That's almost as good as what happened to me last year. I was on a small prop on CO from PIT-CLE (a BE1 perhaps? single aisle, about 12 rows, bench seat in back...) to connect to a flight to BNA. The flight is all of 25 minutes long.

We taxi out, are de-iced, and take off. About 10 minutes into the flight, the woman across the aisle looks at me and says "Is there a bathroom on here?" I look around (knowing full well there isn't) and say, "Uhhhh....no..."

(lady)"Is your coffee cup empty?"

**uh oh**

"No" I reply..."Why?"

(lady)"I really have to go"

(me) "We'll be on the ground in about 15 minutes - can you wait?"

(lady) "NO!!"

She then proceeds up to the co-pilot (there was no door to the cockpit) and taps him on the shoulder. He about jumps out of his skin, rips his headset off and yells, "Jesus, lady! What's wrong?!" She states she REALLY needs to use the rest room. He states that they can "put the plane down somewhere" if she really needed to go.

The hell you will - we all have connections to make...

She says: "No, that's OK - can I have your empty coffee cup?"

At this point the couple in front of me look at each other and start laughing.

The obviously bladder-control compromised woman starts back down the aisle to the back of the plane. The lady in front of me says (half jokingly) "Do you want me to hold your coat, dear?"

Now, I and the other 3 people on the plane assume that she meant "I'll hold your floor-length leather coat while you go do your thing so you don't pee on it..."

What the woman took it as was, "I'll hold your coat as a shield so your 4 new best friends don't see you pee into this cup..." and she replies, "WOULD YOU? THAT'D BE GREAT! Just hold it in front of me!"

They troop off to the back of the plane.

At this point, I look at the hubby of the "good samaritan" and say "This would make a great story, but no one will ever believe it..." He agrees.

They come back - good samaritan is all red-faced, Ms. I.P. Now is quite pleased with herself and announces "WHOA! I feel MUCH better!"

Well, thank God for that...

As she puts the coffee cup in a paper bag she happened to have with her, we start our descent into CLE.

What you won't see on a 25 minute flight...