Another "i just want to crawl under a stone and die"
Finished the Safety Demo, starting securing the cabin... Noticed that an arm rest wasn't down between a couple... Smiling, i bent over saying "can i have the arm rest down for take off?" and when trying to reach the arm rest (some pax look at you bewildered when you say "arm rest" and then look around confused like saying "what's she on about" bless them) i managed to smack (HARD) this boy (he must've been round 12yo) across his face. After going balistic saying "oh my god i'm so sorry, are you ok, oh my god i'm sorry, you sure you're ok, do you need anything..." I looked around to see MUM's reaction ( she was sitting across the aisle) and the whole cabin was laughing.... I thought she'll get up and slap my brains out. Fortunately she started laughing with her son. Needless to say that the family of 4 had free drinks and numerous apologies...