So my flight out of Cairo started with a five hour delay due to a technical problem. I’m all for safety, but the Cairo airport is boring under normal circumstances so the delay was especially dismaying. Thank goodness I had a great book to lose myself in (Tell Me Something, by Adele Parks)
We were finally allowed to board and I was all settled in when the flight attendant comes to me and asks if I’d like to change seats since the plane wasn’t full. It wasn’t a long flight and I was already all settled in so I declined.
The flight attendant must have known something I didn’t know. During our 3 hour flight my seatmate picked his nose, licked the underside of the foil covering of his entree and ate with his fingers, snored wetly, blew his nose on his shirt, and spit a loogey on the floor near the window. Is it any wonder I always feel the need to take a shower when I get off a plane? I wanted to wash my hair with sanitizing gel after that display!
The next time a flight attendant offers to move me to a row on my own, I’m going to do it! Anyone have a seatmate horror story to top this one? (I sincerely hope not!)
Sadly, I can. On a flight from Malaga a few years ago I had a woman sitting between me and the man in the outside seat who accused the poor man of touching her up (he hadn’t) she also claimed she’d seen a snake on the floor of the plane and every twenty minutes or so of the flight screamed ‘SNAKE’ at the top of her voice and attampted to clamber ontothe seat.
by Nell Dixon April 25th, 2009 at 6:21 amI did enjoy a flight from Tampa to Detroit next to a woman who spoke no English and spent most of her time praying on her rosary. I was pretty sure we were going to die. She was very nice though. Then there was a flight from Seoul to Manila where I’m pretty sure over half the flight had the hacking cough that was going around at the time. There are times when I wish I could just stop breathing.
by Charlotte McClain April 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pmOMG! Seriously, gross!! There was no way you could have changed seats when the seatbelt light went off?
The worst flight story I have was between Minneapolis and Seattle. The guy next to me look and smelled like he just came off the streets, but he had plenty of fives to keep buying those little bottles of vodka from the flight attendant.
by Crista April 25th, 2009 at 1:05 pmLOL – I was seriously lamenting that this was a DRY flight!!!
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