Flying into Toronto Island airport last night. Couple behind me did nothing but ..... and moan at ear splitting volume from the moment we boarded until after they walked into the Fairmont on Front (they picked the seat in front of me on the shuttle just for variety!) Anything and everything was woeful, from the type of wine 'You'd think they would have something international' (what with it being a Canadian flight and all, of course...) to the air conditioning (10 minutes before landing to FA - 'my foot is very cold you know [floor vent] you should tell the pilot, it is really unbearable' response 'Well you are welcome to move seats if you like madam, we have plenty of free seats and the cabin temperature is currently 24 degrees which we consider reasonable for a flight at this time of year' to which she responded 'oh well no, we are nearly there now' (so really unbearable then!) and then continued, once the FA left to ..... for the remainder of the flight.

But the one that deserves to be here was the announcment from the male idiot to the female moaner 'well clearly we are coming in from the west you know'. This was said with the big, hard-to-miss CN tower on our right and in a 'can't miss because it rather dominates the landscape even more' way, the pretty setting sun in front of us.

I did chuckle while waiting for the ferry, to hear the staff member tell them not once, not twice, but three times to move up to the start of the queue - they wanted to stand in the middle of the clearly marked queue and .....ed and moaned (while obviously not letting anyone in front of them) that they had to move forward - it was a busy waiting area. Credit to the young guy, he made them look like complete idiots and I was very grateful for the giggle!

Reminds me of a flight I had from YYZ to DUB which was full of NOTHING but old Irish/Canadian biddies whining and moaning that their tea was cold, and to "shut off the movie so they could sleep", and as you say, multiple temp complaints about it being either too hot or too cold (from different pax) and during bumps to "tell the pilot to be more careful". ARRRGH!! And if you thought the flight was bad, baggage claim was an entirely inhuman torture. Oh, and of course old Irish/Canadian biddies have a habit of line cutting ( I belive you Canadians call it "budding") as if their age means the line does not apply to them.

Actually had a "ran in" incident that I can relate personally when I was younger. Back in 1996, when flying from SFO to ORD, a baby on board was crying because of the pressure change, but the parents were good about it and the baby went straight to sleep w/o anymore crying. However, the crying did last about 3-5 minutes and everyone was nice about it, and of course, it could of been a plesant flight, or so you think.

Just about when the baby was about to sleep, a Chinese couple 2 rows behind me in J started talking loudly in their broken Engrish/Chinese complaining about how babies should be kept in check and all that.. it was loud and rude, based on their comments in Chinese and broken Engrish..., being able to understand both, and seeing how the lady next me, and others around me were frowning and getting ready to murder, and of course, being young and impulsive, I "went off" on the couple.. :D

"You know, just because the baby was crying, doesn't mean you have the right to talk loudly on a quiet flight like this. Look around you, whoelse complained, and listen again, the baby was sound asleep. Now look at yourself, you should be ashamed not for your broken Engrish, but your rude comments in Chinese. Just because you said it in a different country, doesn't mean there aren't people who wont understand. You two have been loud for the past 10 minutes nonstop, and the baby was sound asleep. Now do us a favor, shut up and sit down!"

Even now, I still get my adrenaline pumping when I think of that incident. Of course, after I berated them, they were murderous! But the crowd around me stuck up for me with applause and cheers. Boy, that felt good! And just to add salt to their wound, the FA loudly said "Thank you for making my job a lot easier", and personally escorted me off the plane before everyone else. (so I can run for my life I suppose).

Oh, the young days!

Wait you got kicked off the flight? :p

^^

Yup, first one off when we arrived at ORD. :D

Rofl! :p

I know all about people who likes it their way or the high way..

What to do but to let things turn naturally disastrous at times..:rolleyes:

My brother told me this story last night. He and his wife were on a delayed LAX-SJC QX DH4 flight and tempers were flaring due to a three hour delay on a 9 PM flight. Apparently they were taxiing with one propeller running and someone behind him yelled "no wonder this airline is always delayed, they taxi around without using both engines!".

Reading this thread, I think companies should create some kind of "flying" test, similar to the "Waitress/waiter" test, when they hire.

My friend and I, after being sat new to a woman from New York at breakfast two mornings last week, decided there should be an exit test. Your country should administer an exam to determine if you are competent to be allowed out on your own! She was awful, she was .....ing about Canadian money saying it was funny colours, telling the waiter that 'Oh no, the US doesn't have two dollar bills, they'd be fakes' and 'The US only uses notes for dollars and higher'. She also felt the need to tell her friend about 'these funny purple and white flags everywhere', because she thought the Canadians had 'some leaf' on theirs (we were in Montreal :rolleyes:) and other amazing insights.

The best was 'ohhhh it is just like Paris!' Her friend said 'I didn't know you'd been to France'. To which she replied 'Oh no, I haven't, but I've seen it in the movies!'

At top volume. Of course.

every country has their fair share of idiots... we, the proud americans have that lady above, and the chinese have their own loud tourists... i love this world...:D

Actually not totally stupid. In New York, you can use swipe one MetroCard N times in a row for N passengers to get into the Subway, and if you get out and transfer into a bus, when you swipe the first time, the driver gets a message that N passengers are transfers. Swiping N times in the bus would actually result in wasting N-1 tickets.

But in DC the metro is like bart. Your fare is based on distance. The passengers in this case would have had to have swiped their individual tickets when entering the first station. So they should have known they would have to swipe the same tickets when exiting

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I got to use the employee lane at MCO earlier this year because it was the only one with an electronic boarding pass reader that worked.