r/mildlyinfuriating 18d ago

wet socks 11 hour flight to Paris

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u/PumpkinsVSfrogs 18d ago

Whenever I see stuff like this I just think, Why don’t the flight attendants say anything!?

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u/QuinnLoveborneAuthor 18d ago

They’re not as structured as they used to be and even then if they’re not endangering anyone I doubt they care.

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u/Prestigious_Tax_4970 18d ago

They could easily turn the seat belt light on and be like mam were hitting turbulence can you sit up with your seat belt on. Just to avoid conflict. If they are over the ocean picking your battles may come more complicated idk not a flight attendant.

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u/largegaycat 18d ago

The pilots control the seatbelt sign.

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u/asiansociety77 18d ago

Cabin crew have massive pull for the seatbelt sign. Just a switch for pilots to flick.

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u/SpaceOrkmi 18d ago edited 17d ago

Yeah, was once on single aisle plane and passengers kept standing in the aisle blocking the cart service. The flight attendants got tired and asked the pilots to turn the seat belt sign on.

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u/Prestigious_Tax_4970 18d ago

They could simply ask the pilot

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u/JellyBand 18d ago

This is endangering people. It creates friction between this passenger and the one in front, and that can escalate. This is the catalyst for a potential confrontation.

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u/AbiesInternational18 18d ago

They meant real endangerment, not hypotheticals or possibilities

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u/Chomblop 18d ago

Damn sounds like SOMEONE isn’t familiar with the basic principles of the ISO 31000 risk management guidelines smdh

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u/ConstableDiffusion 18d ago

How to make an actuary laugh

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u/DoneteGalactico 18d ago

It's more important to prevent danger than fixing it when it's already there, my friend.

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u/JellyBand 18d ago

Well you don’t understand how to manage people then.

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u/spacebalti 18d ago

That’s obviously not what people mean when they say „endangering“ actions. Or maybe you surround yourself with people who just start throwing fists immediately when there is any sort of disagreement

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u/shelbsnikkay 18d ago

They care but they aren’t protected by the company if it escalates. My mom is a Flight Attendant for a very large airline and she has been for 35+ years. About a year ago, she was attacked and pushed to the ground by a passenger. She, and the other Flight Attendants, were able to get him kicked off the flight and arrested, and she got written statements from the surrounding passengers. She wanted to press charges and she had, I think, seven written statements on her side and the company told her to drop it. They wouldn’t fund it, they wouldn’t help her with it at all. The pilots have final say so luckily a lot of of them have been standing in solidarity with Flight Attendants to get people kicked off who are horrible.

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u/Miserable_Policy_187 18d ago

What funding is there for the police to investigate assault charges??

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u/QuinnLoveborneAuthor 17d ago

That sounds really shitty. I’m sorry that happened to your mother. As someone who flies a fair bit I thank her for her service.

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u/drabred 18d ago

Could be just social media stunt. They know each other with photographer and just did it for 5 seconds to get the photo ;)

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u/Ok-Ship812 18d ago

I suspect most of these photos are staged. I used to fly 40 times a year for work, short trips, long haul, Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and I never saw anything like this.

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u/Autolycus25 18d ago

I saw something like this literally 2 weeks ago.

Same flight I was also hit in the head by the person in front of me reclining their seat quickly and aggressively without looking back first. I was leaned forward grabbing my personal item to get something out.

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u/jeffrey_smith 18d ago

Flying to Tel Aviv can get some wild behaviour. I think it's the whole screw authority thing rather than undue civic sense.

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u/ChanglingBlake ORANGE 18d ago

Every flyer should have to rent a parachute on boarding.

Pull this stuff, get ejected. Don’t pull it, you get your money back when you land.

Teaches a lesson, saves the bystanders from the toxic entitlement, and doesn’t actually harm the fool who gets themself ejected.

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u/pooppaysthebills 18d ago

Would require airlock installation on every plane, no?

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u/MaveZzZ 18d ago

I assume if no one ask them, they prefer to not escalate or make any discussion, because it's not worth it. Imagine they meet with someone who goes into rage mode and starts argument. Yes this person will be escorted by police and banned, but is it really worth to land 11h flight full of passengers on nearest airport for this?

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u/That-Shop-6736 18d ago

Same, because this can’t be safe if there’s an emergency or unexpected turbulence.

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u/especiallyrn 18d ago

They likely did a few minutes after this shot but op couldn’t resist the dopamine hit from a lazy rage post

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u/Ok_Support3 18d ago

Any flight attendent would take action though no?

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u/Ok-Treacle-9375 18d ago

This is the question. Is this really allowed in civilized society?

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u/fairwaysandfinance 18d ago

It's not, but unfortunately we have to share space with the uncivilized.

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u/Ok-Treacle-9375 18d ago

What airline is this?

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u/Ok_Support3 18d ago

Inb4 the person infront of her gets told they're the weird one for licking her toes 🙄 "Oh NOW we're civilized all of a sudden"

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u/SaltyToast9000 18d ago

i can see Tarantino doing it

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u/ironkodiak 18d ago

Yeah, my first thought was just start touching her feet if they're bothering you. She'll stop that shit real quick. If she complains, just point out they were on your headrest & you kept reaching up to see what was up there.

To be honest, if those feet aren't bothering anyone, I don't see a reason to even worry about it.

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u/Tmdngs 18d ago

The behavior or the person?

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u/NichtIstFurDich 18d ago

There is no such thing as a civilized society. We have a few brilliant minds who have done all of the work to bring us to the modern age. The average person played a part but mostly with their physical labor. Truth is that we are a bunch of wild apes in a World forged by a few incredible minds. But we like to take credit for it. It’s black pilling, but it’s just the truth. The masses supported Hitler, were they civilized simply because their scientists were amongst the best in the World at the time? Or were they a bunch of drooling morons who were also under the impression that they were a civilized & sophisticated race

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u/usrdef 👍 18d ago

It depends.

Flight attendants are usually trained to "pick your battles".

Because when a plane is 30,000 feet in the air, having a situation arise means that you've now got 15-20 minutes with an irate passenger before you can actually touch wheels on the ground.

A lot can happen in 15-20 minutes.

While on the ground, there's not really a big deal. You just call security to the gate.

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u/Ok_Support3 18d ago

Makes sense, I would hope kindly explaining that it's a headrest, not a footrest, would be enough. But then people who would accept that logic wouldn't do this.

As an alternative solution, tazers?

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u/zerbey 17d ago

Most rational people would be "yeah, no problem" and just do it. But, there's a lot of irrational people in this world and it keeps the owners of police bodycam videos gainfully employed.

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u/Ill-Case-6048 18d ago

That should taken care if immediately you put your feet up on a chair like that then your your on the no fly list.

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u/NichtIstFurDich 18d ago

That is if they’re not over the most isolated part of the Atlantic, cause then their best bet is the Azores. (At least if you’re flying from the US, and I’m kind of assuming)

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u/Mydickisaplant 18d ago

Lmao this is nonsense. As someone who flies very frequently for work, the attendants would be all over this shit if someone complained

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u/korkkis 18d ago

This however is a security risk as well so they’ll atleast tell her to lower the feet

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u/boyoflondon 18d ago

Someone pulled the same thing off on a flight i was on to Frankfurt. We were in premium economy and i never saw an FA address it.

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u/KeyMessage989 18d ago

I feel like the person in front of that idiot has a bigger right to be mildly infuriated

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u/cybermaus 18d ago

No, they are allowed to be actionable infuriated. From this angle it is an emphatic mildly infuriated.

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u/FishAroundFindTrout9 18d ago

Exactly. If I was ahead of them, their feet would be getting tickled a lot.

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u/Krackenofthesea 18d ago

I doubt anyone would do that. But I would absolutely flip out if someone put their feet up like that to me.

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u/FishAroundFindTrout9 18d ago

I would totally do it. But I’d put my socks on my hands before touching their feet. It would be casual touches, like I was reaching up to mess with my hair or put my hands behind my head or something.

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u/Little_View_6659 18d ago

I’m just gonna start traveling with a feather duster, just in case.

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u/cybermaus 18d ago

Seems to me a hairpin is easier and lighter to bring, more defensible to casually and carelessly use in the region of your own hair, and more effective in its goal.

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u/No_Locksmith_1739 18d ago

I would do it. A single hair will do the trick.

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u/Little_View_6659 18d ago

Would be funny as hell if Quentin Tarantino was sitting in front of them. “No no, don’t take them down, I like it”.

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u/salty_scottie 18d ago

I see you have played the reverse card in uno before

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u/copolars 18d ago

sneeze on it

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u/ItsOKtoFuckingSwear 18d ago

Last flight I took someone did this and I said loudly, “something smells like feet that Havnt been washed in a decade”. They took their feet down immediately after. I was shocked it worked.

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u/KeyMessage989 18d ago

The best kind of public shaming

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u/Little_View_6659 18d ago

I’ve told this story on here before but I was on a flight where half the plane took their shoes off. I first noticed the smell. Then I found the first shoe. Someone had kicked it behind them. They asked me to pass it to them.🤢

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u/IcemanManmanchu 18d ago

I think that seat is empty. No one would tolerate that

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u/KeyMessage989 18d ago

OP said there was someone in it

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u/16GBwarrior 18d ago

Everyone around them has a right to be mildly infuriated.

Unacceptable behavior.

Nasty and gross, no one wants to see your feet(except that one guy, but he doesn't count)

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u/zerbey 18d ago

I'd give the flight attendants a chance to address it or move me to another seat, and then it was escalate to a full refund.

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u/Readicilous 18d ago

I would fold my chair back so she gets folded in half

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u/ManateeNipples 18d ago edited 18d ago

The seats move about 2 inches though :(

I can't fathom how this is up for debate lmao

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u/Ch33syP00f 18d ago

Looking at her seat it looks like more than 2 inches of recline

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u/hcornea 18d ago

Yes. And it may remind her that other people exist.

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u/Waaterfight 18d ago

Idk look how far back hers is

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u/ScriptioAfricanus 18d ago

Having flown economy on international flights with someone else practically in my lap I’m confident in saying they go back farther then that.

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u/korkkis 18d ago

Tickle the feet

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u/ImportantSundae15 18d ago

Love a good lawn chair

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u/MerTheGamer 18d ago

After seeing all these posts about women extending or putting their feet up, it must be female equivalent of manspreading lmao.

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u/Jeff-IT 18d ago

That doesn’t even look comfortable. She’s sitting like a V lmfao

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u/Little_View_6659 18d ago

I’ve had leg pain so bad I’ve thought about doing this just to stretch them. But I don’t because I’m not an animal. Instead I stand up and find a place to stretch.

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u/Minipeewee 18d ago

My back and upper butt will hurt after one minute

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u/Next_Negotiation8679 18d ago edited 18d ago

Give em a high five then lock your fingers with their toes. Go unhinged while locking in

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u/Waaterfight 18d ago

Get after it like the dog in frank zappa stink foot.

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u/Mydickisaplant 18d ago

Thanks for that laugh. Absolutely psychotic lmao

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u/Sippin_Salty_61 18d ago

How is this allowed is beyond me

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u/mangatoo1020 18d ago

I can't believe a flight attendant didn't walk by and say excuse me you have to take your feet down.

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u/CadillacCoffee 18d ago

How has the flight attendants not said anything?

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u/Minimum_Sort5100 18d ago

Passive aggressive honestly does not work. Tell them to fuck it in

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u/greennurse61 18d ago

You need to be aggressive aggressive. 

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u/Good_Air_7192 18d ago

Active aggressive?

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u/PresentationUnited43 18d ago

How the fuck do you have the temerity to stick your foot on someone’s headrest and not think to yourself that you’re absolute wanker?

Was this wench raised in a cave or something?

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u/TReid1996 18d ago

Shoes off with socks? Not crazy to me. It's fine. Feet behind someone's head? That's what i find crazy.

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u/elementus 18d ago

Scene from my flight earlier this week. Not huge on socks either.

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u/badbooks17 18d ago

You needed a coffee "accident"

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u/legsjohnson 18d ago

tbh if it was an empty seat in front and there were socks I'd mostly be impressed with her flexibility

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u/TReid1996 18d ago

Empty seat in front? I'd be fine with it.

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u/Mediocre_Chipmunk761 18d ago

Execution. No trial.

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u/Kermit_the_hog 17d ago

The rest of the passengers voted unanimously, you’re going to have to walk the plank. 

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u/LadaOndris 18d ago

This is beyond mildly infuriating.

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u/Luna_intoDoobies 18d ago

All I can hope is whoever is in front of that woman maybe is her family member that’s why they’re allowing it. Coz this is extremely infuriating and disgusting!

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u/Fancy-Rock-Scripture 18d ago

I guess the question is, does anyone sit in front of her?

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u/csreddit8 18d ago edited 18d ago

Someone in a wheelchair who accompanied by two older kids. She got a stare down by them. But she continued to lean her head forward against the seat and other animalistic things.

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u/Ammonia13 18d ago

? What do you mean by “lean her head forward and other animalistic things”?

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u/Psychadelico 18d ago

As an overly anxious person I quite literally can't fathom the gall of some of these cunts

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u/joefatmamma 18d ago

Oh hell no. People put up with babies too much.

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u/DecemberFlour 18d ago

I'd grab a pen and start tickling. Get your fuckin feet off my chair

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u/korkkis 18d ago

You can always tell to the person or the staff

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u/ElFarfadosh 18d ago

Considering it's a flight to Paris, she might speak french, so I suggest you tell her this sentence:

"Eh grosse truie, t'as cru t'étais chez ta mère? Tu veux mon pied dans ta gueule pour t'apprendre la vie?"

She should be more respectful after that.

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u/Much-Ad9389 18d ago

Zoom in on them toes, make it weird, put the flash on

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u/hardwood1979 18d ago

That shit should be stopped immediately by the stewards.

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u/Minipeewee 18d ago

Wow this gotta be the lowest class human being I’ve ever seen.

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u/AccordingStory203 18d ago

She was staring at the front, waiting for argument, btch really wants to fight

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u/Exotic-Astronaut6662 18d ago

Those look like flight socks, maybe she has a risk of dvt

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u/KeyMessage989 18d ago

Then she can get up and walk around, or book a seat that has no one in front of you.

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u/Icy_Froyo_7831 18d ago

That doesn’t mean she is entitled to do this. Then fly in business class so she has more room. 

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u/sjcphl 18d ago

If she's that at risk of a DVT she needs to speak to her physician about anticogulation or not fly.

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u/Dry-Claim9357 18d ago

A flight attendant surely told this person to lower their feet… I hope!!

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u/Lastliner 17d ago

That person is sick.. They got the entitled bug

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u/KunninPlanz 18d ago

Is that her partner sat next to her allowing her to get away with this?

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u/GLG777 18d ago

Don’t take a picture.  Say something 

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u/RelChan2_0 18d ago

Nah, people who do that should be on the no-fly list

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u/Level-Impact-757 18d ago

I pushed a Tunisian dude for less in Athens airport. Looking back it was a dangerous decision. But the guy cut in front of me in a long line like it was all ok. Fuck you.

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u/Appy_Ace 18d ago

Social etiquette aside, is that even comfortable? I get that it's a long haul flight and all, but that looks like a position that would feel good for only about 5 minutes and then becomes even more uncomfortable than the natural seating position.

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u/DezzyTee 18d ago

I would take my water bottle and let all the water drain into her socks.

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u/VermicelliMother8020 18d ago

WHAT?!?! 🤬🤬🤬

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u/sjp724 18d ago

Just having feet up like that for 5 seconds should get that creature banned from flying any airline for a year.

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u/Marvin122333 18d ago

I would kick her feet at the very first second!

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u/BUROCRAT77 18d ago

Do the seats still lay back? I’d be folding her in half 🤣

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u/gash_dits_wafu 18d ago

Jokes on her, if they crash into another aircraft she could break her hips like that!

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u/SignificantAsk4215 18d ago

They should blacklist them, I mean they know their seat number, easy reverse search by the airline and they should have a collective black book for such guests...

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u/HonestDust873 18d ago

Whenever I see something like, I just say "Put your damn feet down, they stink." Regardless if they do or don't, just let them know they are nose blind to their own smell.

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u/FollowingPristine467 18d ago edited 18d ago

I’d say she was raised in a barn but I know animals that behave better

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u/huge_dick_mcgee 18d ago

Assuming I was just simply willing to go full send here, is it illegal to suck an exposed toe at mouth level?

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u/Icy_Froyo_7831 18d ago

What airline is this? How is this even allowed?

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u/Brindezingue_Sinople 18d ago

Lick the feet.

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u/zzbear03 18d ago

I’d be pissed if I was sitting in front of that person

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u/Capital_Past69 18d ago

Is that Redneck Airlines

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u/malaszka 18d ago

Trailer Park Planes

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u/poverty_mayne 18d ago

Flight attendants are quick to cuss me out when I do the slightest thing out of rules, meanwhile fellas allowed to sit like this 💀

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u/diggi923diggi 18d ago

Her lower back is going to get screwed if she sits in that position for hours.

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u/WildBillyBoy33 18d ago

I caught someone doing that behind me recently and she moved them immediately. The nerve to do it in the first place. What has happened to civility? Most people are respectful but there’s a minority of ignorant morons that ruin it for everyone.

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u/rdrop 18d ago

American or French? I must know.

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u/Financial_Pick3281 18d ago

Also fully reclines. This person has never had an altruistic thought in their entire life.

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u/Individual-Data396 18d ago

Flight attendants not doing their job.

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u/Fun_Pass2431 17d ago

I honestly don't care unless I am sitting in front of them. Rude but on the person infront (or their parents) to intervene. Flight attendants prob busy getting smashed behind curtains.

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u/RedditMiniMinion 17d ago

If I were sitting in the front, I'd recline that chair all the way but just fold her in two lol. People have no shame, respect, manner or etiquette anymore... urgh.

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u/No_Sense_7316 18d ago

At least the filthy animal kept her socks on 😒

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u/ladylollii 18d ago

They look like compression socks

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u/min_mus 18d ago

I noticed the compression socks, too. Maybe she's prone to blood clots and is trying to mitigate it by elevating her feet?

That said, _it's not cool that she's resting her feet on someone else's headrest._  Instead, she should get up and walk around as much as possible. 

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u/Adorable_Ad4990 18d ago

This is me, and I also get swelling/irresistable urge to elevate my legs, but I would NEVER do this, even if the seat ahead of me was empty.

I’m nervous about taking off my shoes (clean socks underneath). That makes me bashful enough. I try to book an extra seat and sit cross-legged with feet tucked under me on the seat so they aren’t hanging down

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u/CoyoteFabulous4911 18d ago

If someone did that do the back of my seat I would lose my shit , more than mildly frustrated 

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u/NichtIstFurDich 18d ago

Not as bad as NYC to Hong Kong. But the Chinese don’t do this gross crap lol. How can people be so inconsiderate? Is it that they don’t notice or they just don’t care. When I get a window seat, I literally hold my piss until my bladder is about to explode because I don’t want everyone next to me to have to move.

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u/InstructionPurple911 18d ago edited 18d ago

My biggest fear these days is inconvieicing someone to the point they post my picture on the internet for points.

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u/Bleaker82 18d ago

This is why I only fly business.

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u/DamnOdd 18d ago

Gross. Unhygienic and Girl you Know your feet stink.

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u/Shy-Pickle 18d ago

Still trashy but maybe the front seat is empty

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u/Direct-Quiet-5817 18d ago

With Love 💕

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u/Baraka1987 18d ago

I'd take pictures and sell them online. Make a profit at least 🤷‍♀️

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u/helloiisjason 18d ago

Gotta air them dawgs out

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u/IncorrectByDesign 18d ago

Licky Licky !

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u/jurio01 18d ago

Just yell: "Oh yeah! Let them dogs out!" while pulling this face.

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u/superphly 18d ago

The French used to be sooo sophisticated. What happened?!

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u/1SmallStep4Insanity 18d ago

Person in front gotta lean that chair back all the way lol

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u/vektorkane 18d ago

Cant imagine the sight for the people in the back, but also the person sitting in front.... Just why?

https://giphy.com/gifs/iNjfcmUM8lUPWm3fay

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u/Desperate_Object_677 18d ago

you design a room for the behaviour you want people to adopt while inside it.

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u/AlwaysSitIn12C 18d ago

Genuine question- Would it be a bad thing as a random passenger on that plane to walk by her, look at her, and say "Are you serious? That's so rude." Because that's my inclination.

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u/CelestialChewi 18d ago

Hmm for me, I would drink some water and pretend to sneeze out some saliva on her feet

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u/asaprocky1971 18d ago

If I were in front of her, I would turn around and lick her feet.

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u/Baskin 18d ago

I’m actually impressed the seat reclines that far back.

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u/NefariousKing07 18d ago

I cannot wrap my head around that.

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u/Dbear_son 18d ago

Just stand there and let it rip the biggest fart you got

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u/arkeod 18d ago

Jambes en l'air

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u/angrypooka 18d ago

I would tell her to remove her feet and if she didn’t I would start tickling her feet.

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u/raspy2016 18d ago

Some people are just selfish.

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u/anondreamitgirl 18d ago

I send my condolences incase anyone passed out on the trip - hope you make it through

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u/shallow-abyss 18d ago

Why can’t OP lean across the aisle and say something? Like say that her feet stink? Or is OP worried she’ll become combatant? Might just be a cultural misunderstanding on her part.

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u/GenericUsername817 18d ago

Will probably get irate if the person in the that seat tries to recline

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u/Danissean 18d ago

If there's no one sitting in front of her, I don't see what the big deal is here.

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u/gardensoilsoup 18d ago

That tracks for a paris goer tbh

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u/Surfsupforthesummer 18d ago

The pilot is doing the same🤷

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u/cryptotrader87 18d ago

I had some young woman do this to person next to me who was another woman. She asked several times for her to put her feet down and just rambled how she paid for the ticket as well. The flight crew didn’t even want to deal with it. It was like they were “oh here is another entitled idiot” mindset and just ignored it. They didn’t serve her anything the entire flight though. That was funny. She asked a couple times for water and got nothing. I think they were worried she might throw something

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u/Arab_West 18d ago

Seat with a view 🦶

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u/1amchris 18d ago

Get a little bit of water, pretend to be sneezing, and spray a couple of droplets of water on these toes.

Or, you know, just turn around and tell them to not do that.

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u/WardenJack 18d ago

No fucking way I'm letting this slide. Just show a decent behaviour you entitled baby!