Little-known fact: Southwest Airlines serves snack mix on every leg of their flights. Have any of you purposefully hopscotched across the country to take advantage of this policy, booking flights with multiple stops instead of flying non stop to take advantage if this policy? And did the flight attendants question your motives??
No. But I can advise that only if you LOVE pretzels, hopscotching would not be worth the trouble.
Here is a breakdown of the snack mix:
- Pretzel
- Pretzel
- Pretzel
- Cheeze square
- Pretzel
- Pretzel
- Pretzel
- Small round tasteless cracker
- Pretzel
- Pretzel
- Pretzel
- Small round tasteless cracker
- Pretzel
- Pretzel
Enjoy your pretzels and water. Yum.
Candy
I dont care about pretzels but I will say this: about half the time they (forget?) to take my drink coupon when I get a little bottle of booze which means I can use the coupon again on the flight home. THats some first class action right there.
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
I dont care about pretzels but I will say this: about half the time they (forget?) to take my drink coupon when I get a little bottle of booze which means I can use the coupon again on the flight home. THats some first class action right there.
You must not have flown lately. Southwest hasn't served alcohol (or anything other than the pretzels and water) since the shut down March 2020. I hope they honor my (probably expired by now) drink coupons when full service returns...note my optimism...when, not if.
Yes, some friendly banter with the FAs often resulted in 'the wave off' of a coupon or credit card for at least one free round. Love Southwest. BTW our flights to and from Vegas were fully full last week. No trouble from any passenger about wearing the mask. The 'new' boarding procedure, in groups of 10 as called by the gate agent, is much easier on the nerves.
Candy
On a Southwest flight about 15 years ago, a flight attendant who was distributing peanuts saw that a passenger was suffering from an apparent medical emergency. She left her basket of peanuts in the aisle and rushed to give aid. At which point some guy - and he wasn't alone - greedily grabbed a few handfuls of the peanut bags.
This is a true story. Don't ask me how I know.
Originally posted by: MisterPicture
On a Southwest flight about 15 years ago, a flight attendant who was distributing peanuts saw that a passenger was suffering from an apparent medical emergency. She left her basket of peanuts in the aisle and rushed to give aid. At which point some guy - and he wasn't alone - greedily grabbed a few handfuls of the peanut bags.
This is a true story. Don't ask me how I know.
So now we get no peanuts. Good to know why. LOL
Candy
Funny how everyone is talking and acting as if the pandemic is over. Sitting cheek by jowl with a hundred strangers for several hours in a metal tube somehow still doesn't appeal to me, even if the air IS blessed by an onboard cleric every five minutes and mixed with rose petals and duck farts.
I recently drove 1,000 miles to avoid a plane trip, which would have been cheaper and much faster. But they wouldn't have let me wear a hazmat suit on the plane, so I said no dice.
Paranoid, I know. I've never died before, and I don't think I'd be very good at it.
Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
Funny how everyone is talking and acting as if the pandemic is over. Sitting cheek by jowl with a hundred strangers for several hours in a metal tube somehow still doesn't appeal to me, even if the air IS blessed by an onboard cleric every five minutes and mixed with rose petals and duck farts.
I recently drove 1,000 miles to avoid a plane trip, which would have been cheaper and much faster. But they wouldn't have let me wear a hazmat suit on the plane, so I said no dice.
Paranoid, I know. I've never died before, and I don't think I'd be very good at it.
According to the trials conducted on the three vaccines approved so far, once you are fully vaccinated there's better than a 99.9999% chance that you will not get a serious case of Covid, or be hospitalized for it, or die from it.
I like them odds.
Originally posted by: MisterPicture
On a Southwest flight about 15 years ago, a flight attendant who was distributing peanuts saw that a passenger was suffering from an apparent medical emergency. She left her basket of peanuts in the aisle and rushed to give aid. At which point some guy - and he wasn't alone - greedily grabbed a few handfuls of the peanut bags.
This is a true story. Don't ask me how I know.
Which would never happen with $5 worth of pretzel mix in an abandoned basket.
Do you know who had the reaction to peanuts? I have two friends who are allergic to peanuts and I wonder if it was one of them.
Originally posted by: MisterPicture
According to the trials conducted on the three vaccines approved so far, once you are fully vaccinated there's better than a 99.9999% chance that you will not get a serious case of Covid, or be hospitalized for it, or die from it.
I like them odds.
NO vaccine is even close to that effective---the best numbers are about 90%. And the other two are more like in the 70-80% range. Quite a few fully vaccinated people have nonetheless contracted Covid, just as some have recovered and then been reinfected.
You have to remember, 50% of Republican men (and 9% of Democratic men) said that they were going to refuse the vaccine. (Women in both parties report much higher vaccine intention, but still, about 30% overall intend to refuse.) So assuming relatively even demographic distribution, even when vaccines are widely available to everyone, about 40% of the people you encounter will be potentiallly infectious. That's not enough for herd immunity. And sooner than they should, the airlines are going to stop requiring that people wear masks. (Plus, there will always be the people who don't cover their noses, or the "chin bra" clowns who nurse a drink for two hours just so they can keep it pulled down.)
So we're safer. But safe? No frickin' way. Not until the brain-dead right-wing no-vaxxers stop watching Fox News or whoever's telling them that the vaccines are a liberal conspiracy to take over the world.
