Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Snoop Dogg and entourage

Journalling online is new to us and we realized we missed a few things the first time around. First, we want to express our appreciation to all the people who helped out in the days before we left and especially the day we left.

Second, we queued in the Amsterdam airport to check our luggage. When you reached the head of the line, a KLM agent directed you to take a place in line in front of at least 16 agents with counters split evenly between the left and the right side of the baggage check area.
Rap musician Snoop Dogg and his entourage were en route to a concert that night in Ireland (we googled his tour dates later to see where they were headed and to confirm it was him.). They were in the queue behind us. His manager was trying to have them all go to one agent together and was holding up the queue arguing with the KLM staff about this while people went ahead of them. The KLM agent said they should go to the last line because they were blocking the way for everyone else. In all fairness, there was no centre aisle open that would allow them to go through to the last pair of counters and there was no room for those already lined up to make way for them.
The entourage proceeded with the manager making loud disparaging comments about the airport organization. When he could proceed no further than about the middle of the area, he proclaimed ‘’there is no last line’’ and directed the entourage to disperse and pick a line. (There was a last line, in fact there were two last lines, one on the left and one on the right.)
The entourage seemed unclear on the concept of queuing and a couple of them proceeded to line up parallel to us for the same agent going around the far side of a large poorly positioned square post right in front of our agent. The people ahead of us had a hard time getting their baggage cart out because of them and they arrived at the agent at the same time as us at which time I informed them they had queued in the exit line for our agent. They took it well and backed out.

No comments: