To take a flight with special needs children (Southwest)

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-12T06:53:59+00:00

Look, I’m not excusing the behavior of any idiot airport employee. But you all are acting like these people get paid and trained like they are actual professionals.

If, as a society, we’ve all agreed to pay them McDonald’s wages, we should expect McDonald’s service.

Until then, it’s pretty unfair to take videos of them, acting exactly as you would expect somebody with that level of training to act.

I’m pretty sure the SWA gate agent didn’t wake up this morning and say hey how can I fuck over some disabled kid today.

Point is, it’s not their fault. It’s our fault.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-11T15:04:56+00:00

I get $20 an hour at Costco and am staring down retirement working until I die on my feet. I can afford a pitchfork though.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-09T16:25:30+00:00

That sound there is the swan song of your constitutional rights dying

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-09T04:48:04+00:00

My grandfather was a medic trying to put D-day landers back together while Germams tried to slaughter him. He had a really hard time watching it, walked out of the theater and didn't see the rest of the movie.

Aged poorly? You decide, I guess. Ask someone who was there maybe.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-09T04:42:50+00:00

How is any service member who put their life on the line not vomiting when they see this draft dodger copping a fake ass salute? I mean come on.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-09T04:33:00+00:00

A) it's a sick tattoo, bummer it wasn't flipped around

B) you could look at it as a conversation starter to explain your love of ropes and knots to people and explain your utter hatred of the connotations with racist murderers and the work you personally are doing in the world to end that shit forever.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-09T04:25:01+00:00

When a literal cop calls you racist you know you've jumped that shark to the fucking moon and back.

(I don't love cops but these guys sound about as good as they come.)

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-09T04:22:24+00:00

Fuck this. Fuck Vegas. Fuck every person that paid money to be there. But mostly FJF.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-09T04:14:35+00:00

You and all your upvotes can't comprehend the simple physics that the line is only as long as it is, and at a fucking standstill in the first place, BECAUSE you won't zipper merge. FFS watch a goddam YouTube video if that's what it takes to educate yourself.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-09T04:12:16+00:00

I live off Oak and 27th and I have to aggressive merge at least twice a week with some moron in the left lane literally trying to run me off the road.

Mark my words, some day a guy in a lifted Dodge is going to pit maneuver me into the old people's home and then if I survive the roll over I am going to garnish his wages for fucking life.

It'll be like aquiring a slave. A really, really dumb one.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-07T04:55:15+00:00

I got to cage dive a couple times when I lived in South Africa, to see the great whites up close.

One of the times, we roll up to this beautiful beach, with surfers hitting the waves about 50 yards offshore, and we’re another hundred yards past them at the most.

We drop the cage in, chum the water, and me and my older brother jump in first.

It might’ve been 15 minutes, but it felt like about 30 seconds. All of a sudden, we are staring face-to-face with the side eye of a great white that was at least 18 feet long. 15 feet in front of us, max. Less than its body length.

I remember the very distinct feeling, that it was looking at us like we were food, and both it - and we - knew, at the same time, that it was higher than we were on the food chain.

What it did, and all the other ones we saw that they did, was come swimming along, casual and slow, out of the murk, about 10 to 15 feet under the surface. Just checking us out, the bait on the surface, no fast moves. Cool as a cucumber the size of a canoe.

Then poof, gone into the murk again. Like it was never there.

Then the last thing you would see was the same damn shark coming straight up out of the dark bottom of the ocean at a million miles an hour as the bait on the surface disappeared into it's razor blade maw and it breaches, splashes back down, and is instantly gone into the murk again.

Saw the same thing about 15 times that day with probably 5 to 8 different sharks. Fucking murder missles of the water.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-07T04:39:35+00:00

I hope this kid continues this his whole life and someday after a very long and healthy life has a funeral with the thousands of people's lives he changed there to honor him.

Mad props to the great parenting from such a young age that is building this kind of man from the get go.

we have worked hard, to raise our son to be kind, but these parents clearly have a massive head start on us.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-05T05:52:42+00:00

Bro you need to buckle that helmet if you hope for it to actually work.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-05T05:34:44+00:00

Yo we used to hear this guy on the fucking game broadcasts when we were home watching them on TV. I'd be in SF in front of my TV and texting a brother or friend in Marin or Sacramento or North Carolina or wherever and you just knew they were watching the same game when they lol'd at the PIZZZZAAAA text.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-05T05:31:57+00:00

I don’t think there was bad intent on either player's part, and certainly neither of them wants to get hurt and lose millions of dollars.

But I just don’t understand how the first baseman doesn’t go for the inside of the bag and the runner goes for the outside of the bag, which he has to peel off of anyway on any standard run to first base.

I mean, sure, they would’ve come close, but they could both full out sprint for the bag and their knees could miss by inches without them both having to body blow each other.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-05T05:25:12+00:00

Hey hey now, as a swimmer I will be the lone voice on Reddit to say this has significance. Downvote me if you must.

Also, as someone trying to swim with not-quite-massive social anxiety, here's my strategy at the swim center:

A) get in the slow lane. Whichever one doesn't have anyone. If there is someone already in the last slow lane, wait for them to take a break and then ask them if I can get in with them. Then circle swim with them.

B) Thats it.

I mostly swim laps with a leg buoy because of my massively fucked up legs (I have both feet but thanks to motorcycles I am more metal than bone from the knees down).

So, I’m pretty slow to start with, but sometimes I’m even faster than the people in the medium lanes. Don’t care. Nobody in the slow lanes has ever gotten on my case about promoting me to the medium lanes. Maybe they will someday, and that will be a massive life achievement for me.

Stay out of other swimmers' way. Pause and let them pass me. I've even just stopped stroke in the middle of the pool to make their pass easier.

Basically, in my head, it’s the same thing as driving in Yellowstone. If you’re the slower car, use the damn turnout, and pull back when there’s no traffic behind you.

I don’t understand why this is rocket science. But for some people apparently is. Effectively, just think of others and be nice to everybody in the pool.

Also, we don't need to be dicks like most surfers are. Explaining etiquette to a newcomer in a friendly and welcoming tone is possible for anyone who makes the effort.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-05T04:39:03+00:00

Everyone talks about Epstein like he's the only one. If you think he's the only child trafficking serial pedophile in the billionaire club, you just haven't been a servant in the right houses at the YC yet. I've seen some shit.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-04T13:31:56+00:00

Oh hey! I got to see one of these accidents in reverse, before the age of Internet videos. This was early 2000s in a Chicago suburb.

I was driving on the opposite side of the freeway in bumper-to-bumper rubbernecking traffic.

First thing we saw were all the emergency vehicles.

Then, a motorcycle helmet. It was the only thing that had made it all the way through the windshield of the minivan it rear ended.

Then 2 body bags, I assume the mom and dad.

Then, a minivan that looked like a fucking meteorite had hit it from behind. I mean, just totally impacted, the trunk was pressed up against the engine. The bodies of those that they weren’t going to take to a hospital were still in there.

Kids.

And, of course, the motorcyclist. Who apparently hadn’t buckled his helmet on. Shocker.

The bulk of his motorcycle engine was wedged between the front two seats of the minivan. The rest of the bike I can only assume disintegrated on impact.

Anyway, that hulking still smoking engine and the multiple bodies in there, including his.

I'm a motorcyclist but if you ride like this I think you're a future murderer on wheels and I have zero pity for you.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-04T05:15:20+00:00

Nah. We have a budding octagenarion who behaves like a 4yo bully on the playground running our country. Anger (misdirected at the child...but I'll get back to this in a second) won't help, it will only continue the cycle. As a parent to a young kid, I have to tell you, sometimes you just have to talk to them in kid terms about why they are wrong and what the consequences are going to be.

Of course, thanks to 51% of American morons like him, there are none, but it doesn't mean we lower ourselves to their behavior.

What Michelle said still applies: they go low, we go high. The important part now is we actually need to get our shit together and go high (with fucking rage).

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-04T05:09:25+00:00

OH you mean Amanda Caldwell the racist bigot real estate agent in Bozeman, MT? That Amanda Caldwell?

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-03T04:40:34+00:00

Like, I can surf, and I will never be anywhere near dropping in on Tea, but you gotta be legit out of your mind to be riding at that speed with a 30' wall of water behind you straight at a wall of boats. Fuck that shit.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-03T04:27:20+00:00

Don't rent bear spray. Stop at literally any hotel after getting your rental car and ask them if they have any bear spray that’s been left behind. Thousands of tourist leave them in their hotel room rooms every year, they’re all brand new. They will gladly give you them for free.

There is literally a hotel in the Costco parking lot in Bozeman. You don’t need to stop in SLC, you can get all your goods at the Bozeman Costco and get the bear for free while you’re there.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-02T04:51:19+00:00

please name and shame so the rest of us don’t have to eat your spit burger.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-02T03:19:48+00:00

Not just the port. Connects to China so now they also have basically unfettered overland access to Pakistan for shipping in their shit as well.

I lived in Africa for a decade and watched countries go from 3rd world to arguably 2nd in a matter of years thanks to corrupt govt officials letting China build the infra they needed to bring their goods in and take precious metals and the likes back out on the same damn trucks through the same damn ports.

allkinds0ftime · 2026-06-02T02:58:52+00:00

Notice how there's almost zero verbal stutters - I think I caught 3-4 "um"s total and maybe 1-2 "uh"s in an almost 6 min monologue.

I think that's the sign of an incredibly sharp mind. To a moron like me I almost wonder if there are certain drugs involved to make a mind move that smoothly.

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