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Old 17th Sep 2004, 21:50
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Oh my god, these are truly revolting!
I thought I'd contribute the following...

Why, oh why, do pax -

1) Change their kid's smelly nappy and leave it in a seat pocket only to be discovered by me during a security check on the turnaround?

2) Ask you to "hang on a minute" whilst doing your clear in, only to place a piece of chewing gum into your outstretched palm?

3) Ask to borrow a pen then give it back to you nicely chewed and covered in spit?

4) Ask you quietly if you have a spare Tampax in your handbag then proceed to tell you the riveting story of how they came on the blob in the terminal toilet "super heavy" and forgot to bring anything?

Any takers?
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Old 17th Sep 2004, 21:53
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just lovely to the entire thread

*changes career plans*
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Old 19th Sep 2004, 20:21
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!!!

When I was still at air2000...
Night flight to HER, pax in row 2C DEF were very rude, making sexual comments at me and my colleague.
Had to tell them off a few times for various safety reasons.

On turnaround, we had to dress seatpockets.....and guess what I found inside seatpocket at 2D...
A USED CONDOM!!! Not even wrapped up for god's sake!!!!!!

I nearly threw my guts up that time.

My boyfriend was the captain of that flight and wasn't very impressed. After that incident, every night flight to destinations like CFU, PMI, IBZ, LPA, TFS etc his PA's from the cockpit were extremely strict!!!!!!

Disgusting....

and of course one day we found a used tampax on the floor in the cabin....for god's sake, a bit of dignity!!!


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Old 20th Sep 2004, 06:20
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1 Handing dirty nappies to you when doing the dinks
2 Expelling a sticky bodily fluid all ober the lav mirror (PRG)
3 Leaving 'white powder' on lav seat
4 Picking nose and eating it infront of you when comming into land

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Old 21st Sep 2004, 03:48
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Good Lord, I feel SO sorry for you all, having to out up with such totally, disgusting things from pax. You should all get Bravery Medals for dealing with this. Glamorous? Yeah right

I'm not crew, I am a private pilot (husband does it for living) but I just don't understand how totally gross/rude/perverted people can be.
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Old 26th Sep 2004, 17:24
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here in our little isle we have very small gates (seat bout 80 people) which pax can only access once the flight has been called. Why do mothers decide to change their babies in the gate after bout 1.5 hrs in the terminal. a coupole of weeks back we had 140 people crammed into a gate and this woman decides to change her baby and leave the nappy on the seat. the smell was beautiful!!!

side tracking why do pax always ask if they have time to go to the toilet when they are last to the gate and everyone else is boarded waiting?

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Old 26th Dec 2004, 00:48
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CBR-BNE flight, 16yr old girl with *no* personal hygiene whatsoever, goes into fwd toilet during disembarkation and without a word of a lie sprays sh*t all over the toilet - the lid, the bowl, under the lid, over the lid, around the outside of the bowl, smeared over edge of the bowl.......... I was finding bits that were hiding all the way through the next 4 hour sector... the pilots even left the flight deck and refused to go back until the smell had subsided - it was rotten!

Then the other night on a DRW-BNE flight a *charming* gentleman vomited all over the floor - missed the bag by a long shot - and guess who got to clean it up? But the funniest thing was this stuff did not stink, however it was seriously the most viscous vomit I have ever seen... I reckon if I had tried to pick it up it would have all stuck together in one piece! It was a serious dark brown color... I considered selling it to a panel beaters shop to use as bog filler on hail damaged cars

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Old 26th Dec 2004, 04:36
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Sinala!!!! Oh my god, you poor thing!!!! That is absolutely disgusting!!! If everyone was getting off the plane, you'd think she could wait the twenty meters to get into a terminal toilet.... that is soooooo bad!!! I know sometimes if you're sick you can't help it.... but she could have warned you!!!!

I cannot imagine inflicting that on any poor CC.... if I was that sick I wouldn't fly......

Seriously, I have no idea why pax do the stuff they do on an aircraft - most wouldn't dream of leaving the same articles in friend's or even a colleagues car.....

kind of OT, but... once on a flight PER-ADL a CC held a pax's baby so the poor mother could have something to eat and go to the loo.... the baby hadn't stopped screeching for most of the flight.... just wondering, are you supposed to do that, or is it up to each CC if they will offer?? You never know these days, society is so bent on suing people for the littlest things I wouldn't be surprised if most of you ran a mile at the thought of holding a pax's baby.....!

Think next time I'm on a 'flight from hell' like Sinala described, will scribble a quick "You guys SO deserve a payrise" note and leave it on the seat!!!

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Old 26th Dec 2004, 05:41
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Oh this thread is priceless...

Some of my hostie sisters have regaled us all with stories to make our collective stomachs turn. Let me think...

1) Female pax leaving dripping wet breast pads in seat pocket after breast feeding baby (while a sick bag STARES her in the face)...

2) Guy falls asleep on the toilet and pisses himself.

3) The usual "can you take my sick bag" while you're busy serving surrounding passengers their meals (always a good one)

4) Passenger returns meal box to hostie on cart, and hostie can't close meal box. Hostie wonders why, and opens box to remove offending item. Reveals full, used nappy inside meal box, which was going to be returned into the cart.

That last one was pretty special.

Keep em coming guys - glad to know I'm not the only one that cops this routine.
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Old 26th Dec 2004, 06:49
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Had the usual suspects in the seat pockets, Dirty Nappies, Tampons, Blood Soak tissues, food etc etc

Had a guy who spewed all over two seats. Unfortunately he had chicken for lunch and it took me half an hour to pick all the chicken pieces out of the seat and the seat belts!!

But the winner has to be a colleague who had a passenger urinated in their seat which subsequently flowed down the aisle and pooled at the back of the aircraft. When he opened the back door to let the pax out he had something resembling Niagara Falls flowing down the stairs!!!!

Classy.
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Old 26th Dec 2004, 09:13
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I have been long haul crew for 16 years and honestly thought i had seen it all -
have collected miscarriage into a biohazard bag ( nasty but sad and not exactly the passengers fault ) , had a crew member sleeping in the bunk above me pick his toenails and drop bits down onto my mattress etc but do still feel the worse thing is the bogey eating during safety demo, i am SOOO gonna slap someones hand away one day...

HOWEVER, i think this one beats them all.
on return from my break i came to the galley at the back of the 777 and was somewahst suprised to find that outside the toilet at 4L was a layer of blanket all over the carpet... my initial guess was thats somene had barfed... but no... one of my team told me it was pooh under there!
so i summised someone had just trodden it into the carpet when coming out of the loo.... WRONG AGAIN.
the crew had been in the galley , noticed a bit of a stench, came out to check the toilet only to see a 7 year old boy squatting on the floor to poop and leaving a little mr whippy like pile behind. now no offense is meant here but this wasnt a flight from india or bangladesh where you often see people relieve themselves in such a postition, this was chicago to london and the boy was with his british mom. what i am saying is...should have known better...
so under the blanket was a whole pile of poop... and now we needed to wheel trollies out ( over the heap ) to do breakfast.
I took it upon myself to get mommy in to clean up so we could continue with the meal service....
mommy was not having any of it... i asked if something was wrong, was child ill etc etc... 'oh no he is just lazy ' was her answer.!!
anyway, as she is telling me that no way is she cleaning up sh*t and that she'll never fly our ailrine again blah de bloody blah... son walks by and goes into the toilet over at the other door.
well woohoo i said.. at least he isnt being lazy this time...
WRONG
this time the child has put the lid down on the loo...sat on top of the lid and pooped again... so much that its spread out all over the toilet lid... dropped onto the floor, AND spread down his legs and onto his jeans...

you can only imagine the faces of other passengers who were witnessing/hearing all this...
i personally just want to see what the kids bedroom at home must be like.

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Old 27th Dec 2004, 00:51
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Bloody Hell! You guys REALLY put up with some ****, dont you? Im cabin crew myself, for a LCC and Ive got to say, I have NEVER had to deal with **** on the toilet rim, puke on the floor or mens ejaculation on the toilet mirror (Thank God)!!! Maybe flying short haul (just LGW - PMI ten times a day) means that pax retain their bodily fluids just long enough to excuse me from their mess! Maybe Lost Cost Carriers are the glamoures airlines afterall!
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Old 27th Dec 2004, 01:16
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I find it gross when pax get up and use the lav barefoot. How is it any different to public toilets on the ground??
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Old 27th Dec 2004, 11:09
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So many stories, so little time...

One morning I was serving Breakfast (Ah - those were the days... ) We had a group of around 50 Korean businessmen on board. This one man had his foot up on the seat and was clipping his toenails. Nice The Aussie family across the aisle commented about their pre-breakfast entertainment and asked me "What do ya say about that?" I replied "Pigs really can fly..." I shared a quiet chuckle with the family and was on my way.

On clearing the trays (Meal trays - those were the days ) he passed me his empty glass. This glass containing the toe nails he had clipped! Whilst kudos go to the man for not brushing them from the tray table to the floor, I was most disgusted.

Being the priness that I am (official JQ Flight Attendant Princess 2004 - Thankyou!) I made a face and said "Sorry Doll... No - they are for you" and passed the glass (and its fungus covered contents) back - not without making sure the Australian family across the aisle witnessed my rejection and associated facial expressions. They of course laughed and said "Good onya, Mate", giving dissapproving glances at said Korean gentleman.

I had no sooner had time to feel good about my victory (and the fact other pax had scourned him on my behalf)... The man looked at me like I was stupid - and SPAT into the glass and handed it back to me!!!

There was only one thing to do. Muster up every bit of self respect left inside me and walk head down to the lavatory and gracefully dispose of the SPIT-TOENAIL concotion myself. Talk about being put in your place!!!

I learnt a lesson in humilty that day. You can be as sharp as you want with the one liners etc. Means nothing if you can't take back what you give occasionally. Jokes can be aplenty but it means sometimes they are on you!

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Poo on seats is a daily occurrance at Jetstar! Also had a guy pee into a cup and bring it to the back gallet for us! Nice. Then there was the used condom at teh overwing exits...

After reading through some vomit posts I feel compelled to share my pax vomit story...

We were doing SYD-HTI (two hour sector) with this Purser that was hell-bent on doing everything concievable opposite to standard procedure. For this full afternoon sector it was procedure to do a pre-meal bar. (Makes it easier on holliday flights where pax want as much access to alcohol as possible!)

This Purser (now the JQ tap water Nazi) made us incorporate the pre-meal bar onto the meal carts (ala 45 minute sector), meaning the service would take longer and would get messy with hand running second drinks etc...

So here I am setting up two FULL meal carts to include two bar carts on top of them (!) so we didn\'t run out of drinks in the cabin. I got VERY creative, balancing drinks and defying the laws of space and gravity every way imaginable to inculde extra drinks.

After setting up this artistic piece on top of the meal carts I was standing back admiring my handywork when a pax came from nowhere and spewed ALL OVER the top and inside of BOTH carts! She repeated the performance again and again and then enquired as to the whereabouts of the lavatory.

Needless to say. My concerns about the service taking forever were somewhat unfounded. We now had NOTHING to serve the pax!
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Old 27th Dec 2004, 12:22
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EX TSV, young guy first to board, gets 10 rows down, goes to vomit, but covers his mouth. Chunks go left and right, and the mess ends up on the wall, lockers, and over 2 rows of seats...

Arrive in HTI to find a little brown smudge on tray table - remembered woman who had tried to hand me dirty nappy prior had been sitting there...

Worst was when flying in another country for another airline temporarily - While we as Fas did our best to keep the toilets tidy, they never got properly cleaned, and it was discovered that they had neglected to put the blue loo in for quite sometime, so there was nothing to break it down, or deodorise it.. For the best part of a month, flew on an aircraft that smelt like raw sewage, right through the cabin.

Oh, passenger servicing himself while staring at fellow crew member while she did her best to hide...

Um, passengers who you literally see scratching their backside (hand inside pants), or picking nose, then grabbing your arm, or trying to shake your hand...

Oh and the award for most skillfull controlled vomiting goes to the young girl on a recent flight who handed 3 drinking glasses of vomit back during the rubbish collection.

Not a drop on the tray table...
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Old 27th Dec 2004, 13:01
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EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

Good thing i didn't want that dinner anyway......

You guys deserve medals!!!! I hope if I become CC I never have to put up with anything like that (yeah.....right..... )

Funny that Hamy Is is supposed to be a rich place... the pax seem pretty feral though!!!
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Old 27th Dec 2004, 16:59
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Exclamation

It's been my experience the more 'rich' they are, the more 'feral' they get

And even sadder are those pax who travel ID90 and display behaviours already outlined here.

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Old 27th Dec 2004, 22:34
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I once found a ball of pubes half way down the cabin as I was checking for any left behind belongings!!!!!
The things I hate have already been mentioned like nose picking during demo. No matter how much you stare at them they don't realise how discusting it is. Do they think we're blind?
Also taking shoes and socks off inflight and putting feet up on chairs or on the bulkhead. It really pisses me off!
The worst was when we were disembarking from Madrid and a girl came up and said i'm really sorry I wasn't well and I said that's ok don't worry and she gave me a bag that was completely full and really hot. Just as she went the smell hit me. It was like a raw fish market on a hot day. I couldn't eat at all that day, the smell just made me heave!
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Old 28th Dec 2004, 05:08
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I agree, barefeet up on the seats or on the bulkhead p s me off too!!!! I am lucky enough not to have had anything like the above happen to me ever YET!!! i have had people try and give me dirty nappies after leaving the toilet and returning to their seat, however as the food handlers that we are etc, they were instructed to go back to the toilet and dispose of it there! some people are just so disgusting you really just want to give them and their parents a good slapping! Where are your brains people?

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Old 29th Dec 2004, 13:37
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Funny this post should come up again, cause on boxing day I had the flight from HELL!!!! None of us have ever seen anything like it, and hopefully we never will again!

We were leaving Stockholm after a lovely white Christmas there the day before. Anyway, most of the pax were connecting onto a flight to Bangladesh once we got to London, and it was complete chaos from the begining. Anyway, if I went through it all, it'd turn into a way too long post, so the two most gross things that happened were:

1. One of the Bangladesh men had been up graded from traveller into club cause it was over booked down the back, so he never even paid for the club seat (Seat 1B) Next thing we know, he was WEEING into a water bottle cause he couldn't be bothered to get up to go to the toilet (No, the toilet was not being used at the time) So we had a VERY harsh word to this passenger, and basically he laughed in our face and put the bottle of wee into a plastic bag.

2. I'd come up from down the back after helping them down there clear in all the rubbish (The cabin was an absoloute TIP, babies spewing everywhere, it was GROSS and it stank!) Next thing I know, a woman from 20A was following me up the isle trying to make her way into club, so I told her to go back cause she hadn't paid for a club ticket, but she wouldn't listen to me and started talking to me in her own language, and tried to push past me, which she did, and she got into club, so I pushed past her again and pointed to her to go back down to traveller. At that moment she just smiled, then SPEWED IN THE ISLE! I'm SURE it was on purpose, so I gaged right in her face and ran back to the galley to get the purser, when I looked out again, she was sitting in 1A next to the guy that had weed in the bottle, and she was spewing her guts up in the corner at 1A, so the purser said something to her, so she grabbed the plastic bag that had the WEE in it and started spewing in that! Then the purser grabbed her out of the seat and took her to the club toilet, where she proceeded to spew in the sink insted of the toilet, so we had to block off our club toilet cause the sink was blocked.

We all think that she'd come up from traveller into club, just so she didn't have to be sick in her seat!!! What a crafty, disgusting person! Next time I went down the back she was there, sitting in 20A again and goes "Excuse me, I want food, Ive just been sick and I'm hungry" So I looked at her thinking wow, your English has improved amazingly! and said NO, we've got nonw left! HOW GROSS!!!
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