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<h2>Refusing to get off the phone for take-off, starting a war in your row over the arm rest, deplaning at a snail&#39;s pace, or having to be escorted off for behavior--flight attendants and pilots have truly seen it all...</h2><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ujczt/flight_attendants_and_commercial_pilots_of_reddit/" target="_blank">Reddit </a>user asked, &quot;Flight attendants and commercial pilots, what&#39;s the most obnoxious thing someone has ever done on one of your flights?&quot; people who work in the skies were ready to share the most irritating, tone-dear, disgustingly bold, or entitled behavior they&#39;ve ever had to endure during a shift. Note: everyone knows what you&#39;re doing when you try to join the Mile High Club.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Everyone was well into the flight when this guy in a nice suit had this liquid pouring onto him from the overhead cabin. The guy screamed out, &quot;WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!&quot;, and without missing a beat this little old lady with a thick southern accent says, &quot;Das my Shrimp!&quot;(mind you this was pre 9/11, so she was somehow able to get frozen shrimp on a plane). Rough day for that guy... - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/poots2/">poots2</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to work for an airline which meant I got to fly for free as a standby passenger. This is called &quot;non-revving&quot; (non-revenue passenger). So this one day I&#39;m taking a flight to New York as a non-rev and there is a girl from our airline who worked as a gate agent on there with a bunch of her friends. non-revving is a delicate thing sometimes, there are a lot of rules that the airline makes you follow so you don&#39;t tarnish their image, I almost got denied entry once because I wasn&#39;t wearing dress shoes.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>These girls get boarded and immediately start acting like stupid bitches. it&#39;s warm in the plane so clearly the APU hasn&#39;t been connected to allow the plane power to run the AC. As soon as the APU is connected and activated the AC is turned on and something starts blowing out the vents. at this point the plane is fully boarded but people are still putting sh*t in the overheads and stuff.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>What looks like steam or dust or mist or something starts coming out these vents and one of the stupid girls friends decides to shout (jokingly) &quot;FIRE! THERE&#39;S A FIRE ON THE PLANE!&quot; ON A FULLY...BOARDED...FLIGHT. Needless to say the flight attendants did not find this hilarious and they were all escorted off. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PineconeShuff/">PineconeShuff</a></p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>It was a bad weather day into St. Louis. We got struck by lightning. It happens. We get priority to land because we can&#39;t be sure what damage occurred. Once on the ground, I do a walk around and see the damage. The outbound flight, the last of the night, is cancelled because the plane is down for what I would think are obvious reasons.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We didn&#39;t have a hotel for the night, as we were supposed to take the plane back out. So while waiting for news from crew scheduling, we were supporting the gate agent. Man, people were PISSED. Insisting we go. I point out the window at the melted wingtip and large scorch mark on the aircraft. One lady got in my face and screamed, &quot;Do you think I give a f*ck about your paint job?! Get me on that plane and get me home, or you&#39;ll be sorry!&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Needless to say, that lady didn&#39;t go on any flight with us the next day. Don&#39;t fuck with gate agents (or crews that are nice to them). - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GearupShutup/">GearupShutup</a></p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>One of my best friends was a flight attendant for a few years so I&#39;ve heard some insane stories from her. My absolute favorite was when she had to wait on Nicki Minaj in first class on a flight. She said Nicki was pretty much the worst passenger she&#39;d ever waited on.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She was rude, demanding, and kept doing weird sh*t like order a vodka cranberry and when the flight attendant would deliver it she&#39;d take one sip, hand it back to her and ask for another. My friend told me that her whole posse kept doing this until they had gone through almost all the mini bottles. As a bartender, that story pissed me off to no end. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ElNieves/">ElNieves</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>Had a 20ish year old girl going to see her SO. She needed to shave so she did so in the bathroom, turbulence pursued and she cut herself really bad. Had to bring paramedics in and they carried her out. After unloaded, the FO noticed the trail of blood down the jetway. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NexusEvo/">NexusEvo</a></p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>Last month I was on a Vegas to Boston flight when some poor guy passed away on the plane. We diverted to NY and emergency personal carried him off the plane and his widow was also escorted from the plane. Just before we took off to resume our flight, some jackass in the front row looks at the clearly stricken flight attendant and asks if we now all get free drinks. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Betsy514/">Betsy514</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>My mom was a pilot for Northwest Airlines. She was a woman captain, and a man comes on her airplane. He takes one look at her and says &quot;Ugh, a woman captain. I&#39;m getting off.&quot; She replied, &quot;Good, get off my airplane. There are people waiting on the standby list to get on.&quot; The guy turned right around and got back on. We guessed he wanted her to submit and ask him nicely to come back. She told me &quot;F*ck no. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ChaseOP/">ChaseOP</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>A couple of WWF (now WWE) wrestlers were on a flight that was about to land but one of them needed to go to the lavatory. You obviously can&#39;t leave your seat when you are about to land so they told him no, so he decided to sh*t in the aisle instead. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/paradoxofchoice/">paradoxofchoice</a></p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Had a woman freak out on a flight attendant because the cookies she was serving had cranberries in them. Apparently she was on blood thinners and couldn&#39;t eat them. We serve a number of other options. Some people just like to complain I guess. As a pilot I try and avoid dealing with the cargo. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/canadian_climber/">canadian_climber</a></p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Dora the Explorer without earphones on a night flight. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Mablun/">Mablun</a></p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>Pilot here. Girlfriend is a flight attendant. Personally, I haven&#39;t seen too much go wrong. Just the usual tantrums over bags and missed connections (protip: if you book a 30 minute connection, you <em>will</em> miss it). Pilots have the luxury of the locked door, but she is locked in the back with some nasty people sometimes.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Like the time when a middle aged man screamed at her for a few minutes during a 25 minute flight because she ran out of apple juice.</p> <p>Like the time when a man asked for a glass of water during a tarmac delay. After delivering said glass of water, he dumped it on her head.</p> <p>Like the time when a man heckled her during the safety demo to the point of a needing to return to the gate to escort him from the aircraft.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Like the many times when a passenger insists that their bag will fit in the overhead, forcing it so hard that it breaks the bin, and requires a 4 hour delay to repair. Please, be polite to your flight crews! :) - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/klopek1/">klopek1</a></p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>A friend of mine was a flight attendant who told me that a guy called the air hostess and very politely asked if the pilot could shut off one of the jet engines so his son could sleep peacefully. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Anaslexy/">Anaslexy</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;ve been punched in the face, propositioned, witnessed multiple couples try to get it on in the seats, had one couple try to do it in the galley, had my butt pinched, watched arguments break out over seats being reclined, been told the quality of ginger ale I serve is not of a high enough caliber...</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Seen bare feet on bulkhead walls at face level, seen bare feet ever, had someone try to stow their luggage on my jumpseat shortly before landing, and had trash dumped on my food tray while I was still eating from it. I was a flight attendant for 5 years. I have enough crazy stories to write a book. Maybe 2. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ShinyCupcake/">ShinyCupcake</a></p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>My father was a pilot and my mother was a flight attendant. I&#39;ve always said my mom should write a book. In the 1960s, my mom&#39;s route was LA-NY and back (1st class cabin) so it always had a famous person or two, actors were always the worst for her.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Most notable was being manhandled by Robert Goulet as he proceeded to tell the whole plane that he had sex with her (didn&#39;t happen). After my mom asked Lucille Ball what she would like to drink, Lucille Ball replied &quot;I don&#39;t talk to servants&quot;. Johnny Carson was also an a-hole to flight attendants.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He would put a sign on his seat which read &quot;yes I am him, no I don&#39;t want a drink&quot;. My mom also said that musicians were always the most kind. Her favorites were Jim Morrison and The Mammas &amp; the Pappas. She always said, if they seemed nice on TV they usually weren&#39;t. And those who had the worst reputations were usually the nicest.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>My dad didn&#39;t interact with passengers so he didn&#39;t have any good stories. The only thing he talked about was ferrying football teams. Whenever he hauled John Madden&#39;s Raiders, they&#39;d have to double up on flight meals because if a player played well, Madden would give that player two meals. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/3Gilligans/">3Gilligans</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was flying night helicopter &quot;strip tours&quot; up and down the Vegas strip, despite the video briefing which mentioned several times that no flash photography was permitted and my own verbal briefing mentioning this again, people would regularly take flash photos during the flight. It just blows my mind that people would think it&#39;s ok to temporarily blind the pilot who&#39;s flying them. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/firesgood/">firesgood</a></p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>I once had two unaccompanied minors traveling together. Just after we pushed back from the gate, the 8 year old boy started to have a panic attack and said he couldn&#39;t fly, so we pulled back to the gate. The pilot announced that we were returning to the gate so that paramedics could come on and take a child off the plane. He didn&#39;t mention what the medical issue was, just that a child was sick. One lady immediately hit her call button and very bitchily suggested that we better make sure that we hold the plane for her in Atlanta since we were obviously going to be late now. The whole episode amounted to maybe a 30 minute delay and no one missed their connections. One of only a handful of times I wanted to punch a passenger. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kikichampagne/">kikichampagne</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m a pilot. Obviously the last few days have been a zoo, and Chicago has been hellish. We were going from Chicago to Milwaukee and back and then we were done with a four-day trip, so we were definitely wanting to get on with it and go home. We were all boarded and waiting for the de-ice truck to come spray us because it was snowing.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>After waiting for over an hour for the truck, they finally spray us down and we start pushing back. As we are pushing, the flight attendant calls up and tells us there&#39;s a lady that wants to get off the airplane. We tell her we can&#39;t, so the lady then tells the flight attendant that her baby is having a medical emergency and has to get off. Fine. We pull back up to the gate and let her off, the baby looks fine mind you, and ask her if she needs paramedics.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>She denies medical attention and refused to take the baby to the clinic that is literally 50 feet away. They had checked bags, so we had to call rampers to dig through the cargo hold to find their bags. Finally, we had them off and we were getting ready to go again, about 2 hours late at this point.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>As we were getting ready to close the door, the gate agent ran up and said that when the lady found out that we were the last flight up to Milwaukee, she begged to get back on the airplane and come with us. The captain and I looked at each other in shock, told the gate agent there was no way in hell she was getting back on the airplane, and got out of there. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/rlbmxer27/">rlbmxer27</a></p> </blockquote><h2> </h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 airline employees share the most obnoxious passenger behavior they've ever seen.

Refusing to get off the phone for take-off, starting a war in your row over the arm rest, deplaning at a snail&#39;s pace, or having to be escorted off for behavior--flight attendants and pilots have truly seen it all...So, when a Reddit user asked, &quot;Flight attendants and commercial pilots, what&#39;s the most obnoxious thing someone has ever done on one of your flights?&quot; people who work in the skies were ready to share the most irritating, tone-dear, disgustingly bold, or entitled behavior they&#39;ve ever had to endure during a shift. Note: everyone knows what you&#39;re doing when you try to join the Mile High Club.1. Everyone was well into the flight when this guy in a nice suit had this liquid pouring onto him from the overhead cabin. The guy screamed out, &quot;WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!&quot;, and without missing a beat this little old lady with a thick southern accent says, &quot;Das my Shrimp!&quot;(mind you this was pre 9/11, so she was somehow able to get frozen shrimp on a plane). Rough day for that guy... - poots2 2. I used to work for an airline which meant I got to fly for free as a standby passenger. This is called &quot;non-revving&quot; (non-revenue passenger). So this one day I&#39;m taking a flight to New York as a non-rev and there is a girl from our airline who worked as a gate agent on there with a bunch of her friends. non-revving is a delicate thing sometimes, there are a lot of rules that the airline makes you follow so you don&#39;t tarnish their image, I almost got denied entry once because I wasn&#39;t wearing dress shoes.  These girls get boarded and immediately start acting like stupid bitches. it&#39;s warm in the plane so clearly the APU hasn&#39;t been connected to allow the plane power to run the AC. As soon as the APU is connected and activated the AC is turned on and something starts blowing out the vents. at this point the plane is fully boarded but people are still putting sh*t in the overheads and stuff.  What looks like steam or dust or mist or something starts coming out these vents and one of the stupid girls friends decides to shout (jokingly) &quot;FIRE! THERE&#39;S A FIRE ON THE PLANE!&quot; ON A FULLY...BOARDED...FLIGHT. Needless to say the flight attendants did not find this hilarious and they were all escorted off. - PineconeShuff 3. It was a bad weather day into St. Louis. We got struck by lightning. It happens. We get priority to land because we can&#39;t be sure what damage occurred. Once on the ground, I do a walk around and see the damage. The outbound flight, the last of the night, is cancelled because the plane is down for what I would think are obvious reasons.  We didn&#39;t have a hotel for the night, as we were supposed to take the plane back out. So while waiting for news from crew scheduling, we were supporting the gate agent. Man, people were PISSED. Insisting we go. I point out the window at the melted wingtip and large scorch mark on the aircraft. One lady got in my face and screamed, &quot;Do you think I give a f*ck about your paint job?! Get me on that plane and get me home, or you&#39;ll be sorry!&quot;  Needless to say, that lady didn&#39;t go on any flight with us the next day. Don&#39;t fuck with gate agents (or crews that are nice to them). - GearupShutup 4. One of my best friends was a flight attendant for a few years so I&#39;ve heard some insane stories from her. My absolute favorite was when she had to wait on Nicki Minaj in first class on a flight. She said Nicki was pretty much the worst passenger she&#39;d ever waited on.  She was rude, demanding, and kept doing weird sh*t like order a vodka cranberry and when the flight attendant would deliver it she&#39;d take one sip, hand it back to her and ask for another. My friend told me that her whole posse kept doing this until they had gone through almost all the mini bottles. As a bartender, that story pissed me off to no end. - ElNieves 5. Had a 20ish year old girl going to see her SO. She needed to shave so she did so in the bathroom, turbulence pursued and she cut herself really bad. Had to bring paramedics in and they carried her out. After unloaded, the FO noticed the trail of blood down the jetway. - NexusEvo 6. Last month I was on a Vegas to Boston flight when some poor guy passed away on the plane. We diverted to NY and emergency personal carried him off the plane and his widow was also escorted from the plane. Just before we took off to resume our flight, some jackass in the front row looks at the clearly stricken flight attendant and asks if we now all get free drinks. - Betsy514 7. My mom was a pilot for Northwest Airlines. She was a woman captain, and a man comes on her airplane. He takes one look at her and says &quot;Ugh, a woman captain. I&#39;m getting off.&quot; She replied, &quot;Good, get off my airplane. There are people waiting on the standby list to get on.&quot; The guy turned right around and got back on. We guessed he wanted her to submit and ask him nicely to come back. She told me &quot;F*ck no. - ChaseOP 8. A couple of WWF (now WWE) wrestlers were on a flight that was about to land but one of them needed to go to the lavatory. You obviously can&#39;t leave your seat when you are about to land so they told him no, so he decided to sh*t in the aisle instead. - paradoxofchoice 9. Had a woman freak out on a flight attendant because the cookies she was serving had cranberries in them. Apparently she was on blood thinners and couldn&#39;t eat them. We serve a number of other options. Some people just like to complain I guess. As a pilot I try and avoid dealing with the cargo. - canadian_climber 10. Dora the Explorer without earphones on a night flight. - Mablun 11. Pilot here. Girlfriend is a flight attendant. Personally, I haven&#39;t seen too much go wrong. Just the usual tantrums over bags and missed connections (protip: if you book a 30 minute connection, you will miss it). Pilots have the luxury of the locked door, but she is locked in the back with some nasty people sometimes.  Like the time when a middle aged man screamed at her for a few minutes during a 25 minute flight because she ran out of apple juice. Like the time when a man asked for a glass of water during a tarmac delay. After delivering said glass of water, he dumped it on her head. Like the time when a man heckled her during the safety demo to the point of a needing to return to the gate to escort him from the aircraft.  Like the many times when a passenger insists that their bag will fit in the overhead, forcing it so hard that it breaks the bin, and requires a 4 hour delay to repair. Please, be polite to your flight crews! :) - klopek1 12. A friend of mine was a flight attendant who told me that a guy called the air hostess and very politely asked if the pilot could shut off one of the jet engines so his son could sleep peacefully. - Anaslexy 13. I&#39;ve been punched in the face, propositioned, witnessed multiple couples try to get it on in the seats, had one couple try to do it in the galley, had my butt pinched, watched arguments break out over seats being reclined, been told the quality of ginger ale I serve is not of a high enough caliber...  Seen bare feet on bulkhead walls at face level, seen bare feet ever, had someone try to stow their luggage on my jumpseat shortly before landing, and had trash dumped on my food tray while I was still eating from it. I was a flight attendant for 5 years. I have enough crazy stories to write a book. Maybe 2. - ShinyCupcake 14. My father was a pilot and my mother was a flight attendant. I&#39;ve always said my mom should write a book. In the 1960s, my mom&#39;s route was LA-NY and back (1st class cabin) so it always had a famous person or two, actors were always the worst for her.  Most notable was being manhandled by Robert Goulet as he proceeded to tell the whole plane that he had sex with her (didn&#39;t happen). After my mom asked Lucille Ball what she would like to drink, Lucille Ball replied &quot;I don&#39;t talk to servants&quot;. Johnny Carson was also an a-hole to flight attendants.  He would put a sign on his seat which read &quot;yes I am him, no I don&#39;t want a drink&quot;. My mom also said that musicians were always the most kind. Her favorites were Jim Morrison and The Mammas &amp; the Pappas. She always said, if they seemed nice on TV they usually weren&#39;t. And those who had the worst reputations were usually the nicest.  My dad didn&#39;t interact with passengers so he didn&#39;t have any good stories. The only thing he talked about was ferrying football teams. Whenever he hauled John Madden&#39;s Raiders, they&#39;d have to double up on flight meals because if a player played well, Madden would give that player two meals. - 3Gilligans 15. When I was flying night helicopter &quot;strip tours&quot; up and down the Vegas strip, despite the video briefing which mentioned several times that no flash photography was permitted and my own verbal briefing mentioning this again, people would regularly take flash photos during the flight. It just blows my mind that people would think it&#39;s ok to temporarily blind the pilot who&#39;s flying them. - firesgood 16. I once had two unaccompanied minors traveling together. Just after we pushed back from the gate, the 8 year old boy started to have a panic attack and said he couldn&#39;t fly, so we pulled back to the gate. The pilot announced that we were returning to the gate so that paramedics could come on and take a child off the plane. He didn&#39;t mention what the medical issue was, just that a child was sick. One lady immediately hit her call button and very bitchily suggested that we better make sure that we hold the plane for her in Atlanta since we were obviously going to be late now. The whole episode amounted to maybe a 30 minute delay and no one missed their connections. One of only a handful of times I wanted to punch a passenger. - kikichampagne 17. I&#39;m a pilot. Obviously the last few days have been a zoo, and Chicago has been hellish. We were going from Chicago to Milwaukee and back and then we were done with a four-day trip, so we were definitely wanting to get on with it and go home. We were all boarded and waiting for the de-ice truck to come spray us because it was snowing.  After waiting for over an hour for the truck, they finally spray us down and we start pushing back. As we are pushing, the flight attendant calls up and tells us there&#39;s a lady that wants to get off the airplane. We tell her we can&#39;t, so the lady then tells the flight attendant that her baby is having a medical emergency and has to get off. Fine. We pull back up to the gate and let her off, the baby looks fine mind you, and ask her if she needs paramedics.  She denies medical attention and refused to take the baby to the clinic that is literally 50 feet away. They had checked bags, so we had to call rampers to dig through the cargo hold to find their bags. Finally, we had them off and we were getting ready to go again, about 2 hours late at this point.  As we were getting ready to close the door, the gate agent ran up and said that when the lady found out that we were the last flight up to Milwaukee, she begged to get back on the airplane and come with us. The captain and I looked at each other in shock, told the gate agent there was no way in hell she was getting back on the airplane, and got out of there. - rlbmxer27  

Refusing to get off the phone for take-off, starting a war in your row over the arm rest, deplaning at a snail&#39;s pace, or having to be escorted off for behavior--flight attendants and pilots have truly seen it all...  So, when a Reddit...