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Many a tale has been told by AirHostess here 
I've read all of hers and I hope I'm not repeating her here but here goes...
I'm Dyyyyying!
A bit of an explanation: a 767 is a wide-body aircraft with 2 aisles. At my airline, they were configured in such a way that the pax didn't have air vents over their heads - temperature was controlled by the cockpit crew as we requested.
Dinner and drinks are being served via 2 meal carts and 2 drinks carts operated equally by 3 flight attendants in each aisle. I was on the opposite aisle when I overheard a woman tell my CW that she was "burning up" and she needed to do something. After my CW and the other 2 flight attendants told her that it would be a few minutes, the pax decided to stand up and yell across the aircraft at me and my CWs: "I'm DYYYYYING in here! Fix the temperature now!"
Hmmm... everyone else seems to want dinner and I don't hear them complaining about the temperature. We left her to our 3 CWs on her side of the plane. We did request a temperature adjustment in less than 5 minutes from when she asked. We also had to get our lead flight attendant to explain how temperature control worked on the plane just so she'd stop yelling.
The Dreaded "But THEY Did It For Me!"
Same flight as above, flying New York - Rome. I'm serving drinks in economy class and an older Italian man asks for a red wine. Being in economy, we served wine in small splits and charged $6.00 for it. Yes, it's highway robbery, but it is what it is (this was also before the liquids ban so he could very well have brought his own).
Me:
BIG: Big Italian Guy
Me: *Handing BIG the split of red wine and a cup* Here you are, sir. That will be 6 dollars or 4 Euro please.
What I expected to hear from BIG: Oh, I didn't realize there was a charge. I'm sorry, I don't want that. I'll have XXX instead.
What I heard from BIG: This is absurd! Alitalia (the national carrier of Italy) has free wine. I want it for free! I will not pay for it! *All I heard after this was ALITALIA! grumble grumble... ALITALIA! grumble grumble...*
I'm just glad he didn't have the wine in his hands. I probably wouldn't have gotten it back. He didn't want anything else to eat or drink the entire flight and sulked the whole way there.
Wish I could've asked him why he didn't fly his precious Alitalia - they fly to Rome from the same airport we do.
I've read all of hers and I hope I'm not repeating her here but here goes...I'm Dyyyyying!
A bit of an explanation: a 767 is a wide-body aircraft with 2 aisles. At my airline, they were configured in such a way that the pax didn't have air vents over their heads - temperature was controlled by the cockpit crew as we requested.
Dinner and drinks are being served via 2 meal carts and 2 drinks carts operated equally by 3 flight attendants in each aisle. I was on the opposite aisle when I overheard a woman tell my CW that she was "burning up" and she needed to do something. After my CW and the other 2 flight attendants told her that it would be a few minutes, the pax decided to stand up and yell across the aircraft at me and my CWs: "I'm DYYYYYING in here! Fix the temperature now!"
Hmmm... everyone else seems to want dinner and I don't hear them complaining about the temperature. We left her to our 3 CWs on her side of the plane. We did request a temperature adjustment in less than 5 minutes from when she asked. We also had to get our lead flight attendant to explain how temperature control worked on the plane just so she'd stop yelling.
The Dreaded "But THEY Did It For Me!"
Same flight as above, flying New York - Rome. I'm serving drinks in economy class and an older Italian man asks for a red wine. Being in economy, we served wine in small splits and charged $6.00 for it. Yes, it's highway robbery, but it is what it is (this was also before the liquids ban so he could very well have brought his own).
Me:
BIG: Big Italian Guy
Me: *Handing BIG the split of red wine and a cup* Here you are, sir. That will be 6 dollars or 4 Euro please.
What I expected to hear from BIG: Oh, I didn't realize there was a charge. I'm sorry, I don't want that. I'll have XXX instead.
What I heard from BIG: This is absurd! Alitalia (the national carrier of Italy) has free wine. I want it for free! I will not pay for it! *All I heard after this was ALITALIA! grumble grumble... ALITALIA! grumble grumble...*
I'm just glad he didn't have the wine in his hands. I probably wouldn't have gotten it back. He didn't want anything else to eat or drink the entire flight and sulked the whole way there.
Wish I could've asked him why he didn't fly his precious Alitalia - they fly to Rome from the same airport we do.
ing SCs on this motherf
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