- A: Switch your seat so you can snuggle back in steerage.
- B: Tell your honey "See you in [somewhere across the country!]" and enjoy the free food, free drinks, and extra legroom guilt-free.
- C: Give the upgrade to your significant other so they can enjoy the perks of 1st class.
- D: Pay for your partner's upgrade so you can sit together.
- E: All of the above.
A: You are an awesome girlfriend/boyfriend that can't be tempted from your sweetie's side by mere human comforts. You may also just want to make people jealous as you hold hands for 5 hours and use your partner as a pillow. Bonus: You can make them take the middle seat and avoid sitting next to strangers!
B: You are secure in your relationship and you know that 5 hours apart isn't going to put a damper on a 5 day trip, and you're not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Alternatively, you're just greedy and selfish (hopefully this isn't the case).
C: You're sickeningly sweet. You ride a unicorn as your car on rainbow paved roads. Or maybe you take sedatives on planes, so you wouldn't enjoy 1st class anyways.
D: You are rich. You aren't worried about spending a couple hundred dollars extra on an already-extravagant vacation.
E: Just kidding, this doesn't apply to this Completely Hypothetical Situation.
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Life sure is hard sometimes. ;)
My BF did this (choice B) to me on our way to Tahoe for New Years 2012. That jerk ditched me TWO of the FOUR times (we had connecting flights each direction; I got upgraded with him once).
ReplyDeleteHe was so kind as to send back a cookie to the 'poor people's' section (my words, not his) so that I wouldn't feel left out.
You know what my New Year's Resolution was for 2012? To get Elite Status with United so I could get upgraded.
You know how long that took me to achieve (thanks to an insane work travel schedule)? Three months.
You know who's sitting in First Class (aka "heaven on earth") now? ME.
BOOYAY!
PS: I didn't break up with him. We're still together. But that's probably because I'm Elite and he's not anymore.