Boo Hoo. My Heart Goes Out.

[Svejk]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/02/tahera-ahmad-united-airlines-soda-can-discrimination

[naomi24]

Reading between the lines perhaps the stewardess was irked because the passenger didn't want her to open the can for reasons of hygiene. A bit of tit for tat going on. "I've washed me face an' 'ands….", as Eliza Doolittle would have said.

[sandyRoe]

All the tins should have been served opened. If you were in a restaurant you'd not expect to have to get the corkscrew out and tackle your own bottle of wine.

[andy-hughes]

youngmafbog - //I'm afraid Muslims have bought all this on themselves. //

If you were the passenger, and the flight attendant was an African American with a chip on his shoulder about slavery, would you be quite so accommodating about being the cause of your own misfortune?

[andy-hughes]

For the record, the cabin crew member has not been dismissed, she has been withdrawn from service for re-training, but is being retained in her employment.

[Peter Pedant]

// On a similar note, if i was in a restaurant and someone who had entered after me, but had their order taken first..........I would want an explanation.//

oh god that happened to me on Canal St, a few weeks ago
Since she was a lesbian she wanted to make a meal of it and I thought well you know she was gonna shoot me for real that is !

Perhaps she was a muslim too

[Mamyalynne]

Andy - thanks for that news , very glad she has not been dismissed.

[Ellipsis]

The solution is for United Airlines to use plastic bottles rather than cans for soft drinks ...

[stuey]

Yabut, Ellipsis, then you could make plastic explosive.

[-Talbot-]

Bazile
talbot - i assumed 'say what ' is supposed to be 'so what '


Wrong . http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=say+what

Say what was a polite way of saying 'what the hell are you going on about'

[joggerjayne]

"I am in tears of humiliation"

Oh please, don't ever sit me next to anyone like that on a flight. I would have to tell them to stop spoiling my flight, and just drink the bloody soda.

[Svejk]

I just watched a film about her shopping (yes, really) The shopkeeper refused to cut some material in half for her and guess what? She felt tears of humiliation welling up in her.
She also knelt down in the car park and prayed to a lamp post.(but that's another story)
Perhaps she's too sensitive to be allowed out on her own.

[shoota]

//She also knelt down in the car park and prayed to a lamp post.(but that's another story) //

Probably a member of the illuminati....

[Rtaxron]

Maybe the flight attendant thought she wouldnt be able to open the can because she was a women!

[joggerjayne]

Anyone who is so prone to tears of humiliation is evidently over-sensitive, and therefore cannot be used to gauge whether someone else's conduct is, or is not, appropriate.

#attentionseeker

[Ellipsis]

Jayne, I don't think the tears of humiliation came from the can incident, but from what followed, i.e. the man sitting in the the aisle across from her, yelling at her.

You just have to play this scene through in your own head, putting yourself in place of the woman, to see how unacceptable it was.

JJ: Can I have a can of diet coke?
Stewardess: There you go, madam [hands JJ a can of opened diet coke]
JJ: Oh sorry, can I have an unopened one please?
Stewardess: I'm sorry, I can't give you an unopened can.
[stewardess moves on]
Nearby chap: Can I have a beer please?
Stewardess: Sure, there you go sir.
JJ: Hey, just a minute, that beer is in an unopened can. Why can't I have a diet coke in an unopened can?
Stewardess: It's so you don't use it as a weapon.
JJ: What The Funicular?
Other nearby man: You need to shut the f*** up.
JJ: What?
Other nearby man: [leans over from seat, looks JJ straight in the eyes]: Yes, you know you would use it as a weapon so shut the f*** up.
[Embarrassed silence all around]

Bear in mind with all of the above: “There is no policy difference in serving alcoholic or non-alcoholic canned beverages to passengers,” says Bob Birge, director of corporate communications at Republic Airways Holdings, which owns Shuttle America, “no differentiation in opened or unopened cans, and no policy speculating what may or may not be done with a container.”

Darn right that stewardess needed some re-training. She made a complete and inexplicable hash of creating the situation and then not dealing with it very well. Here is how it should have gone, and almost certainly would have gone, if it was you JJ:

JJ: Can I have a can of diet coke?
Stewardess: There you go, madam [hands JJ a can of opened diet coke]
JJ: Oh sorry, can I have an unopened one please?
Stewardess: I'm sorry. Of course. There you go.
[stewardess takes opened can, gives JJ an unopened can and moves on]
Nearby chap: Can I have a beer please?
Stewardess: Sure, there you go sir.
[JJ notes to herself that he got his beer unopened]
[Nearby man rages quietly to himself, "Look at that jogger over there. I *** hate joggers]
[Congenial atmosphere all around]

[Bazile]

//Bazile
talbot - i assumed 'say what ' is supposed to be 'so what '


Wrong . http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=say+what

Say what was a polite way of saying 'what the hell are you going on about' //


Try this - you can deliver the same force from an opened tin of pop as you can from an unopened tin .
Just because the tin is opened does not mean that the attacker is going to empty the can before using it to bop someone - he can easily cover the opening with his hands to keep the liquid inside .

Is that clear enough for you ?

[Ellipsis]

Or hit the victim "hole side first", which would also hold the liquid in ...

[-Talbot-]

Bazile
Try this - you can deliver the same force from an opened tin of pop as you can from an unopened tin .


No you can not.

[Svejk]

Or just 'slash' them with the ring-pull, which is the reason they remove them. (and give you plastic glasses) At least in the places I used to frequent. Doesn't that happen in yer Islington wine bars then.

[Svejk]

1 more and i'll be on a hundred. I usually get about,,,,,0.