San Diego airport 1995/96 ish waiting in line to check in at the gate. There’s a man asking everyone if the flight is going to be late because he can’t be late and when I say everyone , anyone he saw. It’s crowded as that airport always is. I tell him I don’t know if it’s late, he is dressed like a 1960 basketball player in short shorts looking crazier than he’s acting. I get my boarding pass and head towards the only open seat and sit down next to a young girl and mom on one side and a duffle bag on the other and I hear “ hey hey that’s my seat. ( yes it’s him again) So I ask him if that’s his duffle bag and he said yes and I said “well decide do you want a seat or does your duffle bag. He said he wants the seat I’m in so I said “move your f___ing bag then because that seat is mine”. So he sits down and I’m pretty angry. I begin to tell him what type of idiot he has been and about a minute later the boarding pass lady comes over and asks me for my ID and boarding pass. I immediately thought I just got kicked off the flight because I wasn’t very quiet while I was telling the guy he was an idiot. So I then told him , “if I just got kicked off this flight you’ll only get on it if I die first”. The woman came back said you have been upgraded to first class. They were so happy I reeled that guy in. First and only time I ever flew first class…