It doesn’t, and on checking my last post, I dont think that I imply that they were. IMO the story just highlights how rediculous their behaviour was. The example in my post, was intended to show the irrational behaviour of some of these ‘worthy folk’ such as the passenger concerned in my post, blaming me for the fact that he was late to check in, and let’s not forget my involvement, in conspiring with the Almighty, for an absolute ‘pea souper’ to delay this good fellows travel. As for the rudeness aspect, I just included it as it was part of the overall encounter with that ‘gentleman. Being as we do not know the complete word by word conversation that took place on the aircraft, we cannot know for sure wether or not the Doctor and his good lady exhibited any rudeness in this encounter