What things do pax do that gross you out?
 

Hi Folks

What things do the pax do that gross you out? Some things that come to mind are leaving used sanitary pads in seat pockets, nappies in seat pockets etc..

This idea for this thread was formed after some charmer committed a crime against nature in the fwd toilet on the 737 today - had the first 4 rows (quite literally!) all asking me "who the hell is in that front toilet??!!?" :yuk:

again folks I know they pay our wages, this is just another comedy/therapy thread - no offense/contempt intended or implied! :D

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last week we had a celebrity on board with her young kid. The little one was wearing nappies, and basically shat himself.

The stench was hideous, and guess what mummy didnt bring any nappies with her on a 4 hour flight to perth!!!!

So one of the crew had to go and find a nappy from another mum, in the end we got one for her. But i tell u what the smell was really off, and took forever to go away....

cheeriossss

when pax sit there coughing and bring up flem that really goes through me yuk and when they swallow it back even more yuk

1. Putting used sick bags into seat pockets or onto meal trollys!

2. Blowing their nose into napkins and then handing them to you to put into the rubbish.

3. Missing the toilet, even on the smoothest of flights...

1. Pax on regional flights who used to bring their "boomerang" pillow with them all the way to the big smoke. They would all do it and be prodding me with their pillows telling me to stow them in the o/h locker. I would always refuse as I found the fact that people wanted me to touch the very thing they had been dribbling,coughing and breathing on gross ! And yet they were taking it on a trip with them all the way through dirty airports ! One woman obviously had not changed her pillow case in months and I was quite blunt when I told her she will indeed have to stow it herself ! YUCK.

2. Had mid 20's female brushing her long regional hair ( they like to grow it down to their bum's out west ) with a dirty old brush. There was hair falling out everywhere and then the other f/a and I watched in disgust as she pulled the caught up hair off the brush and rolled it into a ball and threw it on the floor.

For those who know me well - you could only imagine my reaction :} :} :}

Cheers
QF SKY
p.s - sinala first round is on you next week. :)

as a passenger these are the most disgusting i can remember.

This happened quite a few years ago.
TG flight from DEL (I think)-LHR . Some old indian bloke picking nits out of his hair, crushing them then flicking them around the cabin (and over the seats infront of him).
YUCK ! eww my hair is crawling just thinking about it :\

- Mind you it was a good way for him to get the centre bank of seats to himself :}

The other was a SK flight SIN-CPH. Used toilet paper on the floor :mad: that is just not on.

wiping their sweaty armpits on a hot towel/blowing their nose/wiping sweaty forehead etc and then handing back to you expecting you to take it with your hands.... um NO... thats what i have the tongs for...yuk!!!!!

I think one of the most disgusting things I have ever come across (besides scooping warm chunky vomit out of the toilet sink with a paper cup - I mean, what the hell? The toilet is right there!! RIGHT THERE DAMMIT!!!) was walking into the fwd toilet on the 737 to find a smell which was un-mistakable - the "scent" of male ejaculation. Clearly someone had decided to "clear the pipes" in the toilet............. some investigation amongst crew revealed that the last person seen to be leaving the toilet was the captain!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

We had no proof though (besides the obvious :yuk: ) so were not able to confront the suspected individuals (we had a few suspects)... makes for a good story though!

ps QF Skywalker mate absolutely! Hope you are ready for a hangover the next day mate cause you are going to have one - going to show you bloody regional-come-international guys what us domestic boys are all about!!! :E :ok:

My favourite pax habit is one that we all encounter on every flight - handing you a (very) full sick bag on the way out of the toilet/ disembarking.
WHY oh WHY and WHAT THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DO WITH IT!!!!!!!
PUT IT IN THE TOILET BIN FOR GODS SAKE!!
another great sick 1 that i love is when parents come to tell you that their vile offspring has spewed on the floor/seat/self and then looks at you accusingly.
No i didnt make them sake and im sure if you ask nicley i will help you clean it up.
I love the glamour of my job sometimes!!:yuk: :confused:

I had an XXX large, smelly man go into the toilet of 737-300 and then worked out that he could not turn around, so he p****d all over the floor. It came out from under the door and went down onto the carpet, it smelt so bad (worse than cat p**s. :\

An over weight woman breast feeding her child (about 5yrs old) with both boobs out while child was standing up!!! Was very hard to keep a straight face and not talk too loud since she and her husband where in row 30!

I understand that sometimes its difficult to do the breast feesting thing (something I will find out very shorty about), but a bit of decorm please. Plus doesn't breast feeding stop when babies are quite young!

A mate of mine had a businessman (in suit) choke a darky on the floor at the back of a Metro. He did cover it with an inflight magazine but when the captain went through the cabin cleaning, he picked up the magazine and got **** on his hand. To his credit, the passenger concerned actually wrote a letter of apology to the airline. I guess he could have apologised to the crew at the time though.

belle7,

Ewwww! If there are any "earth mothers" on this forum I don't apologise for the following so don't read ahead - if the kid has teeth, can chew a steak, attend school and hold a conversation then it's time to give up the boob!

Of course all the guys reading this will argue against this as for them it's a lifetime quest.:E

like totally eeeeew!
 

Some of you may know of my former life before flying...you can't even imagine some of the discusting things i had to clean. It was so frequent that things which were normally considered discusting became normal and it took alot to shock. One of the most feral things that comes to mind was on a flight from NZ...I thought i had found bits of things chips all over the floor and started cleaning up then heard a F/A screaming dont touch it!!! She quickly explained that quarrantine were coming on to inspect it because the passenger who sat in that seat...was peeling all their skin off and leaving it on the floor...and i really mean it looked like Smiths thin chips.

That example is tame compared to some other things such as the births/burst stomaches etc...if you really want to know just PM i dont want to gross everyone out on what i've seen and how i've dealt with it.

Now that im flying....the most most gross thing is watching people pick their nose and eat it when i'm doing the demo! Like eeeeeew!

OH MY GOD QF MIKE!!! That literally turned my stomach! Ok, he's got a problem, but to leave it on the seat???!!! I'm never gonna eat chips again!

I've got one, on a particularily bad London to Moscow, me and the purser were walking through the cabin with the trolley, and both looked at eachother with that 'what the heck is that smell face' and it was a distinctive smell of urine...Ok if there was a small child around, but no, all adults! Now who would sit in their seat and just wet themselves?????!!!!

Just going through a packet of walkers...was. Thanks fellas. :yuk: :{

Two gross things, but not from the pax:

First - Stewardess digs out the special kids meal, chilli with rice. Just about to serve it, removes the edge of the foil lid and spots something unusual going on. The rice is wriggling. Cue dumping of chilli and hundreds of maggots into a biohazard bag.

Second - Captain leans over during the cruise, both of us tucking into breakfast. Passes his spoon over and says "what do you think this is I just found in my potato?". Our old friend Mr Maggot again. Neither of us felt hungry anymore after that.

And could someone please tell me why mothers insist on changing baby's dirty Sh**y nappies on the tray tables..... EEEKK!!
Again today!!!!!:*

I had one woman waiting to change her baby, got fed up with the queue for the toilet, whipped down the jumpseat in the aft galley, held it down with her knee and started to whip junior's nappy off. Managed to persuade her, that a) we were about to serve lunch from the carts a foot away from her baby's dirty nappy, and b) I was going to have to sit there.

I still remember the dirty looks she got from the rest of the pax in the toilet queue as they realised where their lunch trays were!!

I couldnt decide which was the grossest thing done to me or in front of me - so Ive decided to write them all:

a - as read earlier, being handed a full sick bag upon disembarkation and Im standing inside the terminal saying goodbyes.

b - having projectile vomit sprayed all over me - for gods sake - if you are in an ailse seat and you cant reach the sick bag in time - I think it would be preferable that you throw up in the ailse, on the floor - anywhere but please dont stand up and vomit on me.

c - having a mother hand me her smelly sh&%%y nappied baby - complete with puss filled eyes and snot caked all over its face at the forward door and ask me to carry it to its seat in row 30 - The look on pax faces as I walked through the cabin smiling with the stinky baby almost made it worthwhile.

d - having a pax spit in my face when they were not getting their own way in a discussion on permitted carry on baggage - I just wiped the spit from my face and kept pressing my point - no way was that cow getting the better of me.

e - Ive had my fair share of urine soaked seats to clean up.

Airline jobs are so glamourous!