Yahoo! Travel has a series
called Confessions of a Flight Attendant
and I love it! This week’s article was over the 15 most ridiculous things
people say on a plane and some of them you won’t believe! Here are some of the
funnier ones; you can read all of them here.
1. “Do they pay for
your hotel rooms?” I love this one. Can you imagine if the whole crew was
staying in different places and the junior people were grabbing a park bench to
sleep on, or couch surfing in their uniforms? Yes, the airline pays for hotels
and arranges transportation to and from the hotel. Otherwise, every flight
would be late while we figured out where so and so was staying.
2. Where are the lines
between the states? You would be surprised how many people think there are
actual lines between the states like on a map.
3. On night
flights we will go through the cabin with trays of orange juice and water.
Passengers will look at the tray and say: “Which one is the orange juice and
which is the water?”
4. “When do I change the time on my watch or will it change itself as
we go?”
5. “I don’t mean to
scare you, but something out there has been following us for hours!” It’s
the light on the wing.
6. It takes years
before you realize you can answer people’s questions with the wrong answer and
they never know the difference. When they ask what river they are looking at, I
always say Mississippi—no matter where we are in the country.
7. What country is Hawaii in?
8. We point to where the bathroom is and the passenger just stands there. I’ll
point to it again and they will say “it’s vacant.” They have no idea what the
word vacant means, I guess we really shouldn't use such fancy words like
vacant.
9. “Have we landed
yet?”
10. “How do I move my
seat forward?”
11. “When did you guys start wearing uniforms?”
12. On the customs and immigration form it says: Sex M-F. Passengers will
ask if it means how many times they have sex Monday to Friday!!!
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