Some people just don't know how to fly first class.
For instance, this lady, who is suing American Airlines for racial discrimination because they asked her to use the bathroom in the back of the plane after she kept slamming the first-class bathroom door.
She was sitting in first-class, so it's true that her privileges were for that bathroom, but she slammed the door every time she used it, so she was bound to see some consequences. People in first-class need their beauty sleep, especially on a February flight from Chicago to Phoenix.
Here's the story:
In a complaint sent to American Airlines and obtained by NPR, Pamela Hill-Veal, who is Black, said that while she and her family were flying first class on Feb. 10, from Chicago to Phoenix, one of the flight attendants stopped her as she returned to her seat — and accused Hill-Veal of slamming the restroom door.
Following the remarks of the flight attendant (whose name and race were not identified in the complaint), Hill-Veal said she did not respond as she proceeded to walk back to her seat.
'The flight attendant stopped me as I was returning to my seat and told me I "slammed the restroom door and I was not to do it again since passengers were sleeping on the plane,"' Hill-Veal said in an interview with NPR. She said she never slammed the door.
A while later on the flight, Hill-Veal — a retired circuit court judge in Illinois — said in the complaint that she used the same restroom in first class, as the same flight attendant stopped her again.
Of course this lady is a retired Illinois judge. So on brand!
So not once, but twice, she was confronted by the flight attendant and told to stop slamming the door. The second time, Hill-Veal recalls, the flight attendant was "pointing his finger at me towards my face and saying, 'I told you not to slam the door ... so from now on, you are to use the restroom in the back of the plane.'"
This is the "racism" she's suing the airline over!
And look at this. It even happened a third time.
Hill-Veal says that about 30 minutes prior to landing, she used the restroom for a third time. Once she was leaving, the same flight attendant followed her to her seat and began to physically touch her and explain that she would be arrested upon the flight landing.
In the complaint, the former judge said the flight attendant told her she would be arrested because he 'didn't like the way [she] talked to him,' and accused Hill-Veal of hitting him.
'This was a complete fabrication as I told him that I never hit him,' she added.
"I told him that I never hit him."
I'm sure you didn't hit him. I'm also sure you didn't slam the bathroom door six times during this flight.
So go ahead and sue American Airlines. I'm sure you'll have lots of success there!
This story made it onto The Young Turks program, and I have to show it to you because it was an instant classic.
This screenshot says it all:
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The Rosa Parks of airplanes!!
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