Posted on 04/09/2015 8:49:26 AM PDT by Oliviaforever
Francesca Hogi, 40, had settled into her aisle seat for the flight from New York to London when the man assigned to the adjoining window seat arrived and refused to sit down. He said his religion prevented him from sitting beside a woman who was not his wife. Irritated but eager to get underway, she eventually agreed to move.
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She could say that she has no oven on the plane, even the NYT would understand that.
Please, excuse this poor reader!
Have a GREAT day!
What movie is that from?
I was on a flight around ten years ago when the same situation arose.
The ultra-Orthodox Jewish man complained to the flight attendant and she and others attendents began to ask passengers to move. No other passengers took up the offer, he complained loudly, then began praying in a manner which could be heard throughout the cabin and the captain came back and told him to get off the plane if he did not like the accommodation.
Needless to say, that was on a US airline.
Airplane!
lol
...And they are at the mercy of my starving attorney.
I would have put a canned ham on the seat and tell him to F OFF...and offer him a jar of bacon bits...
Your religion is not my problem.....and back to whatever I was doing. They would have had to throw me off the plane before I moved.
Yeah, you can tell that would definitely work for me. lol
I’m jewish and I believe airplane flight accidental contact is not something Gd is concerned about. You LIVE for the mitzvot and not die for them.
In coach now the seats are so close together you could conceive a child by accident. I get that. So fly business class if the trip is that important. Back in the days of old, there were no planes. If you still wear clothes and wigs from the 1600, choose your transportstion from that era. Gd doesn’t care about silly things. The mitzvot are ways of life, not superstitions! There is a difference!
Fly with another man (or your wife or mother or daughter) and choose flights with the two seat arrangements. Otherwise ask kindly on the flight and if no one changes, for their own good reasons, know that Gd isn’t superstitious. Gd knows you can have a strange woman’s arm bump yours without you thinking in the gutter. If not, stay home.
What if he sat next to Bruce Jenner?
You’re killin me thread after thread today! Gator on fire!
“OK, then we only have one other seat available, its a window seat next to that 300 lb lady who is sweating a waterfall. But I need you to move right now so we can get this other passenger seated and take off. Please don't be difficult. My day has been terrible”
And the crying kid in the seat in front of your new seat.
I was a late arrival on a Delta flight recently. When I finally stowed my carry-on and found my seat, a charming young woman asked if would be willing to swap (seats) with her husband.
In a loud voice I said, “Sure. But who gets custody of the kids?”
The flight was delayed about 5 minutes until the laughter in the coach cabin died down long enough for the announcements to be made.
As a reward, I must have had 10 offers for free drinks from the other (male) passengers.
Well, that guy better not move to NYC. I rode the subways stuffed in there shoulder to shoulder with Orthodox Jews for many years.
Exactly.
“She recounted asking one what he wanted for dinner and causing a firestorm. Said you had to ask their wives.”
LOL! So I guess if they didn’t have a wife with them, they just had to go hungry...
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