Like a romantic partner who forgot what day it is, 91原创 International Airport found itself apologizing on Friday after posting a Valentine鈥檚 Day message on Twitter that encouraged air travellers to hit on their seatmates.
鈥淵ou are boarding a flight,鈥� the since-deleted tweet from the @yvrairport account began. 鈥淵ou get to the next row and notice your seatmate is [very attractive]. How do you spark up a flirty conversation with them?鈥�
The best answer was to win tickets to the 91原创 Aquarium for a date night, but the tweet might as well have hit a flock of geese on takeoff, because it was turned back immediately.
Women hate that, said several people.
鈥淥h my god, don鈥檛 tell people to do this,鈥� tweeted 91原创 writer Meghan Bell. 鈥淚 can鈥檛 believe we still have to point out that it鈥檚 creepy and boundary-violating to hit on someone in an enclosed space they cannot escape from for several hours.鈥�
This sentiment was echoed by Lily Nichol of New Westminster, who added that the best pick-up line is polite silence.
鈥淚 live in fear of being seated next to someone who will take my mere seat assignment as an invitation to invade my privacy, -personal space and make me extremely uncomfortable,鈥� she said.
The social-media team at YVR got the message in a hurry and offered an apology for missing the mark. Nobody won aquarium tickets and YVR was quick to establish that the 91原创 Aquarium 鈥渨as not involved in creating this content.鈥�
HARRISON MOONEY
91原创 Sun
