Flight Attendant Shares the Most ‘Evil’ Things a Passenger Can Do
It's 2024, and much as I'd like to believe in the best of humanity, people still don't seem to know how to act right on airplanes. Hopefully you or I have never been "the problem passenger" to someone else, but we can all think of a flight where someone crowded our personal space, broke basic safety rules, was a jerk to a flight attendant, etc.
But no matter what we may have as pet peeves regarding our fellow passengers, there are a few particular behaviors that flight attendants loathe above all else. Flight attendant Cher sometimes talks trash on passengers' problem habits, and on April 27, she leveled on some of the most "evil" things that a passenger can do, at least in her eyes!
With five years of flight attendant service under her belt, @cherdallas has seen some horrors. Still, what intrigued me about her list was that she didn't go after the most obvious "evil" problem passenger behaviors. She wasn't complaining about passengers getting wasted and verbally abusing the cabin crew- hopefully her audience already knows not to do that. Her call-outs focused on stuff that we might not typically think of as "problem behaviors," but prove nightmarish for flight attendants.
I'll be honest, her moratorium against putting full water bottles in the overhead bin was not one I would have thought of. As long as they're tightly sealed, it should be OK, right? In theory, yes, but in practice, Cher claims that they always leak, always soak into other people's carry-on bags, and always manage to dump out on one person in particular.
She's also very much against people boarding the plane when they know that they're already sick (motion sickness, of course, is another story, and Cher is sympathetic to those who deal with it). You'd hope that people would be more cautious in a post-Covid world, but flights are expensive, refunds are rare, and some folks will try to power through. Not only does this expose others to infection, though, but it can lead to the kind of nauseating nightmare Cher described that led to cabin service getting cancelled for that flight. The horror...
And lastly, her recommendation against fellas using the lavatory standing up during turbulence was gold. Safety's not the only risk factor here! I laughed, but the whole situation seemed less funny once Cher explained that this is why toilet paper rolls on airplanes are filthy... urgh. I might just bring an extra pack of tissues on my next flight...
The Consequences of 'Evil' In-Flight Habits
It wasn't just Cher shouting her opinions into the void here, either. Other passengers could confirm that the bad habits have consequences!
"So funny on the bin. I was that "dripped on" person on a flight from Sweden to London, and it was exactly as described! As for the aim... that's true too!" shared @hoxsd20.
"Big on rescheduling if possible when you're sick (I know it's not always an option)," affirmed @sleepingdormousee. "I had a 4-hour flight when I was congested, and as soon as we reached altitude, my eardrum ruptured." Oh God, nightmare, nightmare, nightmare.
On that note, I am disheartened by how difficult it can be for flyers to reschedule or get refunds when sick, forcing them to take risks that lead to travel horror stories like the ones described above. The Department of Transportation recently made it much easier for air travelers to get refunds, but provisions for sudden illnesses aren't part of it. When possible, air travelers should make a habit of backing up their tickets with insurance, because being forced to forfeit the cost of a flight versus committing an "evil" behavior is a miserable catch-22, especially when you're sick!
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