My pet peeve is one of many.
Passengers standing up before the captain has turned the seatbelt sign off as we are coming into stand. We can be taxi-ing still and some idiot will decide to stand up.
Man stands up and starts to rummage in the overhead. I yell at him to SIT DOWN as we are moving still. Ignores me. Now you would think that a pax travelling in business class with laptop, blackberry etc would be intelligent. Obviously not. He continues to rummage through his bag, still standing up. All the other pax are staring at him.
As if my magic, the captain slams the brakes on as a tug had entered our path.
Man suddenly slams again the forward bulkhead! He had banged his had and had a bleeding cut. And his nose was bleeding, I suspected it was broken. Despite wanting to say 'I told you so' I remained professional, asked him if he was ok, asked him to sit down and I would call the paramedics.
Inside, I was fuming. It was completely his own fault, I wanted to go home rather than fill in paperwork and wait for the paramedics to tend this idiot.
Instead, he said that if it wasn't for the unprofessional pilots stopping so suddenly he would be fine, that he wasn't flying our airline again etc
"Well sir, that is why I asked you to sit down and why you are told to remain seated with your seatbelt fastened. Now if you'd like to sit down I can ask the ground staff to get the paramedics over to see to you."
Once again, he ignored me, pushed past me and the ground staff and stormed off.
I spoke to the other crew, none of whom had any sympathy. Myself and the flight attendant sat with me at the front filled in an incident form with his name and seat number (I had the passenger list) to save any comeback on us.
WHAT AN IDIOT! He might have been concussed. Meh. You can't fix stupid.
Passengers standing up before the captain has turned the seatbelt sign off as we are coming into stand. We can be taxi-ing still and some idiot will decide to stand up.
Man stands up and starts to rummage in the overhead. I yell at him to SIT DOWN as we are moving still. Ignores me. Now you would think that a pax travelling in business class with laptop, blackberry etc would be intelligent. Obviously not. He continues to rummage through his bag, still standing up. All the other pax are staring at him.
As if my magic, the captain slams the brakes on as a tug had entered our path.
Man suddenly slams again the forward bulkhead! He had banged his had and had a bleeding cut. And his nose was bleeding, I suspected it was broken. Despite wanting to say 'I told you so' I remained professional, asked him if he was ok, asked him to sit down and I would call the paramedics.
Inside, I was fuming. It was completely his own fault, I wanted to go home rather than fill in paperwork and wait for the paramedics to tend this idiot.
Instead, he said that if it wasn't for the unprofessional pilots stopping so suddenly he would be fine, that he wasn't flying our airline again etc
"Well sir, that is why I asked you to sit down and why you are told to remain seated with your seatbelt fastened. Now if you'd like to sit down I can ask the ground staff to get the paramedics over to see to you."
Once again, he ignored me, pushed past me and the ground staff and stormed off.
I spoke to the other crew, none of whom had any sympathy. Myself and the flight attendant sat with me at the front filled in an incident form with his name and seat number (I had the passenger list) to save any comeback on us.
WHAT AN IDIOT! He might have been concussed. Meh. You can't fix stupid.
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