"I want the cheese plate... or else!!"
Mar 31, 2011, 6:08 pm
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"I want the cheese plate... or else!!"
So, fun times today on the PTY-DFW AA 2102 in J.
It is an early morning flight with breakfast in J. In Row 4 (A &C) sat this couple that seemed middle aged. The guy sounded American. His "S.O" sounded Eastern European or Israeli.
The lady had been seen previously in the PTY Admirals Club yelling at her "man" and calling him an idiot and asking him to "Just Stop!" when he tried to speak
As the flight reached cruising altitude, the FAs came by to ask what we wanted for breakfast. The choice was "Omelette" or "Fruit Plate"
The breakfast seems to be going Ok. Most of the J pax were passed out as all of us woke up at 4 AM to make that flight.
Suddenly, from nowhere you hear this lady in 4C shout to the FA "I ordered the Cheese Plate... i want the cheese plate.. you CANNOT do this to me.. who do you think you are.. I will NOT tolerate this.. I need the Cheese Plate.. where is my Cheese Plate.. how dare you not give me the Cheese plate.. APOLOGIZE NOW.. give me my cheese plate.. where is my cheese plate.. you said. you had a cheese plate.. I want my cheese plate.. APOLOGIZE now.. I will NOT be treated like this"
Be aware gentle reader, that she said this at the top of her lungs. The FA, who seemed be Lima, Peru based, freaked out a little bit and got scared. However, the purser, who was an older African American lady based in Miami, stepped in and asked the Lima Peru FA to step into the galley
The Miami Purser then put a nice smile on her face.. and told the lady to "calm down". The lady in 4C said " I will not calm down.. I want the cheese plate, she said I was going to get the cheese plate.. where is my cheese plate.. How dare you not give me the Cheese plate..This other FA is a liar. She promises people cheese plates and does not give them cheese plates. How dare you treat me like this. I must have my cheese plate. that is the only plate I want"
This went on for nearly 7 minutes. NO KIDDING. All of J is fully awake now. First 5 rows of Y are looking in.
All the while the Miami FA is being more than polite and saying "Let it GO!!! there is no cheese plate. Ma'am calm down"
Then 4C chooses to get more agitated. She says.. "What is your FULL name.. I need your full name.. you did not give me my cheese plate.. what is your name.. I will report that I did not get the cheese plate"
The Miami FA says .. "Ma'am.. my first name is XXX and I am the Purser on Flight AA 2102. That should be enough for your complaint. I do not feel comfortable giving you my last name"
..and she walks to the galley as all of us in J give her a big thumbs up for maintaining grace under pressure
Well, Bag Lady in 4C is not done. She stands up and tries to grab the Miami FA to turn her around to see her badge (which is facing inwards). The Miami FA tells her to "sit down as this was going too far"
Finally the Lady's "man" stands up. The Crazy Lady is now in the Galley about to start a fight and he storms the galley and as she is yelling "Cheese plate, cheese plate" he YELLS ( I mean really yells) " Shut up!!!! Just SHUT UP!!!" " I don't need the freaking cheese plate.... Just SHUT UP!!!!!!!!"
I mean.. it was brutal. I have never seen a guy say "SHUT UP" at the top of his lungs to a lady.. although.. in this circumstances it was well deserved.
By this time, some pax are beginning to stand. Thankfully, the lady is dragged back to her seat by her "man" and she sits down and shuts up for the rest of the flight
Weirdest flight ever....
My seatmate (an AA employee non-revving) mercilessly teased the FAs for the rest of the flight about the "cheese plate" and asking f they were working on getting it to her
People!!
It is an early morning flight with breakfast in J. In Row 4 (A &C) sat this couple that seemed middle aged. The guy sounded American. His "S.O" sounded Eastern European or Israeli.
The lady had been seen previously in the PTY Admirals Club yelling at her "man" and calling him an idiot and asking him to "Just Stop!" when he tried to speak
As the flight reached cruising altitude, the FAs came by to ask what we wanted for breakfast. The choice was "Omelette" or "Fruit Plate"
The breakfast seems to be going Ok. Most of the J pax were passed out as all of us woke up at 4 AM to make that flight.
Suddenly, from nowhere you hear this lady in 4C shout to the FA "I ordered the Cheese Plate... i want the cheese plate.. you CANNOT do this to me.. who do you think you are.. I will NOT tolerate this.. I need the Cheese Plate.. where is my Cheese Plate.. how dare you not give me the Cheese plate.. APOLOGIZE NOW.. give me my cheese plate.. where is my cheese plate.. you said. you had a cheese plate.. I want my cheese plate.. APOLOGIZE now.. I will NOT be treated like this"
Be aware gentle reader, that she said this at the top of her lungs. The FA, who seemed be Lima, Peru based, freaked out a little bit and got scared. However, the purser, who was an older African American lady based in Miami, stepped in and asked the Lima Peru FA to step into the galley
The Miami Purser then put a nice smile on her face.. and told the lady to "calm down". The lady in 4C said " I will not calm down.. I want the cheese plate, she said I was going to get the cheese plate.. where is my cheese plate.. How dare you not give me the Cheese plate..This other FA is a liar. She promises people cheese plates and does not give them cheese plates. How dare you treat me like this. I must have my cheese plate. that is the only plate I want"
This went on for nearly 7 minutes. NO KIDDING. All of J is fully awake now. First 5 rows of Y are looking in.
All the while the Miami FA is being more than polite and saying "Let it GO!!! there is no cheese plate. Ma'am calm down"
Then 4C chooses to get more agitated. She says.. "What is your FULL name.. I need your full name.. you did not give me my cheese plate.. what is your name.. I will report that I did not get the cheese plate"
The Miami FA says .. "Ma'am.. my first name is XXX and I am the Purser on Flight AA 2102. That should be enough for your complaint. I do not feel comfortable giving you my last name"
..and she walks to the galley as all of us in J give her a big thumbs up for maintaining grace under pressure
Well, Bag Lady in 4C is not done. She stands up and tries to grab the Miami FA to turn her around to see her badge (which is facing inwards). The Miami FA tells her to "sit down as this was going too far"
Finally the Lady's "man" stands up. The Crazy Lady is now in the Galley about to start a fight and he storms the galley and as she is yelling "Cheese plate, cheese plate" he YELLS ( I mean really yells) " Shut up!!!! Just SHUT UP!!!" " I don't need the freaking cheese plate.... Just SHUT UP!!!!!!!!"
I mean.. it was brutal. I have never seen a guy say "SHUT UP" at the top of his lungs to a lady.. although.. in this circumstances it was well deserved.
By this time, some pax are beginning to stand. Thankfully, the lady is dragged back to her seat by her "man" and she sits down and shuts up for the rest of the flight
Weirdest flight ever....
My seatmate (an AA employee non-revving) mercilessly teased the FAs for the rest of the flight about the "cheese plate" and asking f they were working on getting it to her
People!!
Last edited by panjabi; Mar 31, 2011 at 6:44 pm
All they really need is a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ cheese plate!
Mar 31, 2011, 6:32 pm
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Now THAT's IFE!
Mar 31, 2011, 7:31 pm
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Never seen not heard of an act so bad in my 50 years of flying! I enjoyed the story, and was pleased to see that the purser held up despite all the torment.
Reminds me of a flight from Rio 40 years ago on Braniff when a passenger determined that the seat she was in was a smoking seat despite that it was in the non-smoking section and lit up. The F.A. told the passenger that she had been flying 50 years and she had been able to handle anything unruly passengers could throw at her. She quickly convinced the passenger to put out the cigarette after lots of shouting and threats.
Reminds me of a flight from Rio 40 years ago on Braniff when a passenger determined that the seat she was in was a smoking seat despite that it was in the non-smoking section and lit up. The F.A. told the passenger that she had been flying 50 years and she had been able to handle anything unruly passengers could throw at her. She quickly convinced the passenger to put out the cigarette after lots of shouting and threats.
Mar 31, 2011, 7:50 pm
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Without being trite, the cheese plate isn't even that good. I'm in Life_Platinum's boat--I've never seen misbehaviour even approaching this level. What a total disaster!
Mar 31, 2011, 7:56 pm
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Cheese Plate!! Cheese Plate!! That's too funny... I'm sorry you had to endure that. Or I'm jealous that I wasn't there to experience it myself. I'm not sure which... 
I was on a flight once where the smoking seats caused tension. I was in college...at a time that (a) predated my involvement with FFP's and (b) in an era when a college kid on a flight to Europe was still kind of a cool deal.
So the fact that I was in a middle seat in the last nonsmoking row on a Lockheed Tristar really did not bother me. That is, until the guy next to me decided to spark up.
This inspired rage in several other pax in nonsmoking rows. Not that this guy's cigarette really changed the air quality in the back of that plane, as it was already thick with smoke, but I got the sense that other people weren't happy at all to be in the back to begin with. (In retrospect, I can't blame them.)
Some yelling, posturing of who could kick who's a$$, and FA's failed attempts to calm people down...the guy keeps smoking. Suddenly, the FA disappears and 2 minutes later the captain appears. We're a couple hours into flight, probably over the East Coast at this point, so that got people's attention. (I assume the Tristar still had a copilot and a flight engineer in the cockpit.) He announces that if the passenger needs to smoke, the captain would be happy to accommodate his request by diverting to Logan and allowing him to smoke as much as the Boston police will allow in their jail.
The guy shut up and didn't light up again. I always wondered whether that threat was a bluff. Would a pilot really divert to offload an unruly smoker? Good thing we did not have to find out.
Don't you miss smoking flights in general?
I was on a flight once where the smoking seats caused tension. I was in college...at a time that (a) predated my involvement with FFP's and (b) in an era when a college kid on a flight to Europe was still kind of a cool deal.
So the fact that I was in a middle seat in the last nonsmoking row on a Lockheed Tristar really did not bother me. That is, until the guy next to me decided to spark up.
This inspired rage in several other pax in nonsmoking rows. Not that this guy's cigarette really changed the air quality in the back of that plane, as it was already thick with smoke, but I got the sense that other people weren't happy at all to be in the back to begin with. (In retrospect, I can't blame them.)
Some yelling, posturing of who could kick who's a$$, and FA's failed attempts to calm people down...the guy keeps smoking. Suddenly, the FA disappears and 2 minutes later the captain appears. We're a couple hours into flight, probably over the East Coast at this point, so that got people's attention. (I assume the Tristar still had a copilot and a flight engineer in the cockpit.) He announces that if the passenger needs to smoke, the captain would be happy to accommodate his request by diverting to Logan and allowing him to smoke as much as the Boston police will allow in their jail.
The guy shut up and didn't light up again. I always wondered whether that threat was a bluff. Would a pilot really divert to offload an unruly smoker? Good thing we did not have to find out.
Don't you miss smoking flights in general?
Mar 31, 2011, 8:15 pm
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This woman should have been escorted off the plane in handcuffs. No place for that kind of behavior.
Mar 31, 2011, 8:27 pm
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Cheese plate.. cheese omelette.
This woman had a serious problem... I hope some pax stepped forward to offer support and information in case the odd couple filed a complaint. I think boradwayblue said it all... except the a/c was well en route and it would have disrupted everyone's flight.
We had some IFE, no, actually OTGE, when an aid boarded our DC-10 in MIA with a youngish chap (apparently, with Tourette's,) who introduced himself to his fellow passengers by screaming "NO! NO! THE BOMB!" and things went downhill from there. The FA intervened, and he then screamed "NO! I'll behave I want to fly, I want to go!" He did go - in the company of some nice people with security. Not ready for flight, and his meds were insufficient for flight.
This woman had a serious problem... I hope some pax stepped forward to offer support and information in case the odd couple filed a complaint. I think boradwayblue said it all... except the a/c was well en route and it would have disrupted everyone's flight. We had some IFE, no, actually OTGE, when an aid boarded our DC-10 in MIA with a youngish chap (apparently, with Tourette's,) who introduced himself to his fellow passengers by screaming "NO! NO! THE BOMB!" and things went downhill from there. The FA intervened, and he then screamed "NO! I'll behave I want to fly, I want to go!" He did go - in the company of some nice people with security. Not ready for flight, and his meds were insufficient for flight.
Mar 31, 2011, 8:46 pm
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When I saw the title, I was hoping it was something like this (although the magnitude of the offense leaves me flabbergasted) and not that the OP wanted a cheese plate...or else 
Cheers.
Cheers.
Mar 31, 2011, 9:14 pm
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I think we can coin a new term..
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Mar 31, 2011, 9:22 pm
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Mar 31, 2011, 9:38 pm
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When I saw the title, I thought it was going to be a retelling of a Wallace and Grommit story!
By any chance, did the couple look like Wallace and Grommit - probably not!
By any chance, did the couple look like Wallace and Grommit - probably not!
Mar 31, 2011, 9:40 pm
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that is Awsome!
I bet the show made the iffy go faster! But seriously- somebody skipped their morning meds'