Gross things people do on flights

[thewinchester]

Reggie you win. That is the most horific story I have ever heard.

Was the win because he was on the AA flight

 

[jg161]

A few years ago, I sat next to a lady and her [obnoxious :evil:] toddler on a mid morning flight from Chicago to Santo Domingo DR. I was on the aisle, child in the middle and the mother on the window. Around midway through the flight, said lady tapped my shoulder and said "i am sitting on the window, do you mind if i 'mumble mumble something' my child?"

Via a combination of being sleep deprived and having awoken at 4am for the first leg of this flight, plus the rumble of the plane and the mumbling, I didn't care/didn't hear and just replied "yeah, whatever" and tried to go back to sleep.

The next thing I know a wall of death enters my nostrils :shock:. I open my eyes to find both tray tables down (mid and window), child laid out on top (notably butt towards me) and this lady changing the well soiled nappy of her child - right there in the cabin.

Being a cramped B737, it took around 1hr for the smell to dissipate and the whole cabin got a sample of this kids best work, it was nasty.

-j

 

[sjp]

Wow, there's so many gross stories here that I don't want to read them

My general bugbear is people who are too sick to fly, flying. The worst one was flying J Class from LHR to Sydney on December 22 (note: there was a huge blizzard in the days before and I was really hoping to get home). The guy two seats over was really sick with some kind of flu - white as a ghost. He was coughing and sneezing the whole trip, never covering his mouth or nose, the only relief the rest of us had was when he was asleep. I managed to stave off illness until Boxing day when the flu hit me for about 3 days.

The ironic thing is that going through security at LHR I saw many people with thermometers in their mouth - I guess Customs/Quarantine figured that it if wasn't swine flu he was "fine" to fly. Bah humbug.

 

[samh004]

A few years ago, I sat next to a lady and her [obnoxious :evil:] toddler on a mid morning flight from Chicago to Santo Domingo DR. I was on the aisle, child in the middle and the mother on the window. Around midway through the flight, said lady tapped my shoulder and said "i am sitting on the window, do you mind if i 'mumble mumble something' my child?"

Via a combination of being sleep deprived and having awoken at 4am for the first leg of this flight, plus the rumble of the plane and the mumbling, I didn't care/didn't hear and just replied "yeah, whatever" and tried to go back to sleep.

The next thing I know a wall of death enters my nostrils :shock:. I open my eyes to find both tray tables down (mid and window), child laid out on top (notably butt towards me) and this lady changing the well soiled nappy of her child - right there in the cabin.

Being a cramped B737, it took around 1hr for the smell to dissipate and the whole cabin got a sample of this kids best work, it was nasty.

-j

Welcome to AFF!

Just be thankful it wasn’t number 3’s

 

[straitman]

Reggie,

Did they make you take your old clothes when you got off the aircraft :?: :shock:

 

[tuapekastar]

A few years ago, I sat next to a lady and her [obnoxious :evil:] toddler on a mid morning flight from Chicago to Santo Domingo DR. I was on the aisle, child in the middle and the mother on the window. Around midway through the flight, said lady tapped my shoulder and said "i am sitting on the window, do you mind if i 'mumble mumble something' my child?"

Via a combination of being sleep deprived and having awoken at 4am for the first leg of this flight, plus the rumble of the plane and the mumbling, I didn't care/didn't hear and just replied "yeah, whatever" and tried to go back to sleep.

The next thing I know a wall of death enters my nostrils :shock:. I open my eyes to find both tray tables down (mid and window), child laid out on top (notably butt towards me) and this lady changing the well soiled nappy of her child - right there in the cabin.

Being a cramped B737, it took around 1hr for the smell to dissipate and the whole cabin got a sample of this kids best work, it was nasty.

-j

Welcome to AFF jg161! You win the prize for grossest first post!

 

[jg161]

Welcome to AFF jg161! You win the prize for grossest first post!

tuapekastar/samh004 - thanks for the welcome!!. some days i feel I have experienced some of the worst of people on flights, since downright rude != gross, I will save some of those for another time/thread.

another contribution for gross... Toilets are, well, toilets, I get that and if you're unfortunate enough to be standing in line for the stall that never opens, you know whats coming when it does.. But for the love of <deity> people, clean up after yourselves.. My personal "ewwwwwww" peeve is when people leave a big pile of floating toothpaste, water plus misc extra bits sloshing around in the sink when you enter... grosses the hell out of me ! Bonus gross when there is turbulence and average drainage suction.

-j

 

[Flying Fox]

A few years ago, I sat next to a lady and her [obnoxious :evil:] toddler on a mid morning flight from Chicago to Santo Domingo DR. I was on the aisle, child in the middle and the mother on the window. Around midway through the flight, said lady tapped my shoulder and said "i am sitting on the window, do you mind if i 'mumble mumble something' my child?"

Via a combination of being sleep deprived and having awoken at 4am for the first leg of this flight, plus the rumble of the plane and the mumbling, I didn't care/didn't hear and just replied "yeah, whatever" and tried to go back to sleep.

The next thing I know a wall of death enters my nostrils :shock:. I open my eyes to find both tray tables down (mid and window), child laid out on top (notably butt towards me) and this lady changing the well soiled nappy of her child - right there in the cabin.

Being a cramped B737, it took around 1hr for the smell to dissipate and the whole cabin got a sample of this kids best work, it was nasty.

-j

That story is so gross that its almost unbelieveable !!!

 

[JohnK]

Snoring is not gross, it can be annoying but comparing snoring with sitting next to a drunk who vomits is not a fair comparison.

If snoring is the worst thing that happens on a flight then it is not a bad flight.

 

[tuapekastar]

If snoring is the worst thing that happens on a flight then it is not a bad flight.

Especially if you're the one doing it because then it's not bothering you!

 

[samh004]

Especially if you're the one doing it because then it's not bothering you!

My dad recently said he’d get on a CX J flight, ask for a bottle of red, drink it all, and then snore until they landed.

 

[JohnK]

Especially if you're the one doing it because then it's not bothering you!

Have you sat close to me on a plane.

I would have felt sorry for the people on the DJ flight MEL-SYD on Anzac Day. As soon as I sat down I crashed and only woke up as we were taxiing to the gate in SYD.

 

[MatF]

I have the unfortunate double-whammy predispositions of:

• being virtually unable to fly without falling asleep at some point during the flight, no matter how short the flight
• dribbling a lot when I sleep

I'm sure you can join the dots

 

[ejb]

I have the unfortunate double-whammy predispositions of:

• being virtually unable to fly without falling asleep at some point during the flight, no matter how short the flight
• dribbling a lot when I sleep

I'm sure you can join the dots

Please make sure you keep us all informed of your flights so we may stay dry and avoid you.

I however snore quite loadly so sitting next to me would be no picnic.

ejb

 

[djfuzz]

I snore too, but I don't feel too bad about it because as a listener, I've never had an issue - I just can't imagine anyone snoring loud enough that they'd be challenging the already-significant aircraft/engine drone without sitting in the same seat as you.

I did have a case of a crying baby in the row in front in J recently, but staved that off with the old noise cancelling headphones, which were surprisingly effective (if a little uncomfortable to sleep in).

 

[hazel]

I sat next to a very young passenger flying Orlando to Newark once - he decided he would vomit the 3 bottles of milk he had drunk all over me, mostly into my lap- most unpleasant. I also couldn't change my clothes as my bags had been checked through to Gatwick.
The FA gave me cold coffee to clean myself with - apparently it's the only thing that will get rid of the smell which it did, but I was not a good sight.

 

[ReLoad]

A late flight change to get on an early flight SYD-MEL was in 4B was surrounded by PAX'ing QF flight attendants (out of uniform but the QF luggage was a dead give away) and the one by the isle pulled out nail clippers and cut her finger nails then filed them down and painted them, the whole process took over an hour, she had timed it to perfection for the duration of the flight.

I really wish i would have waited that extra hour for the later flight.....

 

[medhead]

Especially if you're the one doing it because then it's not bothering you!

It's ok my snoring actually kills off my brain and gives me something like 3 or 5 times the chance of a heart attack. So if you get subjected to my 80+ db rest assumed it is bothering me as well. Even if I don't show it.

 

[serfty]

... the whole process took over an hour, she had timed it to perfection for the duration of the flight. ...

Using nail polish on a flight is IMHO a more Gross thing to do than cutting the nails in the first place.

The fumes can emanate throughout the cabin ...

 

[LAH]

I know this is an old thread ..... but just had to relate the experience of the guy that once stripped down to his underwear in the cabin - lights off, but he was standing in the aisle and really didn't hurry or seem at all perturbed about what he was doing - in fact, it was almost a performance! ...... then he put his jammies on! I was astounded and can't even imagine how the people who were sitting right there next to him felt!

More recently as we were just about to land in Havana, Cuba, on an Iberia flight, a guy lit up a cigarette after the crew had been directed to take their seats for landing, and proceeded to smoke it. The crew weren't far away as he was in the front seat of business - but they didn't say anything!!!!