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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
August 15, 2014
Have you ever met a really stupid person. Someone who behaves with such lack of basic intelligence that rather than lose your temper you marvel at him.
Last evening I met one. My wife and I are travelling from Pune to Delhi and we are sitting in 7A and B which is the window and the prisoner seat. Now, this worthy comes along and sits in 7C which is his seat. So, fine.
Boarding is completed and the doors are being shut. At this point I notice 4C and 4B are free of passengers. So turn to this guy and cheerfully say, hey that’s lucky, you can move up two rows and get a free seat next to you which in aviation terms is the best ‘gift’ you can get even more satisfying than frequent flyer miles.
He says, no, I am happy here. So I say, why sit like sardines when we can have the space, take it quick before some other guy thinks of it, it isn't such a major move, you are shifting from 7C to 4C and we’ll be more comfortable.
He still refuses. So I request a lady from the flight crew if there is any problem for shifting and she says, be my guest, no problem.
There you are, Sir, I say, no sweat, then my wife and I will have three seats and you’ll have a spare next to you.
He says, no, I am happy here, this is my seat, see 7C.
I know it is your seat, you blathering moron, I am trying to make you and us more comfortable, is that so bloody hard to understand.
So I move because my wife says, go on stretch out.
I am sitting in 4C now and this idiot is still glued to 7C like he won it in a raffle.
He was well dressed, reasonably educated, had an iPhone but for sheer lack of intelligence hard to beat.
Can anyone figure out his logic because it has me beaten.
And does anybody out there have a story about someone more stupid than this guy. No, no, he wasn’t superstitious he just didn’t want to surrender his ‘rights’ which is this new thing these day, I will not give in, it is my right, even if the option is so attractive.
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
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