Things Airline Passengers Do

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Hmm. Something to do on Southwest flights that aren't full. Anything to discourage someone from picking the seat next to you.
 
Then he probably started clipping his toe nails! :hairraise:
 
Worst is when you're forced to sit next to a double wide and they smell like chitty chitty.
 
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Unless I have a connection that is going to be close, I typically sit as far back in a window seat as possible, and on the left-hand side of the plane. Most folks fill in from the front, so I usually get the seat that I want. Unfortunately, that means that the folks who sit next to me get what's left (on the entire airplane) versus their pick of seats.

I once boarded early on a Southwest flight, only to find a 60-something man in the last row aisle seat. I motioned that I'd like the window seat, to which he said "my wife might want that seat." Oh, well where is she? Turns out that she was in a later boarding group. He then said, "There are all these other empty seats, you don't need to sit here!" The FA who overheard all of this (and clearly thought, as I did, that he was trying to occupy the entire row) spoke up to tell him that someone would be sitting in every seat since the flight was full, followed by an eye roll. I spoke a few more words in his direction before picking another seat. When the wife got on board, she in fact did occupy the window seat, and a stranger sat between them.

With respect to people bumping the seats, I've had many more issues with overweight adult men sitting in front of me than with kids sitting behind me. They almost always recline the seat, which puts the back into my knees, and then proceed to shift around during the entire flight.


JKG
 
If any of you have instagram you should take a look at the passenger shaming page.
 
If I'm sitting in the cabin I spend 90% of the time trying to convince the person sitting next to me that I'm not playing pilot dress up!

Lady last week asked what I did for a living while I'm sitting there in full uniform. When I told her I was A pilot she laughed and said "That's cute. Your a recruiter or something right? You can't be a pilot you're to young".

It was worse when I was 23. I scared people so badly because I looked like a little kid they refused to fly on my flight.
 
ARFlyer said:
If I'm sitting in the cabin I spend 90% of the time trying to convince the person sitting next to me that I'm not playing pilot dress up!

Lady last week asked what I did for a living while I'm sitting there in full uniform. When I told her I was A pilot she laughed and said "That's cute. Your a recruiter or something right? You can't be a pilot you're to young".

It was worse when I was 23. I scared people so badly because I looked like a little kid they refused to fly on my flight.
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Had similar on a shuttle to the hotel layover (in uniform now). Woman asks, "you a pilot", long ass weather day, tired, so I answered "what was your first clue?". She asked no more questions. Hey I was tired...

Of course the standard when nonrev in uniform, "ooh shouldn't you be up front".
 
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We have 21 year old FOs and 23 year old Captains at my company. I bid avoid deadheads because I hate traveling in the back.
 
The last commercial flight I was on there was a young family sitting in front of me. Dad had the window, mom had the aisle, little kid that screamed the whole time had the middle, and other kid that couldn't sit still had the other aisle seat. Dad stayed plugged into his earbuds the whole time while mom did everything she could to calm down the youngest, and keep the ADD kid from being too much trouble. I really felt bad for her. Eventually, she needed to mix up a bottle of formula for the youngest one. She opened the can of powdered formula and the differential air pressure popped the lid and covered her face and head in powder in a pretty spectacular explosion. That was where it looked like she simply lost her will to live. She really was about to totally have a meltdown, but she managed to hold herself together even though she was crying.
 
Matthew said:
The last commercial flight I was on there was a young family sitting in front of me. Dad had the window, mom had the aisle, little kid that screamed the whole time had the middle, and other kid that couldn't sit still had the other aisle seat. Dad stayed plugged into his earbuds the whole time while mom did everything she could to calm down the youngest, and keep the ADD kid from being too much trouble. I really felt bad for her. Eventually, she needed to mix up a bottle of formula for the youngest one. She opened the can of powdered formula and the differential air pressure popped the lid and covered her face and head in powder in a pretty spectacular explosion. That was where it looked like she simply lost her will to live. She really was about to totally have a meltdown, but she managed to hold herself together even though she was crying.
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I'll take some flack for this, but so be it. I don't feel sorry for the mom. I feel sorry for the other paying passengers who had to endure that. When I get on a flight I kind of feel like I have the right so a moderate amount of peace. And there should be a law that no one under the age of 4 be allowed on a commercial flight.
 
Gerhardt said:
I'll take some flack for this, but so be it. I don't feel sorry for the mom. I feel sorry for the other paying passengers who had to endure that. When I get on a flight I kind of feel like I have the right so a moderate amount of peace. And there should be a law that no one under the age of 4 be allowed on a commercial flight.
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I get that. Most pax wanted to punch the dad in the throat.
 
Gerhardt said:
I'll take some flack for this, but so be it. I don't feel sorry for the mom. I feel sorry for the other paying passengers who had to endure that. When I get on a flight I kind of feel like I have the right so a moderate amount of peace. And there should be a law that no one under the age of 14 be allowed on a commercial flight.
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You forgot to put the 1 in 14. I'm sure that's what you meant. That's what I'd go for. :cool:
 
Gerhardt said:
I'll take some flack for this, but so be it. I don't feel sorry for the mom. I feel sorry for the other paying passengers who had to endure that. When I get on a flight I kind of feel like I have the right so a moderate amount of peace. And there should be a law that no one under the age of 4 be allowed on a commercial flight.
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How do you suggest children under 4 be transported? I don't have kids, and often question why a 2 year old gets dragged to Hawaii, for example (they won't remember it)...but there are situations (grandma lives across the country) where a 3 year old needs to fly...
 
paflyer said:
I have socks older than you guys!
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My wife is a pediatrician, went straight from college to med school to residency to practice, so is young as one can practically be and also looks young. She frequently gets questioned on "when is the real doctor going to come in?"

Used to bother her, but she gets a kick out of it now. Has hosted numerous med school students ten years older than her...patient's parents tend to address the student as if they're the physician even after the wife introduces them as a student and asks if it's okay if they stay in for the exam/procedure/whatever.
 
We had one watching a porn movie... at full volume.

Sorry, no pic.
 
Ship the little b##tards FedEx!
 
mscard88 said:
Then he probably started clipping his toe nails! :hairraise:
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It used to be that on domestic flights in China, each passenger received a small gift, which was sometimes a pair of nail clippers. As you can imagine, all the pax passed their time on the flight by clipping away.
 
SaltH2OHokie said:
My wife is a pediatrician, went straight from college to med school to residency to practice, so is young as one can practically be and also looks young. She frequently gets questioned on "when is the real doctor going to come in?"

Used to bother her, but she gets a kick out of it now. Has hosted numerous med school students ten years older than her...patient's parents tend to address the student as if they're the physician even after the wife introduces them as a student and asks if it's okay if they stay in for the exam/procedure/whatever.
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Daughter of some close friends is a neurosurgeon. Blonde hair, athletic, still looks like she is 28. People who don't know refuse to believe it. Depending in the day and circumstance she finds it hilarious to maddening.
 
Sundancer said:
If my seat reclines, I recline it. Guilt free.
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And I lower my tray table and shove my knees as far as I can through that thin little seatback. Guilt free. :D
 
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