Continued retaliation by NW FAs??
Jun 6, 2008, 9:00 am
#121
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The issue on long haul WBC flights is typically one has taken thier shoes off to sleep - then need to go to the bathroom. Finding one's shoes in the middle of the night is not that easy - frankly slippers are not a bad idea.
Jun 6, 2008, 11:25 am
#122
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Now where did I say I went into the restroom in my socks? I was born in the daytime, 11:17 AM, but not yesterday.
So tell me just how unsafe and unsanitary it is to walk on a carpeted aisle floor for a lap up and down from the wing exit row to the galley? Probably about as unsafe and unsanitary as sitting in a seat that the flight before you may have been someone with head lice or psoriasis.
So tell me just how unsafe and unsanitary it is to walk on a carpeted aisle floor for a lap up and down from the wing exit row to the galley? Probably about as unsafe and unsanitary as sitting in a seat that the flight before you may have been someone with head lice or psoriasis.
How unsafe and unsanitary is it to walk on the carpet? Try the following: urine, vomit, fecal matter, mucus, phlegm, broken plastic and glass, assorted unimaginables that are left or lost by other people. Don't kid yourself on the aircraft cleaners standards. Even at their low pay, you're getting less than what you pay for.
Jun 6, 2008, 1:33 pm
#123
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Now where did I say I went into the restroom in my socks? I was born in the daytime, 11:17 AM, but not yesterday.
So tell me just how unsafe and unsanitary it is to walk on a carpeted aisle floor for a lap up and down from the wing exit row to the galley? Probably about as unsafe and unsanitary as sitting in a seat that the flight before you may have been someone with head lice or psoriasis.
So tell me just how unsafe and unsanitary it is to walk on a carpeted aisle floor for a lap up and down from the wing exit row to the galley? Probably about as unsafe and unsanitary as sitting in a seat that the flight before you may have been someone with head lice or psoriasis.
Jun 6, 2008, 2:17 pm
#124
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You are correct in one sense. It is unsanitary (to say the least) to walk in socks at security checkpoints.
It is even worse, however, to walk up and down the aisle of a plane in socks. As has been pointed out, the floor is not quite a sterile environment. I guess if you want to walk the aisles in socks, it's your problem, but please don't sit down next to me and dangle your dirty feet in my space!
Jun 6, 2008, 7:28 pm
#125
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... most americans put their feet (in shoes) pretty much anywhere: on the seats, on the bulkheads, etc etc... considering spitting in public is pretty common and the streets are not exactly super clean its amazing how careless people are.
Jun 8, 2008, 4:36 pm
#126
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Jun 8, 2008, 9:42 pm
#127
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So what does this say about all the time we ALL spend in socks or less at security in very heavily traveled tile floors.....
Jun 8, 2008, 10:02 pm
#128
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If you don't gradually expose yourself to bacteria (in the form of urine, vomit, fecal matter, mucus, phlegm, broken plastic and glass, and other assorted unimaginables) you will not develop a resistance to them. So a little on the socks will not be a problem. (Unless you have your entire life religiously Lysoled everything you see before your eyes - - but then just once, on a whim, wear your socks around the aircraft,and then take them off and bunch them up tight to use as an impromptu swizzle stick to stir your inflight pina colada, and then suck the liquid out of the socks so as not to miss the very last drops that they soaked up from your drink).
Unless that is your M.O., walking around in socks on a plane will typically not force the pilot to emergency land at Gander. Next thing you know people will refuse to even expose their shoes to aircraft carpeting and will insist upon being rolled aboard in bubble-boy spheres (this will be an advantage, since we will no longer need seats, and the bubbles can be compressed into a dense bubble-wrap mass within the passenger area of the fuselage).
Here's another solution: take the socks off after you get off the plane and put them in the laundry. (BTW: fresh urine is sterile.)
Unless that is your M.O., walking around in socks on a plane will typically not force the pilot to emergency land at Gander. Next thing you know people will refuse to even expose their shoes to aircraft carpeting and will insist upon being rolled aboard in bubble-boy spheres (this will be an advantage, since we will no longer need seats, and the bubbles can be compressed into a dense bubble-wrap mass within the passenger area of the fuselage).
Here's another solution: take the socks off after you get off the plane and put them in the laundry. (BTW: fresh urine is sterile.)
Jun 9, 2008, 12:56 am
#129
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If you don't gradually expose yourself to bacteria (in the form of urine, vomit, fecal matter, mucus, phlegm, broken plastic and glass, and other assorted unimaginables) you will not develop a resistance to them. So a little on the socks will not be a problem. (Unless you have your entire life religiously Lysoled everything you see before your eyes - - but then just once, on a whim, wear your socks around the aircraft,and then take them off and bunch them up tight to use as an impromptu swizzle stick to stir your inflight pina colada, and then suck the liquid out of the socks so as not to miss the very last drops that they soaked up from your drink).
Unless that is your M.O., walking around in socks on a plane will typically not force the pilot to emergency land at Gander. Next thing you know people will refuse to even expose their shoes to aircraft carpeting and will insist upon being rolled aboard in bubble-boy spheres (this will be an advantage, since we will no longer need seats, and the bubbles can be compressed into a dense bubble-wrap mass within the passenger area of the fuselage).
Here's another solution: take the socks off after you get off the plane and put them in the laundry. (BTW: fresh urine is sterile.)
Unless that is your M.O., walking around in socks on a plane will typically not force the pilot to emergency land at Gander. Next thing you know people will refuse to even expose their shoes to aircraft carpeting and will insist upon being rolled aboard in bubble-boy spheres (this will be an advantage, since we will no longer need seats, and the bubbles can be compressed into a dense bubble-wrap mass within the passenger area of the fuselage).
Here's another solution: take the socks off after you get off the plane and put them in the laundry. (BTW: fresh urine is sterile.)
LOLWhat? Someone countering the mass hysteria of FT with reason, albeit sarcastically?
I would think that someone who has not washed their hands since they got up this morning, has made it through the entire airport circus including the TSA foot fungus festival and is now madly licking the BBQ sauce off of their fingers from whatever smelly, drippy fast "food" they brought on board would be in more danger of infection than someone who took his shoes off again on board.
Jun 9, 2008, 4:25 am
#130
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Jun 9, 2008, 4:27 am
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Jun 9, 2008, 4:44 am
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LOLWhat? Someone countering the mass hysteria of FT with reason, albeit sarcastically?
I would think that someone who has not washed their hands since they got up this morning, has made it through the entire airport circus including the TSA foot fungus festival and is now madly licking the BBQ sauce off of their fingers from whatever smelly, drippy fast "food" they brought on board would be in more danger of infection than someone who took his shoes off again on board.
Jun 9, 2008, 4:57 am
#133
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Good morning from Seoul....
Lets get this thread back on track... if you have something more to say about socks and lavs, take it to OMNI... posting on Retaliation by FA's is OK ... esp those on SQ...
Lets get this thread back on track... if you have something more to say about socks and lavs, take it to OMNI... posting on Retaliation by FA's is OK ... esp those on SQ...
Jul 31, 2008, 1:10 pm
#134
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Let me guess
Let me take a guess....
This sort of 'unusual ' thing happens to you a lot....
You don't understand why it keeps happening to you..
hummmm.. some people thing the world revolves around them and you my dear sound like just such a fool.
This sort of 'unusual ' thing happens to you a lot....
You don't understand why it keeps happening to you..
hummmm.. some people thing the world revolves around them and you my dear sound like just such a fool.
Jul 31, 2008, 1:28 pm
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