Subject: At the check in desk

Indeed, an award should go to the Virgin Airlines gate attendant in

Sydney some months ago for being smart and funny, while making her point,

when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo.

A crowded Virgin flight was cancelled after Virgin's 767s had

been withdrawn from service. A single attendant was re-booking a long line of

inconvenienced travellers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to

the desk. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said, "I HAVE to be on this flight and it HAS to be FIRST CLASS".

The attendant replied, "I'm sorry sir. I'll be happy to try to help

you, but I've got to help these people first, and I'm sure we'll be

able to work something out."

The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly, so that the passengers

behind him could hear, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?"

Without hesitating, the attendant smiled and grabbed her public address

microphone:" May I have your attention please, may I have your attention please," she began - her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal. "We have a

passenger here at Gate14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity, please come to Gate 14."

With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared

at the Virgin attendant, gritted his teeth and said,

" <deleted> You!"

Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry, sir, but you'll

have to get in line for that too."

Are you sure that this was not at Row 7 Don Muang, Terminal 1, on Saturday night? Sounds awfully like a 'gentleman' in Arabic dress, that was stood in front of me!