Sometimes passengers can turn the tables..................
For a long while Gulf Air ran a daily F27 service from Bahrain to Abu Dhabi, timed to connect with the first charter rotation to Das Island. It was used pretty much exclusively by oil company staff working their 21 days on, 7 days off system.
One day the GF catering manager decided that the clientele on this service deserved a better breakfast, stylishly served. And so it came about that the FAs had work their way down the cabin handing out plates and cutlery, then one would hand out bread rolls and butter, followed by the other with a large "country wife" basket filled with 80 hard-boiled eggs, 2 per passenger.
It didn't take long. One morning, a grizzled toolpusher, seated near the front had a dreadful fit of coughing just as the eggs got to his row. Quick as a flash, his neighbour said to the FA "I'll hold the eggs, please quickly get him a glass of water." She did that, the toolpusher recovered quickly, she collected her basket, and the egg handout was resumed.
5 minutes later, mayhem They had substituted all the hardboiled eggs with uncooked ones, and all down the cabin these has been smashed against the edge of the seatback trays.................