45 Shocking Moments When Rude Passengers Met Their Match Mid-Flight—and Didn’t See It Coming
He turns in his seat and faces the aisle. I didn’t see his face again, ever, bc he stayed like that till he could get off and I had to get my coat from above. But I’ll always have the memories.
Happened a few years ago. Was on a packed flight, in one of the last rows of an MD80, right near the lavatory (bathroom). Was settled in my aisle seat and right before they close the boarding door, this burly biker-looking dude gets on and has no space in the overhead for one of his bags. So he puts one in the last space in the overhead, then to my surprise, stuffs his small duffel bag under the seat in front of me, where my (minimal) leg room is. He gives me this dirty look, daring me to say something. I pretend not to notice, he takes his seat on the other side of the plane and we take off.
An hour and a half later, as we start to descend, I go into the lav, and there is the typical puddle of urine on the floor in front of the toilet. I rub my foot into the puddle (was wearing an old pair of sneakers), come out of the lav and hop on my other foot back to my seat, then rub my wet shoe bottom all over the duffel bag at my feet. I got off the plane before the biker dude (he was in a window seat a couple rows back) so I didn’t get to see his reaction but I hope he enjoyed the aroma.
A few years back I was getting on the plane and a woman who was about 5′ and 90 lbs TOPS was carrying a 40lb carry on as if she was Sisyphus and cursed by the gods.
She was really struggling.
So when she was trying to put it on the overhead I just picked it up for her and put it up there.
Expecting a thank you I looked down and smiled.
She was livid. Saying that she could have done it herself and that just because she is a woman doesn’t mean she is helpless.
She then went on a 3-4 minute rant about how offensive it was and then called over the flight attendant.
So I grabbed her luggage and put it back on the floor and told her she could do it herself 🙂
Then I took my seat and the guy next to me smiled 🙂
I arrive at the gate to work a flight. The crew finds out that the plane has been downgraded to a smaller aircraft. This new aircraft has only one cabin of service and holds about 20 less people. There is a very wealthy woman (identified by her designer luggage, jewelry, and entitlement) screaming at the gate agent that she wants a first class seat. The gate agent explains that this aircraft does not have a first class cabin, but she is in row three and that is close to the front.
She continues to scream at the gate agent and makes unreasonable demands. When boarding begins I find her. She sits down in row 1 and refuses to move when I ask to see her boarding pass and redirect her to row 3. I ask her again to move and she says to the window, “I am through speaking to the help.”
Fine.
I move the nice couple originally sitting in row 1 to row 3. I move a mom with her screaming crying infant into row 1 next to the lady who doesn’t speak to the help. The entire flight the baby cried, and the entire flight the woman looked around for a new seat but we were full. Ha.
I was on a flight last weekend from Portland to Chicago. I do this all the time for work now and usually I am very nice to the people I am seated around. I was given the window seat on the right side of the plane, about half way in and had two empty seats next to me up until the doors were almost closed. At the last moment this jerk sits down in the middle seat and throws his stuff onto the empty seat next to him.
He get’s asked to place his stuff above and he does but mumbles the whole time doing it. Well he goes back to sitting down in the middle, not on the aisle and bumps my arm off the arm rest.
I was taken back by that and was like whatever and just sat there looking out the window, well as we take off he leans over me and without even asking tries to shut the shade. I smack his hand out of my face and tell him in no way is he closing the shade as he is in the middle seat. He got mad at that and huffed a little and even pressed the flight attendant button to ask her to shut it.
She comes by and asks if I would kindly shut it for him and I say nope, I want to enjoy my view. She says sorry, it is my call since I am in the window seat and walks away to help other people. I thought that was going to be the end but sadly it never is with these type of people!
The flight from Portland to Chicago is roughly 4 hours nonstop and about half way through he has tried to shut the shade another two times, as well as adjust MY laptop so he can see the show I was watching. (Attack on Titan!) At this point I was done, I am normally the quiet type who just explodes in my head and rants here on Reddit but not this time, this time I was fed up and I wanted to make a fool outta this guy and embarrass him for the rest of the flight.
I waited until he once again tried to shut the shade, it wasn’t even that sunny out and the light was only shining on my seat and me, I even had to turn the screen down a little to see it clearly but hell I like having the option to look out the window when I want to!
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