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I flew numerous times and never got a tray in my stomach. I am normal weight, 6ft tall and the tray never got anywhere near my stomach. Don't know how other people can get them JAMMED into their body. The seats recliners are specifically built to NOT bother the person behind, that's why you can't recline much.
So either the woman with the tray in the stomach is overly big (not the concern of the person in front of her) or the seat must have been broken (and the person in front couldnt have known that before trying the recliner).
I've been flying since 1970, and have over a million "butt in seat" miles logged. I've seen just about everything from people delaying take off or landing because they refused to come out of the lav to people taken off in handcuffs to drunks to people joining the "mile high club" to screaming kids, to jerks watching porn on their laptop. I've seen people puke in aisles and cause a chain reaction through the cabin, I've been in an emergency landing on a foam covered runway.
I've seen FA's and a nurse perform CPR on someone and experienced the fastest, hardest landing ever to get them to a hospital. I've seen a little kid who couldn't wait take a tinkle on the lav floor. I've seen people throw food, people drop heavy suitcases on others, and people who couldn't figure out that seat 32D meant the center in the last row on the left as you face the back of the plane, not the first seat on the aisle as you come on board. I've seen people try to sneak into first class--and ALWAYS get caught.
I've seen and heard more noxious odors come from human beings than I thought possible. I've seen people who didn't know how to fasten a seat belt and people who couldn't figure out how to unfasten their seat belt. I've seen flight attendants bend over backwards to comfort a teen girl who had been at college when her mom unexpectedly passed away that morning, and I've seen flight attendants who shouldn't have had jobs at the prison cafeteria their people skills were so bad.
I've seen a brawl between two guys over a stupid baseball game (they both went off in handcuffs) and I've seen a crazy lady who began frantically pacing up and down the aisle about halfway through the flight muttering about something unintelligible and flapping her arms like she was trying to fly. (No, I don't believe she was autistic, just nuts.) At this point, I really don't think there is much that would surprise me that could happen on a plane.
If you are above, maybe, 5'9" or if you have long legs you can't not be bothered by the person in front of you reclining their seat. It goes back far enough to touch your knees and then you get to spend the entire flight avoiding having your knees crushed everytime Mr. Recliner shifts in his seat.
Last time I flew the flight attendant dropped a bag on my head and then played it off like it was a joke. This was after she got all snarky with a passenger whose bag came within a foot of grazing her leg as he scooted by her. That's US Air for you, though.
I've seen that happen as well. Perhaps worse was the lady who decided to polish her nails mid-flight.
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Originally Posted by luvmyhoss
How did you stand that? The toxic fumes etc.
Off-topic for aviation, but relevant to nail polish in enclosed area.
Once, when I had jury duty, the jury was selected in the afternoon (I was Alternate Juror #1), and we came back the next day to start the trial. We met in the jury deliberation room, and waited. The room had the 14 of us sitting around a rectangular table, covered in old reading material, and there was a fan on a table in the corner. No windows.
The other jurors were reading, some eating breakfast they had brought, but nobody was saying anything. I was sitting at one corner of the table, when after about an hour in the room, I got a whiff of the unmistakable scent of lacquer thinner. I'd thinned plenty of lacquer, and knew that smell very well. I thought that perhaps somebody was using it as a solvent somewhere in the bowels of the building and that it was getting into the HVAC system, and making its way into our room.
Nobody else seemed to notice it, and after a while I finally spoke up and said, "Does anybody else smell lacquer thinner?"
The 13 other people cracked up laughing, because what I described as "lacquer thinner" was the nail polish being applied by the girl at the far corner of the table, with her hands below the table where I couldn't see them.
When the laughter finally subsided, a guy sitting across from me said, "You're NOT married, are you?"
He was right.
But I've since been married and have become even more familiar with that scent than when I was thinning lacquer.
The rudest thing that happens without fail on every flight is when the plane lands and they let everyone know seat belts can come off. Then without fail, people jump up and stand in the aisle with their butts in someone's face while passengers in front of them gather their baggage from the overhead. It is so obnoxious. If you are in the middle of the plane, why leap to your feet and stand there for 10-15 minutes with your butt in someones face? Wait until the plane clears out closer to where you are sitting before getting up. Anything else is just plain rude.
I've been flying since 1970, and have over a million "butt in seat" miles logged. I've seen just about everything from people delaying take off or landing because they refused to come out of the lav to people taken off in handcuffs to drunks to people joining the "mile high club" to screaming kids, to jerks watching porn on their laptop. I've seen people puke in aisles and cause a chain reaction through the cabin, I've been in an emergency landing on a foam covered runway.
I've seen FA's and a nurse perform CPR on someone and experienced the fastest, hardest landing ever to get them to a hospital. I've seen a little kid who couldn't wait take a tinkle on the lav floor. I've seen people throw food, people drop heavy suitcases on others, and people who couldn't figure out that seat 32D meant the center in the last row on the left as you face the back of the plane, not the first seat on the aisle as you come on board. I've seen people try to sneak into first class--and ALWAYS get caught.
I've seen and heard more noxious odors come from human beings than I thought possible. I've seen people who didn't know how to fasten a seat belt and people who couldn't figure out how to unfasten their seat belt. I've seen flight attendants bend over backwards to comfort a teen girl who had been at college when her mom unexpectedly passed away that morning, and I've seen flight attendants who shouldn't have had jobs at the prison cafeteria their people skills were so bad.
I've seen a brawl between two guys over a stupid baseball game (they both went off in handcuffs) and I've seen a crazy lady who began frantically pacing up and down the aisle about halfway through the flight muttering about something unintelligible and flapping her arms like she was trying to fly. (No, I don't believe she was autistic, just nuts.) At this point, I really don't think there is much that would surprise me that could happen on a plane.
Lordy! Hysterical and horrifying at the same time.
I agree, I do about 50k miles per year. Nothing shocks me anymore.
Just this week had a guy, probably around 30, flat refuse to power down his hand held gaming device. The FA finally gave up. He kept playing during landing as well.m
Several years ago wife and I were on a flight to Oahu. The wife had a window seat. We were approached by newlyweds on their honeymoon. They had assigned seats in the middle section of the aircraft. We were asked if we minded switching seats. We declined and the young wife threw a fit and started crying indicating we were being cruel and ruining their trip. They finally settled down and returned to their seats.
The same thing (almost) happened to me. A young woman with kids was seated in front of me, and the about 10 year old was sitting in my row, which was behind her. She pretty much told me to get out of my aisle seat and go to a middle seat (had this coordinated with others) so they could all sit together. I politely declined as I made sure to get an aisle seat way ahead of time on purpose.
She acted like since she was young, pretty and had kids she was used to just bossing people around and having them do what she wanted. Her charms didn't work on me (although I would have considered it if she'd just have asked nicely!) She was so rude when I declined.
The rudest thing that happens without fail on every flight is when the plane lands and they let everyone know seat belts can come off. Then without fail, people jump up and stand in the aisle with their butts in someone's face while passengers in front of them gather their baggage from the overhead. It is so obnoxious. If you are in the middle of the plane, why leap to your feet and stand there for 10-15 minutes with your butt in someones face? Wait until the plane clears out closer to where you are sitting before getting up. Anything else is just plain rude.
Probably the same people before departure that stand up and end up blocking the concourse walkway the second the gate agent announces the upcoming boarding.
They must be afraid the plane will leave without them if they're not standing right there.
To stay on topic, the rudest thing that has happened to me is a person who demanded I let them out of our row so that they could go up to the front of the plane and get a seat close to the door on our descent. The person started yelling and carrying on. The flight attendant quickly told that person to shut up and sit down. The person complained that they were going to miss their connecting flight even though we were ahead of schedule!
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Originally Posted by annerk
Over 100K miles flown last year.
It's a public forum, I'll comment on whatever I want to. Unless the person was grossly overweight, the reclining seat didn't force the tray table into her stomach. It's physically impossible.
I agree. In our PC world where obesity is at an all time high, you get pounced on for telling somebody that they are fat. Unless a person is extremely massive, there is no reason that a tray table should be cutting into their stomach. They can always put the tray table up or get a seat in first class to ease their level of discomfort. However, I guess in this "me first" world that so many people are living in, the person reclining their seat needs to be accommodating.
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