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    Quote Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy View Post
    That may be what he asked, but that's not why he was removed. He was removed because someone misunderstood him, he could tell they misunderstood, and he did not take the effort to try and clear things up right at the beginning. He was kicked because someone was confused and he was lazy.
    I don't know if you had some other sources, but that's not what this article says. He writes here that he didn't ask what she thought he had asked and told them what he really said. They cared not to believe him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
    I don't know if you had some other sources, but that's not what this article says. He writes here that he didn't ask what she thought he had asked and told them what he really said. They cared not to believe him.
    It is what the article said. He did not make any effort to clear up the confusion when it happened, when he could tell by her manner and her specific response that she had misunderstood him, and only tried to correct the record later, talking to third parties, when the whole thing had become irreparably "he said/she said."

    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    So you want to spin this into something that belongs in the "have the terrorists won" thread, and not into something that shows american airlines have shadow rules and power placed in the wrong positions? He admits he was confused by the initial response (this is an airline after all), but I don't see where he would have known the flight attendant thought he was asking about flight security.

    Even if he did ask if there was an officer, is that something that should get a paying customer removed and bumped several hours?
    I'm not trying to spin this. I'm responding to the completely inaccurate "how horrific" label you put on the hyperlink. He was not kicked off for asking if there was a meal. He was kicked off because the attendant misunderstood him and he made no effort to correct her misunderstanding. Asking about the meal was not a sufficient condition for getting kicked off *though asking a question at all is probably a necessary condition for being misunderstood* being misunderstood and letting that impression stick was the necessary and sufficient condition for getting kicked off. And he may, JUST MAYBE, have gotten clued in that the attendant thought he was asking about security when she *according to him* mentioned security in her reply.
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    Candidly, if*I asked a flight attendant if there was a meal on board and she said she couldn't tell me due to security reasons, I would reply in a louder and with some more enunciation, "You can't tell me if there's going to be a meal?"

    As the blogger said, this is "he said, she said".

    But I love the comment by the emo high school student: http://www.joesugarman.com/what-is-a...-1/#comment-20

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