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August 25, 2006
You MUST Fill this Out
Recently I was on a flight where a form was required to be filled out. It was clearly communicated that this form was not an option, and that they would shortly be collecting the completed forms. Oh, and by the way, no we don't have anything for you to use to fill this form out. If this were a harsher world, and they had set a 2 minute deadline, and the consequence for not filling out that form was death, yet they wouldn't provide anything to anybody for helping in filling out that form… they would have had a mutiny on their hands. People scrambling to get something to write with, or just pricking their fingers for a new writing tool. I'm taking this a little far, but I thought it was a little harsh, "You must fill this out, but we won't help you do that at all. T minus 10, 9, 8…"
So what was the penalty if you hadn't filled it out. As I read, I was hoping that you would refuse to fill it out. I wanted to know what confrontation you might have had. Now I am anxious to go on a flight and refuse to fill out required forms.
I apologize... please forgive me... I just violated one of my own pet peeves by not putting a question mark on the first sentence of my comment.
You're forgiven for not putting in that question mark. Despite my desire to buck the trend in not filling out the form, I wasn't really wanting to press my luck. It's not like they were going to send me back 6 hours in the direction from whence I came, but whatever.
After the fact, I would have handed them the form back blank. TTSTK! They should have thought ahead.