I was on a domestic flight earlier this year (pre-virus scare) and I stepped into the galley at the back of the plane to wait for the restroom and a flight attended told me to step back into the aisle. I assumed this was just an uptight flight attendant.

Then a few weeks later it happened again on a different airline. The flight attendant pointed to the "line" where the aisle carpet meets the galley floor and told me to wait there.

Note, I am not someone who hangs out in the galley to try to chat with flight attendants. But sometimes it's hard for someone exiting the restroom to then have squeeze past someone standing right in the aisle.

This weekend I was on a United flight and there was a pre-flight announcement that included "don't go into the galley." I don't recall ever hearing that before.

Is this a new rule or something flight attendants are now more uptight about?