What's your weirdest seat-mate behavior?
Jun 8, 2018, 3:03 pm
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As the OP I thank you many times my FT friends for making me laugh, cry, and understand that having to breathe in some nut-job's nail dust for 20 minutes was actually not so bad.
If I may nominate a winner, it's Mr. "Pee in the bag and hand it to the FA"
I wish a FA would start a thread like this. They must have seen some .....
If I may nominate a winner, it's Mr. "Pee in the bag and hand it to the FA"
I wish a FA would start a thread like this. They must have seen some .....
Jun 8, 2018, 5:38 pm
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As the OP I thank you many times my FT friends for making me laugh, cry, and understand that having to breathe in some nut-job's nail dust for 20 minutes was actually not so bad.
If I may nominate a winner, it's Mr. "Pee in the bag and hand it to the FA"
I wish a FA would start a thread like this. They must have seen some .....
If I may nominate a winner, it's Mr. "Pee in the bag and hand it to the FA"
I wish a FA would start a thread like this. They must have seen some .....
The thing about that though that is maybe even worse than it happening, well, unless you were sitting there I suppose, was how believable it was to me. If you told that to the person in front of you in line at the grocery store they probably wouldn’t believe it. And I’ve never seen anything like it. But after flying like 4 million miles and reading this forum for a decade and a half or whatever and I’m like, sure, that happened.
Jun 8, 2018, 7:27 pm
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I'd venture to guess that it won't be long until someone posts about an encounter with me as a seat mate. "Then he took the safety card out of the seat back pocket AND TOOK A PICTURE OF IT!" 
The things I have done to get good content for my trip reports has risen an eyebrow or two, I'm sure of it.
The things I have done to get good content for my trip reports has risen an eyebrow or two, I'm sure of it.
Jun 8, 2018, 7:32 pm
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Jun 8, 2018, 7:36 pm
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I'd venture to guess that it won't be long until someone posts about an encounter with me as a seat mate. "Then he took the safety card out of the seat back pocket AND TOOK A PICTURE OF IT!" The things I have done to get good content for my trip reports has risen an eyebrow or two, I'm sure of it.
The things I have done to get good content for my trip reports has risen an eyebrow or two, I'm sure of it.
Jun 9, 2018, 1:18 am
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One recent, one many years ago.
3 weeks ago. Short last leg night flight heading home. I'm in F seat 4E on an AA 737-800. As I'm sipping my GT, I notice. Young, well dressed, business type guy diagonally in front of me in 3F spends a good portion of the flight scrolling through nude photos of a young women on his iPhone. Very visible to me through the seat gap. Personally, I'm not offended, could care less, none of my business, he's not bothering me in the least, but I am just amused that anyone would look at something so personal in a confined public space. F was full btw. He had a seat mate next to him also.
Many years ago. Flight to LAS. Remember the "Club" seats on Southwest Airlines toward the rear of their 737's. 3 and 3 facing each other. 3 of us are in the forward facing seats. Middle aged couple boards and sits in seats facing us. They have a blanket which they cover themselves with up to their chins. Let's just say if they thought they were fooling anyone they weren't. Hands were flying under that blanket during the flight. We just cracked up and laughed till tears ran. We couldn't help it. And it didn't bother or deter the couple in the least. What happens on the way to Vegas, stays on the way to Vegas.
3 weeks ago. Short last leg night flight heading home. I'm in F seat 4E on an AA 737-800. As I'm sipping my GT, I notice. Young, well dressed, business type guy diagonally in front of me in 3F spends a good portion of the flight scrolling through nude photos of a young women on his iPhone. Very visible to me through the seat gap. Personally, I'm not offended, could care less, none of my business, he's not bothering me in the least, but I am just amused that anyone would look at something so personal in a confined public space. F was full btw. He had a seat mate next to him also.
Many years ago. Flight to LAS. Remember the "Club" seats on Southwest Airlines toward the rear of their 737's. 3 and 3 facing each other. 3 of us are in the forward facing seats. Middle aged couple boards and sits in seats facing us. They have a blanket which they cover themselves with up to their chins. Let's just say if they thought they were fooling anyone they weren't. Hands were flying under that blanket during the flight. We just cracked up and laughed till tears ran. We couldn't help it. And it didn't bother or deter the couple in the least. What happens on the way to Vegas, stays on the way to Vegas.
Jun 9, 2018, 5:42 pm
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Holy crap - this happened to me too on a YYZ YVR (transcon) in Y... so just over four hours! I was at a window seat, dude was in middle seat spitting away all flight... It was nasty as nasty can be. Plus there was this nasty smell. He was from SC or GA (forgot exactly where other in that geographical area) and was on his way to Japan... that was his first time to anywhere outside dueling banjos territory...
Jun 10, 2018, 2:39 am
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Jun 10, 2018, 6:27 pm
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Husband and wife duo changing in to their pyjamas on a TK flight EZEIST in the middle of the business class cabin during boarding. The man was hopping around in only his underwear trying to get his PJ pants on, his pale and plump posterior obscuring my TV in the process and coming much to close for comfort to my face.
Guy picking his nose profusely and wiping the remnants all over various parts of his seat on an NH flight HNDLHR in Business Class. For 12 hours. Surprised there wasn't brain damage.
Guy picking his nose profusely and wiping the remnants all over various parts of his seat on an NH flight HNDLHR in Business Class. For 12 hours. Surprised there wasn't brain damage.
Jun 10, 2018, 7:05 pm
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Husband and wife duo changing in to their pyjamas on a TK flight EZEIST in the middle of the business class cabin during boarding. The man was hopping around in only his underwear trying to get his PJ pants on, his pale and plump posterior obscuring my TV in the process and coming much to close for comfoort to my face.
Guy picking his nose profusely and wiping the remnants all over various parts of his seat on an NH flight HNDLHR in Business Class. For 12 hours. Surprised there wasn't brain damage.
Guy picking his nose profusely and wiping the remnants all over various parts of his seat on an NH flight HNDLHR in Business Class. For 12 hours. Surprised there wasn't brain damage.
I was just thinking over the weekend I need to fly more. Then I come back to this thread. 😀
Jun 11, 2018, 5:26 am
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Which reminds me on a UA flight ORD YYZ over 10 years ago, I was seated next to a prominent Toronto plastic surgeon in E+. He was eating a chocolate chip muffin from Starbucks while licking his fingers after every bite and wiping his licked fingers on his seat. This was after every. single. bite.