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There is no point in reclining the seat anyway, you get maybe 5 degrees out of it.

One thing that bugs me these days is the no-line policy for the lavs. It seems like whenever I get up to go to the lav someone sitting within 3 rows of it gets up and in before I even make it to the aisle.

I'm not in line for the lav, I'm just standing and stretching to avoid DVT....but, as long as I'm here, might as well use it

I was PAX on an ATR about 15 years ago. The whole A/C stank, and I mean stank. It was a "Rasta" guy about 3-5 rows in front of me. The guy directly in front of me turned around, and in all seriousness, said, "I just want you to know, I'm not the one causing the smell." It was a long hour and a half.:eek:

I have two to add: But you have to be in uniform to fully appreciate

1) The drinker (especially 1st class) no matter how turbulent the flight is, they're getting their drink on. And you watch and pray it doesn't land on your uniform.

2) The idiot who will ask you why does X happen when you're trying to sleep. Ex. What is going on in JFK that all the planes are delayed?

Uh have you looked outside and noticed the fog rolling in?

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Originally Posted by dreamtofly (Post 324431)

15. The seat putter backer.

There is no room to put your seat back without destroying the person behind you. They should not go back at all.

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Originally Posted by Shaun (Post 324513)

That drives me crazy. I used to commute from SEA-BOS on the red-eye, I would rest my head on the tray, and when the person in front of me tried to recline, I would hold my head against their seat so that they couldn't recline. They normaly gave up fairly quickly.

I had one guy in front of me that reclined right when he sat down on the ground and only had it up for takeoff and landing. Once we hit the ground, BAM! reclined again. It was only NOT reclined for about 20 min total the entire flight. :mad:

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IMO, these are unethical, but if seat recliners get on your nerves that much, they can be ordered at http://www.kneedefender.com/html2/buy.htm for about $15.

I'm surprised those aren't banned or something.

The Lav tourist. The guy who gets up to Pee 5 times on the 1 hr flight from ICT-MEM. This is esp annoying if you are stuck in the special torture of seat 13B.

Take some avrodart already.

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Originally Posted by HoursHore (Post 325329)

The Lav tourist. The guy who gets up to Pee 5 times on the 1 hr flight from ICT-MEM. This is esp annoying if you are stuck in the special torture of seat 13B.

Take some avrodart already.

Going up to Canada a few summers ago, one of the legs of the flight was a 3 hour trip from IAH- Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. My seat was the closest one to the lav, and some guy was stricken by severe diarreha. I didn't count how many times he went to the lav, but it was over 7 or 8. To make things worse, the flight was full so I couldn't change seats and the smell just wafted through the plane. I think that's the only flight I've ever disliked.

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Originally Posted by vagabond (Post 323760)

12. The late arrival
This is the passenger who somehow remembers to check in his bags but then forgets about his flight. Gate agents page him at every terminal, and when he does not respond, are forced to remove his bags. The problem is that it takes about 30 minutes to locate luggage in the cargo hold, and the errant passenger usually shows up after 15 minutes. Biggest excuse? "I was in the duty-free shop and lost track of time." Really? You show up three hours prior to departure and it flies by just like that?

A couple years ago my boss (a Major in the US Army, so you think he'd know better) came back from a vacation to the states with almost that same story.

He was headed back to visit his kids and checked in at Frankfurt four hours before departure. He figured dropping his car off at Rhein-Main Air Base, the bus ride to the other side of the airport, and check-in would take a while, but he was flying during that odd time in the morning between the rushes that it took him no time at all.

He went to grab some breakfast and catch up on a little reading in the Terminal and lost track of time. 30 minutes before departure he realized he was late and made a mad dash through passport control and the two different security screenings only to arrive at the gate after the door was closed, but the aircraft was still there. They wouldn't let him board and he waited at the gate area while they searched for his luggage and removed it from the plane.

Ended up taking an evening flight to Amsterdam and then a flight stateside the next day.

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Originally Posted by hotshot (Post 324500)

17. The 300 pound guy in the seat(s) next to you on an 10 hour flight to Hawaii. Double points if he isn't wearing deodorant.

Smaller airplane and shorter flight but commensurate...

Down to KSAT and this guy comes on. Weighs in easily north of 300.

Within a few minutes he is asleep, snoring and beginning the leans. Next he is leaning over on me. I jostle him with a shoulder and the grumps awake and glares at me. But soon is back asleep.

I finally tap him on the shoulder and advise, "We have only just met and I think it is far too early for us to be sleeping with each other. DO YOU MIND?"

The F/A had watched this little episode and told me there was an empty row nearby. I gladly accepted.