Okay, how about we start kicking people off planes for legitimate reasons, like screaming children?
Gene Weingarten's column: another argument for anti-Valentine's Day.
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Jetblue (?) did kick a woman with a screaming child off the plane and the exact same thing happened. She complained. Got an apology. My whole thing is if you really have these rules, then you should enforce them and not apologize to anybody if you enforce them. I don't think that either of these reasons are more legitimate. I personally wouldn't kick anyone off a plane for any reason save obviously drunk or a threat to passenger safety. But if I did have these rules, I would stick to them and not apologize if someone got upset about them.
As for anti-Valentine's Day, I think that if you're really anti-Valentine's Day, then you shouldn't celebrate it once you get in a couple, b/c then your hate of the holiday seems rather disingenuous. However, almost everyone I knew who was anti-Valentine's Day when they were single, quickly adopted it when they entered a relationship.
To put this in perspective. My mother is dead. Mother's Day (another constructed holiday) is terrible for me. However, I would never describe myself as anti-Mother's Day, b/c I don't want to begrudge others their mothers -- also I realized even when I was in the agonized throes of my first Mother's Day that if I had children in the future that being anti-Mother's Day would probably not work out. I still don't think Mother's Day will ever be a completely okay holiday for me, but I wouldn't want to complain about it in front of my daughter, b/c she'll hopefully love that day. :)
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