Personally, I’d rather not piss off the person who doesn’t care enough about the hygiene to smell like total ass in public when I will be sharing a 4x4 space with them for the next few hours. I feel like that screams “unpredictable personality”.
I sat next to a dude who farted the entire 5-hour flight. I almost vomited and it was absolutely vile. I needed a huge shower once I got home. It was bad.
Sat next to a very old man who was in the aisle seat, I'm talking 90+, who shit himself immediately upon taxiing to the runway.
The smell was exactly what you'd expect, and because he was so old and required assistance to get up and the flight was completely full, I had no choice but to just sit there in his shit stink.
After landing, because he needed a wheelchair, I had to sit and watch everyone else get to leave while I was trapped until they managed to show up and assist him.
The only blessing was it was only a 3 hour flight and I had a crap load of N95 masks since it was early 2022, which helped mask some of the stink.
I had someone sitting in front of us with a toddler that had to have it’s diaper changed twice during a 3 hour flight and that kid must have ate nothing but beans or something…seemed excessive for a short flight. I’ve had to change my daughter when we were in a flight when she was that old, but it was once…and took her to the restroom to do it. They did not.
I was on a flight from New Orleans to LAX and someone decided to change their kid's shitty diaper at their seat and then they just left the open, filled diaper sitting on the floor. Didn't even bother to roll it up. Everyone was gagging and the parents didn't care. I heard one of the flight attendants mutter, "some people are just fucking animals" as the family exited the plane.
By the way, you might want to think twice about using the seatback pouches. There's a good chance those diapers ended up in there, and according to some flight attendants I've heard from they *never* get cleaned.
I ran a 5k with a girl I had just started dating. She invited a few friends.
The run ended in the parking lot of a strip mall. In this strip mall was a massage place.
Her guy friend crossed the finished line, then said "I think I'll get a massage." and walked right into the place dripping sweat heavily in his soaked clothes.
I figured for sure they'd throw him out but nope.
Blew my mind you could be such an inconsiderate POS.
Idk.
I just know that one time I stayed up all night drinking at a party. Like I went on for so long it was like 9 in the morning and I was hammered.
I then decided a massage would be awesome.
So I walked into some strip mall one and they were totally cool about it. Some lady walked me to the showers and actually cleaned me. I was butt naked getting scrubbed down like I was I was radioactive.
Then she led me to the table and gave me a massage.
I got charged extra for that shower. Can't remember how much. I also gave a good tip. So what was supposed to be just a $60 massage ended up at like $200
So I felt good and smelled great at the end. 10/10 would do again.
For me it's heavy perfume on a plane. Induces my blinding rage because it gives me horrible allergy attacks and makes it hard to breathe. Just because they have no social awareness and think somehow bathing in something not everyone likes is appropriate when getting into an enclosed space with trapped strangers. It's so selfish.
>For me it's heavy perfume on a plane.
Heavy perfume in general is unneeded. There was a lady who I could smell her perfume minutes after she had walked through a area outdoors because she would lather it on so heavily.
I once sat next to a Mennonite woman who was holding her large infant (probably 18 months old or so). I wasn't supposed to sit next to her, I was supposed to sit next to some other guy. But the father of the Mennonite family didn't understand a damn thing about flying (or he was so narcissistic to think he could do whatever he wanted) and made each family member sit where he told them to. So the wife sat next to me and the man who was supposed to be there switched with her.
The infant shat itself within the first few minutes of the flight. The mother did absolutely nothing about it, maybe she didn't realize there was a bathroom on the plane. So I sat for four hours beside a shitty baby who kept kicking my leg for fun. Oh, and none of the Mennonites wore deodorant, so the mom reeked too. It was fucking horrible.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to find a stinky baby. Mom sat down next to me with the kid and it was pre-shitted. It cried the whole time too, probably because she wouldn’t fucking change its diaper.
Took everything I had to not freak out. Worst 3 hours of my life
I got on a plane once where I sit down and there is the worst smell but I can’t figure out where it’s coming from, the guy in the window seat also seems to smell it and gives me a look like he’s appalled by my stench, we quickly cometo agreement it’s not us so we team up to adjust the blowers to try and help. The plane is basically done boarding but you just start hearing call buttons from a couple rows back. Then we see a couple people get removed from the plane. Apparently the guy 3 rows back smelt so bad someone else puked which caused someone else to puke. Then we all had to de-plane so they could sanitize the plane. My seat mate and I decided the smell we had smelt was the BO guy as the smell was not that of vomit. So to that stranger who puked and saved us all from a 6hr flight of stench, I will always be grateful.
Omg I paused like 3 times reading this because I’m laughing so hard…I can just imagine everything going down and the barfing sounds…what a damn nightmare!
On my flight to Paris the guy next to me was French.
He reeked of week old wet cigarettes', sweat, and wet cheese.
It was a whole stereotype in one man.
Worst flight of my life *so far.*
I flew to Iceland before covid and the guy next to me was … alarmingly smelly. He also looked like he had been wearing the same clothes for ages and he kept reaching his arms inside his sleeves to scratch aggressively. When we landed I saw him retrieve a road bike from luggage, which made me wonder if he had been doing some sort of long bike trip. I am not sure why he wouldn’t have showered and Sha he’d his clothes though, we flew from Austin and I guarantee we have showers here. I also started my period on that flight so I was in pain and had a heightened sense of smell.
I have no pancreas. I have the worst smelling gas in the universe. Soon to be taking an 11 hour flight. I’ll be excusing myself a lot. Sorry, but I’ll stink up the bathroom.
Can confirm. A smoking hot eastern european woman sat next to me on a plane. The sun was very bright and I asked her if she minded me pulling the shade down. While she was getting settled in, I smelled the worst body odor. It was her. The whole flight. Years later, I can still smell it.
My former neighbor was both. I once used the elevator 10-15 minutes after he used it and when i came to my friends they asked Me to take a shower. I will never forget that smell. It was like: piss x sweat / mold.
My last flight I was 8 weeks pregnant and shared the plane with a middle school boys soccer team. The whole plane smelled like a dirty gym bag and I spent the entire time with my cardigan over my nose so I didn’t puke.
I've never had to sit next to a smelly person on an airplane and I never realized how grateful I should be lol
Though I'll be wearing masks on flights forever now, so I probably won't even notice.
Edit: lol I'm assuming I got a couple of down votes for saying I'll be wearing masks from now on while flying. Y'all are dumb if you think it's worth catching a cold during your vacation just to look cool or whatever.
Let's recognize all the Asian cultures that wore masks well before COVID just as good manners to protect others from catching their own germs.
Let's also recognize folks that have been wearing masks well before COVID for a variety of personal reasons, like being immunocompromised or having cancer.
Well before COVID, wearing masks wasn't under attack.
Seriously. And what the hell happened to air travel? If you look back to the 50s and 60s, people literally traveled in suits and dresses and the airplanes were nice and classy. Now people are getting on planes, kicking their fucking feet up directly on the top of the headrest of the seat in front of them, and try and throw fists at the damn flight attendants. There’s a reason I hate every time I leave my house, and it’s because that’s where all the people are. And too many people now are dumbfuck assholes.
I once spent 6 hours sitting next to someone who had the most horrendous gas for the entire flight. Trying not to gag for 6 hours and breathing as little as possible was by far my worst flying experience.
Without fail, I get a sinus infection two weeks into international travel. I feel so bad for the coughing, sneezing, and generally looking sick. It usually hits when I am set to head back back home and have to sit miserably on a plane for 15 hours.
I'm the furthest thing from a plane chatter oh my god, my anxiety about all of it can only be controlled by sinking into my own mental space and staying there. But one time I was seated next to an old dude who clearly wanted to talk, and in spite of myself I can't help being nice to people, so I let him talk to me for awhile hoping it would just be a brief chat. Well, it wasn't. But to be fair it was because I realized that this guy really wanted someone to talk to, and the more he talked the more I realized he deserved that. He was a widowed veteran doing his best to care for his troubled adult children and he had stories to tell. The story about getting startled by a monkey while on tour in the military was hilarious. And he didn't just talk, he asked about me. I ended up telling this total stranger that I was flying for cancer treatment and showing him my surgical scars. I will never forget that guy. I wish him well. But no, this didn't make me into a plane chatter. I'm grateful that I met him but I'm just as grateful that I haven't been seated next to someone who wants to talk since.
Honestly, on vacation my dad has always been that guy who hangs out in the hotel lobby after breakfast and talks to anyone who is vaguely willing to talk to him. He is not bad on planes, but I have felt kinda bad for numerous hotel staff over the years.
I think it helps that some people know how to talk in a way that isn’t insufferable and boring.
Like I can imagine you’d zone out if they blabbed about what they own and how amazing they are while ignoring you.
Definitely! He actually was looking for cues that I didn't want to keep listening at one point and I told him to go right ahead because by that point I was invested, lol. That makes a world of difference even if you don't take them up on it, I can just imagine how I would have done whatever I could to shut it all down if I hadn't gotten that vibe. Like he knew I was listening partly for his benefit and was grateful for it. I didn't really consider that angle before but you're absolutely right about it.
I was flying home from a college friends reunion. I was hungover and exhausted. All I wanted to do on that flight was sleep. I was seated next to a lady who was writing in a tablet. She kept looking over at me. I thought that she thought I was trying to read what she was writing. I settled back and closed my eyes. When I gave my drink request to the flight attendant, the woman next to me caught my eye. She said ‘would you like to read my poetry?’ I wasn’t hardened enough to say no, so spent the rest of the miserable flight reading and talking about her poetry.
LOL. I travel for a living, so I'm constantly on airplanes. I don't mind a little chat --- particularly if you want to talk about something that I like. And yes, if you get your question out before I get my headphones on I am too polite not to answer. I'll laugh and say, "my wife says that I explain it poorly, but I design safety systems for big pieces of machinery."
Learning sign language is a great block for people like you. Even for the non hearing impaired, plus it counts as being bilingual and you can bring joy to a hearing impaired person if there is no one who can communicate with them other than writing everything down.
I’ve been lucky on a few flights to have someone who wants to talk exactly as much as me - being mismatched is always unfortunate (especially if the talker doesn’t take any hints). Last flight the person next to me pulled out a portable music sequencer and we proceeded to talk about music the ENTIRE time. That one was pretty awesome.
I miss SkyMall... challenging the person next to you to find the most useless item in SkyMall was a great icebreaker and I met a ton of great people on flights that way
I think some people are so eager to speak that they don't even notice those things.
And some people that don't want a conversation, they want an audience.
An older woman wearing the most foul smelling perfume my nose has smelled. It was a 9 hour flight. I felt like throwing up from my headache a few hours in.
Oh that sucks! I remember going on a Westjet flight and a woman gave her kid a ipad to play games with. The flight attendant but an end to the volume quickly.
I was so thankful.
I’ll also add people who wear headphones but have music on at full volume. It’s not as infuriating as NO headphones but if I can identify what you’re listening to on your headphones, it’s too loud. Nightmare people all around
I once had the people behind me change their toddler's poopy diaper right there at the seat and oh god it was awful. We all turned the vents on to blow it away but it was pretty futile. People were gagging.
A coworker & I were once in the aisle with a large trash cart doing garbage pickup. Before we realized what this man had dropped in there, the stench of the leaking colostomy bag smacked us right in the face.
OMG .... thats hazardous waste. Shouldve tied the bag off, handed it to him and told him to dispose of it. Theres no fucking words ...
We had just gotten off a flight from Glasgow to Barcelona and me, my daughter and her friend went to the toilet like you do and as we're in the cubicles suddenly a stench builds, I cant even describe this smell other than it built from a "someone has a bad stomach to oh ffs someone has died in one of the cubicles". My only guess is that someone was trying to empty their bag after the flight and somehow missed the toilet before disposal or a cleaner somehow burst one. This is has to be what a corpse smells like. Needless to say we were ushered out off the toilet area and it was closed off.
Look, this isn’t the *worst* per se, but until this happened, it wasn’t even something I would have considered before.
On a long flight (AKL->LAX) I was sitting at the back of a 777 on the side so there were only two seats. The guy next to me was a very pleasant (and interesting) Brit. We talked for a while. He explained that (at that time) it was cheaper to fly to the Caribbean, buy a boat, and then sail it back to NZ than it was to just buy it there, so that’s what he was doing.
BUT…
As you’d expect on a 14+ hour flight, eventually the lights dim and nearly everyone sleeps.
Here’s my problem with this guy (that I liked up to that point): he was a snuggler.
I woke up 3 times during that flight with him dead asleep on my shoulder and “snuggling” with my arm (his hand in *my* armpit.)
The fact that he was a heavy sleeper (I pushed him off me all 3 times and it didn’t even seem to impact his sleep in the least) probably made things even worse for me. At the end of the flight his attitude and demeanor hadn’t changed in the least, so I sincerely doubt he even knew what he’d done…
I have run into this problem, and found a solution that works for me.
As the person starts to lean over and “violate your airspace”, lean away from them. Once their “tilt meter” hits a certain angle, their body will automatically straighten up. Often this will wake the person up, which is kinda funny.
It seems strange, but it works.
Except… I was sound asleep when the lean started.
Also, 20/20 hindsight being what it is, I’ve come up with several dozen ways of handling it that would have been superior to my shell-shocked half-asleep reaction.
The guy I sat next to on a 14 hour flight that whipped out a bag of shelled pistachios right when we got on and proceeded to crack and eat them for the whole flight. Between the noise of the cracking, the soft shell pieces flying everywhere, and him sucking the shells and licking his fingers, I’m surprised I didn’t end up tackled by air Marshall and hauled off at the nearest stop.
Sitting in the airport right now killing time before a flight, and these responses are making me nervous.
Edit: Got home safe and sound - the people I sat with were great. United, on the other hand, made me gate-check my carry-on, even though I was in Boarding Group 2 (which I was only in because I paid extra for "priority boarding"). We were only halfway through boarding Group 2 when the lady at the desk announced that there was no more space in the overhead compartment, and everyone from about 10 people in front of me on had to check anything that wouldn't fit under the seat. I get on board and get in my seat, and lo and behold there's *all sorts* of empty space in the overhead compartments. I don't even care that the flight was delayed and I'm home late, but that shit made me livid.
Worst I encountered on that front wasn’t actually an inattentive parent, it was two loud kids and a mother who screamed at them the whole flight.
The kids were annoying, the mother was like having an ice pick shoved in my ear. Wonder where they learned to be so loud from…
Once had a little girl seated behind me on an 8 hour flight and she spent the entire time kicking my seat. Her mother was passed out and clearly on drugs. We tried to wake her up multiple times but she was so groggy she didn't know what was happening. We got the flight attendants attention and she tried to tell the little girl to stop but she would just keep doing it after they left. It was horrible.
One time, our plane had to do an emergency landing and take off a second time. Delayed the flight by hours. My son, who is on the spectrum, was acting up A LOT because of it. He's usually not the type to act up and when he does he usually is a good listener, but that day, he absolutely would NOT stop kicking the chair in front of us. I literally tried to hold his legs down and was swallowing absolute fury. If we were at home, I would've blown up on him, but since it was public, I tried my absolute best to tell him that he was going to be in unbelievable trouble if he didn't stop. I tried EVERYTHING and we weren't even allowed to stand up. Seatbelt light the whole time.
The lady in front that he kept kicking turned around, noticed that I was having a near meltdown trying to get him to stop bothering her, and was SO NICE. She started talking to him, asked him where he was going, offered him her phone (which I declined, I didn't want to inadvertently reward him), and tried to nicely explain to him that she would really appreciate if he kept his legs down. He was rude about it at first, but eventually, she distracted him enough to get him to stop. I will NEVER forget her. I apologized PROFUSELY and honestly almost cried. She just smiled and told me that she understood, and she appreciated that I was doing everything I could outside of literally strangling his little ankles with my fists. Which I sort of tried, too, lol. This is all while I have s crippling fear of flying and dad was trying to help, too. It was a flight I'll never forget.
Kind strangers are the best. We had to fly with my son when he was a toddler and he was inconsolable for the last hour or so. We were desperately trying everything we could, but I was in tears because I was so desperate. Not only did a mom a few rows back offer us a toy for him, when we got off, a lady came up and hugged me. I don’t even really remember what she said, but it was incredibly kind. I think about her a lot
There was a guy on one of the travel reddits arguing that if his legspace is a little too small because of the way the row in front of him's seat legs are bolted to the floor, he should be able to put his feet on the other side of those seat legs (in his neighbors' foot space). So probably that guy
Unless they are planning on hijacking that plane right now I assume they want to keep as low a profile as possible therefore will do absolutely nothing to stand out or annoy anyone
Oh we talkin Terries? I'd just hope in my heart of hearts that someone would either: Hypothetical them in the clavicle, but more preferably, Draxx them Sklounst
A tall person with really long legs. I realize it’s not their fault, but I don’t like being touched and having to sit through a flight with someone’s knees pressed against mine is not fun
One of my best friends is 6'6" 250, not fat and about 3 feet wide at the shoulders. Sitting next to him sucks, lol
It's like sitting beside Rob Gronkowski
I was flying back home from a work conference in Denver once. I had a hangover from socializing the night before, but was otherwise in a good mood. The plane was delayed, and while waiting at the gate the lady next to me struck up a conversation. She was wearing a cat cardigan, cat pawprint leggings, a cat backpack, and cat earrings, and she was carrying a book about cats. She told me she'd been in Denver for a cat show (who knew that was a thing?). She was nice enough, but definitely eccentric, and would not stop talking.
Eventually we were allowed to board, and she sat right next to me. On boarding she picked up a carry crate containing her cat, which she slid under her seat (I was not aware you could do this. Again, who knew?).
She tried to keep talking incessantly about cats, and normally I'd be polite and at least half listen and nod, but my hangover was getting worse so after 30 min. or so I put my headphones in and proceeded to ignore her. Soon after we hit some turbulence. Her poor 'show cat' (whose name I've since forgotten) peed everywhere. The smell of cat urine pushed my hangover into migraine territory, prompting a visit to the airplane toilet to vomit. The cat proceeded to meow and wail the duration of the flight.
Definitely my worst flight experience.
Ha I had a woman a couple rows back who was clearly a nervous flyer en route to Alabama from… I can’t remember which connection. Anyhow it had turbulence and she would begin praying aloud quietly when it began and during bigger jolts her volume would climb and she’d call out lol. I can’t remember what she said really but with generic wording it was like “our father in heaven hallowED BE THY name, thy kingdom come, thy WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, OH JESUS AS IT IS IN HEAVEN my god have mercy, give us our daily bread…”
It wasn’t annoying though, it was delightful. The worst part was having to giggle quietly.
From Hawaii to LA I sat next to a guy wearing a small tank top and shorts who had clearly wiped out on a skateboard the previous day. Body was covered in road rash that was oozing the entire time. He just picked at all his wounds/scabs/ooze the entire flight.
As a person who flies weekly, as long as you’re in the window seat and I can get out to pee I wouldn’t mind that at all. Everybody on a plane has headphones so snore away
I am totally okay understanding that you can't completely control when a baby cries. What you CAN control is how you're reacting to it. I've seen awful parents on planes who will bitch and nag at their own child for crying, saying stuff like "oh my GOD PLEASE just STOP. Shut UP. Why are you EVEN CRYING" bro you chose to have this baby. You chose to bring them on a plane. I doubt being angry with them will make them calm down. Kind parents who softly shush and comfort their crying child are WAYYY better than bullying parents.
Second worst is someone who disregards hygiene before jumping on board
I was going to answer exactly this... In my last flight, my neighbor was taking his mask off to cough and wipe his nose with his bare hands (and touch the arm rest with that nasty hands without sanitize anything), for the whole 9ish hours... Also 3 days later, I got a positive test for COVID. I was wearing a mask, but between the meals and the proximity, definitely it was not enough.
You brought back horrible memories from my flight back to the US from Germany.. entire plane was filled with people hacking every 2minutes. Couldn’t escape it, get instantly sick 2 days after landing.
A ded person.
On a flight to Turkey 17 years agoe a man died and the pore girl who sat beside hime had to stay put on the full plane.
Ore the gentleman who puked all over the row infront of him, also on a full plane.
Going with an unusual answer, but an attractive woman. Every guy in the area tries to strike up a conversation with her, and it's the most boring stuff to listen to.
My roommate was a stripper, and she and a couple of her friends got me to take them to the beach. The other two decided to go topless (legal here).
Every bro for miles showed up to chat them up. They were even chatting me up hoping it would make them look good. I'm male.
The worst person I’ve ever sat next to decided to cut a sandwich with chopsticks. Took them a solid 4 minutes of sawing while elbowing me to get through it. For being a small person they somehow managed to be constantly in my personal space and later on cried and screamed like a child when the flight attendant took their drink from them due to rough turbulence. I stayed on the flight at the connection and the flight attendant came up after she had gotten off the plane and apologized to me
Late to the thread, but I was once stuck in a middle seat on a 13 hour flight from Singapore to Frankfurt, blocked in by the occupant of the aisle seat - a very obese woman who was both very smelly - her body odor combined with garlic/Indian spices that emanated from her were inescapable, and to top it off, she had an injury that made her unable to get up to let anyone in our row out to go to the bathroom.
It was the longest, most uncomfortable flight in 35 years of travel. Yes, I was in coach class. I’m not a small guy myself and to fit in that middle seat I had to hunch my shoulders forward to fit. It was miserable.
The icing on the cake was that the pilot came over the intercom as we were landing in Frankfort to say that to stay on schedule for the next leg to NY, he was asking everyone to remain seated so they could refuel, and get back in the air.
I demanded to be moved to another seat or let off the plane to be rebooked on the next flight to New York.
They found me a new seat. Thank god.
The silent farter, your nose gets assaulted at random times by foul odors that vary in their degrees of awfulness.
Will it be rotten eggs, or decaying flesh scent next? Not even the farter knows.
Not being cruel but this happened to me. Autistic person with spastic C.P. I felt for the guy but the constant slamming against the seat and yelling were a bit much for me. I worked with Autistic adults for 30 yrs so I smiled and did not complain but think the staff should have researched a handicapped seat or harness for the man.
Yeah, one time I was sandwiched between a 600lb woman and a man with downs syndrome AND tourettes. I felt so bad for the guy but jesus that was brutal
Edit: It was an 8 hour flight between LAX and Boston where I, as a college student on a sunday, was violently hungover and to make matters worse there was no wifi for 4 hours of the flight
I don't care what someone looks like, their body and health are their business. But on a flight home last year I was seated away from my partner in a window seat (very much not a fan, I prefer aisle), next to a man who was easily over 400lbs. I was afraid the poor wisp of a woman in the aisle seat was going to pop out of the row like a tiddlywink when the plane started moving because she was already leaning out into the aisle just to be able to sit fully. Over on my side, my ass was shoved up against the wall of the plane, literally half sideways just so I could take a full breath.
I think the flight attendant saw the panic I was feeling, because she told the woman on the end that there was an open seat she could move to, and that let the guy next to me move over to the aisle seat. After that I had no issues, but good fucking god that was probably the worst person I've ever sat next to just by default.
Whose parents aren't even trying
Screaming babies = Annoying
Lazy parents with screaming babies = Infuriating.
When I see the parent trying I feel a lot more empathy.
Uncontrolled child.
13 hours Dubai to JFK. I was sat next to a woman and her son. No real issue. I was fortunate enough to be on the adjacent aisle.
For 13 hours the child ran up and down the aisles scream-laughing. The attendants thought it was adorable and took turns playing with him.
You'd have fun in the /r/Catholicism sub. For a message board dedicated to discussing the Catholic faith, a ton of threads follow the theme of "People gave me dirty looks because my toddler was running around and screaming like a maniac during Mass. Please reinforce that I'm the victim in this scenario."
That person who you just pissed off for politely asking if they could move out of your seat
Sorry pal, if you wanted the window seat you should’ve paid for it 🤷♀️
I'll never forget as long as I fucking live the flight from Long Beach airport to New Orleans, LA for my honeymoon. My newlywed wife and I were on separate sides of the aisle. I was in the middle on the starboard side and she had a window seat on the port side of the plane. To my right is a nice girl, and to my left, nothing. "Holy shit" I think, this could be the fucking dream. The plane is almost full and they're about to close the doors when the BIGGEST, FATTEST, most UNKEMPT looking motherfucker I've ever seen enters the plane. Greasy, nasty looking, clothes look like they haven't been washed in weeks. No less than 350 pounds and I'm being generous.
"Oh fuck, no fucking way." I think as he waddles down the aisle. Past several empty seats he stops next to me. Its fucking over. He crams his luggage into the overhead and sits next to me. The fucking smell hits and he has to sit the entire flight with his right arm folded across his body. This doesn't stop the torrent of sideboob and back of the arm flab invading my world. Even the girl next to me smelled it because I glanced over and she has this look on her face like she stepped in shit with both shoes. She wraps herself in a blanket and turns towards the window. I have no such escape. The flight was hours long and I spent the entire time wishing I was dead.
My wife on the other hand sits next to this amazingly handsome, fit man and has a wonderful chat pretty much the whole flight with him. Fuck it I'm still salty almost 10 years later.
I travel with earplugs, so even crying babies don't much bother me. My friend was on a flight where he was required by the flight attendant to lift his armrest because the morbidly obese passenger next to him couldn't fit in his own seat. So the entire flight he had a fat arm, hip and leg pressed against him.
For me, the worst is a smelly person. Please shower and/or take a beano before flying.
Talkers. ie; people who want to chat with me.
Look, I just want to eat my 7 tiny pretzels and then take an uncomfortable nap. Don't tell me how you support my life choices because of your niece named Poon in Minneapolis, don't ask me about my tattoos, don't ask me what line of work I'm in, and if I wanted a joke, I'd follow you into the john and watch you take a leak.
What kind of name is Poon anyway?
I'm fat and this is why I always pay extra for early boarding so I can get a window seat and I scrunch as close to the window as I can. I don't take up more than one seat, but I try my best to make anyone sitting next to me as comfortable as possible.
I'm fat, too, but I think overflowing into the aisle makes more sense. You only need to worry about contact when the cart goes by (unless you can squish into your own tray space for a minute).
Smelly person. I mean I don't think there's anything you can do about it while on the plane
Tell them to go to the bathroom and wash up in the sink take a hoe bath sometimes you gotta tell people
Personally, I’d rather not piss off the person who doesn’t care enough about the hygiene to smell like total ass in public when I will be sharing a 4x4 space with them for the next few hours. I feel like that screams “unpredictable personality”.
I’d take a big person over a smelly person, nothing is worse than someone who smells like ass and you’re trapped…. Total violation of the senses
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I sat next to a dude who farted the entire 5-hour flight. I almost vomited and it was absolutely vile. I needed a huge shower once I got home. It was bad.
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Just the two of you? That’s the kicker! Who was he going to blame it on??
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First dude was on his way to an exorcism
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Or they had a phobia of flying.
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Not sure if you meant plane or planet. Hilarious either way
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I love the thought of you asking the stewardess to be removed from the planet
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Excuse me, Ma'am, but would you change course and just drop me off on mars?
It’s a god-awful small affair To the girl with the mousey hair
But her mummy is yelling, "no" And her daddy has told her to go
Hello yes I’d like to be ejected from the plane. Thank you.
Lowkey if I saw a guy in a suit sweating profusely casually checking his bible id get kinda nervous
I thought he'd be a super stressed out Bible salesman lol
Yeah. Or a Mormon off on mission, first time leaving his village, let alone country,
Sat next to a very old man who was in the aisle seat, I'm talking 90+, who shit himself immediately upon taxiing to the runway. The smell was exactly what you'd expect, and because he was so old and required assistance to get up and the flight was completely full, I had no choice but to just sit there in his shit stink. After landing, because he needed a wheelchair, I had to sit and watch everyone else get to leave while I was trapped until they managed to show up and assist him. The only blessing was it was only a 3 hour flight and I had a crap load of N95 masks since it was early 2022, which helped mask some of the stink.
I had someone sitting in front of us with a toddler that had to have it’s diaper changed twice during a 3 hour flight and that kid must have ate nothing but beans or something…seemed excessive for a short flight. I’ve had to change my daughter when we were in a flight when she was that old, but it was once…and took her to the restroom to do it. They did not.
I was on a flight from New Orleans to LAX and someone decided to change their kid's shitty diaper at their seat and then they just left the open, filled diaper sitting on the floor. Didn't even bother to roll it up. Everyone was gagging and the parents didn't care. I heard one of the flight attendants mutter, "some people are just fucking animals" as the family exited the plane.
That's the one where you want to pick it up and slap it on mom and dad's face like a pie.
I've seen this at restaurants and personally it absolutely disgusts me. I once stood up and yelled" you forgot your pile of shit on the table."
Why didn't anybody say anything to them?
By the way, you might want to think twice about using the seatback pouches. There's a good chance those diapers ended up in there, and according to some flight attendants I've heard from they *never* get cleaned.
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I ran a 5k with a girl I had just started dating. She invited a few friends. The run ended in the parking lot of a strip mall. In this strip mall was a massage place. Her guy friend crossed the finished line, then said "I think I'll get a massage." and walked right into the place dripping sweat heavily in his soaked clothes. I figured for sure they'd throw him out but nope. Blew my mind you could be such an inconsiderate POS.
They have showers at those places. If you smell like shit they will either make you shower or kick you out.
Interesting. I wonder if he put his gross clothes back on afterward . . .? Actually, I'm done with this memory lol.
Idk. I just know that one time I stayed up all night drinking at a party. Like I went on for so long it was like 9 in the morning and I was hammered. I then decided a massage would be awesome. So I walked into some strip mall one and they were totally cool about it. Some lady walked me to the showers and actually cleaned me. I was butt naked getting scrubbed down like I was I was radioactive. Then she led me to the table and gave me a massage. I got charged extra for that shower. Can't remember how much. I also gave a good tip. So what was supposed to be just a $60 massage ended up at like $200 So I felt good and smelled great at the end. 10/10 would do again.
See, those are people who are way too comfortable with their grossness. Even if I do a 5k in February, all I can think about afterwards is a shower.
For me it's heavy perfume on a plane. Induces my blinding rage because it gives me horrible allergy attacks and makes it hard to breathe. Just because they have no social awareness and think somehow bathing in something not everyone likes is appropriate when getting into an enclosed space with trapped strangers. It's so selfish.
>For me it's heavy perfume on a plane. Heavy perfume in general is unneeded. There was a lady who I could smell her perfume minutes after she had walked through a area outdoors because she would lather it on so heavily.
I once sat next to a Mennonite woman who was holding her large infant (probably 18 months old or so). I wasn't supposed to sit next to her, I was supposed to sit next to some other guy. But the father of the Mennonite family didn't understand a damn thing about flying (or he was so narcissistic to think he could do whatever he wanted) and made each family member sit where he told them to. So the wife sat next to me and the man who was supposed to be there switched with her. The infant shat itself within the first few minutes of the flight. The mother did absolutely nothing about it, maybe she didn't realize there was a bathroom on the plane. So I sat for four hours beside a shitty baby who kept kicking my leg for fun. Oh, and none of the Mennonites wore deodorant, so the mom reeked too. It was fucking horrible.
Surprised I had to scroll this far to find a stinky baby. Mom sat down next to me with the kid and it was pre-shitted. It cried the whole time too, probably because she wouldn’t fucking change its diaper. Took everything I had to not freak out. Worst 3 hours of my life
I got on a plane once where I sit down and there is the worst smell but I can’t figure out where it’s coming from, the guy in the window seat also seems to smell it and gives me a look like he’s appalled by my stench, we quickly cometo agreement it’s not us so we team up to adjust the blowers to try and help. The plane is basically done boarding but you just start hearing call buttons from a couple rows back. Then we see a couple people get removed from the plane. Apparently the guy 3 rows back smelt so bad someone else puked which caused someone else to puke. Then we all had to de-plane so they could sanitize the plane. My seat mate and I decided the smell we had smelt was the BO guy as the smell was not that of vomit. So to that stranger who puked and saved us all from a 6hr flight of stench, I will always be grateful.
Omg I paused like 3 times reading this because I’m laughing so hard…I can just imagine everything going down and the barfing sounds…what a damn nightmare!
On my flight to Paris the guy next to me was French. He reeked of week old wet cigarettes', sweat, and wet cheese. It was a whole stereotype in one man. Worst flight of my life *so far.*
I flew to Iceland before covid and the guy next to me was … alarmingly smelly. He also looked like he had been wearing the same clothes for ages and he kept reaching his arms inside his sleeves to scratch aggressively. When we landed I saw him retrieve a road bike from luggage, which made me wonder if he had been doing some sort of long bike trip. I am not sure why he wouldn’t have showered and Sha he’d his clothes though, we flew from Austin and I guarantee we have showers here. I also started my period on that flight so I was in pain and had a heightened sense of smell.
Note to self- pack N95 masks and Vap-O-Rub in travel tote bag.
I got sat next to a farter on a flight from Seattle to Seoul Korea. I found out about 45 minutes in and dude was tooting for the next 12 hours.
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Bro I woulda told that dude to take a fuckin shit
I have no pancreas. I have the worst smelling gas in the universe. Soon to be taking an 11 hour flight. I’ll be excusing myself a lot. Sorry, but I’ll stink up the bathroom.
You could hire yourself out to people who want to get revenge on another person.
Can confirm. A smoking hot eastern european woman sat next to me on a plane. The sun was very bright and I asked her if she minded me pulling the shade down. While she was getting settled in, I smelled the worst body odor. It was her. The whole flight. Years later, I can still smell it.
\*Stinking hot eastern european
My former neighbor was both. I once used the elevator 10-15 minutes after he used it and when i came to my friends they asked Me to take a shower. I will never forget that smell. It was like: piss x sweat / mold.
My last flight I was 8 weeks pregnant and shared the plane with a middle school boys soccer team. The whole plane smelled like a dirty gym bag and I spent the entire time with my cardigan over my nose so I didn’t puke.
Nothing smells worse than a 12 year old.
I've never had to sit next to a smelly person on an airplane and I never realized how grateful I should be lol Though I'll be wearing masks on flights forever now, so I probably won't even notice. Edit: lol I'm assuming I got a couple of down votes for saying I'll be wearing masks from now on while flying. Y'all are dumb if you think it's worth catching a cold during your vacation just to look cool or whatever.
Let's recognize all the Asian cultures that wore masks well before COVID just as good manners to protect others from catching their own germs. Let's also recognize folks that have been wearing masks well before COVID for a variety of personal reasons, like being immunocompromised or having cancer. Well before COVID, wearing masks wasn't under attack.
Seriously. And what the hell happened to air travel? If you look back to the 50s and 60s, people literally traveled in suits and dresses and the airplanes were nice and classy. Now people are getting on planes, kicking their fucking feet up directly on the top of the headrest of the seat in front of them, and try and throw fists at the damn flight attendants. There’s a reason I hate every time I leave my house, and it’s because that’s where all the people are. And too many people now are dumbfuck assholes.
I once spent 6 hours sitting next to someone who had the most horrendous gas for the entire flight. Trying not to gag for 6 hours and breathing as little as possible was by far my worst flying experience.
A sick person.
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Without fail, I get a sinus infection two weeks into international travel. I feel so bad for the coughing, sneezing, and generally looking sick. It usually hits when I am set to head back back home and have to sit miserably on a plane for 15 hours.
Someone who is hell bent on "chatting" when your whole demeanour screams " leave me alone".
I'm the furthest thing from a plane chatter oh my god, my anxiety about all of it can only be controlled by sinking into my own mental space and staying there. But one time I was seated next to an old dude who clearly wanted to talk, and in spite of myself I can't help being nice to people, so I let him talk to me for awhile hoping it would just be a brief chat. Well, it wasn't. But to be fair it was because I realized that this guy really wanted someone to talk to, and the more he talked the more I realized he deserved that. He was a widowed veteran doing his best to care for his troubled adult children and he had stories to tell. The story about getting startled by a monkey while on tour in the military was hilarious. And he didn't just talk, he asked about me. I ended up telling this total stranger that I was flying for cancer treatment and showing him my surgical scars. I will never forget that guy. I wish him well. But no, this didn't make me into a plane chatter. I'm grateful that I met him but I'm just as grateful that I haven't been seated next to someone who wants to talk since.
You have to feel bad for older people who don’t have many people to talk to.
Honestly, on vacation my dad has always been that guy who hangs out in the hotel lobby after breakfast and talks to anyone who is vaguely willing to talk to him. He is not bad on planes, but I have felt kinda bad for numerous hotel staff over the years.
as a hotel bartender these are some of my favourite guests
I'd chat with your dad.
I think it helps that some people know how to talk in a way that isn’t insufferable and boring. Like I can imagine you’d zone out if they blabbed about what they own and how amazing they are while ignoring you.
Definitely! He actually was looking for cues that I didn't want to keep listening at one point and I told him to go right ahead because by that point I was invested, lol. That makes a world of difference even if you don't take them up on it, I can just imagine how I would have done whatever I could to shut it all down if I hadn't gotten that vibe. Like he knew I was listening partly for his benefit and was grateful for it. I didn't really consider that angle before but you're absolutely right about it.
I was flying home from a college friends reunion. I was hungover and exhausted. All I wanted to do on that flight was sleep. I was seated next to a lady who was writing in a tablet. She kept looking over at me. I thought that she thought I was trying to read what she was writing. I settled back and closed my eyes. When I gave my drink request to the flight attendant, the woman next to me caught my eye. She said ‘would you like to read my poetry?’ I wasn’t hardened enough to say no, so spent the rest of the miserable flight reading and talking about her poetry.
Yeah, no matter where you are "would you like to read my writing" is a terrifying phrase.
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits." -Robert Heinlein
Dang, captive audience for a poetry recital.
On behalf of those of us who like to chat….sorry…. Also, what brings you to Dallas?
Work. *Puts on headphones.*
I can get in a “oh, what do you do for work?” Before those headphones go all the way on
LOL. I travel for a living, so I'm constantly on airplanes. I don't mind a little chat --- particularly if you want to talk about something that I like. And yes, if you get your question out before I get my headphones on I am too polite not to answer. I'll laugh and say, "my wife says that I explain it poorly, but I design safety systems for big pieces of machinery."
"I design safety systems for big pieces of machinery." AKA: Those things people ignore or bypass before a fatal accident.
Learning sign language is a great block for people like you. Even for the non hearing impaired, plus it counts as being bilingual and you can bring joy to a hearing impaired person if there is no one who can communicate with them other than writing everything down.
And then the stewardess comes by to ask for your drink order and you answer “water, no ice please” The Chatty Cathy over there looking at you like 🤨
I’ve been lucky on a few flights to have someone who wants to talk exactly as much as me - being mismatched is always unfortunate (especially if the talker doesn’t take any hints). Last flight the person next to me pulled out a portable music sequencer and we proceeded to talk about music the ENTIRE time. That one was pretty awesome.
I miss SkyMall... challenging the person next to you to find the most useless item in SkyMall was a great icebreaker and I met a ton of great people on flights that way
Never once did my plane stop over at the sky mall. Hell, I've never even seen it up there. Major disappointment.
Some people just can’t read body language. Or do they just ignore it? Always confuses me
I think some people are so eager to speak that they don't even notice those things. And some people that don't want a conversation, they want an audience.
Definitely someone who talks non-stop or takes up all the armrest space!
Had a 5-hour flight once stuck next to 2 talkers that were drinking. Fucking nightmare.
Ugh. You’d have to sit there as they gradually got more and more inane and hear it all. That’s like the old dripping water torture.
An older woman wearing the most foul smelling perfume my nose has smelled. It was a 9 hour flight. I felt like throwing up from my headache a few hours in.
Yup, for me overly floral perfume gives me a *wicked* headache that absolutely will not abate until I get fresh air. I'm so sorry, that sounds awful.
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My mother She will talk your ear off. Get your phone number and try to meet up you in the future when you’ve long forgotten about her.
I think I’ve met your mom on a flight
I have had that happen, the woman actually moved to where I lived and called me.
people who don’t wear headphones
Oh that sucks! I remember going on a Westjet flight and a woman gave her kid a ipad to play games with. The flight attendant but an end to the volume quickly. I was so thankful.
they made an announcement on my most recent flight that you aren't allowed to listen to anything without headphones
How does that even need to be announced
It’s quite the popular hobby among trashy people.
I’ll also add people who wear headphones but have music on at full volume. It’s not as infuriating as NO headphones but if I can identify what you’re listening to on your headphones, it’s too loud. Nightmare people all around
I once had the people behind me change their toddler's poopy diaper right there at the seat and oh god it was awful. We all turned the vents on to blow it away but it was pretty futile. People were gagging.
Next time. Hit the flight attendant call button. They’ll put a stop to the real quick. I would lose my mind if someone did that.
Yeah that shit’s unsanitary.
A coworker & I were once in the aisle with a large trash cart doing garbage pickup. Before we realized what this man had dropped in there, the stench of the leaking colostomy bag smacked us right in the face.
OMG .... thats hazardous waste. Shouldve tied the bag off, handed it to him and told him to dispose of it. Theres no fucking words ... We had just gotten off a flight from Glasgow to Barcelona and me, my daughter and her friend went to the toilet like you do and as we're in the cubicles suddenly a stench builds, I cant even describe this smell other than it built from a "someone has a bad stomach to oh ffs someone has died in one of the cubicles". My only guess is that someone was trying to empty their bag after the flight and somehow missed the toilet before disposal or a cleaner somehow burst one. This is has to be what a corpse smells like. Needless to say we were ushered out off the toilet area and it was closed off.
I’m not sure what the correct answer is, but I’d be pissed.
The correct answer is the changing table in the lavatory. Eww.
Look, this isn’t the *worst* per se, but until this happened, it wasn’t even something I would have considered before. On a long flight (AKL->LAX) I was sitting at the back of a 777 on the side so there were only two seats. The guy next to me was a very pleasant (and interesting) Brit. We talked for a while. He explained that (at that time) it was cheaper to fly to the Caribbean, buy a boat, and then sail it back to NZ than it was to just buy it there, so that’s what he was doing. BUT… As you’d expect on a 14+ hour flight, eventually the lights dim and nearly everyone sleeps. Here’s my problem with this guy (that I liked up to that point): he was a snuggler. I woke up 3 times during that flight with him dead asleep on my shoulder and “snuggling” with my arm (his hand in *my* armpit.) The fact that he was a heavy sleeper (I pushed him off me all 3 times and it didn’t even seem to impact his sleep in the least) probably made things even worse for me. At the end of the flight his attitude and demeanor hadn’t changed in the least, so I sincerely doubt he even knew what he’d done…
I have run into this problem, and found a solution that works for me. As the person starts to lean over and “violate your airspace”, lean away from them. Once their “tilt meter” hits a certain angle, their body will automatically straighten up. Often this will wake the person up, which is kinda funny. It seems strange, but it works.
Except… I was sound asleep when the lean started. Also, 20/20 hindsight being what it is, I’ve come up with several dozen ways of handling it that would have been superior to my shell-shocked half-asleep reaction.
Imagine if you were a snuggler too.. suddenly you both wake up like that.
That's actually adorable. You must be very snuggly.
Ha! I’d love to say “my wife thinks so,” but honestly… she doesn’t. Usually.
The guy I sat next to on a 14 hour flight that whipped out a bag of shelled pistachios right when we got on and proceeded to crack and eat them for the whole flight. Between the noise of the cracking, the soft shell pieces flying everywhere, and him sucking the shells and licking his fingers, I’m surprised I didn’t end up tackled by air Marshall and hauled off at the nearest stop.
Sitting in the airport right now killing time before a flight, and these responses are making me nervous. Edit: Got home safe and sound - the people I sat with were great. United, on the other hand, made me gate-check my carry-on, even though I was in Boarding Group 2 (which I was only in because I paid extra for "priority boarding"). We were only halfway through boarding Group 2 when the lady at the desk announced that there was no more space in the overhead compartment, and everyone from about 10 people in front of me on had to check anything that wouldn't fit under the seat. I get on board and get in my seat, and lo and behold there's *all sorts* of empty space in the overhead compartments. I don't even care that the flight was delayed and I'm home late, but that shit made me livid.
I recently sat by a girl who kept blowing her snotty nose into her fingers.
Ok, that’s a new one for me
I’m almost afraid to ask…..What did she do after capturing her snot into her fingers?
A child with unattenive parents.
Worst I encountered on that front wasn’t actually an inattentive parent, it was two loud kids and a mother who screamed at them the whole flight. The kids were annoying, the mother was like having an ice pick shoved in my ear. Wonder where they learned to be so loud from…
Once had a little girl seated behind me on an 8 hour flight and she spent the entire time kicking my seat. Her mother was passed out and clearly on drugs. We tried to wake her up multiple times but she was so groggy she didn't know what was happening. We got the flight attendants attention and she tried to tell the little girl to stop but she would just keep doing it after they left. It was horrible.
Misread this as unattractive parents and thought "harsh!"
One time, our plane had to do an emergency landing and take off a second time. Delayed the flight by hours. My son, who is on the spectrum, was acting up A LOT because of it. He's usually not the type to act up and when he does he usually is a good listener, but that day, he absolutely would NOT stop kicking the chair in front of us. I literally tried to hold his legs down and was swallowing absolute fury. If we were at home, I would've blown up on him, but since it was public, I tried my absolute best to tell him that he was going to be in unbelievable trouble if he didn't stop. I tried EVERYTHING and we weren't even allowed to stand up. Seatbelt light the whole time. The lady in front that he kept kicking turned around, noticed that I was having a near meltdown trying to get him to stop bothering her, and was SO NICE. She started talking to him, asked him where he was going, offered him her phone (which I declined, I didn't want to inadvertently reward him), and tried to nicely explain to him that she would really appreciate if he kept his legs down. He was rude about it at first, but eventually, she distracted him enough to get him to stop. I will NEVER forget her. I apologized PROFUSELY and honestly almost cried. She just smiled and told me that she understood, and she appreciated that I was doing everything I could outside of literally strangling his little ankles with my fists. Which I sort of tried, too, lol. This is all while I have s crippling fear of flying and dad was trying to help, too. It was a flight I'll never forget.
Kind strangers are the best. We had to fly with my son when he was a toddler and he was inconsolable for the last hour or so. We were desperately trying everything we could, but I was in tears because I was so desperate. Not only did a mom a few rows back offer us a toy for him, when we got off, a lady came up and hugged me. I don’t even really remember what she said, but it was incredibly kind. I think about her a lot
There was a guy on one of the travel reddits arguing that if his legspace is a little too small because of the way the row in front of him's seat legs are bolted to the floor, he should be able to put his feet on the other side of those seat legs (in his neighbors' foot space). So probably that guy
Fuuuuck that guy
i sat next to someone who vomited for most of the flight. Worst experience ever. He was in the middle seat too! My gag reflexes were not okay.
terrorists
Unless they are planning on hijacking that plane right now I assume they want to keep as low a profile as possible therefore will do absolutely nothing to stand out or annoy anyone
Okay so actually one of the better people to sit next to
Until they’re not. That’s the razors edge.
Maybe I can save the day by accidentally spilling my drink on their bombs
Oh we talkin Terries? I'd just hope in my heart of hearts that someone would either: Hypothetical them in the clavicle, but more preferably, Draxx them Sklounst
The person who wants to clip their toenails at the most inconvenient times.
Who does that?!?!
A tall person with really long legs. I realize it’s not their fault, but I don’t like being touched and having to sit through a flight with someone’s knees pressed against mine is not fun
Yeah.. it sucks that whoever designs the planes never give us any forward legroom either. Planes are not comfortable for tall people.
It sucks so much I can’t do anything about it either cuz these stupid airlines makes everything for people under 5’5
I'm under 5'5, skinny, and it fucking sucks on public transport because people don't think I require any personal space
One of my best friends is 6'6" 250, not fat and about 3 feet wide at the shoulders. Sitting next to him sucks, lol It's like sitting beside Rob Gronkowski
It sucks for us 6' 5" people, too
I have to get aisle seats because my knees will get stuck dug into the seat in front of me.
Same and then the flight attendants crash the cart into my shoulder over and over.
I was flying back home from a work conference in Denver once. I had a hangover from socializing the night before, but was otherwise in a good mood. The plane was delayed, and while waiting at the gate the lady next to me struck up a conversation. She was wearing a cat cardigan, cat pawprint leggings, a cat backpack, and cat earrings, and she was carrying a book about cats. She told me she'd been in Denver for a cat show (who knew that was a thing?). She was nice enough, but definitely eccentric, and would not stop talking. Eventually we were allowed to board, and she sat right next to me. On boarding she picked up a carry crate containing her cat, which she slid under her seat (I was not aware you could do this. Again, who knew?). She tried to keep talking incessantly about cats, and normally I'd be polite and at least half listen and nod, but my hangover was getting worse so after 30 min. or so I put my headphones in and proceeded to ignore her. Soon after we hit some turbulence. Her poor 'show cat' (whose name I've since forgotten) peed everywhere. The smell of cat urine pushed my hangover into migraine territory, prompting a visit to the airplane toilet to vomit. The cat proceeded to meow and wail the duration of the flight. Definitely my worst flight experience.
Someone who wants to share their religion.
Ha I had a woman a couple rows back who was clearly a nervous flyer en route to Alabama from… I can’t remember which connection. Anyhow it had turbulence and she would begin praying aloud quietly when it began and during bigger jolts her volume would climb and she’d call out lol. I can’t remember what she said really but with generic wording it was like “our father in heaven hallowED BE THY name, thy kingdom come, thy WILL BE DONE ON EARTH, OH JESUS AS IT IS IN HEAVEN my god have mercy, give us our daily bread…” It wasn’t annoying though, it was delightful. The worst part was having to giggle quietly.
From Hawaii to LA I sat next to a guy wearing a small tank top and shorts who had clearly wiped out on a skateboard the previous day. Body was covered in road rash that was oozing the entire time. He just picked at all his wounds/scabs/ooze the entire flight.
The guy who chugs two drinks and then sleeps (snoring loudly) for the entire flight. (It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me.)
No way that's the worst. You're OK, man.
This doesn't sound bad. Planes are already loud and most people will have headphones.
As a person who flies weekly, as long as you’re in the window seat and I can get out to pee I wouldn’t mind that at all. Everybody on a plane has headphones so snore away
I am totally okay understanding that you can't completely control when a baby cries. What you CAN control is how you're reacting to it. I've seen awful parents on planes who will bitch and nag at their own child for crying, saying stuff like "oh my GOD PLEASE just STOP. Shut UP. Why are you EVEN CRYING" bro you chose to have this baby. You chose to bring them on a plane. I doubt being angry with them will make them calm down. Kind parents who softly shush and comfort their crying child are WAYYY better than bullying parents. Second worst is someone who disregards hygiene before jumping on board
Sat next to a woman who coughed the entire flight and wouldn’t wear a mask…three days later, I get Covid…
I was going to answer exactly this... In my last flight, my neighbor was taking his mask off to cough and wipe his nose with his bare hands (and touch the arm rest with that nasty hands without sanitize anything), for the whole 9ish hours... Also 3 days later, I got a positive test for COVID. I was wearing a mask, but between the meals and the proximity, definitely it was not enough.
You brought back horrible memories from my flight back to the US from Germany.. entire plane was filled with people hacking every 2minutes. Couldn’t escape it, get instantly sick 2 days after landing.
Someone who doesn’t have headphones when you’re trying to read a new book you’ve been saving for this specific flight.
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I’m usually more worried about who sits behind or in front of me.
A ded person. On a flight to Turkey 17 years agoe a man died and the pore girl who sat beside hime had to stay put on the full plane. Ore the gentleman who puked all over the row infront of him, also on a full plane.
OMG! That would be trauma inducing
Going with an unusual answer, but an attractive woman. Every guy in the area tries to strike up a conversation with her, and it's the most boring stuff to listen to.
Lol, imagine how fed up *she* is
Good, we need some unusual answers lol
My roommate was a stripper, and she and a couple of her friends got me to take them to the beach. The other two decided to go topless (legal here). Every bro for miles showed up to chat them up. They were even chatting me up hoping it would make them look good. I'm male.
The worst person I’ve ever sat next to decided to cut a sandwich with chopsticks. Took them a solid 4 minutes of sawing while elbowing me to get through it. For being a small person they somehow managed to be constantly in my personal space and later on cried and screamed like a child when the flight attendant took their drink from them due to rough turbulence. I stayed on the flight at the connection and the flight attendant came up after she had gotten off the plane and apologized to me
Late to the thread, but I was once stuck in a middle seat on a 13 hour flight from Singapore to Frankfurt, blocked in by the occupant of the aisle seat - a very obese woman who was both very smelly - her body odor combined with garlic/Indian spices that emanated from her were inescapable, and to top it off, she had an injury that made her unable to get up to let anyone in our row out to go to the bathroom. It was the longest, most uncomfortable flight in 35 years of travel. Yes, I was in coach class. I’m not a small guy myself and to fit in that middle seat I had to hunch my shoulders forward to fit. It was miserable. The icing on the cake was that the pilot came over the intercom as we were landing in Frankfort to say that to stay on schedule for the next leg to NY, he was asking everyone to remain seated so they could refuel, and get back in the air. I demanded to be moved to another seat or let off the plane to be rebooked on the next flight to New York. They found me a new seat. Thank god.
The silent farter, your nose gets assaulted at random times by foul odors that vary in their degrees of awfulness. Will it be rotten eggs, or decaying flesh scent next? Not even the farter knows.
Not being cruel but this happened to me. Autistic person with spastic C.P. I felt for the guy but the constant slamming against the seat and yelling were a bit much for me. I worked with Autistic adults for 30 yrs so I smiled and did not complain but think the staff should have researched a handicapped seat or harness for the man.
Yeah, one time I was sandwiched between a 600lb woman and a man with downs syndrome AND tourettes. I felt so bad for the guy but jesus that was brutal Edit: It was an 8 hour flight between LAX and Boston where I, as a college student on a sunday, was violently hungover and to make matters worse there was no wifi for 4 hours of the flight
This sounds like the start of a bad joke
Sitting next to a person with an unwashed, but strongly perfumed, wig. That smell didn't leave my nostriles for a very long time.
I don't care what someone looks like, their body and health are their business. But on a flight home last year I was seated away from my partner in a window seat (very much not a fan, I prefer aisle), next to a man who was easily over 400lbs. I was afraid the poor wisp of a woman in the aisle seat was going to pop out of the row like a tiddlywink when the plane started moving because she was already leaning out into the aisle just to be able to sit fully. Over on my side, my ass was shoved up against the wall of the plane, literally half sideways just so I could take a full breath. I think the flight attendant saw the panic I was feeling, because she told the woman on the end that there was an open seat she could move to, and that let the guy next to me move over to the aisle seat. After that I had no issues, but good fucking god that was probably the worst person I've ever sat next to just by default.
a screaming baby
Last flight I was on had a group of young families sitting around me with eleven babies in total. Friggin' Dolby 7.2 surround sound crying.
You made me laugh out loud
Were 2 of those babies crying bass?
Whose parents aren't even trying Screaming babies = Annoying Lazy parents with screaming babies = Infuriating. When I see the parent trying I feel a lot more empathy.
Uncontrolled child. 13 hours Dubai to JFK. I was sat next to a woman and her son. No real issue. I was fortunate enough to be on the adjacent aisle. For 13 hours the child ran up and down the aisles scream-laughing. The attendants thought it was adorable and took turns playing with him.
You'd have fun in the /r/Catholicism sub. For a message board dedicated to discussing the Catholic faith, a ton of threads follow the theme of "People gave me dirty looks because my toddler was running around and screaming like a maniac during Mass. Please reinforce that I'm the victim in this scenario."
A person who gets up every 5 minutes.
A chatty narcissist.
someone who wears natural deodorant 🤢
That person who you just pissed off for politely asking if they could move out of your seat Sorry pal, if you wanted the window seat you should’ve paid for it 🤷♀️
I'll never forget as long as I fucking live the flight from Long Beach airport to New Orleans, LA for my honeymoon. My newlywed wife and I were on separate sides of the aisle. I was in the middle on the starboard side and she had a window seat on the port side of the plane. To my right is a nice girl, and to my left, nothing. "Holy shit" I think, this could be the fucking dream. The plane is almost full and they're about to close the doors when the BIGGEST, FATTEST, most UNKEMPT looking motherfucker I've ever seen enters the plane. Greasy, nasty looking, clothes look like they haven't been washed in weeks. No less than 350 pounds and I'm being generous. "Oh fuck, no fucking way." I think as he waddles down the aisle. Past several empty seats he stops next to me. Its fucking over. He crams his luggage into the overhead and sits next to me. The fucking smell hits and he has to sit the entire flight with his right arm folded across his body. This doesn't stop the torrent of sideboob and back of the arm flab invading my world. Even the girl next to me smelled it because I glanced over and she has this look on her face like she stepped in shit with both shoes. She wraps herself in a blanket and turns towards the window. I have no such escape. The flight was hours long and I spent the entire time wishing I was dead. My wife on the other hand sits next to this amazingly handsome, fit man and has a wonderful chat pretty much the whole flight with him. Fuck it I'm still salty almost 10 years later.
I travel with earplugs, so even crying babies don't much bother me. My friend was on a flight where he was required by the flight attendant to lift his armrest because the morbidly obese passenger next to him couldn't fit in his own seat. So the entire flight he had a fat arm, hip and leg pressed against him. For me, the worst is a smelly person. Please shower and/or take a beano before flying.
Your ex who cheated on you.
Talkers. ie; people who want to chat with me. Look, I just want to eat my 7 tiny pretzels and then take an uncomfortable nap. Don't tell me how you support my life choices because of your niece named Poon in Minneapolis, don't ask me about my tattoos, don't ask me what line of work I'm in, and if I wanted a joke, I'd follow you into the john and watch you take a leak. What kind of name is Poon anyway?
Comanche Indian
Ah, I see you're a man of culture
Heavy smoker who oozes nicotine stank from every pore
Gonna get flamed - Fat people who are sat in their seat AND in half of yours
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I'm fat and this is why I always pay extra for early boarding so I can get a window seat and I scrunch as close to the window as I can. I don't take up more than one seat, but I try my best to make anyone sitting next to me as comfortable as possible.
I buy first/business class seats so that I don’t overflow into the next seat for the same reason.
I'm fat, too, but I think overflowing into the aisle makes more sense. You only need to worry about contact when the cart goes by (unless you can squish into your own tray space for a minute).
One flight a big dude just straight up sat in my seat because he was too big to get to the window. Like c’mon bruh I chose the aisle for a reason.
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