Barefoot on the plane
May 28, 2007 | 12:51 am
#122
Join Date: Aug 2004
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May 30, 2007 | 11:20 am
#124
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Boston Ma. USA
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On my second-last UA flight LHR-SFO I missed out on my pre-selected seat due to a very late connection and was seated just across the isle from my selected seat. Fairly good looking business woman was seated in that seat and a decent looking businessman next to her.
When FA's started distributing nuts and drinks then that guy takes off his shoes, then his socks and starts cleaning his toes sticking his right foot almost next to the nut bowl. To make things worse he suddenly got an itchy nose and started picking his nose with the same finger he used to clean his toes with. As if that wasn't sufficient he used his socks to wipe between his toes and shook his socks to get anything stuck to them off to the floor. Then he calmly proceeded to eat his nuts without washing his hands or putting socks back on.
I really felt sorry for the woman sitting next to him and thanked heavens that my connecting flight was late and I didn't have to sit next to such an individual.
When FA's started distributing nuts and drinks then that guy takes off his shoes, then his socks and starts cleaning his toes sticking his right foot almost next to the nut bowl. To make things worse he suddenly got an itchy nose and started picking his nose with the same finger he used to clean his toes with. As if that wasn't sufficient he used his socks to wipe between his toes and shook his socks to get anything stuck to them off to the floor. Then he calmly proceeded to eat his nuts without washing his hands or putting socks back on.
I really felt sorry for the woman sitting next to him and thanked heavens that my connecting flight was late and I didn't have to sit next to such an individual.
Jan 28, 2011 | 10:54 am
#126
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Away offshore
Programs: UA Silver, HH Gold, peasant elsewhere
Posts: 256
What is that supposed to mean?
As a former resident of Costa Rica and current resident of Miami Beach, I rarely wear anything more than sandals. Flip-flops with shorts or jeans, sandals with jeans or pants. If I have a meeting, I will wear dress shoes and slacks or dress shoes and a suit.
As a former resident of Costa Rica and current resident of Miami Beach, I rarely wear anything more than sandals. Flip-flops with shorts or jeans, sandals with jeans or pants. If I have a meeting, I will wear dress shoes and slacks or dress shoes and a suit.
Hell, where I come from (the snowy Northeast), flip-flops are kosher as long as there's not snow on the ground. For my high school graduation, all the gents wore khakis, jacket and tie, and flip-flops. For me, it's either flip-flops or boots, or boat shoes if I need a closed toe
Jan 28, 2011 | 3:25 pm
#127
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: UK
Programs: IC Hotels Diamond Elite, BA Nothing
Posts: 8,914
Another particularly heavy pax (with shoes on) steps on your toes as you are passing in the aisle or waiting in line for the washrooms. I've seen that happen in a line for ice cream at a beach and heard the crunching noise of the toe bones. That poor girl was in agony and was screaming uncontrollably...horrible
There is some broken glass on the floor if someone has dropped a glass or crockery and the FA's (or cleaners if a previous flight) missed parts of it?
An FA or fellow pax spills some hot coffee or tea on your foot.
There are 4 reasons - took me all of 2 minutes to think of. Apart from that, it is truly disgusting to go into the lavs barefoot or in socks with what is usually on the floor after around 30 minutes of flight.
Jan 28, 2011 | 4:30 pm
#128
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Long Island, NY
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All of these are issues that are suited to ALL parts of the body. If something heavy falls, shouldn't I be wearing shin pads? If someone steps on my toes and I am a woman just wearing a slipper shoe, its not going to stop anything as well...perhaps we should all wear steel toed boots?! I have gotten my foot stepped on MANY times, as I normally wear opened toed sandals, and though it hurts, I have yet to break any bones. People usually have a problem with unkempt feet, but that would be a problem with unkempt parts of ANY body.
You are in an aisle seat and something heavy falls off a meal or DF cart?
Another particularly heavy pax (with shoes on) steps on your toes as you are passing in the aisle or waiting in line for the washrooms. I've seen that happen in a line for ice cream at a beach and heard the crunching noise of the toe bones. That poor girl was in agony and was screaming uncontrollably...horrible
There is some broken glass on the floor if someone has dropped a glass or crockery and the FA's (or cleaners if a previous flight) missed parts of it?
An FA or fellow pax spills some hot coffee or tea on your foot.
There are 4 reasons - took me all of 2 minutes to think of. Apart from that, it is truly disgusting to go into the lavs barefoot or in socks with what is usually on the floor after around 30 minutes of flight.
Another particularly heavy pax (with shoes on) steps on your toes as you are passing in the aisle or waiting in line for the washrooms. I've seen that happen in a line for ice cream at a beach and heard the crunching noise of the toe bones. That poor girl was in agony and was screaming uncontrollably...horrible
There is some broken glass on the floor if someone has dropped a glass or crockery and the FA's (or cleaners if a previous flight) missed parts of it?
An FA or fellow pax spills some hot coffee or tea on your foot.
There are 4 reasons - took me all of 2 minutes to think of. Apart from that, it is truly disgusting to go into the lavs barefoot or in socks with what is usually on the floor after around 30 minutes of flight.
Jan 29, 2011 | 2:29 am
#129
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: UK
Programs: IC Hotels Diamond Elite, BA Nothing
Posts: 8,914
All of these are issues that are suited to ALL parts of the body. If something heavy falls, shouldn't I be wearing shin pads? If someone steps on my toes and I am a woman just wearing a slipper shoe, its not going to stop anything as well...perhaps we should all wear steel toed boots?! I have gotten my foot stepped on MANY times, as I normally wear opened toed sandals, and though it hurts, I have yet to break any bones. People usually have a problem with unkempt feet, but that would be a problem with unkempt parts of ANY body.
Jan 29, 2011 | 1:46 pm
#130
Join Date: Oct 2003
Programs: MP, 1K 1MM
Posts: 1,255
Still haven't forgotten
the chutzpah of an individual upstairs transpac some months ago who barked at me when I elected to pare a ragged fingernail (with a nail-nipper) and insisted that I "do that in the lav."
To avoid an international scene, he outweighed me by ~ 50 pounds, the slob, I betook myself to a lav, but when I returned to my seat I saw that he was resting his now unshod, bare tootsies on the seatback ahead of him.
No concern on his part about how offensive and unsanitary I (might) find that practice.
The nerve.
To avoid an international scene, he outweighed me by ~ 50 pounds, the slob, I betook myself to a lav, but when I returned to my seat I saw that he was resting his now unshod, bare tootsies on the seatback ahead of him.
No concern on his part about how offensive and unsanitary I (might) find that practice.
The nerve.
Jan 29, 2011 | 1:49 pm
#131
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 238
If you walk barefoot enough, you will eventually develop thick enough skin that is able to withstand glass a lot better than shod skin.
Jan 29, 2011 | 2:47 pm
#132
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 3,096
All of this disgusting behavior on the part of the riff raff stems from a misconception that they are allowed to be as comfortable as possible. That's why you see them in barefeet and with full size pillows. Next they will be running around the aircraft naked.
Comfort is one thing, being a revolting pig is quite another. Even in coach.
Comfort is one thing, being a revolting pig is quite another. Even in coach.
Jan 29, 2011 | 7:14 pm
#133
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Toronto
Posts: 40
Barefoot on the plane
thoughtless behaviour doesn't only happen in coach. Two years ago my family was settling into our bulkhead seats right behind business class on an Air Canada flight from Munich to Toronto. The couple seated behind my husband and I removed their shoes and put their feet up on the back of our headrests as soon as they got to their seats. We were worried about spending several hours in their immediate company, but noticed they were hassling the flight attendants about upgrades. They did get upgraded, and moved forward to be replaced by some quiet students who kept their shoes on. Every time I think of paying the extra to fly business class, I remember that couple.
Jan 29, 2011 | 8:50 pm
#134
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 2,046
The thread lives on! Going barefoot and too much bare skin is offensive to many of your fellow passengers. Knowing that most of John Q. Public considers a shirt and shoes to be common decency of dress for a plane, why do a few consider it such a big deal to wear that for the short duration of a flight? Or is the whole point really to show that you do not conform?
Jan 29, 2011 | 8:56 pm
#135
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 4,449
Fungus on the feet
If someone with fungus on their feet (athlete's foot) walks around the plane barefoot, and the next person walks around the plane (carpeted, remember) barefoot, there is an extremely high liklihood that the 2nd person will contract the athlete's food. Just be warned.