Why Americans Should Never be Allowed to Travel...


	Why Americans Should Never be Allowed to Travel...

pumpkinismine

11-5-2007 10:13 PM

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11-6-2007 8:00 AM

tabsey

Americans don't have a mortgage on this sort of behaviour. Similar stories are told of Australians.

11-6-2007 11:16 AM

powerof2

Then there was the blond who took incorrectly took a first class seat and refused to move to the correct regular section until the pilot told her the rear section was going to her destination.

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          an aisle seats so that his or her hair wouldn't get messed up by being 
          near the window.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.strangeplaces.net/weirdthings/travel.html"><FONT size="-1" face="Verdana"> A woman called and asked, 
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          who's luggage belongs to who?" I said, "No, why do you ask?" She replied, 
          "Well, when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on my luggage 
          that said FAT, and I'm overweight, is there any connection?" After putting 
          her on hold for a minute while I "looked into it" (I was actually laughing) 
          I came back and explained the city code for Fresno is FAT, and that 
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          with a man who asked, "How do I know which plane to get on?" I asked 
          him what exactly he meant, which he replied, "I was told my flight number 
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