Originally Posted by jphripjah

Here's a weird one. I was on an American airlines flight, sitting in coach on the aisle.


So as she was getting someone else's drink, I reached over to dump half of my ice back into her little ice basin.

She politely stopped me, took my cup, walked all the way to the back of the plane, presumably dumped out half of it, and then brought back the cup with a more reasonable amount of ice.

I guess I understand this -- once a passenger is served food or drink, no part of that food or drink goes back into service. Probably a good health rule. It was a bit weird though because the cup of ice was only on my tray for about five seconds, more or less within her view the entire time.

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