Even more annoying than infants in First Class
Jan 24, 2001 | 9:14 am
#31
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Even more annoying than crying, screaming infants in First Class, are the people sitting in First Class who think they are better than the rest of the people on the plane 
Also, to add to the above, are the FA's who work First Class, who think they are better than the rest of the people on the plane
Not all people, or FA's, are like this, of course.. But they are out there..
Also, to add to the above, are the FA's who work First Class, who think they are better than the rest of the people on the plane
Not all people, or FA's, are like this, of course.. But they are out there..
Jan 24, 2001 | 3:44 pm
#32
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Originally posted by Jon Toner:
My pet peeve - the person who, when finding out I work with computers, proceeds to either ask advice what to buy, or tells me all about their nephew/brother/uncle/etc. who knows all about them.
From now on when people ask what I do for a living, I'm going to say I'm flying in to do site selection for a new chemical waste dump and ask if there are open fields near where they live.
My pet peeve - the person who, when finding out I work with computers, proceeds to either ask advice what to buy, or tells me all about their nephew/brother/uncle/etc. who knows all about them.
From now on when people ask what I do for a living, I'm going to say I'm flying in to do site selection for a new chemical waste dump and ask if there are open fields near where they live.
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Jan 24, 2001 | 4:15 pm
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People trailing wheeled bags behind them who don't have back-up lights and an alarm.
People who stop in the aisle to have a conversation and won't move until you practically yell EXCUSE ME in their ear or poke them.
People who poke you to get past you without even trying to ask you first.
People who spend the whole flight crouching in the aisle talking to their seated friend so that everyone needing to get past to get to the lavatory has to be an acrobat.
People wearing enormous backpacks who manage to get absolutely each passenger in an aisle seat as they work their way to the last row.
People who stop in the aisle to have a conversation and won't move until you practically yell EXCUSE ME in their ear or poke them.
People who poke you to get past you without even trying to ask you first.
People who spend the whole flight crouching in the aisle talking to their seated friend so that everyone needing to get past to get to the lavatory has to be an acrobat.
People wearing enormous backpacks who manage to get absolutely each passenger in an aisle seat as they work their way to the last row.
Jan 24, 2001 | 9:56 pm
#34
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My personal fave was the middle aged bald guy with the overly madeup, obviously plastic surgery-enhanced girlfriend/trophy wife/well-paid call girl who sat next to me on a flight once from Chicago to Boston.
From the time they boarded she would not shut up about how she'd never flown in coach in her life! She couldn't believe they had no more seats left and how she thought she would rather die than be there.
She couldn't find a place to put her camel hair coat (described loudly), or her Louis Vuitton garment bag so she would put the coat in the overhead bin but was CONVINCED she would get oil or some muck on it.
Then she proceeded to talk about how crammed it was in coach and how she was getting claustrophobic and how she was going to take some pills to "take the edge off". Then ruffled through her pharmacology bag/purse and downed something with her wine she had ordered.
Her boyfriend/husband/john just looked incredibly pained the whole time and when she tried to shove some pills at him he said, and I quote: "I don't have an edge darling".
Ironically I was on a heavily reduced fare flying in coach and was reading a very funny book by Dominick Dunne about the excesses & eccentricities of the rich. I almost busted up loudly several times during her tirades. Instead I raised the book up & smiled from behind it.
When the meals came, she said, dripping with sarcasm, "Oh, I can't wait to see what a coach meal looks like" and when my special meal was delivered (not for dietary needs but because I think they're better....less mass production) they both said...."Well how did you get that?". I smiled sweetly and told them I called ahead.
I truly had never witnessed such snobbery in rare form, and I grew up near some pretty wealthy people in the Bay Area. Incredibly amusing & TOTALLY ANNOYING at the same time.
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Karen
From the time they boarded she would not shut up about how she'd never flown in coach in her life! She couldn't believe they had no more seats left and how she thought she would rather die than be there.
She couldn't find a place to put her camel hair coat (described loudly), or her Louis Vuitton garment bag so she would put the coat in the overhead bin but was CONVINCED she would get oil or some muck on it.
Then she proceeded to talk about how crammed it was in coach and how she was getting claustrophobic and how she was going to take some pills to "take the edge off". Then ruffled through her pharmacology bag/purse and downed something with her wine she had ordered.
Her boyfriend/husband/john just looked incredibly pained the whole time and when she tried to shove some pills at him he said, and I quote: "I don't have an edge darling".
Ironically I was on a heavily reduced fare flying in coach and was reading a very funny book by Dominick Dunne about the excesses & eccentricities of the rich. I almost busted up loudly several times during her tirades. Instead I raised the book up & smiled from behind it.
When the meals came, she said, dripping with sarcasm, "Oh, I can't wait to see what a coach meal looks like" and when my special meal was delivered (not for dietary needs but because I think they're better....less mass production) they both said...."Well how did you get that?". I smiled sweetly and told them I called ahead.
I truly had never witnessed such snobbery in rare form, and I grew up near some pretty wealthy people in the Bay Area. Incredibly amusing & TOTALLY ANNOYING at the same time.
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Regards-
Karen
Jan 26, 2001 | 5:37 am
#35
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Karen, that is a wonderful yarn. i'll certainly relate it to others. We call people like that "Sloanes". How wonderful to see her Coach virginity being so shamelessly and crassly lost. I'll share with you a tale that a charming AA FA told me in F BOS-ORD as it so happened. He went to take beverage orders from a couple seated in F. He gave his order, the wife made no reply. Three times the FA tried ending up gesturing as he thought that perhaps she did not speak english. At this point her husband interjected. "My wife does not speak to the Hired Help".
Most people who I have met who truly have money would no more say that (even if they thought it, which I sincerely doubt), and would never ever make such an exhibition of themselves as your example. I am staggered that given the richness of her new experience that she made bo comment on having to pay for drinks as I assume that the wine (sorry did not intend to pun!) was not free.
Most people who I have met who truly have money would no more say that (even if they thought it, which I sincerely doubt), and would never ever make such an exhibition of themselves as your example. I am staggered that given the richness of her new experience that she made bo comment on having to pay for drinks as I assume that the wine (sorry did not intend to pun!) was not free.
Jan 26, 2001 | 7:53 am
#36
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Originally posted by PAUL PALMER:
At this point her husband interjected. "My wife does not speak to the Hired Help".
At this point her husband interjected. "My wife does not speak to the Hired Help".
Jan 26, 2001 | 3:36 pm
#37
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In the vein of "Or (and ANY lawyer, doctor, dentist, or any person with any appreciable skills knows this) asks you for professional advice." and the posting about being asked computer advice, I must have been a severe disappointment to the professional golfer who sat next to me 3 years from SIN to TPE.
He told me his name, which not surprisingly did not ring a bell as the only golfing names I can only recognize are Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino and maybe a couple of others. He then told me he had just played in a golf tournament in Malaysia and then we just chatted a couple of minutes on some inconsequentials. I then continued reading a newspaper and eventually got to the sports section. He noticed, pointed to a photograph, and said thats a photo of his buddy, the winner of the tournament. I didn't recognize that name either so just said something like thats nice.
I don't think we talked anymore
. I think he was really expecting me to ask him about golf, but at that time, I had yet to play my first golf game.
He told me his name, which not surprisingly did not ring a bell as the only golfing names I can only recognize are Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino and maybe a couple of others. He then told me he had just played in a golf tournament in Malaysia and then we just chatted a couple of minutes on some inconsequentials. I then continued reading a newspaper and eventually got to the sports section. He noticed, pointed to a photograph, and said thats a photo of his buddy, the winner of the tournament. I didn't recognize that name either so just said something like thats nice.
I don't think we talked anymore
. I think he was really expecting me to ask him about golf, but at that time, I had yet to play my first golf game.
Jan 26, 2001 | 11:08 pm
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i read somewhere that some 'snob'celebrities DO NOT speak directly to the 'hired help', be that FAs, Chauffers, Hotel Managers...etc.
they speak through their assistants who are always by their side...
(some of them also specifically ask people not to look directly into their eyes!
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question: aren't the assistants also 'hired help'?
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they speak through their assistants who are always by their side...
(some of them also specifically ask people not to look directly into their eyes!
)question: aren't the assistants also 'hired help'?
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Jan 29, 2001 | 12:33 pm
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... and people who sit/lean on my aisle seat armrest or push against my seatback while either waiting in line to get their seats, use the lav or because they have a friend behind me and spend the whole flight talking. Believe it or not I do not enjoy having your butt in my face. Why didn't you try to get seats together?
... people like the woman next to me in the window seat on a red-eye, who just HAD to talk - loudly, of course, what other way is there? - past me to her friend who stayed in the aisle, when friend finally left and I thought NOW I can get some sleep since I had to go to work the next day, don't know about her, asked if she could borrow my magazine, grabbed it before I could get an answer out, and then spent the remainder of the flight LOUDLY flipping/snapping the pages.
... I love to meet people but am sometimes pretty tired from a long trip and want to sleep on a late-night flight, how about the bored guy next to you who keeps trying to make conversation despite my short answers, wearing my headphones, finally coming right out and saying, "can we chat later I need to get some sleep", but continues to chat and ask questions anyway.
... another one from the window seat in my row who kept getting up to use the restroom, and told me she was "supposed" to get up each 20 minutes. (This is a late night x-country flight, trying desperately to sleep!) OK, but if you *know* this, why not ask for an aisle seat from the start, if you can't get one, agree to switch?
... people who just shove their way by me, even though I am before them in line, while trying to get on the plane. Hey, we are not going anywhere until we are all seated, what is your rush. Even when they shove past me on the way off - trying to make a connection? - and seeing them at the next flight, for all that shoving, I still got there before you did so what is the point of being so rude.
... last month I had the whole row, 3 seats to myself on CO, again late night flight, and so ended up with three pillows and three blankets. I laid down - on two of the pillows so it's not like it looked like I was not going to USE them! - and closed my eyes ...The woman across the aisle from me asked if she could have a pillow. OK. Try to go back to sleep, she is back looking for a blanket. Then, back for the second pillow (second pillow for HER, not for a companion, why should she have two when they were "mine" in the first place?) I gave it to her anyway but when she came back to ask for my magazine, I asked her, "is there anything ELSE you need?" I don't understand why she looked annoyed.
... getting off at Customs, near the front of the line since I had been able to get off relatively early from the premium coach seat. Really annoying woman behind me who kept getting up during the flight to rustle through her bags despite FA telling her she had to be seated, pulling/kicking my seat back, flipping tray table up and down, loud voice etc, etc. shoving by me in the customs line because she was "with group". ("group" of about 3 other women) I said, "NO! Go back and get in line, you can't do this." Did not make any difference, she shoved by me and some others to get to her "group" anyway. Of course, we all had to wait for our bags at the same carousel and mine came out first anyway. Had she asked NICELY, I would probably have let her in but it's just the unbelievable rudeness.
... people like the woman next to me in the window seat on a red-eye, who just HAD to talk - loudly, of course, what other way is there? - past me to her friend who stayed in the aisle, when friend finally left and I thought NOW I can get some sleep since I had to go to work the next day, don't know about her, asked if she could borrow my magazine, grabbed it before I could get an answer out, and then spent the remainder of the flight LOUDLY flipping/snapping the pages.
... I love to meet people but am sometimes pretty tired from a long trip and want to sleep on a late-night flight, how about the bored guy next to you who keeps trying to make conversation despite my short answers, wearing my headphones, finally coming right out and saying, "can we chat later I need to get some sleep", but continues to chat and ask questions anyway.
... another one from the window seat in my row who kept getting up to use the restroom, and told me she was "supposed" to get up each 20 minutes. (This is a late night x-country flight, trying desperately to sleep!) OK, but if you *know* this, why not ask for an aisle seat from the start, if you can't get one, agree to switch?
... people who just shove their way by me, even though I am before them in line, while trying to get on the plane. Hey, we are not going anywhere until we are all seated, what is your rush. Even when they shove past me on the way off - trying to make a connection? - and seeing them at the next flight, for all that shoving, I still got there before you did so what is the point of being so rude.
... last month I had the whole row, 3 seats to myself on CO, again late night flight, and so ended up with three pillows and three blankets. I laid down - on two of the pillows so it's not like it looked like I was not going to USE them! - and closed my eyes ...The woman across the aisle from me asked if she could have a pillow. OK. Try to go back to sleep, she is back looking for a blanket. Then, back for the second pillow (second pillow for HER, not for a companion, why should she have two when they were "mine" in the first place?) I gave it to her anyway but when she came back to ask for my magazine, I asked her, "is there anything ELSE you need?" I don't understand why she looked annoyed.
... getting off at Customs, near the front of the line since I had been able to get off relatively early from the premium coach seat. Really annoying woman behind me who kept getting up during the flight to rustle through her bags despite FA telling her she had to be seated, pulling/kicking my seat back, flipping tray table up and down, loud voice etc, etc. shoving by me in the customs line because she was "with group". ("group" of about 3 other women) I said, "NO! Go back and get in line, you can't do this." Did not make any difference, she shoved by me and some others to get to her "group" anyway. Of course, we all had to wait for our bags at the same carousel and mine came out first anyway. Had she asked NICELY, I would probably have let her in but it's just the unbelievable rudeness.
Jan 29, 2001 | 1:56 pm
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add:
--people who forget they're wearing backpacks down the aisle and insist on twisting around to blabber with their travelling companions, deftly whapping anyone in an aisle seat upside the head. these packs generally seem to contain 2-3 bowling balls or lots of large rocks.
-- me to snappish woman standing in Y center row of arrived 777: "ma'am, can you sit down for a second so we can open the overhead, wouldn't want to hit you in the head with it y'know." woman: "F*ck you. I ain't sittin down. I been sittin down for four hours so you just go f*ck yourself!" the glares and grumbles from all of us got her moving. ugh. a disgusting, evil person upon whom I wish a plague of uncontrollable, trombone-like wind.
--idiotic men behind me who think flailing away at a tray table trying to do their best impersonation of whatever drummer is in the band they're listening to on the audio channel is an OK, harmless thing to do. this simply astonished me; how could these guys not know that tray-table bashing annoys the living sh*t out of whoever's in front?
--a parent who brought on two enormous "diaper" bags (my gosh that baby must produce simply mountains of poop to need what looked like six dozen disposable nappies) plus an enormous $2500 all-wheel-drive w/ anti-lock brakes 'stroller', who started loud whining when she filled up all available overhead bin space and still hadn't managed to stash the now-folded (seemingly impossible, but they did it) stroller, which the FA grabbed to gate-check and there ended up being a bit of a tussle between Mommy and FA. FA won and on schedule Mommy went off viz: "I can't believe this sh*t!! I'm never flying this f*cking airline again!!" at full blast. what a fabulous role model for Baby Megapoops! FA came back with the purser and gate agent and soon Mommy and Baby M. and their 20 cubic feet of stuff were off the plane, with the stupid cow shrieking obscenities all the way into the terminal. pax cheered as she passed by. it was all very... just.
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--people who forget they're wearing backpacks down the aisle and insist on twisting around to blabber with their travelling companions, deftly whapping anyone in an aisle seat upside the head. these packs generally seem to contain 2-3 bowling balls or lots of large rocks.
-- me to snappish woman standing in Y center row of arrived 777: "ma'am, can you sit down for a second so we can open the overhead, wouldn't want to hit you in the head with it y'know." woman: "F*ck you. I ain't sittin down. I been sittin down for four hours so you just go f*ck yourself!" the glares and grumbles from all of us got her moving. ugh. a disgusting, evil person upon whom I wish a plague of uncontrollable, trombone-like wind.
--idiotic men behind me who think flailing away at a tray table trying to do their best impersonation of whatever drummer is in the band they're listening to on the audio channel is an OK, harmless thing to do. this simply astonished me; how could these guys not know that tray-table bashing annoys the living sh*t out of whoever's in front?
--a parent who brought on two enormous "diaper" bags (my gosh that baby must produce simply mountains of poop to need what looked like six dozen disposable nappies) plus an enormous $2500 all-wheel-drive w/ anti-lock brakes 'stroller', who started loud whining when she filled up all available overhead bin space and still hadn't managed to stash the now-folded (seemingly impossible, but they did it) stroller, which the FA grabbed to gate-check and there ended up being a bit of a tussle between Mommy and FA. FA won and on schedule Mommy went off viz: "I can't believe this sh*t!! I'm never flying this f*cking airline again!!" at full blast. what a fabulous role model for Baby Megapoops! FA came back with the purser and gate agent and soon Mommy and Baby M. and their 20 cubic feet of stuff were off the plane, with the stupid cow shrieking obscenities all the way into the terminal. pax cheered as she passed by. it was all very... just.
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Jan 29, 2001 | 2:18 pm
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The rude french tourists at Universal Studios who tried to cut me in line at the margarita stand and proceeded to berate me in french when I called her out on it.
I still wish I called her a "cochon gras".
I still wish I called her a "cochon gras".