Boorish passenger behavior doesn’t just happen on board the aircraft. It happens into the supposedly rarified air of airline members’ only clubs. But just as passengers have gotten worse in the air, as air travel has democratized, so too has behavior inside the lounges.
In airport lounges people shovel food and drink into their bags, and stick their feet up on the furniture, going to sleep on couches, and generally acting as though these ‘nicer’ spaces are U.N.-administered refugee camps.
One airline passenger saw another’s behavior, and decided to take reform into their own hands. The man was laying down with his feet up on a couch inside a United Airlines club. And that’s verboten.
There are two reasons everyone should know that feet don’t belong on the furniture inside an airport United Club:
- Anyone alive after 1982 should know the simple maxim: “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Dice”
- United actually has signs that instruct passengers not to put their feet on the club furniture.
As this passenger pondered what to do he considered waking up the man “gently” and asking him to remove his feet from the sofa, and he considered pointing out the behavior to club staff.
Instead he came up with something better. He moved the no shoes allowed sign onto the couch this man was sleeping on and took a photo.
Credit: Ari
What would you do if you saw a passenger sleeping with their feet on the furniture in an airport lounge?
Some of you might defend the man, but (1) it’s explicitly not allowed – lounges aren’t nap rooms; (2) he’s taking up more space than necessary inside a lounge and lounges have gotten crowded; and (3) you probably wouldn’t do this at the home of an acquaintance?
I always grab a couple waters and a sugar free Red Bull from the Flagship Lounge for my flights. Didn’t know this was frowned upon?? Sometimes a few pieces of candy too. I also just got CK. So I’m new to Flagship access.
There’s a small town with a few busybody complainers that constantly talk to the city council. As a result, the city council has passed lots of legislation banning stuff. You can get fined if you leave your garbage can 24 hours (so if the pick up is early morning on Tuesday, if you put it out at 1 pm Monday, you can be fined at 1:01 pm on Tuesday). They are also trying to ban leaf blowers. They ban cutting trees or impose huge costs. They want speeding traps. They ban many types of fences. If they ran the United Club, the man in the socks would be executed.
I’m not sure how the sleeping guy will ever see this picture of himself, unless he subscribes to Gary’s column. ??
@Michael – I was more referring to something like this https://viewfromthewing.com/watch-passengers-first-class-lounge-stuff-20-cans-beer-chips-bags/
Grab a bottle of water on the way out no problem.
@derek: Please give a referral.
@Derek. A woman noticed a lot of speeding going on in her neighborhood. She called the police to complain. A couple of days later she was running late and got caught in her own speed trap.
The average traveler nowadays is a clueless, fatuous boor. Banging others with their leaden backpacks, muffin tops showing over their polyester yoga pants or sweatpants while mindlessly surfing facebook for the latest one-sentence news story.
I get the upgraded coach seat which is suppose to come with food. Lately it’s about 50% of the time so I take a banana apple or some snacks with me.
“…as air travel has democratized” Off topic, but I’ve seen more travel folk using that language and yet I fail to see how air travel has become more “democratized.”
How is the democratic process involved in flying? Do we vote on pilots? Flight attendants? Who sits in first/business/coach class? Was air travel previously authoritarian — with government officials choosing who can or can’t fly? If anything, we’re arguably more authoritarian now (post 9/11).
Air travel is certainly cheaper, meaning it’s more open to people of all income levels, but that’s not the same as more democratic.
Hello all,
Once again as society continues the race to the bottom, we are seeing this behavior more and more.
It would really help if management would take charge and do the job they are hired for.
In a five star hotel last month, we called the front desk as the smell of dope was drifting down the halls and into the rooms. Reply was there wasn’t much they could do but they would “look into it”.
I traveled to China 1990s, and I remember this types of behaviors at Shanghai Rail Stations. Now the stations nowdays are state of the art in China, but in the 90s they were still almost WW2 surviving station. Traveler with large travel bad, sleeping outside stations, smoking, spitting, and clipping for nails were commons. Wow, never suspect people in US airports are getting to be like that now too.
Not defending this particular person. I had been on a 30 hour flight thru 4 airports, that in the last one, I just passed out in the lounge, not knowing in which part of the world I was. So I c/wouldn’t pass judgment w/o knowing the circumstances.
WORDS RELATED TO DEMOCRATIZE
adjust, even up, communize, compare, coordinate, emulate, equal, equate, establish, even, handicap, level, match, parallel, regularize, rival, smooth, socialize, square, standardize
Based on the above, I believe Gary’s use of the term, relative to air travel, is appropriate.
@ Gary. LOL! You nailed it. “generally acting as though these ‘nicer’ spaces are U.N.-administered refugee camps.” I’m reminded of the woman in the LHR Admirals Club loading up, and I mean Major League loading up, not some Rookie act, with EVERYTHING being offered.
@L3. I suspect that would be Lakeway and/or The Hills, TX. We get a tad bit fixated (anal) about some of these City/HOA/POA ordinances and rules. But most residents seem to appreciate the consistency in enforcing rules.
I cannot understand that in such a clear cut case of Club rules violation, that the Staff would not (gently) waken the client, to inform him of the necessity of not lying down on the couch…space which is designated for seating, not sleeping.
Wow. Looks like Indian Airports. Except that the Guy would be a local politician and you cannot do much here.
A red-hatter…’nuff said.
That’s one of the many reasons I don’t go to airport lounges…. Too crowded and takes too much time. I’d rather spend the money and just grab a chair at the Chilli’s, or other chain restaurant like place at the airport.
To be candid, I don’t know why people visit the lounge any more.
Gross! But please say The man was lying down, not laying down.
I’m about to cancel both my Citi Aadvantage Executive card and my Chase United card. Both have lounge privileges. Neither are worth it. Yes, lounge staff are extremely helpful during IRROPS or weather – IF you can get one to help. Lounges are short staffed. My recent AA flight at IAH has a mechanical. The lounge staff were overwhelmed and the line was out the door. No luck getting a live human on the ExPlat hotline. I just sat in the terminal and waited. Why pay money for lounge access?
@Daffy. What is a “red hatter?” Please enlighten me. I’m eager to learn how you can determine the value of a human by the color of a hat.
Most miss the actual point and resulting reactions for such behavior, to wit; it is always a small proportion of the populace that commit these “infractions”, and, as a result, sometimes draconian measures are put into place which affect everyone in negative ways. In other words, common sense and decorum are no longer found as businesses chase the all mighty dollar.
Just hide the guy’s shoes.
@Ron Lichtenstein. There you go ! We have a winner. 🙂
If an east coast dude is in California for a day and is exhausted while waiting for a red-eye in a non-crowded club at 10:30pm…..I’ll allow it. But yeah, the opposite (10am in a crowded club for example)….nah, not ok…
MIA and some other clubs have quiet rooms with reclining chairs for the purpose of….resting
@DFWSteve
“Red Hatter” = self entitled Trump snowflake.
I would leave the man get his sleep and mind my own maybe he’s really tired . Maybe he missed his flight or whatever reason leave him alone. My flight was canceled from Anchorage to Houston and had to wait on a bench at the airport. I wish I had a sofa to sleep on like that made it 30 hrs later to my bed .
When you have commercial jets run by computers, with nothing attaching control surfaces to what the pilot holds in his hand but electric wires, some guy putting his feet on the furniture is the least of your problems.
You should some a few drops of real coffee cream on his socks, so it starts to sour and his feet will stink.
Rookie mistake. That’s why I always put my feet on the pillows I stole from the airplane, instead of directly on the furniture.
My socks are as clean as your rear end sitting on the couch.
vodkasmoothie – cute, really sage advice…..
I remember when traveling by air was nice. People dressed appropriately, the stewards/stewardesses were all very nice. Now air travel is like traveling on a greyhound bus. People wearing pajamas, slides and I have seen curlers as well. There is hardly any decorum any more. The language and behavior of some is horrible. I like the good old days. When parents actually taught their children respect, correct behavior and manners.
a small percentage of travelers are selfish and/or ignorant (maybe cannot even read the sign?).
same thing happens on the railroad where the policy is “keep your feet off the seat!”
the lounge staff should police this, much like flight crew does (or should do) onboard a plane.
taking some food (equivalent to a meal if none are being served in flight) is not out of line — maybe as a guideline, no more than one can carry in hand(s) vs what can fit in one’s carry on luggage?
and folks, let’s try to keep politics out of this — red, blue and purple all have gross members.
Ooooooh, he sure taught the sleepy guy a lesson he won’t be sure to forget! I abet the sleepy guy was thanking his lucky stars that Mr. Tough enforcer stopped short of writing him a sternly worded letter!
Why is it that when a female does the same exact thing in a public place, no one bats an eye.
But when a guy does that, the world is coming to an end.
(Not being sexist or anything … Just saying.)
Michael: If you’re flying first or business anyway, if you don’t grab a Red Bull on the way out, you’ll get all you can drink on the plane. I don’t know what the author has in mind, and I’d see a problem with people grabbing a large amount of food, possibly to give to someone else outside the lounge. But I don’t think that grabbing a can of something is the issue.
As for lounges getting crowded, that’s true of some airlines, but blaming the passengers isn’t the solution. It’s not a place to sleep, but better lounges will have quiet rooms for individuals to rest.
Ref: HOA/Code Enforcers
Never forget that the infamous BTK, whose real name was Dennis Rader, was a code enforcement officer for his municipality. He was well known for using a ruler to measure people’s grass and finding something wrong with the property of people he did not like.
Just sayin’…
Unfortunately it’s just another example of why we can’t have nice things.
At least, probably until 2024 or early 2025, when many of the travelling dregs that acquired premium credit cards that afforded lounge access are attrioned away.
I’m not an elitist. I just grew up with travel manners and an appreciation of everyone’s right to a decent experience.
You can put 2-star people in a 5-star place but that doesn’t mean they’ll act like 5-star people.
Feet on the couch? How about the people that crap and urinate on the toilet seats, don’t flush so we can all ooh and ahh over their work, and also don’t leave any toilet paper in the un-flushed bowl with their trophy? I’m sure they don’t wash their hands either. Just putting those sock covered feet into perspective. But then again, I’ve never seen a sign in any lounge bathroom that says “Don’t act like an animal.”
All I have to say is…thank God for socks.
USA trash People. Only Mainland Chinese are worse than these slobs.
Disgusting behavior
Give his shoes to the admission desk attendant.
“Ron Lichtenstein”. Hiding the shoes. Excellent idea!! “Daffy” not going to reply to you “DFW Steve” because he doesn’t have a response as to how the color of someone’s hat determines they’re behavior. It was just a mindless post.
I have a priority pass to premium lounges. Each one of these lounges have small areas with Lazy Boy lounge chairs where you can take your shoes off and stretch out and sleep. My Airline trips from the USA to Thailand are often 30 hours in length. I really appreciate priority past premium lounges have showers where I can change clothes and brush my teeth. And I’m always stretching out taking off my shoes and taking a nap LOL what the hell is a premium Lounge for?
You don’t see this behavior where lounges come with business class seats and above, instead of being packaged with credit cards.
@Lars: lol my thoughts exactly. This was all about virtue-signaling by the person who took the pic (and vicariously by Gary). It does zero to address either the immediate issue or long-term behavior. Simply asking staff to rectify it would’ve worked.
Leaving the “No feet on the furniture sign” close to the offender is a gentle and not so subtle way of letting this jackass know his actions are not appreciated. However, anyone so crude will simply ignore it again and simply walk away after his nap. Here’s a better idea: Next time grab his shoes and deposit them in the nearest trash bin in the way out of the lounge.
Having year-round access to both Delta and United clubs, I no longer use the clubs (except maybe the LAX United Club) because of the severe over-crowding and poor traveler behavior. Of course, I’m also in the “no recline traveler mode – soneone who actually tries to be considerate to those behind me and not slam my seat into their space. Bottom line, we’ve become a “me, me” society where everything is what I deserve and am owed. We’ve lost consideration for others, and these are the effects. Actually think of others instead of yourself for once.
I fly to the Philippines a lot. I bring all my own sleeping gear and a pack of brand new socks. I find a place where sleeping is allowed and I do what I do.
Since I carry a pack of brand new socks, I will put my feet where ever I like. .
I would hate to be you, if you have an issue with my argyles.
Airline travel is grueling and inhumane almost without exception. We don’t know the extent of the maltreatment this man has suffered. It’s certainly not preferred for people to use lounges as “refuge camps”, but if airlines create conditions where people are stressed to the extremes, politeness becomes an expendable nicety and sheer endurance is primary.
WOW, All I’ve read is excuses for the guy laying on the furniture. Good luck!!
Lounges should have enough loungers!
It isn’t my place to point out other’s inequities. Let the people in charge of the lounge take care of it. I’m sure you’ve done things against the rules. Most of the time point something out like that causes an argument.
He must be extremely exhausted…..let it go. We didn’t know if this guy was not feeling well. Let us emphasize and understand. Thanks
I would put the sign on top of him and then get a United agent in club
Absolutely and hell no. The disrespecfull man should not
Be allowed to violate Rules,,
There for all to act like Civilized people. The passenger did not buy an Airline Fare without restrictions. No matter what other Hippie attitude people beleive or other modern thinkers say.. Modern abuse
Is dismally out of control. “FREEDOM OR RIGHTS” ARE NOT FREDOM TO ABUSE OR
INSULT OTHER WELL BREED
PEOPLES RIGHTS. THE AIRLINE IS THE BOSS. & PASSENGERS ARE UNDER THEIR CARE. THE PLANE IS NOT A KINDERGARTEN AN AIRLINES RULES ARE THE
LAW WHILE FLYING.
This guy was totally wrong. Someone should have placed this inconsiderate person’s shoes in the nearest trash can.
Flannel shirt..enough said.
Mind your business then you wouldn’t have time for his.
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Correct. What is reason.
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I find it disrespectful and selfish to talke up space where others could sit. “You are not the only tired passenger but you are certainly the most narcissistic to think you are the only one that needs the space! Stay home!
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Correct. What is reason.
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Don’t put your feet on the furniture, but your ass is just fine?
I identify as a shoeless sleeping human. Respect my pronouns. Looks like there was plenty of room next to him? No doubt a Karen to make an article about someone sleep at the airport lol! What’s next someone speeding on the highway. Kids selling lemonade and water without a permit haha. These people and the them and theys need to head up to Canada.
If said person has removed his or her shoes take them a put them in the trash as the must have been abandoned.
Not Revenge…Passing the Buck! Airline Lounges, just like other lounges…HAVE BOUNCERS…TOO! Problem solved!
If it was me, I would wake him up from his nap, and show him the sign not to put his feet up.
Air travel is grueling and rarely allows any kind of space for sleep, on the plane or off. Instead of whining about someone laying on the couch (socks on, shoes off, which is the most polite way), we should be pressuring airlines/airports to provide more comfortable spaces for people to catch a snooze. Airports around the world have sleep pods to rent, but US airports haven’t even managed that compromise.
Sleep is a human necessity. Airports should have spaces for it. If they don’t provide it, then we all have to just do the best with what we have.
Everyone here seems more concerned about obedience to rules rather than how the rules are crap in the first place. Let people rest.
At least he removed his shoes. As I embark on my now 16hr travel time that was 5hr before my flight was canceled, I can’t help but empathize with this man. I’m all for manners but as long as the lounge still has available seats, I’d give him a pass.
So let get this straight. I, a disabled woman, was flying Stockholm to Seattle, and because of screwups by the airline, my 3 hour layover with my 7 year old son turned into an eight hour layover. I suffer a lot of chronic pain and this meant my 15 hour trip suddenly got extended to over 20 hours. No big deal for most people. Just an inconvenience.
But for me, that extra 5 hours of sitting in an uncushioned, unergonomic chair meant that the chances of me still being able to walk by the end of my second flight were practically nil. I explained this to the airline…that my disability required me to lay down for at least a couple of hours during this extended layover. The airline refused to assist in any way. So I begged the wheelchair porter to take us to one of the lounges and I paid for access. I got food and drink for my son, took medication, and the two of us retired to a sofa in a back corner of a back room off to the side of the main area.where I laid down and he snuggled up to me to watch a movie on his iPad. For the next 6 hours, we alternated between this and me sitting up with him, having a snack and playing a game or chatting or coloring with him before another lie-down to try to keep the pain at bay…
And I am a bad person who should be shamed for putting my sock-covered feet up on the sofa?
Was the alternative of making my son watch as they carried me off the plane from Amsterdam to Seattle after hours of agony that he would have to watch at very close range a better option? Really?
Should they have kicked me and my son out of the lounge? Made me sit up the whole time and watch me devolve slowly over the next six hours, rather than build up strength to face the rest of our journey?
Or could maybe people be a little less concerned with what they THINK other people are doing, and cut others a little slack.
Because that 3.5 hours or so that my sock-covered feet were up on that couch meant the difference between inconvenience and agony (for me) and fear (for my son). Shoukd we really have been expected to make that trade to sooth someone else’s sensibilities?
(BTW, the employees in the lounge–or at least our part of it–knew what was happening and were really great to us, helping my son find snacks and drinks so I didn’t have to get up and walk around while I was trying to recover).
This is how you get ringworm. The people here are disgusting — NO, your socks are not as clean as you think, and people touch the couch with their hands — feet bring fungus, worms, sweat and more, stop defending it you heathens
This is the way of American of today. Not sure what species raised the human of today, but if I had ever done something like this, no matter how old i was, and my parents found out I am sure I would have been kicked out of the tribe.
I would have accidentally spilled my drink on his crotch.
It is sad how many people are defending this behavior. The entitled attitude that rules don’t apply is taking over in many areas of life. Common decency and consideration is becoming a thing of the past.
I would put butter packets in his shoes. And wait till he puts them on ND laugh
Those who agree with this sort of behavior most likely embrace entitlement, don’t own property, have no respect for private property and proprietary rules. You most likely are a “lawn-mower” mommy-pandered millenials or gen-z’er that embrace a Socialist agenda and won’t hold a job for over a year because you’re a chronic complainer who lacks a “nose to the grindstone” work ethics.
Be calm and suck it up.
I would have moved his shoes into the garbage.
I’d take his shoes and hide them.
It’s Guantanamo Bay for you mister.
shoes touch many gross things. personally i would prefer encountering someone polite enough to remove them before taking a nap on communal furniture.
If he was a pretty woman no one would care.
So, where is the punch line? Did you actually get paid for this pettiness?
They lose me at taking the picture. Can we do anything without caring about internet clout these days?
Taking the picture is tantamount to asking for credit after solving a problem: it proves you didn’t do it because of a belief in following the rules, or a kindness to your other airline patrons.
Just put alot of chocklet pudding in his shoes in the toe area then sit and watch his expressions after you leave that sign in fron of him quick fix for next time I bet
This is Murica, dammit! I’ll put my feet where I damn well please!
I would have read the sign as a request not to put ones ‘clad’ feet on the furniture. I expect that’s why he took off his shoes. The sign certainly does not read, no lying or sleeping on the furniture. Would this have been an issue if his ankles were on the bench and his feet off?
I think people like this belong in a refugee camp definately not an airline lounge! There is no excuse.
How was that revenge? It’s unlikely he will see the photo. Would easier to just sit down on top of his feet as though you didn’t see them. And when he complains say “Oh, sorry, didn’t see your feet there. Besides, you’re not supposed to have your feet up on the couch.” Or alternately, sit down next to him and unceremoniously push his feet off the couch.
Wow, that picture was so badazz, I’m sure it will change that man’s life forever. If there are house rules then the house needs to enforce the rules.
@NC Speaking the crap rules: There was a sign at the pool stating that if you have had diarrhea in the last so many days don’t get in the pool. Someone said it’s a good rule. But I said how are you going to enforce it? Ask the person? They may not tell the truth. Get them to drop their swimsuit and check?
Ignorance is bliss… A**holes are an epidemic. I witnessed a similar selfish ignorant act in a restaurant just last week but I’m prone to violence so had to let it go.
RAYMOND LANKFORD says:
April 16, 2023 at 10:00 am
Just put alot of chocklet pudding in his shoes in the toe area then sit and watch his expressions after you leave that sign in fron of him quick fix for next time I bet
Perhaps you should try again, Raymond.
Was he taking up too much space where it was needed for others to sit ? You can’t put your feet on the couch, but you can sure as heck put your ass on it. No difference is there is space available for this “karen” to sit.
Alot of people defending this guy and it’s pretty sad! Common f…… Courtesy he should of known before putting his feet on the couch! Just because he has no shoes there are still plenty of germs that the socks have and can leave on the couch for someone else to get. I’m the type that would of woke his azz up n told him to get his mother f….. Feet off now!
The rules are there for a reason that you are not entitled to know. If you can’t follow the rules then don’t go to places that have them. The liberal dogs deep to find an excuse for the rules being broken. The right side wants to have the man banned from the lounges for life and expelled immediately.
There is no excuse for violating the rules. I was really wanting a cheese burger so I stole yours. What’s the big deal? I was really tired so I took up space that another really tired passenger could have sat down in. No one should have to ask the inconsiderate rule breaker to mind the rules. The rule breaker relies upon people being liberal or being too timid to ask him to sit up.
Report him to the staff and let them deal with the guy. See something, say something is a beautiful rule that should apply to everyone in every situation.
The wild west wasn’t a romantic time or place filled with the freedom to do whatever you wanted. The bad guys that are probably your heroes didn’t typically die of natural causes.
Grow up and follow the rules or just stay home and watch westerns.
Who cares? The man took his shoes off it’s not like he was leaving street dirt behind for someone to sit in which is the point of the rule. This is just some busy body who needs to mind their own business.
@JB. These so called 5 star/high class people don’t always act 5 star either. Just because you have money doesn’t make you perfect.
@George, no buddy, you would hate it if I was around. I do not care that you “brought brand new socks.” Your stank ass feet are not brand new. You would not put your feet wherever you please. You sound beyond entitled.
I’ve tossed peoples shoes in the garbage at the airport a couple of times. Don’t embarrass them online, just throw their shoes out.
It’s one thing if that passenger was preventing others from taking a seat in the lounge. If not, then the remarks about his breaking the rules, the danger from bacteria & the like (what do people think hand sanitizer’s for? why are they putting their unwashed hands on their faces?) are callous.
Alas, the world is full of self-righteous folk who know the “rules” and resent anyone who fails to follow them.
Some of these will self-appoint as monitors to punish the offenders.
For following the rules, they may have their rewards like the Pharisees in the Christian New Testament. “I thank thee, G-d, that I am not like other men…” but their lack of consideration, of empathy, merely shows they’ve never learned the lesson of “there, but for the grace of G-d, go I.”
Typical USA’s “me me me”, the heck w others, culture!
To the guy saying who cares about breaking rules? Um if they had told the attendants they would have asked him not to do it. I’d rather not snitch on someone but feet on community furniture in an already germ filled place is not okay. The guy is rude for doing the opposite of what the posted note says. Period. The end. If it’s not a big deal there would be no signs stating otherwise. Idk why someone need’s to explain that to you. But you seem a bit dense.
The guy is a jerk. Therefore deserves to be treated as such. It doesn’t mean he will change. It wouldn’t be worth my time to waste any on him.
The guy is not hurt a thing, get a blanket and place over him so he can get a good nape. I was napping years ago, when I felt something, I looked up and a flight attendant went got a blanket an placed over me. Never forgot her act of kindness, we need less complaining and more kindness, get him a blanket.
Alert the lounge staff and let them deal with it. After all, it’s their job.
When clubs allow anyone in with a credit card, this is what you get.
Flying weekly for work, I earn my access with Delta (until next year when they get rid of the individual membership). Easily 50% of the people in there are rude and are inconsiderate of others. Clubs also need to have kid free ones. Last week at LGA, I was working on my laptop (on my lap) and there was an 8-10 year old girl doing cartwheels right by me. Nothing against kids…but a business lounge should be for business people.
I would do nothing. Too many people carry guns. Live and let live.
You guys are tripping.
He doesn’t have his feet up on the table. It’s down on the sofa – you know where the butts are. Most lounges have recliners or ottomans. He took his shoes off, so no risk of damaging the fabric. Guy looks old, feet probably in pain. Give him a break. No one cares FOR others any more, just about getting in there business.
After getting stuck in the airport for 60 hours where all the hotels were too full and no rental cars available, with mistakes by the airline themselves causing me to be stuck in the airport, and having both a lower back tissue injury and knee injury (weight lifting), I not only don’t care about the “rules” here, but also resent most people who travel by air and are rude about other people having to be in the airport. The irony of the people who are upset about this is that are also generally the narcissistic aholes that won’t let toddlers sit with their parents because the parent “should have booked the seats next to each other earlier” when, in fact, it’s often because they got bumped to another flight where those are the only seats, or has to last minute fly and there weren’t other seats available.
Where is the problem? The stupid TSA makes you walk through everyone elses athletes foot and clostridium germs without shoes.
This is mild.
Its Ok, he took his shoes off.
Please price the peasants OUT of the lounges.
Perhaps if USA lounges had recliner/chaise lounge seats and a designated “quiet area” or similar like most international lounges do, people could take their rest there and not have to deal with noise, children, and breaking the rules just to close their eyes for a little while…
That’s on a couch , how would you like someone’s feet on your side sleeping in the plane. I was on a long flight from Korea to LAX and woke up with feet moving on my side. Put blanket and pillow to block it but she keeps moving. Called the flight attendant and she tried to move her feet but nothing, so I ask if I can move so I can get some sleep., they shouldn’t let people lay down like that if there other people not related to them. So disgusting.
It is ok for Americans to wear dirty shoes at home, get into bed in street shoes, put feet in dirty street shoes on desk or table, come to the hospital in muddy work shoes, walk in socks outside. But it is not ok when a person took off his street shoes , laid down and stretched his feet in CLEAN WHITE SOCKS between long flights. Nation of weirdos.
If they’re a sound sleeper I use a marker to write ” ^This End Up^ ” on their forehead. Or, I pour a glass of water on their lap and when they wake up I yell, “Dude, you peed your pants”.
Both techniques are very effective at discouraging them from doing such an egregious act again.
Maybe the guy has an illness that you can’t see..like leukemia or css or whatever would make him want lie down. Mind ur own effen business, be kind and find the guy a blanket.
Leave the man alone, he’s not hurting anyone. Obviously he’s very tired, and I’m sure that’s not his preference of a bed. You have never walked in that man’s shoes, so you don’t know what he has been through. Besides he took his d shoes off. Give the man a break! Please! Don’t be a bully!
Seriously to all of those who think rules do not apply to them. Get real! That goes for running, stop signs and speeding on the freeway. Again, those rules are rules and if the airline has those rules posted and people should have abide by them. Or next time take the train or the Greyhound. And this is coming from a moderate Democrat. ( Btw My Republican neighbors run stop signs too! ) I don’t think it makes a difference anymore. What side of the political arena of you’re on… If you’re going to break rules, you’re going to break rules because most of these people who do it anyway care less about anybody else but themselves!
This particular passenger is a better fit for Frontier Airlines.
Maybe if the airlines didnt make it impossible for passenger to get rest we wouldnt have this problem. The airlines charge big fees to provide weary flierz a place to catch some needed rest. Denying them any hope of that is inhumanr and sick. These are not homeless they have been thrpugh secuirty and paid a lot for their flights. Stoo being jetks.
I’d hide his shoes. Maybe one row over or something. Bet he’d never do it again.
Ghh
Even better look on his baggage and see if hes got any identification or an address and just post it with the picture and let the world take care of it
And then of course tell management and let them wake him up which would be great with that sign right at his feet
If there’s no cameras around a little glob of shaving cream in one of his shoes might work not a lot just a little just enough to make him wonder
Flying from Mich to New York then London to Norway. Got on the plane and found several women from India laying across four seats each. Would have thought the stewardess would ask them to sit up
“lounges aren’t nap room”
Now that’s funny. Anyone who travels a lot has napped in lounges. I usually find an out of the way spot. The only time I’ll lie down is when the lounge is empty. (WiFi was out at BA lounge in T5 LHR, and it was deserted)
@May. And just who are the peasants? It could be in the sight of Heaven YOU are the peasant.
While I chuckled at the idea of hiding or throwing his shoes away, I’d never do it. I also thought about making some remark about this guy’s probable political affiliation, but, this isn’t about politics or anything. It’s a guy who put his clean socked feet up on a sofa in an airport lounge. BFD people need to get over themselves and learn how to mind their own business. Nobody knows what this guy is feeling or dealing with. That doesn’t really matter anyway. MYFB and you might even be a little bit happier yourself
I suspect this story has received the most replies of any Gary has posted — by far.
I find that fascinating.
I’m glad I don’t have to fly like I use too. I remember a flight from Gatwick, UK to Miami, FL to Jacksonville, FL i forget the airline as this was 2005. I was flying Business Class so the flight from Gatwick to Miami was rather uneventful. The food was excellent, I do remember that. We got into Miami early after 12 hours in the air. Next on to Jacksonville,FL. The layover was 7 hours. By the time they called for boarding I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I was the last to get on the plane and made it on the plane and laid across the seats (the flight was rather empty) of the row in the rear, we entered from the rear of the plain. Next thing I got woken up by the flight attendant, they had done everything they needed to before waking me up. I was so thankful to them.
I feel for people who have to fly at all nowadays. Where has the humanity gone?
@Carol Lewis There is no heaven you silly goose.
Wake it up. “Get your feet off the couch, this isn’t your living room”. Simple as that.
Just use a cattle prod on his testicles. Works like a charm
@Jesda Gulati This life and Earth is not the end. There is a better place coming. A place called Heaven. I believe this with all my heart and soul. If I am wrong (which I’m not) I have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Faith is the key. Until then I live in Texas. That’s pretty darn close to Heaven. God bless Texas! ♥
We can thank the Deregulation Act of 1978. Ever since proces dropped, the riff-raff floodgates have been a flowin’. In tandem with that, is the aeroplane company, whose name ends with the word BUS. We’ve taken what was an awesome experience in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and diluted it down to being held captive in a tube with criminals at 35000 feet. The horror!
You’re not at home, and no one wants to smell your smelly feet.
Typical today absolutely NOOO more Manners anymore..rude stupid humans classless in USA!
All about me me me…
Flying is like riding the Greyhound bus now a days! Especially on domestic flights.
It was a United airlines lounge, so in fairness to the guy. It’s likely they lost his shoes.
I agree with D King comments above. I would have moved his shoes a couple of rows over.
Why are people so darn ignorant or pretend as if they can’t read signs posted they are posted for a reason because of azz whips like the idiot he is… cancel their tickets if they cannot acted like normal people… this entire world has gone crazy…thinking they are above God… NEWS FLASH! you are NOT so get your sorry BUTT up and act like you got the sense God gave you
I don’t see the big deal since his shoes were off. Better than a person’s butt on the furniture. I take the sign to mean with shoes.
You must be kidding me, people getting shot left and right in the US daily and you are upset about someone put there feet on the couch? Let him get a good nap which might avoid an inflight unruly passenger incident.
As a blind passenger, I don’t need to be able to read signs to understand it’s not okay to stretch out on public seating. As long as we’re talking about being more considerate, isn’t equally inconsiderate to stretch out and fall asleep and potentially take up space that could have been used by a weary family? If the person is in the lounge, one can reasonably assume the person has the means to get proper accommodations if exhaustion is the cause, even with credit cards that open lounges to broader segments. So, I won’t jump to the front of the line just for being blind, and you keep your hind paws off the furniture. That’ll give me space to sit next to you and discuss Gary’s rationale for writing what he does. 🙂
You are all woke muppets.
Where has society gone? Are we so fucked that is so difficult to understand no feet on the furniture. Period. Who cares about how long his layover or what his deal is. He should be asked to sit up and if not get the f out.
I would get the Airline staff to do their Job and stop being afraid to speak to these slobs.
If this happened elsewhere in the world, they would give you one chance and then any lip, lock you up.
We might need a little bit of this tough love in america, as we have lost our backbone and cohones.
Have some respect, culture, class. When you travel you represent your self and culture to the world.
How many of you pack their street shoes into their suitcases without putting them in a (plastic) bag beforehand? So that the outer soles of your shoes, with which you possibly waded through dog feces, bird shit, human vomit and piss before, touch your clothes inside the suitcase. I see that in youtube traveller tips videos all the time. Disgusting.
People suck.