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February 10, 2004
Flying
Lately, I have observed that many travelers are really very rude. It is time for them to shape up, or face the Wrath of Beth.
This is what you need to do to really piss me off:
1. Board the plane and then stand in the middle of the aisle (at row 3) talking to your business partner, ignoring all of those behind you trying to get to their seats.
2. Board the plane, put your luggage 8 rows behind your seat, and then insist that everyone wait for you to get back to your seat before finding their own seats.
3. When attempting to stuff your extremely overpacked 'carryon luggage' into the overhead compartments, take other passengers' luggage and move it to a different compartment, because you want to have your stuff close to you.
4. Make over-loud comments about how you normally fly first class, but today you are stuck with the plebians in coach.
5. Subject the rest of us to your child's very noisy video game. Get the kid headphones, or I'll take the damned game away from him!
6. Bitch about having been forced to check your extremely oversized 'carry-on bag'.
7. Put your drink on my tray because you want to use your tray for your laptop or newspaper.
8. Express your political views very loudly during the flight, and then get annoyed when I turn to you and tell you how frigging stupid you must be to believe shit like that.
9. Decide that the time spent in flight is a good time to redo your nails -and then be shocked, when someone objects to the odor of your flamable fingernail polish remover.
10. When deplaning, wait until there is a mile between you and the last person who got off before starting to move because you were too busy talking on your cell phone to notice that you are preventing everyone else (and me!) from getting off the damn plane.
11. Shove people who don't move fast enough for you when getting off the plane.
12. Jump in front of someone reaching for their baggage on the luggage carousel to grab your own suitcase first.
If anyone else has experienced other rude behaviors, let me know - I'll make a list.
Update: Here are more suggestions and stories ~~~~
13. CuteTexasBlonde was actually burglarized by a seatmate on an overseas trip - she went to use the ladies' room, and he stole her pillow - and to do that, the asshat had to open her Delta Pack!!!
14. Kids who kick the seat in front of them pisses her off too - and I agree.
15. Sweet Helen, who has traveled probably a zillion miles really hates it when the person behind her grabs the back of her seat to pull his/her butt off of their own seat.
16. Pam's poor husband, Arthur, has experienced gas pains - but not his gas - the gas of other airline passengers. Yuch.
17. I completely agree with JDMays. People who pull their cellphone out of their pocket the second the plane touches down and madly dial their way back to anyone they know to let them know they have arrived are maddening.
18. OceanGuy has valid complaints about luggage carousel behavior - no, I mean the behavior of the people standing around the luggage carousel, and who block the rest of us from getting our own luggage.
Posted by Beth at February 10, 2004 5:22 AM
Comments
On my flight between Germany and NY, I went to use the bathroom and came back and the guy sitting next to me had opened my delta travel pack and took my pillow because I guess it was better that he had two and I had none.
And tell the kids NOT to kick the seat in front of them.. I got NO sleep on the flight back.. complaining ended..lol
Posted by: cutetxblonde at February 10, 2004 6:30 AM
It drives me MAD when people in the row behind me grab the back of my chair, in order to haul themselves out of their chairs.
It's called stomach muscles, people. Learn to use them.
Posted by: Helen at February 10, 2004 8:02 AM
Arthur has one major complaint: GAS. Sometimes there's one person on a plane that creates his own kinda smog, if you know what I mean...
I thought the air filters were better than that? Ugh.
Posted by: pam at February 10, 2004 8:06 AM
I hate it when people feel that they must whip out their cellphone and call everyone they know the moment the plane touches down. Wait until you get off the plane! That way I won't have to hear your inane conversation.
-jim.
Posted by: JD Mays at February 10, 2004 9:19 AM
Cute Texan - someone would have been vewy vewy unhappy when I got back to my seat and found out that my piwwow had been stowen.
I don't think they taste good.
Posted by: John of Argghhh! at February 10, 2004 11:47 AM
... and the people who crowd the baggage claim carousel with all 15 people who came to greet them, blocking your access to your bag. AND those families with 20 bags who stand and lump all their bags together, blocking at least a dozen people from access to their bag
Posted by: oceanguy at February 10, 2004 12:59 PM
OMG.. remind me to NEVER post at the wee hours of the morning. Good lord how could you even read that mess of typos?? (sorry! LOL)
Posted by: cutetxblonde at February 10, 2004 4:38 PM
CTB, Don't worry, I fixed the errors. I just now had a chance to do that. I only do that for my nice commenters!
Posted by: beth at February 10, 2004 6:26 PM
Here's some fun I've been subjected to on planes:
1. A large family wanted to watch the movie but bought only one set of headphones, the wearer of which narrated loudly for those without.
2. Another movie watcher translated the movie into Tagalog for his granny... again loudly.
3. An old lady in need of hygiene skills fell asleep and leaned on my shoulder the entire flight.
4. An enthusiast of one of those pyramid marketing schemes followed me from seat to seat trying to convince me to invest in it... I changed seats four times (thank god for low-occupancy) and he refused to take a hint. Finally I sicc'd the attendant on him.
5. A seatmate(I attract little senile old ladies) began to pick off at my meal... while I was still eating it!
6. The woman across the aisle changed her baby's diaper right there in the seat... and when I got up to go to the restroom thrust the poo-filled parcel at me and asked me to dispose of it since I was going in that direction.
Don't get me started on the folks you meet on Greyhound!
Posted by: LeeAnn at February 11, 2004 10:18 AM