warreng24

I would have told both of them that for the right price I'd give up my seat.

Mongah

I was on a late night, long flight home to SAN and was very tired and wanted to rest. I just cannot sleep on planes or really get comfy with out a drink or eight and couldn't wait to get airborne to get me a couple. As the door is about to close, I am in the window seat and my middle seat is empty and I am thinking "Score!".

Well just then, 2 people come down the aisle, a rather large, agitated looking guy and a very pretty little lady. I am praying that if one of them has the middle seat, let it be the lady. Guy walks by my row and sure enough the lady has the seat. She sits down, gets settled, we talk a few and she seems very nice. As we take off I am happy and await bev service.

Well all through climbout, she cannot stop talking and complaining. Bev service comes, she orders nothing, I order a double. She keeps talking, talking, talking, then right before my drinks arrive, she conks out. I am thinking, beautiful, she is quiet and my drinks are coming. As soon as my drinks hit my table, her head hits my shoulder. I try to no disturb her as I relax and enjoy my rum and Coke.

Then it happens, she lifts her head off my shoulder and starts telling me to quit moving, I am waking her up. I say I am sorry but stay in your own seat. She is back to sleep and about 15 mins later, BAM, she is leaned on me again. My next 2 drinks come and as I am getting them, she wakes up and is almost yelling at me to quit moving and then complains to the FA. FA basically says tough, stay in your own seat.

Well it happens again and while yelling at me she is hitting the call button. FA arrives and she is complaining to the FA that I should be reseated, I am waking her up, blah blah. FA again basically tells her tough sh**. She continues to berate the FA and the FA finally drags her out and reseats her in the rear. FA comes up to apologize to me, says it is the strangest thing she has seen and gifts me with 4 little bottles of rum.

The guy who passed me before takeoff I notice was 2 rows back across the aisle, passed out at departure and didn't awake till arrival. That will teach me for wishing.

essxjay

Drama! Plot! Intrigue! Great TalkMail fodder.

Taz

I know this guy - or one of his evil clones. Sad to say it's happened to me multiple times. On one occasion, he had the nerve to tell me that HE was a VERY IMPORTANT person who'd had a VERY IMPORTANT week and needed to rest on the way home and that he ALWAYS sits in that seat. I just looked at him and said "not on this flight you don't" and ignored his further ranting until he went away. Jerk.

UA Fan

This complaint is a silly one, her space is till the bar under the seat.

Analise

Last week on a flight, my husband was chastised by the woman across the aisle because he waited until the FA's announcement to turn off his blackberry. Why didn't he just turn it off as soon as he boarded?? Didn't he realize the imminent danger he was creating for the aircraft by using it even while passengers were boarding???

Jaimito Cartero

I would be tempted to put the bag in the aisle and tell the FA that someone had left it there.

chamonix

Oh, I wouldn't even be tempted, I would do so in 2 seconds. Well, actually, I would do something like: upon seeing a bag in my underseat storage space, I would grab it and remove it whilst saying out loud (to myself) "wow, can't believe someone forgot their dog from the last flight". I assume as I was doing so, the pax would be chiming in that it was their dog, upon which I would promptly hand them the bag and say, oh, here you go then.

If they wouldn't take it from my hands (well, they would probably end up with it on their lap anyway--gently of course!) I would set it down on the floor in front of them (if it fit) or place it in the aisle. What the FA/next pax down the aisle would do would no longer be my business or concern.

Poor doggie, with fools for parents. LOL

I would never wait to be given permission by someone next to me to remove something from my underseat storage space.


What I would be tempted to do is to place it in the overhead (while the door was still open, of course!) with the doggie's face peering out and wait for the FA to see it and ask to whom it belonged. (I would not let the dog stay there though!)

Efrem

I once said something like "If you're that important, you can charter your own plane. When you buy a ticket on this one, you follow the same rules as everyone else who bought a ticket on this one." (Or I wish I had. And I will next time. Really. )

Helena Handbaskets

Are you a camel?

Mr. Vker

Is he ok? Did he get hurt by waiting?

mre5765

FWIW, at the San Jose arena (called the HP Pavilion these days) the announced rule is to not lean forward while watching the game.

Analise

As hurt as everyone else was....

Orion

About three years ago I was flying on a DL B763 from Las to Atl in the hot summertime. The plane had been dreadfully hot on the ground and it stayed that way for most of the trip. The guy across the aisle (and one row back) from me was wearing 1) a bikini brief; 2) a tank top; 3) flip flops and a wristwatch - all of about equal weight. He asked me to close my air conditioning vent because he was chilly. When I declined to close my overhead vent he summoned a FA who closed my vent and all of the vents around us and ordered me not to touch it.
This guy looked like he may have been kidnapped while mowing his lawn, taken to the airport and forced aboard our airplane. If you don't want to feel chilly at altitude don't fly nearly naked. Where do these people come from?

Mongah

After just coming in from mowing the lawns and all sweaty and hot, this cracked me up