Keep in mind, I am sitting in a packed Sakura lounge in KIX with my wife and there is nowhere to comfortably move. I just had a guy sit down next to me that has his MP3 player cranked up to an obnoxious level, much louder than anyone would need to reasonably listen to music. He has eaten 10 bags of that Japanese mix and hasn't once shut his mouth.

Would you say something to him? I certainly wouldn't say something about the constant smaking, but blaring music is another. Does he have a right to listen to the music at whatever volume he pleases? What is too loud?

I am concerned that it will get worse as he has slammed 5 beers in 15 minutes (no more than two drinks per full beer.)

If I didn't know better I would think I was on an episode of Candid Camera.

Go to the lounge attendants and ask them to say something to him. Tell them you are very upset by it and so is your wife.

Ive been in the lounge many times. I know what you mean.

If he bothers you, you should say something to him. I wouldn't consider calling the lounge warden at that point yet... Most people are not aware that certain types of headphones strongly leak sound.

Actually there has been a public campaign in Japanese trains a while ago pointing out this issue.

(I hope you are already on your flight or even at your destination by now...)

HTB.

Lounge behavior is getting worse and worse. In the A17 CRC at ATL this morning there was a fat kid (yes, fat) in t-shirt and shorts with no shoes on asleep on a couch right in the middle of the room. His nasty feet were on the couch and his nasty flip flops were on the floor. I mentioned it to one of the attendants and they woke him up, but as soon as they disappeared he flopped back down and put his feet back up. I told him to get his nasty feet off the couch and he at least did that, but kept his sloppy self draped all over the couch.

When of one my passengers has her mp3 player turned way up, and I can hear it in the aisle, I usually tap her forearm or some way get her attention and tell her the song she is listening to is about to make all the rest of us start dancin' in the aisle, and that it would not be pretty...or something like that. She will usually apologize and turn it down, and the person sitting next her usually is quite grateful....

While I certainly agree that having bare feet on a sofa in the lounge is disgusting, I don't understand why it was relevant to mention he was "fat."

I am thinking that this adds to the gross factor. Why not add that he was fat? If he had long dirty hair, pimples and bad breath that would add to the story.