In that situation are you allowed to just hit the guy?

I was asleep in biz on a 747 to HKG on UA. I was suddenly jolted awake when my seatmate tried to climb over me to access the aisle, but knocked over a glass of water on me in the process. I then got a tongue lashing from the FA, who was concerned that by using a cloth napkin to dry myself off, I would spread white lint all over the cabin.

My glass of water mysteriously ended up in the lap of the deadheading pilot next to me... in just the wrong place. He was very gracious about it, but I felt like a complete fool. I'm glad it wasn't hot coffee.

Laughing hysterically here.

I think my worst was when the DYKWIA sitting next to me sat there drinking red wine from boarding at LAX all across the continent. He never ate, just kept getting that evil red wine refilled. I was in the aisle seat. In my suit, having come straight from work, and hoping to meet up with friends for dinner in the City that night, and just head home with my carry-on (I am a light packer) after the restaurants.

You know where this is headed. FA refills red wine for the umpteenth time on her tray. DYKWIA reaches for it absent-mindedly, not really looking up from his oh-so-engrossing sports magazine. Red wine spills all over me. DYKWIA looks over, realizes what has happened, and asks FA for another red wine. ARE you kidding me? She asks him to wait, as she attempts to clean the wine from my seat. Not to worry: my suit is doing a great job of that. She brings over club soda and salt to try to clean up the suit, but . . .

I ended up having to change in the lav. Loads of fun. FA gives me a form so that the airline will pay for my dry cleaning.

Meanwhile, DYKWIA? He's still rather loudly demanding his red wine. Go figure. Never said a word to me.

When I went on my honeymoon to the Seychelles my wife thoughtfully packed an aerosol can in my luggage, can't remember if it was bug spray or some sunscreen product. Anyway, the thing exploded enroute and I got there to find all of my clothes stained blue. We just happened to be going to an exclusive resort on Praslin island (completely remote), so naturally there was absolutely no way to replace them or get them cleaned, even though the staff did try. I was the 'guy in blue' for ten days and got quite a few stares when we would come down dressed for dinner.

Liquid bomb plot, perhaps?

I agree a post-coke grenade photo would have been cool, but I was already the bain of the flight and the guy with the coke in his ear would surly have been further enraged had I started taking pics...

OK- so it belongs in "Reported Trips" instead of "Trip Reports" (seriously?), or maybe "TravelBuzz", or...? Sorry to have clogged the wrong forum- I know how the forum regulars get irritated by newbie-posts in the wrong place; I just wanted to post it quick while the images were fresh in my mind... I'll try to do better next time. Sadface.

Not during flying but i had a pint of Guinness in a bar in London. I picked the glass of the table, the base of the glass some how became detached from the rest of the glass and stayed on the table. meanwhile i get showered in Guinness and a glass missing the ring on the bottom.

My worst (to date) was when I spilled a glass of water on the gentleman sitting to my right. I usually make a very conscious effort to pay special attention when picking up my glass, but I was reading, was distracted, and let my guard down. I felt like an idiot and what made it worse was that he was such a gentleman about it. I think that when I immediately said, "I'm SO sorry!", he had already forgiven me and forgotten that it happened. I'm just glad that it wasn't a glass of red wine.

I'm considering bringing my own sippy cup in the future. ESPECIALLY when I have red wine

Once, on a MR, (BOS-LAX-BOS) I spilled a Diet Coke on FTer 2001racer.

That was a joke....

Great story OP. The link below is a pic of my Macbook screen from opening this thread. Check out the Google Ad. Had me laughing out loud.

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I can't remember which airline I was on, I think Asiana - I was in the aisle seat, guy next to me ordered coffee. He had the cup already on his tray. Instead of taking the cup to fill it in the aisle, the FA reached over me with the hot pitcher of coffee to pour into his cup, which he held in his slightly raised hand. Unseen to the stewardess or me, the flow of the coffee rather than pouring straight out of the pitcher managed to cascade over the side of the pitcher and then back down along the axis of the pitcher, forming a perfect stream of nearly boiling coffee that went directly into my crotch. I was half asleep and woke up when my private parts began to object, only to watch this woman pour about half a cup of coffee into my crotch as she tilted the pitcher further (she was unable to see the stream going down from her point of view). Thank goodness the liquid must have been not quite boiling, because I did not end up with major burns, but it was definitely steaming hot and hurt like hell. I was seatbelted in so it took me a second to move/yell.

I have posted this elsewhere on FT, but at any rate... I once spilled a glass of Coke in my seat-mate's purse...right in the purse, ice and all. This was in F. She unfortunately had placed her purse on the floor in between our seats, not under her seat, so she was kind of asking for it. I apologized profusely, but that was a mess, and embarrassing.