Sharing with seat mates
Jan 26, 2015, 1:40 am
#16
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Sharing with seat mates
Had some expiring UA drink chits, so last flight I offered to seatmate. That was after we had a bit of pleasant conversation about the Oregon-FSU football game in progress.
Jan 26, 2015, 2:15 am
#18
Join Date: Nov 2008
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I ordered one more beer on LHR-CMB, but FA does not really acknowledge it and just walks past. My seat mate to the left also thinks FA didn't hear my order and turns around and reprats my order (for me).
Of course, FA comes back with two beers. My seat mate to the left doesn't drink so I get both. Subsequently, I get tangled up a bit in the headphone cord and spill some some of the beer. Mostly on my tray but some of it splashes on the arm rest (and possibly arm) of seat mate to the right!
Doh - Frik'n embarrasing.
I apologise of course to seat mate on the right, but he is stone faced through the whole ordeal. Oh'my - sometimes even the best fail...
Of course, FA comes back with two beers. My seat mate to the left doesn't drink so I get both. Subsequently, I get tangled up a bit in the headphone cord and spill some some of the beer. Mostly on my tray but some of it splashes on the arm rest (and possibly arm) of seat mate to the right!
Doh - Frik'n embarrasing.I apologise of course to seat mate on the right, but he is stone faced through the whole ordeal. Oh'my - sometimes even the best fail...
Jan 26, 2015, 5:30 am
#19
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: NY State
Posts: 212
I do not offer anything early in the flight...for fear the person thinks I want to be their "buddy" for the trip.
Towards the end, if I open up my "snack bag", I may offer some to my seatmates. Sometimes they accept, sometimes not....but I hate to eat in front of others without offering...lol
I share my gum with nobody! My ears really bother me while flying!
Towards the end, if I open up my "snack bag", I may offer some to my seatmates. Sometimes they accept, sometimes not....but I hate to eat in front of others without offering...lol
I share my gum with nobody! My ears really bother me while flying!
Jan 26, 2015, 5:34 am
#20
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: MEL
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In principle, I have no issue with the idea of sharing with other pax. I don't recall an instance when I've done with with someone I don't know, but I'd be willing to trade or whatnot.
Jan 26, 2015, 5:58 am
#21
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: London
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If there is something from the airline meal that is packaged and clearly unopened and I either can't or won't eat it myself, and if the person next to me has eaten that item and I see they're looking around (ie, not absorbed in a book or movie, or sleeping) I will wave it in their direction. I hate to see food wasted. Otherwise, unless we've been stranded on the tarmac for hours and everyone is desperate, certainly not, especially food I've brought from home.
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Jan 26, 2015, 9:22 am
#26
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Once on a very delayed flt on the tarmac I pulled out a hoagie I was bringing from Philly for my friend who had recently moved to Chicago. As I pulled out my huge sandwich to eat my seatmate started drooling and proceeded to tell me he was diabetic.
Jan 26, 2015, 10:32 am
#27
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......and? Did you give it to your seat mate and dash your poor friends hopes? Was your poor, salivating ex-Philly friend deprived of his long-anticipated hoagie just to save someone's life on the plane? Or did you let your seat mate go into insulin shock from lack of food whilst you hogged the hoag? Enquiring minds want to know.
Jan 26, 2015, 11:00 am
#28
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Jan 26, 2015, 11:28 am
#30
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