A barefoot passenger has their foot planted on the cabin wall just below the window, draped over the armrest in front of them. They couldn’t get an extended legroom seat, so they just extended their leg. Because basic economy here is also the Athlete’s Foot Lounge.
Bare feet on a plane are bad enough. Nobody needs to see this. Sticking those feet in someone else’s space is worse. It’s a whole new way to be awful at 30,000 feet. It was shared to social media on Monday, though appears to have originated with a domestic flight in Vietnam some time back.
The flight isn’t identified. Obviously calling a flight attendant for help is the ‘official’ advice in this situation, but what sort of guerilla tacts would you employ if faced with something like this?
- Take a sharpie to the safety card, stick it on the wall “No Foot Zone”
- Tape a cocktail napkin over the offending foot with “biohazard” scrawled in pen.
- Spill your coffee
- What’s your best shot?
Wwe 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.
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.
Cup of water, or anti-fungal spray if you have it handy… 🙂
The pixelization makes the photo look like it was taken 30 years ago.
@Gene — You meant *scolding hot* ‘cup of water,’ right?
Does anybody have an example of a flight attendant who actually ever told a passenger to keep his feet in his own space? The rules about how to dress on a plane are too general. How about the ticketing confirmation email says you must dress appropriately or be denied boarding, which means shirts with sleeves, pants and skirts to the knee, no cleavage and no bare feet? How about the screen announcements say that says you must keep your body and feet in your own seat space and not intrude on anyone else’s?
@ 1990 — If available. 🙂 Cup of tea, anyone?
@Gene — “Tea, earl gray, hot.” Make it so!
Spray some tar on their feet.. or super glue .. they will never do that again
What’s a scolding hot cup of water? You mean scalding hot?
You’re so basic economy.
@Gary, your foot fetish articles, too much.
If your attempt at asking the errant passenger to keep his feet away from the mutual armrest fails, then you will go down in defeat.
If you let a feral animal onto a plane you should fully expect feral animal behavior on the plane.
A service dog can be individually trained to perform specific tasks for a person with a disability, such as alerting the owner to an encroaching passenger’s foot that is infected with athlete’s foot (tinea pedis) on your armrest, then licking their feet until they move. Athlete’s foot is a contagious fungal infection that causes an itchy, stinging, or burning rash on the feet, most often between the toes.
@George Nathan Romey — Going full three-name today, I see. What’s your method for middle initial, no middle, and full middle? Like, is it full for American holidays only?
What do you expect but bad behavior when airlines are on a race to the bottom with how they treat customers?
You want cattle, you got it, cowpies and all
I’d ask them to move the feet, but if they persist I’d get stabby with a ball point pen.