A passenger on a flight removed his shoes and socks, extended his bare leg and foot across the aisle, and rested it on the arm of the seat across the way from him.

• It’s invading the space of a young woman seated there. The woman had feet encroaching from both sides, trapped in a “foot sandwich.”

• And his other foot is getting massaged by another passenger, reportedly his daughter. Creepy.

And he’s not alone. Others are barefoot, too, with their feet propped up. It’s a veritable feet-astrophe. Welcome aboard Flight Athlete’s Foot, nonstop to Disgusting, where feet block the aisle.

“That’s not footresting, that’s footrassment.” Obviously calling a flight attendant for help is the ‘official’ advice in this situation. Though apparently cabin crew were ok with this state of affairs. I guess if I were the woman trapped between two feet, I’d accidentally spills my hot coffee?

This guy next to me on the plane

from r/mildlyinfuriating

Now here’s where things get more interesting to me. The flight isn’t identified. My best guess looking at the interior of the cabin is that it’s an Aegean Airbus A320ceo with slimline seats, photographed in the overwing exit row 11.

If the seats had blue and white headrest covers I’d be sure. I usually see those on Aegean planes. And the newer aircraft are going to have the literature pocket above the tray table, rather than below it like pictured here. I’d love for some of y’all to weigh in.

But we should all recognize that plane surfaces are dirty. The one thing I really had hoped would last coming out of the pandemic was elevated cleanliness, but it really didn’t. These passengers are rubbing themselves all over the aircraft where someone else is going to be on the next flight without any kind of santizing afterward. And they’re sticking their extremities into spaces that belong to others, if only for the duration of the flight.

We’ve seen passengers clip their nails inflight (and flick them onto the passenger next to them), paint their toenails onboard, and go shirtless. But that doesn’t make it o.k.

Bare feet on a plane is such an awful thing to do to the rest of the passengers in the cabin that a passenger with smelly feet once drove another so nuts that he got stabbed on arrival in the parking lot.

A United Airlines flight attendant reportedly once offered a passenger a $1000 voucher to take their feet off the tray table.

I’m confident this was a bluff, that the airline wouldn’t have made good. But they were trying to creatively solve a very real problem.