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If you're not supposed to take your shoes off, why do they give you socks?
Taking your shoes off is OK, as long as you have--or out--socks on. I often wear sandals to get on the plane, but as soon as we are in the air I replace them with slipper socks as my feet usually get cold.
Actually a number of the foreign carriers do. Air France does not unless you are in PE or above. PE gets a small bag with socks, eye mask, ear plugs (I think, can't remember for sure), little disposable covers to put over their headsets, toothbrush and a vile toothpaste, and a cheap pen that will work for about five minutes. I don't recall anything else, even basics like hand cream in their bag, although in the lavs for PE and Business there was make up remover and cotton pads, skin toner, and some sort of multi-purpose face/hand moisturizer. Business and First get nicer bags with more contents.
Actually a number of the foreign carriers do. Air France does not unless you are in PE or above. PE gets a small bag with socks, eye mask, ear plugs (I think, can't remember for sure), little disposable covers to put over their headsets, toothbrush and a vile toothpaste, and a cheap pen that will work for about five minutes. I don't recall anything else, even basics like hand cream in their bag, although in the lavs for PE and Business there was make up remover and cotton pads, skin toner, and some sort of multi-purpose face/hand moisturizer. Business and First get nicer bags with more contents.
Nothing surprises me anymore. People are disgusting. Smells are disgusting, primarily.
Sadly, I have a good sense of smell, and worse, I fly all the time. Every single carpeted TSA checkpoint in the eastern US smells like a mixture of mold and sweaty feet, kind of like a carpeted locker room. Every one.
People really need to mind their hygiene a little bit too. I was going through security the other day and kept getting this eye-watering smell of chopped onions, but it was like onion plus deodorant. As it turned out, it was the woman right behind me. Her pits smelled like raw, chopped onions left in a container in the refrigerator. For a week. At least I hope it was her armpits and not something else.
Nothing surprises me anymore. People are disgusting. Smells are disgusting, primarily.
Sadly, I have a good sense of smell, and worse, I fly all the time. Every single carpeted TSA checkpoint in the eastern US smells like a mixture of mold and sweaty feet, kind of like a carpeted locker room. Every one.
People really need to mind their hygiene a little bit too. I was going through security the other day and kept getting this eye-watering smell of chopped onions, but it was like onion plus deodorant. As it turned out, it was the woman right behind me. Her pits smelled like raw, chopped onions left in a container in the refrigerator. For a week. At least I hope it was her armpits and not something else.
Yuck...people don't realize onions, garlic, alcohol as you are sweating this out of your body, you smell like it.
I have never seen the half naked people on flights. Thank God.
I have seen plenty of weird yoga positions, especially among slim young women. They can be impressive!
I did once have a pair of feet unexpectedly thrust alongside me. Belonged to the passenger behind me who'd nodded off.
Probably the worst are the people who smoked half a pack before a flight and downed several beers in an airport bar. They reek.
But I have been guilty, once. We had an eight hour layover in Kuala Lumpur that followed a 22 hour flight including a prior layover in Dubai. We'd had no showers in nearly 24 hours and went out to explore the city. Six hours walking outdoors in very humid weather = soaking wet with sweat by the time we returned to the airport. I'm sure we stunk to high heaven even though we tried to discreetly wash up as much as possible in the restroom. I spent the next leg of our flight quietly praying that no one could smell us.
Doesn't it make you want to fly just in the first class section? Except they're usually the ones that get wiped out in a plane crash. Flying for me was always an unpleasant experience but even more so now.
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