OK, to be fair, male FA's can get nasty too. But this story is about a certain female.

I was on HP from SNA to LAS today. As we were pulling away from the gate, our FA gave the usual safety announcement. A guy a few rows back was talking to his seat partner. The FA was going "AHEM!" in a loud voice, but he kept talking. She stopped her safety annoucement and asked him to be quiet. He kind of waved her away and kept talking. Big Mistake! Back we went to the gate and the sheriff hauled the guy off the plane. He will have to pay the gate fee and deal with whatever federal charges he gets and we were all late to LAS.

Worse, we had to listen to a loud high-pitched lecture about how the FA didn't go to school for 8 weeks to learn safety for nothing. We also heard about how crazy LAS passengers are and how she has been pinched and slapped too many times and she isn't going to take it any longer.

Yes the guy was wrong to talk during the safety announcement and he was really wrong for not deferring to the FA, but his punishment doesn't deserve the crime. And I didn't deserve to be late and have to listen to a lecture from an agitated FA.

I've been worried about this ever since I heard about the zero-tolerance towards air-rage. The FA's have way too much power to crucify someone for pissing them off. I'm sure that 90 percent of the offenders deserve their punishment, but there is no recourse against PMS (male or female).