Most people love to travel for different reasons. No one would hate a calm and peaceful flight. Imagine yourself trying to celebrate your life wins by traveling. Suddenly, someone inside the plane decided to ruin everything.
What do you think you’ll feel? Guess what? These people from the Reddit community probably know what to feel in that situation. Check these stories!
1. Treated as Slave
My mother has been a flight attendant for 44 years.
She once had a woman on in first class who dumped her food in the middle of the aisle and said, “My dog wouldn’t eat this slop. Pick it up.”
This was pre-9/11, so my mom didn’t really have much power back then to do anything.
heylookitscaps
2. Not Today, Mister
This drives me insane.
I once had a man get very heated because he was on the plane with his wife and 4 children and did not pre-select seats. He wanted me to switch my window seat for a middle seat in a different row so his family could all be together.
But I paid extra to pre-select my window seat.
It was only like $15, but why should I have to give up what I paid for just because you wanted to save money and assumed others would rearrange themselves for your family?
The flight attendants sided with me (and the 6'4" guy who was in the aisle seat of my row, who also did not want to move and was much more assertive than me), and the family was spread throughout the cabin.
Blueberry Tulip
3. Demanding One
I would only give them a break if it's a full flight and they had to book last minute.
They might not have had a choice.
The funniest thing I have seen is a very short middle-aged woman yelling at the check-in people that she needs to be moved to an exit row or bulkhead for free because there is no way that she can sit for 6 hours without lots of legroom.
The airline explained to her several times that because there were 3 basketball teams on the plane, there was no chance that she would get the extra legroom seats.
She ended up sitting between two of my buddies, and she complained to them the whole time about how little room there was.
Nopethis
4. Pushed To The Limit
I remember when I was flying to Hungary with my girlfriend. We were first in line at the gates. Behind us, the usual massive line had already formed when, shortly before the gates opened, an Indian family decided they were VIPs and, for no other reason, should be allowed to stroll through the priority lane.
Upon being denied and complaining in Indian, they pushed my girlfriend out of the way to skip the big line they were too good to wait for. My blood and those of a lot more people behind us started to boil, but I decided to let it be (hard as it was) as it wasn't worth ruining our holiday for.
I just wish the personnel would have stopped them from doing this.
MicaLovesHangul
5. Inconsiderate One
I flew when I was 8 months pregnant, and the EXTREMELY rude and inconsiderate person in front of me insisted on reclining her seat as far back as it would go into my almost full-term belly.
We finally had a truce with her lifting it 2-3 inches away from my belly. Oh, and I am an extremely fit and active person, even when I was 8 months pregnant.
Airplane seats are uncomfortable for everyone, and people in general can’t be trusted not to be freaking jerks to others around them. As they say, one bad apple spoils the bunch, so basically, we should all lose the privilege of being able to recline seats.
I never recline mine when I fly because I know it’s uncomfortable for the person behind me. Still, way too many people just have zero empathy or consideration for anyone but themselves.
Cuntdracula19
6. Worst Turbulence
I am not an attendant, but I was on a flight with really bad turbulence. It went on for about 10 minutes, then the old lady next to me reached up and pressed her button.
The attendant walks over to see if the woman is. The woman begins to yell at the attendant for the rough flight and that she’s been flying her whole life, and clearly, the pilot has no idea what he’s doing.
The stewardess just walked away.
NotWeirdThrowaway
7. Wrong Tree, Miss
I’m a pilot, and I was with another airline at the time, and I went to the gate counter for something. A woman was promised an upgrade on this leg of the flight. However, all business class seats were occupied by paying customers.
She was losing her crap, demanding I do something about it after she called me and the gate checker every insult in the book.
I said give me a minute, and I’ll figure something out.
After a few minutes, I told her I had the solution. She smiled at me and said it’s about time. I told her that she would not be boarding my aircraft today. I had her baggage removed from my plane, and we took off without her.
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8. Bad Excuses
I was a kid flying out to Utah to start my teen tour.
About halfway through the flight (departing out of NY), the captain got on the speaker to announce an engine had failed, and we needed to make an emergency landing in Chicago. Needless to say, we got a little concerned.
Except for one passenger, who stormed up to the flight attendant and explained she was a nanny and needed to get to Utah to attend to the children she took care of.
I'm not exactly sure what she was hoping, that the pilot, upon hearing that a babysitter was on board, would risk the lives of everyone to fly us all through or that this story would so move the flight attendant that she would climb out on the wing and repair the engine mid-flight.
Alas, there was no emergency jet pack to give this passenger to blast away from the plane to get to Utah on time, and she was told to sit down.
Imalawyerkid
9. Unsafe Convenience
I think my biggest issue with it was the safety point.
Like while the plane was still moving they were opening all the overhead cabins to take heavy bags out right over people's heads (including mine!)
It's an accident waiting to happen, tbh.
Some people just don’t think about their safety at all.
[deleted]
10. Failed Punishment
I can't lie....
I probably would have eventually moved because the father was a bit aggressive about the situation, and I don't like confrontation. However, the guy in the aisle seat in my row was a very tall man, and he was not going to switch seats quietly.
We did end up with one of the kids in the middle seat of our row, and the parents left her there with no toys, coloring books, or any entertainment, but I let her watch a movie on my iPad while I read a book, and then she fell asleep for a few hours, so it worked out.
I swear the parents did that just to punish us, but the kid was really sweet and well-behaved, so it was fine.
Blueberrytulip
11. People Share Their Stories of 'Entitled Passengers'
This happened to me on a work trip, and the guy said, “But you’re traveling alone! Don’t you want to help a couple? We shouldn’t have to sit apart. You need to move.” Um, no.
I want to sit in this seat with a little extra legroom that I paid for with my own money so I can comfortably watch a movie without stopping before I have to work for the next 3 days.
Sorry bro. Swap with the person in the literal last row, next to your wife. I’m sure he will be happy to come up here.
On the other hand, if someone is nice, I’ll switch. I moved out of my extra legroom row so an older woman could have her granddaughter join her.
She was nervous to fly and didn’t even ask me to move, but she kept turning around to look for her (she was a teenager) and mentioned how neither of them had flown before.
They were so appreciative to end up sitting together.
Carlyv22
12. King Of Entitlement
Around 17 years ago, I was getting a flight from Frankfort to Bogotá. 2nd time flying, and a row in front of me, a guy with quite an unsanitary-looking beard was sitting there.
10 minutes after I was seated, a flight attendant and a woman started arguing with the guy, requesting him to take his own seat. After 20 minutes of arguing, the guy stands up and starts yelling, "Me siento dónde se me de la gana," "I will sit wherever I want," and sits down again.
5 minutes later, the police arrive and request him to step out of the plane, starting a struggle with him yelling, "Yo me siento dónde se me de la Pu** gana, en mi país nos sentamos dónde queremos," meaning, "I will sit wherever the heck I want, in my country we seat wherever we want."
It was not as dramatic as the Delta Asian medic scene, but the guy got a pair of police peace sticks to the head and was dragged away handcuffed.
At that time, I was around 12 and seated away from my uncle. I was quite shocked at the scene.
After that, the plane took off, and I had a terrible 12 hours with motion sickness and puking all the way to Bogotá.
Droneb
13. Too Lazy
I was working the last flight of the night when a passenger came to the back to tell us the man he was sitting next to whipped his member out and urinated on the floor. To make a long story short.
The guy couldn’t be bothered to get up and use the bathroom.
It’s just thoroughly disgusting.
Hokulani47
14. Trying To Be Kind
On my flight to Spain from the US, a really large guy came up to sit in the aisle seat.
It was a two-four-two configuration—I was at the window, and he was in the aisle.
And it was TIGHT.
He was spilling into my seat a bit, but you know what? I’ve never had a more respectful, self-aware seatmate in my life.
I felt bad for my initial gut reaction when he walked up, and I haven’t had it since average-sized people can be way bigger jerkwards on planes (or just generally).
Twir1s
15. Uncomfortable Question
I have a related story. This isn't particularly bad, but it is definitely entitled. There was a couple with a 2 or 3-year-old in front of me. The kid was squealing (the best way to describe the sound) for all of the taxiing and take-off.
Once we got to altitude, I asked the mother if she could quiet the child down.
I continued to try to sleep, but a minute or so later, the father started yelling at me for "asking his wife an uncomfortable question."
I mostly ignore him (after telling him to quit being a jerk). A FA offered me a new seat 15 rows up shortly after. I could still hear the damn squealing.
nkprives
16. TITLE
I was a passenger on a flight home from Norway, and we had taken a city hopper from Oslo to Paris.
We only had about 15 minutes to get to our next flight, so we ran through the terminal and got there in the nick of time.
My aunts and uncle boarded in the first group. As my aunt and I waited, we heard some commotion from the desk, and an American Army veteran (about 30 years old) started yelling and cussing out the desk workers, saying that it was a disgrace to not let an army vet like him fly on the already filled flight.
This carried on for a few more minutes before he tried to reach across the desk and grab “his ticket.”
The desk worker slapped his hand so he wouldn’t take the ticket, and then he tried to punch the worker in the face.
But by then, police officers grabbed him, gave him a cigarette, and told him to calm down while escorting him outside.
Needless to say, he wasn’t on the flight home.
Nelliebananapop
17. Too Much Judgement
A scruffy-looking ruffian type stood up near the front of the plane, complaining something about a "retard." He walks back towards the middle of the plane and stands in the aisle.
He strikes up a conversation with a guy a row or two in front of me, loudly saying for all to hear how there's a "retard" sitting in the row in front of him, and he can't take it anymore and can you believe they let those people fly? etc., etc.
The person he was referring to was an elderly gentleman who, in my non-medical opinion, had probably suffered a stroke at some point and was not able to communicate verbally.
The flight attendant walks forward and asks the man if he needs anything, and he sort of nods to the front of the plane and says, "I got a retard," and raises his eyebrows at her - like he's expecting her to completely understand his predicament.
She was very professional and just asked if he'd like to be seated somewhere else. I wanted to punch his smug face so bad... curse that guy.
Bostaevski
18. Messy Passengers
I am not a flight attendant, and this will get buried, but I was on a flight from China to Canada (a 15-hour flight). There was a family in front of us with 2 small children.
They ate peanuts and just threw the shells on the floor.
Then, the kids were standing on the seats, and the flight attendants had to come and tell the parents multiple times they were not allowed to do that.
At one point, the mother was laying across the floor (middle row) underneath where their feet were supposed to be and sleeping. I was pretty shocked, and of course, the flight attendant freaked out when she saw the woman on the floor... insanity, lol.
killaxjules
19. Clothes Dryer
My girlfriend’s mom is a flight attendant.
One time, a woman got quite angry because her daughter spilled apple juice all over, and there was no clothes dryer on the plane for her daughter's sweater.
I just don’t get it.
YacYacYac
20. Impatient Passengers
This has happened a few times on flights I've been on.
Apparently, people think the faster they stand up, the faster they'll get off the plane, even though they're in row 29A, and we're only disembarking from the front doors.
My favorite time was when a flight attendant, still sitting in her jump seat, reached up to the PA, and in a voice that can only belong to a mother, she sternly told everybody to sit back down and stay in their seats until otherwise told.
All the people standing very quickly sit back down and look very embarrassed.
Himym101
21. Toddler Tantrums
I once watched a very well-dressed businessman have an epic toddler-level tantrum at a check-in counter when he was advised his flight was delayed due to fog.
He literally screamed and jumped up and down and demanded that the airline "better do something about it or ELSE!"
The guy working behind the counter just smirked and suggested that the business guy was welcome to go outside and try and flap the fog away with his arms.
Entire queue burst out laughing.
Nonia_Bizness
22. Too Much Entitlement
Currently, a FA flying for 5 years for a legacy carrier. I have a few that pop into my head.
One was I was working a quick turn at the end of a 3 day, and we had a medical emergency in first class where a passenger passed out.
We had to give him CPR and hook him up to an AED, so two of us were with the man, and the other FA was paging a doctor and communicating with the Captain.
While this was going on, a passenger in the first row of the main cabin, who could see everything going on, kept paging for a Coke and getting VERY upset that we wouldn’t serve him.
Finally, a commuting FA stepped in for us and had a word with him.
Another one was actually my last trip when a woman who boarded towards the end, sitting in row 10A, left her bag in the aisle, blocking everyone else trying to get on because she was looking for a place for her bag.
She found a spot towards the back, put her hand in the air, and started snapping and hollering at me to get her bag for her. I went up to her and told her to get her bag out of the aisle. She got in my face and demanded that I put it up, which I told her I could not lift her bag for her, and she threw a fit.
Finally, a nice gentleman helped her. Anyway, after boarding, she accused me of stealing her fur scarf, but I didn’t. Then she called me a little blonde witch. She was removed.
I had a lady get mad at me another time because I wouldn’t give her the personal food I brought from home and paid for with my own money. She said she was hungry and she needed it.
Nope.
On another flight, I had a man and his small kid on a flight, and he, during boarding, asked me for one of the first-class meals I was preparing. I asked where he was sitting, and he said a row in the main cabin. I told him I was sorry, but these were for first class, and we had food for purchase in the main cabin.
He then told me that his kid was hungry and demanded that we give him free food. I kept saying I’m sorry, sure, but the food is for purchase. He didn’t think it was fair that he had to pay for food because he had a hungry kid.
Sweetpicklebee
23. Get What You Paid For
Passenger. When on an 8-hour flight to Florida, a family of five boarded first and then demanded the attendants rearrange their kids' seats so they would all be together. I get it; I’m a mom now, too, but they occupied my seat, in fact, the entire row, while the flight attendant tried to arrange them to all sit together.
I politely asked them to let us sit down, and they ignored us. I asked again, and they said no. We were waiting for our seats, and I could probably wait at the back of the plane. I just crossed my arms and stared them down. I held up the whole plane, and I do feel bad about that, but I made it clear it was the entitled family that was the hold-up, not me.
They finally moved to wait at the back of the plane.
I can’t stand people who think they are a higher class just because they have kids.
I had no problem with them wanting to be seated together, and they most likely specified that, and the airline probably messed up. Happens all the time. I had no problem with them boarding first (although family priority seating is mainly to make things go smoothly.)
The obvious entitlement was that they occupied a seat that I paid for, refused to move, and then told me that I should wait in the back, holding my luggage until their accommodation was made.
Because they were too good for that and so much more important.
Madammonie
24. Bad Dad
A few years ago, I was on a flight with a little girl and her two parents behind me.
About 10 minutes after taking off, the little girl started kicking my seat, so I turned around and asked her to stop because it was rude.
After she didn't listen, I turned around to the parents, but they were both on their phones when the dad looked at me and demanded to know why I was talking to his daughter.
I said she was kicking my seat, and he yelled at me to turn around, so I did.
He instructed his daughter to kick my seat for the rest of the flight even when I told her to knock it off. He didn't even have headphones in, so he would have been able to hear what I said to her.
Honestly, what is wrong with some people?
BigJosephRoseph22
25. Snoring Guy
I’m currently a flight attendant, and on my first flight, a passenger complained to me that the man behind him was snoring too loudly.
Putting on my best customer service smile, I offered to move the complainer, who very aggressively told me that he’d paid for his seat and he wasn’t moving, yelling loudly enough that he woke the snoring guy in the process.
I wish I’d had a first-class seat available to move the snoring guy just to spite the complainer, but there were only other economy seats available, so I just told the complainer that he could continue yelling at me, or he could accept my offer of a different seat, but that was all I could do for him.
I ended up giving the snorer free drinks for the rest of the flight.
UsernameTaken5074
26. Bad Manners
My favorite incident was one that happened to me about a year ago.
I'm working up at the boarding door, and toward the end of boarding, just as we're about to close up, we had a high-ranking passenger in our loyalty program come on (sitting in first class where there is absolutely NO overhead bin space for his bag.
He walks through, opens one bin (that's full), drops his bag in the aisle, and demands I find a spot for it.
Alright.
I play the friendly card, and I go through the open bins until I finally find one with space for his luggage.
I just stand there in front of the bin. He hauls his bag back a good 12 rows and sets it down in front of me. I look at him. Look at his bag. Look at the bin.
Then, look back at him and wait. He then proceeded to speak to our lead flight attendant. Surprise! That's me.
He said, "YOU need to put my bag up!" to which I replied, "Not happening. You tow it, you stow it. Otherwise, I'm checking it. Our work will not cover us if we get injured lifting passenger's baggage." He huffed a bit and slammed his suitcase in the overhead bin.
Glared at me and proceeded to March his way up to the front to sit down. The best part about this was that because he was the last person on board, the agent was right behind him while this whole incident happened. She saw his attitude and said, get up.
You're not going on a flight until you learn some manners. And pulled him off. It was sweet, sweet justice.
Boozeandarrows
27. Rusty Strategy
Not one specific passenger but a type of behavior I've unfortunately seen too much of: The couple will book separate seats, the man in a premium economy seat with extra legroom, the woman in a normal economy seat. The woman will then play the sad sack and ask another passenger to give up their comfy seat so they can sit together.
If the other passenger refuses (usually because they paid extra and literally don't fit in a regular seat), some will even complain to the crew to make them move the other passenger. And all this to save a few bucks on the second Premium seat.
ConnstableBlimeyChips
28. Loud And Creep
Ooooo, I was on a flight from Chicago to San Francisco, crammed into a seat next to a guy who looked like a startup business, bro.
Constantly (and loudly) on the phone from the time he sat down until we were in the air. I took great glee when we were climbing out, and I heard, "Hello? Heeellllooooo?" Next to me, meaning we'd climbed out of cell phone range, and the call dropped.
He was also a creep because he was messaging literally every woman in his contact book and on Tinder, looking for someone to have "dinner" with (some of whom were either blocking him on their side or replied, "I'm not comfortable with this")
Soundtom
29. Follow The Rules
I'm not a flight attendant, but I fly a lot, and I was on a plane where half the plane ignored the rules and stuff. When we touched down, these people immediately got up, walked around, and started taking their bags out of the overheads.
Mind you, the plane hasn't parked. It's just literally touched the floor of the landing strip, so it's still moving, and it's dangerous for half the people on the plane to be freaking around and, even worse, taking all their heavy bags down above everyone else's heads.
The flight attendants are now desperately trying to get these people to sit down until the plane stops moving, and some people are waving their hands at them dismissively.
Think the captain heard the commotion and the flight attendants half yelling because all of a sudden, the plane did a VERY abrupt stop, which knocked over all the people standing up, and then continued to park.
The flight attendant then said, "This is EXACTLY why we have rules." lol.
Queenguac
30. Too Much Talking
I was on a plane at the Burbank airport, and a family on standby boarded the plane without being told they'd be on the flight.
They proceeded to go passenger to passenger, trying to get people to de-board the plane so they could use their standby tickets.
They argued with the flight attendants.
It was at least 45 minutes of us sitting on a plane on a runway listening to this family of jerkwards argue about how they "need" to be on this flight because they have somewhere to go.
I was on my way home from Vegas and was hungover, and I don't think I've ever wanted to punch someone more than I did at that moment.
NormalAmerican_
31. Reclining Chair
I'm 6' tall, with most of the length in my legs, and I fly a lot, so I've run into a douche or 2. Almost every plane I get in, my knees are already touching the seat in front of me.
If the person in front of me reclines, the only way for me to sit is to straighten out my legs and shoot them underneath the seat in front of me.
I was probably 16 (still 6'), and the guy before me couldn't have been more than 24. He reclines, and his seat practically hits me in the chest. I could smell his hair, and he was so close. We asked him to put the seat up a bit, but he declined.
The seat was clearly broken and reclined a good 6 inches past the other seats in his row, so we called over the flight attendant. She also saw the problem, asked him to put up his seat, and told him it was broken.
HE SAID NO, AND SHE SAID THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE SHE COULD DO!
Great, thanks. Luckily, my mom is the "pack everything you may need on a plane, so I got an idea. I start eating pretzels with my mouth wide open and get crumbs all over his head and shoulders.
He doesn't notice until the crumbs are bouncing off his shoulder crumbs and into his lap. It was gross. He turns around with a look of disgust and asks me to stop.
I got great pleasure in telling him no and showing him the rest of the bag of pretzels I had to eat over him.
He put the seat up.
Imalawyerkid
32. The Newspaper
My sister worked as a flight attendant.
She had many stories, but the one I remember was about an entitled jerkwards on an overseas flight who made constant demands until finally sleeping. The plane was on decent when he woke, and he asked for the day's paper. She got him one.
He complained that it was yesterdays paper and he wanted one from this morning. "Sir...we have been in the air for 16 hours and have not stopped for paper delivery en route".
He kept complaining and would not accept that he would not get today's paper even though it was the airline's policy to provide him with a newspaper.
Somewhat_random
33. Got Slammed
A friend of mine is a pilot for a North American airline (I don't want to say which one), and there was a passenger on the plane from India during the flight. He kept being rude and highly disrespectful to the female flight attendants.
So, halfway into the flight, one of them finally got fed up and confronted him, asking what his problem was and how they could find a middle ground.
He responded by saying, "In my culture, women are supposed to be slaves for the men," and She responded with, "Well, in my culture, you're a taxi driver."
He proceeded to lose his crap, and they had to restrain him in his seat.
Nothing happened to the flight attendant because they all thought he was being so disrespectful he deserved it.
Stotts15
34. It’s Not That Hard
Also, I'm not a flight attendant, but here's mine.
I was in a foreign country preparing for a long flight home. Through some minor miracle, the plane was fully boarded long ahead of schedule, and the runway was clear, so the pilot announced that we'd be able to depart about 40 minutes early.
However, the flight attendants literally could not get all of the passengers to sit down. They were standing, stretching, and frequently spitting in the aisle. And I don't mean one or two people. I mean, maybe 1/4 of the plane.
The flight attendants would go up and down the aisles, getting people to sit down and buckle up, and the moment they passed, those passengers would get back up again.
This went on way longer than you might think, and finally, the pilot came back with a translator to yell at the passengers to sit down or the plane would not leave and that they had to stop spitting in the aisle or they'd be removed from the plane.
By the time we finally departed, we were 30 minutes late to leave.
Bran_Solo
35. No Care
I was on a flight where our wings were damaged, and we were going to make a relatively emergency landing.
Some dude was chatting happily on his cell phone as the flight attendants were getting the cabin and passengers ready for the worst.
I don't know if cell phones really do much to interfere with anything these days, but that FA just about choked the dude out.
She was piiiiiiiissed. The dude hung up his phone.
[deleted]
36. Weird Passengers
I had a passenger take my crew luggage out of the overhead bin & leave it on an empty seat to make space for her own luggage.
Had a woman rush into the business class galley and complain that the child sitting next to her is making too much noise and asking to calm her down.
I peeked into the J cabin: the adorable, well-behaved 4-year-old is playing quietly by herself in the seat/pod that her parents paid $$$$ for. Meanwhile, the woman who complained turned out to be an upgrade.
Uhm no.
Tartineauchocolat
37. Too Demanding
Not a flight attendant but I have a great story from a friend of mine.
So when he was a kid (maybe like 14 or so), he somehow managed to get a seat in first class (I don’t remember how cuz this was told to me a number of years ago).
So this guy came up to him and asked if they could switch seats. Apparently, his kid was up there, and he wanted to sit with him. My friend said sure and asked where he was sitting.
He tells him his seat. It was all the way in the back of the plane.
My friend, at this point, refused, saying that he paid for the seat in first class, so he didn’t want to go back there.
This guy starts screaming at him and getting violent before being promptly kicked off the plane.
Claws22
38. Battle Of Seats
I was on an overnight, very long flight and wanted to try to get some sleep as I was exhausted from hours of traveling already. I tried to recline my seat but got it shoved violently back up. I asked the person behind me what the issue was, and he explained that due to his height and long legs, I couldn't recline my seat because it squashed his legs.
I was polite, he was polite (aside from the first violent push to my seat), and I didn't make an issue of it because I knew he couldn't help being tall. But I fumed quietly in my seat the whole flight as I was uncomfortable and unable to sleep because I couldn't recline my chair.
He had his chair reclined and was blissfully asleep.
I had to sacrifice my comfort for his. I did it because he couldn't help being tall, and I wasn't going to be a jerk about it, but it wasn't fair - we paid the same amount for our seats, and I should have had the same ability to use the services available and be comfortable as he did.
Allthefoodintheworld
39. Getting On His Nerves
Once, on an Italian flight, a guy was insulting a lot and looking at us like killers just because his backpack couldn't fit in the overhead locker above his seat, so we moved it a couple of rows behind.
At the point where we had to prepare for landing, he refused to put his backpack away again (he was seated in an emergency row, so he couldn't have it with him) until he even pushed me, and I hurt myself from the fall.
I really wanted to hit him, but instead of that, I just contacted the captain and asked him to prepare police on arrival.
I don't know how long he was going to stay in Canarias, but he definitely spent some days arrested, and I was quite happy about ruining his vacation.
Andrei96cross
40. Concerned Citizen
Currently sitting on a flight waiting to take off.
A guy tried to board outside his boarding group, and when the gate agent asked him to step aside, he got irate at her. Before it got too far, I said to him, “Sir, no need to be a jerk. She’s just doing her job.”
He flipped his attention over to me and started getting in my face until his boarding group was called.
He looked me up and down, checked in, and boarded in a huff.
This was all within a few seconds.
He got ahead of me onto the plane, and I warned one of the flight attendants of his behavior.
Shinra528
41. The Umbrella
Not a flight attendant, but I have once seen a guy who brought an umbrella to the plane, unfolded it on the walk from the terminal to the plane, then couldn't fold it, so he just left it there on the tarmac.
I don’t get why people do these bothering things.
Inbetweenaction
42. Window View
Ha, I don't even fly that often, and I have a few of those.
What is it about flying that makes people monsters? I'll throw out one since nothing is really happening yet. I was in the window seat ahead of the fire row, so the lady and her grandson behind me didn't have a window view.
Crazy grandma starts asking me to put my seat up so her grandkid can see out the window. The thing is, I never even reclined my seat because I'm not very tall, and I think it's rude to do so.
I explained this to her multiple times, but she just kept getting more worked up, so I turned around and ignored her. The girl next to me gave me wtf face, and we hadn't even talked the whole flight.
The crazy lady was still ranting to no one that my seat wasn't up, so I closed the window so no one could see.
She stopped her crazy ranting after that.
Gettingcrunkontea
43.
My friend got restrained by an air marshal.
Took too much Xanax and drank a bottle of rum to try and overcome flight anxiety.
He ended up screaming, yelling, and hitting on every girl on the flight.
He has no recollection of any of these events.
GenericBusinessMan
44.
2 years ago, on a just over an hour flight, someone decided to smoke in the bathroom.
It’s been like 30+ years since smoking has been banned in airplanes. There was an indoor smoking cabin by the gate for their last cigarette, the flight was total with boarding, flying, and landing all under two hours…
It wasn’t an inconvenience other than the alarm and an announcement, but seriously, why would someone even think they could get away with smoking in the bathroom in this day and age?
Expat4eva
45. Anger Issues
I am not a flight attendant, but I was just recently on a flight from Madrid to Tel Aviv, and the lady sitting in the economy section was upset and yelling at the passengers in front of her and behind her about the room she had.
Basically, the person behind her put his bags too far out under her seat (it was a small backpack, but he obliged and moved it closer to him), and the people in front moved their seats into the leaning position, and now the seat was too close to her face.
She yelled for the flight attendant, who, with a smile, told her to just move her seat back, and she’d get the same room back. She was pissed the whole flight. Even when they came around for tea, she slammed her drink into their tray and didn’t even look at them.
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