"Ma'am, are you a baby?"
Is there a discount?
"Yes, children under 5 fly free."
Then I am a baby.
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They made an, in hindsight, extremely creepy movie on this subject back in the 40s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Major_and_the_Minor
(I love Billy Wilder, but ick.)
However babys cannot fly alone so she needs an adult who pays a normal ticket to accommodate her.
I'm quite impressed she's still able to travel at 101. My mum's in her mid eighties and really struggles now.
She's apparently not only traveled at 101, but traveled enough times since turning 100 that this has been a repeated problem for her!
Imagine being that old and still seeing the world!
Flying within the US to see family isn't really the world.
Then stop riding in her lap!
We fixed this 124 years ago...
Worse is that this is basically just the Y2K problem…that they somehow never addressed.
They kludged it, probably only store 2 digits and if its lower than current year, assume 2000s, otherwise assume 1900s.
Ah, the “Windows 9” problem.
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Math is hard
At least choose an 8-bit digit for the ages of passengers! You'd have to live to be 256 to roll that over!
Might as well play it safe and make it a 16-bit integer on the off chance the world doesn't end and we quadruple our life expectancy
We haven’t learned our lesson about Unix time overflow yet, have we? Better up it to 64 bit signed, just to be sure.
Make that bad boy unsigned, just to be safe!
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Emperor Leto Atreides II deserves to Fly American™ just as much as the rest of us
I had to fight an annoying bug like this in our companys frontend code once. That specific country's pretty-date settings insisted on returning only the last two digits of a year, and the UI framework's date input field read it like that before parsing it back to a date.
Meanwhile in America: your baby isn't covered by Medicaid because it isn't born yet.
I see you are talking about babies. Please check 1 before proceeding further
[] Birth is forced by state
[] Birth is wanted.
You may have received a birth certificate, but we do not recognize your status of birthed.
This is outrageous. This is unfair.
"Ma'am, are you sure you're old enough to travel by yourself?"
"Oh hohohoho, stop!"
Just like my table-waiting days. You want to make a woman's day, just ask to see some ID when she orders alcohol because anyone who appears to be under 20 must be carded.
Honestly, that just pisses me off. It's wasting my time and the servers time. It's gone so overboard in the 'card everyone' policy.
I get asked if I carded someone at work: who, the guy with the neck tattoo and beard? No. “Well you should have”
Yeah. I get that it's required - protects the bar and server from litigation.
She could be a baby.
I've definitely seen uglier babies.
Especially newborns.
Do airlines typically handle 1 year olds flying alone? That seems nuts.
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