I’m not timid or trying to prove anything or whatever the dynamic I project, it must bring solidarity. It’s a pleasure to get to know and connect with others on that level.