That's the point when you "accidentally" jab your pen downward on what you thought was just an "armrest."

+1. People have lost any sense of personal pride or decorum. Anything goes now. It really is shocking how people behave. Several years ago my first class seatmate on a domestic AA flight was cleaning his ears with his keys. A hunk of his earwax flicked onto my traytable. Really nice. No apology or anything from him. Horrible how people behave today. Unfortunately this is a reflection of how casual our society has gotten now.

Kudos to the FA for

Ew... That would have lasted 2 seconds around me.

Sad to say, nothing wrong with the people, because they don't know any better . In today's times people don't know anymore how to behave properly. Nobody teaches them, nobody remembers etiquette at all. People don't respect "foreign" property anymore as foreign, they think they own it. The "I paid for my ticket, I own the airplane" attitude is prevalent everywhere and it does not only include the seat; the F/A as well as the cockpit itself. Airplane seats, Hotel rooms, everyone owns them. And I got news for you, it ain't gonna get better:mad:

It is against AA policy to have bare feet on board? Yes; you must check them in... as sports equipment, or via the Jim Wilson desk. Seriously, some people are just plain crass. :p

Had a guy behind me do that once. It took me five minutes to realize that the smell of musty corn chips was not accompanied by crunching.

I just threw up in my mouth.

I pray I never encounter musty corn chips.

I'm not sure why so many FTers have feet fetishes, or why they are so obsessed with other people's feet, especially bare.

As for the AA CoC, I always took that to mean that you have to have shoes handy, not that you couldn't take them off ever. That would be crazy. People's feet swell on airplanes.

Why do people think that socks or shoes are fine, but the sight of feet is so overwhelming? And why is it worse to have bare feet on a bulkhead than shoes? Shoes are certainly dirtier. People walk around with shoes on streets, parking garages, airport bathrooms, airplane lavatories, all kinds of nasty, wet, body fluids. That's nasty! But if someone with clean feet slips them out of whatever, and you can see them, that's what freaks you out? :confused:

I personally wouldn't walk on an airplane barefoot, because I like to keep my feet clean. But if someone else chooses to do so, it doesn't affect me in the slightest. Their feet, their choice.

Isn't that what the old fuddy-dudies said when the young-uns took to walking around in public hatless? Flaunting their bare heads for all the world to see? And when women started wearing shorter dresses that let one see their ankles? Floozies!

What your seatmate did was worse than rude; it violated your personal space (and could have contaminated your food or drink). That's extremely bad behavior. Likewise if people stink. But bare feet/heads/ankles/shoulders/arms? Who cares? How does it affect you?

If people stink, that affects you. Likewise for flinging items into your space. But allowing a non-obscene body part to be visible? Give me a break. (You may be interested to know that foot odor is generally a result of bacteria in old sweat, so people who go around barefoot pretty much never have an odor problem, while those who wear heavy shoes most of the time, especially those who perspire a lot, do.)

Feet are not supposed to be on the bulkheads. Shoes, socks, barefoot, no feet!!!!!!!! It's not a parking space for any of those.

And what's this thing of going to the toilet in the airplane barefoot or ( when lucky ) in socks? Ouch or Jikes ( however you spell it ) !!!!

I have my kitchen redone in my U.S. house. Everyone comes in with their shoes. It's a disgrace. I have to ask everyone to take their shoes off. What's this thing in the U.S?

But then I watch the TV shows here and everybody keeps their shoes on in house and puts them on the dining room table. What's up with that?????

OK, flame me!!!

Ugh. That happened to me. I started shifting my seat back and forth enough to annoy him until he put his foot down. This was also in F. I don't see how they think they don't have enough leg space!

Now that's gross!

To the ear cleaning I simply would have thrown up, it would have been like the scene out of" stand by me" .

Well, let's turn the question around: where do you draw the line (or do you draw a line), and why? Should pax be allowed to go shirtless? Trouserless?

Well, would you really like these feet on an armrest / bulkhead near you? ;) (Not to mention it's quite unsafe for taxiing, takeoff and landing in case a speedy exit should be required.)

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Those feet have clearly spent too much time in shoes. It's not natural.

Personally, I don't much care if people are shirtless or not, especially since tank-tops are commonly worn in public (and on planes). But if you want to draw the line at tank-tops, and say anything less is not OK, go ahead. Seems reasonable. What about halter-tops? I've seen plenty of people on planes with bare midriffs (including many with "muffin tops"), so I'd have to say you may as well allow those as well. :shrug: As for trousers, well, shorts are common already, and many bathing suits are indistinguishable from shorts. Speedos? I don't care either way, but if you want to prohibit them, fine. I assume you're OK with bare heads, arms, shoulders, ankles, and legs? So we're really talking about how much of the torso and area between waist and knees must be covered?

I see feet on bulkheads all the time, it's extremely common. Shoes, socks, bare. :shrug: If you want to ban all feet from bulkheads, no matter what they're wearing, well, at least that would be consistent. Armrests are a different matter entirely, as they are the personal space of the people in that row. Someone in the row behind (or across) shouldn't usurp them.