DevilsPGD wrote:
In message irwell
wrote:

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:44:48 -0600, DevilsPGD
wrote:

In message Craig Welch
wrote:

Tom Peel said:

SBC News schrieb:
I travel internationally (live in the US) quite often but not exactly every
week.
What's the problem. You can just walk up to a wall to wall row of
checkin machines and be done in 10 seconds, or stand in line for hours
with 2000 other punters snaking round the tape barriers and check in the
old fashioned way. Your choice.
The OP made the point that for some people, using the self check
terminal is very difficult.
Perhaps. A lot of people don't even try, or otherwise get distracted
with "I can't do this" rather then looking at the screen.
You are also assuming everybody travelling is able to
understand English, which is what most of these machines
use.

Yes, and I'm willing to make exceptions for those who can't operate the
machines, as opposed to those who can, but won't try.

But what if you are just a lazy swine, and can't be arsed to do it on a
particular day?
When did we slip into a world where we cannot "push back" against the
MAN who wants us to be just like ants to their desired machinations?

It's like seat belts. Damned good to great idea. I used to wear one
almost always, UNTIL they made in compulsory. Now I never do. You see, I
am not willing to behave like a rat on the maze when it does not make
sense and hurts no-one. I obey all sensible traffic laws, like speed
[never had a ticket, never speed!], which affects others' safety. But
stuff which affects MY safety, is MY f'ing business, whether the man
tells me it is not. Worst case, I'll move to New Hampshire where "Live
Free or Die" actually still means something and they "push back." No
compulsory seat belts there. And I'm not joking if it comes to it.

I am NOT HEARING THE VOICES OF PUSH_BACKERS these days!!!! "Screw your
check-in machines" Screw you trying to get me to lower YOUR costs, and
hassle myself into oblivion when airline travel is already like some
form of cruel and unusual punishment to start with. !!!

Have we (a nation that used to cross vast prairies on our own wits,
shoot heads off rattlesnakes on a daily basis, and subsist on a bit of
bacon and biscuit) rolled over and become "club me, club me" baby seals?

It's like the Twilight Zone. Hello?? Am I the last man on earth to push
back??? Hellooooo?? Anyone there???? [sound of echoing footsteps
{mine} and tumbleweeds tumbling]

Signed, the Last Man On Earth (except the follow on posters who will
reassure me that I am not!)

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