The person running the Commodore has a mini-bat on the desk as an open threat, reminding it that it’s not allowed to break down

  • @wreckedcarzz
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    1672 months ago

    I have flown SW for the past, shit, 9 years? Mostly because of the unassigned seating, and being disabled means I get on the plane first, which means front row availability, which means leg room, first dibs on beverages, and quick bathroom access. Y’all jelly, I know. All I had to do to get perks like this was survive a debilitating stroke with life-long impairments.

    Looks like these still some space in the back. Later, losers 😎 streeeeetch~

      • JackbyDev
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        192 months ago

        Why can’t I be disabled? They have it so good! /s

        • PLAVAT🧿S
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          52 months ago

          Reminded me of the lady who intentionally blinded herself with drain cleaner in the early 2000s. Although I’m sure there was more going on there…

    • JackbyDev
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      102 months ago

      As much as I hate Southwest, this comment have me a chuckle. ❤️

    • @[email protected]
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      Boy I miss flying southwest. I flew spirit for the first time last weekend, and our flight got redirected because of storms over Chicago. We stayed in Detroit for a few hours, but getting in at 3am when you expected 10pm feels as exhausting as running through the woods, pulling out your cellphone to find it died. There’s no way to call for help, and it is dark. You know where your home is, you just need to find the trail. “Uphill, UPHILL” you think “wait I already saw that rock, did I? Or not?” You are delirious, the lines on the shadows get fuzzier. The neurotoxin is kicking in. You keep running and as your eyes begin to water you quietly hum “you are my sunshine” to try and keep consciousness. You suddenly stop to see rustling from the bushes. You aren’t humming now. There is nothing discreet about this, he smelled you, he saw you, and he wants you. From some depth of your weary soul comes the most primal yell that you have no control over. You sprint as fast as you can in the other direction, but suddenly your leg gives way. You fall into the mud and attempt to get back up, but now the world is spinning. “God not like this” you think. You stumble again and again, but the footsteps behind you went from a run to a walk. It’s over, but you knew it was long ago. There was no other way this would end. You turn to see him in his dark determined eyes. He is covered in blood brandishing a clever. He doesn’t even look human. He is the ghost story your parents told you about as a child. He is the unsettled heart beat that wakes you in the night. He is Shia LaBeouf.

  • @[email protected]
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    Can confirm. Had to buy an over priced ticket cause I needed to get to my father in laws funeral and Southwest was the only operational airline

      • @[email protected]
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        322 months ago

        Thank you kind internet stranger. It all worked out. The important thing at the end of the day is I made it. Money comes and money goes, being there to support my loved ones is all that matters right now.

        • Track_ShovelOP
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          162 months ago

          Also glad it worked out. That was probably Immensely stressful

        • @takeda
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          92 months ago

          What other solution would you suggest for limited supply? Lottery? Or maybe (what usually would happen) more equal people would get it before equal ones.

  • @radicalautonomy
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    I grew up in Arlington, TX and can confirm this is true. For our field trip every year, we’d go to the Southwest Airlines warehouse and take the tour. And by “tour”, I mean we’d wait 15 minutes outside while our teacher got our wristbands, and we’d go in and look at the Commodore 64. Then we’d leave and eat our sack lunches.

    OH…and the guy didn’t have a mini-bat. It was full size, and any snotty 10-year-old getting his grubby little hands anywhere near ol’ Tandy 400, he’d go “Uh uh uh!” and point at the bat.

    • Track_ShovelOP
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      202 months ago

      Right, the mini bat was for the matrix printer. How silly of me

    • Aido
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      62 months ago

      I’m 6’2" and my dad is 6’6", we fit fine- I keep my carry-on behind my legs instead of under the start, though

      • @jaybone
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        62 months ago

        Sometimes the flight attendants will hassle you for that. I’m guessing the regulation requires it for like evacuation purposes. Though if you’re big enough and the seats are small enough they probably won’t notice when they do their little seatbelt check before takeoff.

        • Aido
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          72 months ago

          Sometimes during takeoff but they don’t care for the rest of the flight

  • GratefullyGodless
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    172 months ago

    I need to contact Sourhwest and see if they want to upgrade to my old Commodore 128 that I’ve got around here somewhere.

      • GratefullyGodless
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        62 months ago

        Sorry. Didn’t mean to get anyone’s hope up, but I actually got rid of it a couple decades ago. There really didn’t seem to be much reason to keep it at that point. Good luck. I hope you manage to find one.

    • @jaybone
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      22 months ago

      Amiga will blow their mind.

  • @Etterra
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    62 months ago

    He’s allowed to be a jackass because he’s the only guy on the planet who knows how to keep their system working.

      • @madcaesar
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        22 months ago

        You know how to take the reservation, you just don’t know how to hold the reservation. And that’s really the most important part about the reservation… it’s the holding, anybody can just take them.

  • @jaybone
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    22 months ago

    Serious question: do they not run windows?

    • @EvilEyedPanda
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      Jokes aside, being able to adapt using old tech is fucking genius

      • @boatsnhos931
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        22 months ago

        I love to see a ma and paw gas station running Windows 95 on a old ass dinosaur case and monitor with post it’s, grime and stickers. Fucking solitaire/minesweeper world champions