Funny and Horrible at the same Time: the Coke Explosion
 

Right this minute I am on a flight from DCA to SEA sitting in the exit-row aisle seat and was just served a full can of Coke Zero. The flight attendant just barely cracked open the can and set it on my outstretched tray and as she walked away some mysterious force caused it to slide straight off of my tray falling perfectly upright and hit the floor square on its bottom. This caused a spectacular fountain of coke to erupt in a fan-spray pattern, amplified by the meager crescent opening, that reached forward two rows and aft three rows from floor to ceiling. It only lasted less than a second- faster than I could reach and grab it, but it emptied 2/3 of the can. The damage was amazing; the guy in the aisle seat next opposite mine hit from the soul of his boot to the top of his head including a direct hit directly into his ear. He was, understandably, infuriated, and leapt out of his seat wiping madly at his face, shirt, pants and boots. Up and down the aisle people went to work with the tiny napkins wiping the various parts hit by the soda shrapnel with the unaffected chipping-in to help with their tiny napkins in a real show of solidarity under fire. The flight attendant rushed to grab a stack of miniature napkins and returned to deal them about the affected cabin area. Everyone was wiping themselves, their seat mates, the seats, and the cabin walls, windows, overhead and ceiling. I sheepishly offered apologies all around which were met mostly with dagger-eyes and largely unintelligible but clearly unfriendly remarks, probably noting that I was nearly unscathed.

This leads me to wonder- what disasters have you caused, witnessed, or been the victim of on your travels in the cramped confines of our aluminum arrows? There must be some amusing stories out there...

BTW- if you were on my flight and were affected by the soda fountain, again, I apologize.

Worst I've seen was a little kid sneeze and spit his juice box all over a woman in white as she was boarding.

Worst I've experienced was having a food tray dropped on me while I was sleeping...it had hot gravy.

Fell asleep holding a G&T and dropped it the OH's lap... while I was amused to a degree - she most certainly was not. That was an hour into a LHR-DFW hop :)

Photos would be nice.

This belongs in Reported Trips rather than Trip Reports.

Mods? :>

Why on Earth is this in Trip Reports? Moderator, please close.

On a flight from JFK-MIA, I asked for a gin and tonic. The FA handed it to me and i cupped the drink from the bottom, but had not had a full hold of it. The hand-off was incomplete and i spilled it on the FC seat next to me. Luckily that seat was empty, and we were able to clean up the mess before the pax sitting in the seat boarded the plane. He was none the wiser.

From then on in that flight, the FA placed it on the pull out drink tray.

While Trip Reports might not be the best category moving it might be a better idea than closing it. You could just click the alert Mod button instead of asking for it to be closed.

I think this one will be best served in the TravelBuzz! forum.

Moomba
Moderator: Trip Reports

Had a Coke spilled on me at the start of a family road trip to the grand canyon over the summer.

Sitting in coke soaked jeans for a 6+ drive from our house to the Grand Canyon in a sweltering station wagon without a/c was miserable.

Ha, I actually find it quite funny...definitely a s***t happens moment.

Worst thing that happened to me is I was sitting in Qantas business on a flight in Australia and the FA poured my red wine into a glass and passed it across the aisle seat without noticing the hole in the bottom of the cup so by the time I grabbed it and held the cup over the floor the lady next to me had red lines zig zagging across her pants, the FA had it on her uniform and I had it down one leg leading to a puddle on the floor.

OP, that description is laugh out loud funny. Sorry for the people who got soaked, but I wish I had seen it myself.

This happened on the train when I was a kid.
 

I went to the lounge car and bought a coke. A mother kid in front of me bought a coke too. We both headed back to the dome car. He shook his can the entire way (about 4 cars). I sat down and opened my coke with no problem. The other kid opened his. The coke shot up out of the can, hot the dome glass, and sprayed several passengers.

I was twenty, en route from CDG to JFK, aisle seat in a five-across configuration. About an hour into the flight, beverage service arrived at our row. Guy next to me ordered a tomato juice. Flight attendant poured juice and reached over me to hand can and cup to passenger.

Something caused her to drop both on my head. My hair, clothing (white top, of course), and the seat around me were completely drenched and stained. There was nowhere to move me to as it was a 100% full flight.

I stewed in someone else's juice for the next six hours.

DL flight from ATL to PRG, sitting in BE. First round of drinks and the man sitting next to me spills a screwdriver on me. Fortunately, most went on the seat and not me and I had the tray tablecloth to wipe it up. He doesn't assist in the clean-up, nor does he apologize. He asks the FA for another drink and proceeds to spill that one on me too, getting more on me this time. Again, no apology nor offer to help clean it up. :mad::mad: I went to the lavatory to wash off what I could of the spilled orange juice and then moved my seat. Perhaps that was his plan all along - to drive his seatmate away.

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. :rolleyes:

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. :eek:

That was a joke....:D

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.

Two terrible things have happened to me. Both while flying with my daughter.

On her first flight, ORD-LAS, we were inexperienced with children. We put her in a swim diaper figuring it would keep more moisture in. Wrong. I changed out of my pants in the lav and hope to never do so again. It was close quarters. Funny in retrospect.

On my most recent flight with my daughter, LGA-ORD, she vomited on descent. Luckily very little got on anyone. Just the seats and her clothes. I've never seen a taxi take so long. Or deboarding. Or the walk of shame to the nearest bathroom where I changed her clothes. Just awful. I apologized to the flight attendants, but no apology is enough for that.

Sipes it's ok...I threw up all over myself, my seat, the pillow I had, and the pillow of the person next to me at 3am on a red-eye (for me) from LAX to MEL a few weeks ago. And I was in a window seat. Everyone was sleeping and the cabin was dark. Dunno what it was, cause the food was great.

Haven't had any drink incidences YET...but I'd take any of the drink incidences over my issue! Thank goodness I had an extra set of clothes in my carry on.

I literally LOLed at that vivid description by the OP!

It seems my "reported trips" comment sailed right over your head.

You missed the :>

Yup, missed it. I'm an old dude and not yet hip to the electronic groove. I'll have my 17 year old school me on the lingo. Ciao!

DL flight LAX-CVG, approx 2006. Just before boarding, I got in a fight with my then-GF. Only logical thing to do for 4 hours was to drink. I think I had 6 or 7 vodka and cranberries.

About an hour before landing, the girl in front of me hopped up and ran to the galley. She came back with many, many napkins. She had dropped her whole can of coke in her seat.

When she was done cleaning, she turned to ask me if any got on pants or shoes. I pulled my leg out from under her seat, and literally from my knee down, my pants were soaked as was my shoe.

She was very apologetic, but I replied "Don't worry about it. I'm so trashed, I didn't feel a thing."

20 years ago:

Friday afternoon flight to see friends for the weekend. Still in my suit and tie from work (no casual Fridays at that office). Only packed clean shirt/tie as I was flying back Monday a.m. and heading straight to work and planned on wearing the same suit.

In bulkhead row. Little girl next to me decides to close her tray (the kind that folds into the armrest) and catapults her OJ onto my suit.

I'm just surprised and girl is crying and mom is screaming at her. I felt so bad for her - I had a funny story for Monday but the poor girl was traumatized. I kept telling the mom it was OK but she wouldn't stop berating the girl.

Man, 20 years later and I still feel bad for that kid.

You still don't get the, admittedly feeble, attempt at humor. Look up the definitions of the word "trip". Think "stumble".

Oh. I just got it too! :D

No; only if he does it a third time.