u/acoliver

In the states, I was the disorganized jerk who was always late. Blame it on ADHD. Blame it on overprivileged. Blame it on just being that kind... However, thats me since birth.

Since moving abroad....I'm the foot tapper waiting, wishing we had a dang plan in advance and feeling stressed that I've no idea the address of the place we're going before five minutes before we were supposed to be there when its 20m across town. Won't our appointment be canceled?

However, man this is not how I want to view myself. I don't own a hairbrush. I don't shave every day or all that often. I want to be last so I don't have to wait... anyone else having an identity crisis?

I and my girlfriend were on a flight from Bogota to Medellín and a guy with a large Aikido. I thought it was a husky but everyone of course needs to talk about the around thing so now I know. It was wearing a service dog harness. The man had no obvious handicap but could have been a soldier with PTSD. Honestly it was well trained so it didn't bother me.

Business Class is cheap on Avianca and we're on vacation so obviously we took that. The Akido was seated with its owner in the back of business at say row 4 on the right. We sat in row 2 on the left. Again no problem.

Enter the two women with yapping rat-like pursedogs. They both had service dog harnesses. Neither woman looked handicapped in any obvious way. They were seated in the same row across the aisle from us and their dogs immediately lost their shit due to the Aikido.

Obviously something had to be done so they made another passenger switch with one of them (somehow the other didn't need to be moved). It seemed to me like someone lost the seat they paid for in business to accommodate the rat dogs in business. Sometime later somehow the other ratdog was smuggled back under the seat with its pair but they had covered it so it would go to sleep like a bird.

So I do understand mental health issues being a thing. However, those two ratdogs were not trained or suitable for anything and I've not seen legitimately two service animals for a person.

I think we have reached peak "emotional support animal" and its time that airlines require legitimate paperwork the thing is trained and for the mental health variety getting the paperwork ought to require regular treatment by a shrink or psychiatric. And let's be real the high strung rat dogs are not trainable or suitable for like…anything.

Used C1 (Savor / Quicksilver / Venture) in Colombia and the exchange rate was better than Amex (to USD) but here in Argentina it is about 1345 and Amex is about 1410 (ARS->USD).

Anyone know what they use to calculate this? Like that's last years exchange rate, isn't the MEP or tourist rate. Its way worse than the blue or Western Union rate and definitely worse than Amex.