My most memorable seatmate was the guy that would carefully yank a hair out of his head and then proceed to eat it. He must have done it a hundred times.

Excellent. LOL. Very good. I must admit, I don't think I've ever seen someone buy a USA Today. In fact, not only do I not know anyone who has bought this paper, I don't know anyone who knows anyone who's bought this paper!

KLM Business class check-in desk at jnb.

The guy in front of us waits whilst the agent was half way through checking him in and then produces a roll of duck tape from his jacket pocket. Just as the agent was about to attach the tag to his suitcase, he snatches it back off the scales and proceeds to frantically tape it up-wrapping tape round and round his suitcase whilst continually talking/shouting at himself. He continued this until he had used up the entire roll of tape.

Once on board we noticed that the same guy was seated across the aisle from us. As soon as the seatbelt lights were switched off he reclined his seat, kicked off his shoes and removed his PTV screen from under the armrest.

He then positioned himself with his legs up on top of the PTV screen using it as a footrest and went to sleep. This resulted in his feet bieng directly in front of his seatmates face.

Before his seatmate could say anything the purser observed this and instructed him to remove his feet. He complied but spent the next 10 minutes talking/arguing with himself before going back to sleep for the remainder of the 11 hour flight.

I think it's even stranger that some people don't buy any newspapers, don't bring anything to read/work on/play with, and instead sit in the gate area with vapid stares and then watch the horrid movies selected by the airline for lack of anything else to do (Gigli, anyone?)

1) Flying from SEA to SAN, woman sitting next to me stared at me the entire 2.5 hr flight (her head at 90� angle) and tried to "reach out and touch" in the last 1/2 hr (I mean, I know I'm cute, but really! Actually, pretty likely she was using illicit substances or at least etOH)

2) Flying from SAN to DEN, in F, received proposition from gentleman old enough to be my grandfather, to join his harem of women in various cities in the US. Umm.. no thanks!

Hmmm.. what's the common variable here?

Actually, reading this thread makes me relish my vacation time right now (not travelling!) even more.

Maybe she was just attracted by your pretty Starfleet uniform.

Actually, I was thinking it was the origin/destination (SAN) that was the common variable, because now that I live on the east coast, I don't see any strange passenger behaviour. Ever.

Coming from / going to the COMICON?

That really quacks me up!

This is a fairly hilarious thread! ^

Uh, in the spirit of full disclosure, I must say that when I'm not traveling, I buy USA Today every day. That either makes me a well read, literate person ^ or an illiterate, lazy reader who likes all the colors in USA Today.

At the very least, it makes me the subject for somebody's observation of weird behavior.

Just read this board. A fight breaks out over seat reclining every week.

My Starfleet uniform and my beard make me look just like Cmdr Will Riker and I've never gotten propositioned on a plane!

Okay, so this wasn't on a plane, but it sticks out in my mind. My mom took me on a Greyhound bus from Chicago to Yuma, Arizona, and this one woman was totally whacko. She spent much of the trip sitting in the aisle conversing loudly with herself, and the driver never tried to get her back into a seat. Then she proceeded to lock herself in the restroom and stayed in there two hours! I can't remember how they finally got her out when desperate passengers started to complain. The final straw was when she got into someone's luggage at a rest stop and was busily putting on their clothes when we all got back on the bus. At that point, she was escorted away.

I did see a fellow passenger build a tent out of blankets and hide under it on ATA once, but that was the flight from hell (diverted, aborted landing, all sorts of horror), so I understood her feelings...I was ready to build my own tent and hide!

My spelling is DUCT UP

You guys know that there is a type of facial mask, it's like a white sheet with 3 holes for the eyes and mouth which suppose to hydrate and revitalize the skin? Well, there's been a few times when I walked thru the dark, dark cabin on international flights, suddenly I saw a ghostly face floating in the air looking like the mask in " Scary Movie ", it scared the daylight out of me for a second before I realized that was a lady wearing facial mask!