Originally Posted by seaflyguy

On an LAS-SEA evening flight over the holidays, Mrs Seaflyguy and I were in 2C and 2D respectively. Seated ahead of us in 1C and 1D were a boy of 10 or so and his mother respectively, traveling as a duo. In all my years of flying across multiple airlines, I've never seen a passenger who was as obviously drunk as Ms 1D, and from the moment she boarded.

As the boarding process continued, Mrs Seaflyguy and I quietly remarked to each other how sad it was that a child had to be exposed to a drunk parent like that. We presumed the FAs wouldn't serve her alcohol and wondered if there would be a scene as a result.

During the safety briefing, Ms 1D was talking so loudly that the FA on the microphone paused, poked from around the bulkhead, and said, "Could you please keep your voice down? I can't hear myself speaking." Wow. At this point we were kind of bracing to see how the "I want my drink" confrontation would play out.

The ride was typically bumpy out of LAS, but when the FAs were allowed to get up and and our FA in F started taking drink orders, she didn't object at all to bringing Ms 1D a glass of wine. Ms 1D finished that and then the FA proactively offered her more wine with dinner. Mrs Seaflyguy and I were fairly astonished at this.

After dinner, though Ms 1D had been talking loudly to her son and people across the aisle the entire flight, I noticed her talking differently, and when I peeked between the seats, she was talking on her cell phone in mid-flight. The FA was immersed in a magazine, so I briefly pinged my call button. When she looked up, I pointed at the seat in front of me. She came over and asked Ms 1D to turn off her phone, which she did, albeit with a long, drunken explanation of why she thought it was okay to talk on it.

Now here's what really blew us away. After talking so loudly that the FA couldn't her herself speaking on the PA system, and after talking on her cell phone in mid-flight, the FA then made another pass through the F cabin and yet again offered more wine to Ms 1D.

Short of throwing up in the aisle or getting into a fight, it's hard for me to see how Ms 1D could have displayed her drunkenness any more clearly, and yet our FA kept offering her more drinks. I've never seen anything like it and a week later I'm still shaking my head over it.