Mark Feblowitz wrote:

>On some particularly bad flights they've forgotten the special meal or
>served it up to someone else that wanted one,

I had this happen to me once. It was a situation where they changed my seat
assignment from the one that was in the computer. My special gluten-free
meal was served to someone else. I was very hungry on a long flight. So if
you aren't sitting in the seat in the computer be sure to make this clear
to the flight attendants.

Don.