News and notes from around the interweb:
- Spirit Airlines passenger paid for airport drinks with fake $100 bill and explained it away because the pants he was wearing weren’t his and he simply found the bill in the pockets. The old someone else’s pants excuse.
- No lies detected.
there’s bleak and then there’s Spirit Airlines flight back from Vegas bleak
— Chris Garcia (@_chrisgarcia) June 5, 2022
- Another passenger with hair draped over the seat back. I guess this is less of a problem for airlines without seat back video – win for American Airlines and Southwest! Oh and those TVs often have touch screens…
- Podcast interview with the head of Etihad Guest
- Australia takes on Airbnb over displaying prices with a dollar sign but prices were in U.S. dollars thus misleading consumers into believing accommodations were cheaper than they actually were (since Aussie dollars are worth less).
- What it’s really like to work at a call center
- 14 year old girl with nut allergy finds life at risk after passenger refuses to stop eating peanuts (HT: Paul H)
That’s why I carry a small pair of scissors in my carry-on.
Ask her to move her hair. If she doesn’t, find something sticky to put in it.
I get being upset at someone throwing their hair over the seat like that, but have we really lost the ability to interact with one another to the degree that you stew for 3 hours and post on SM instead of just asking her to move her hair??
In order of severity dep on length of flight: 1. Repeatedly cram magazines or (preferably) a large book in that recessed storage space ensuring hair is trapped underneath. 2. Close hair in the tray table a few times — with leftover food and condiments or hummus if possible. 3. Get a cup of cranberry juice and dip as much of the end of the hair in it as possible. Hold for 5-10 mins to dye the hair red. Nuclear Option: If traveling with a small child, tell child that pulling the handle as hard as they can will play the theme to “Frozen.”
Someone gets an allergy because a flyer was eating peanuts 10 rows ahead but Gary told us the ventilation systems in an airplane protects us from a virus.
The food, people or materials on this flight may contain allergens of various types that could be deadly if you are allergic to them. Travel at your own risk.
If you do not want to contact the passenger with the encroaching abundance of hair draped over the seat in front of you, ring the flight attendant’s call button three times to get their attention while they are chatting with other flight attendants while they hide in the galley. Then, when a flight attendant arrives at your seat, ask the flight attendant if you can move to an unoccupied first-class seat if they cannot take care of the hairy problem passenger seated in front of you.
Hey Gary, want a quick and easy way to increase article click-through? Prefix every roundup article with “[roundup]” (vs. the 20% of the time you currently do it). If I’m not interested in the singular sub-topic you choose for the title I’m not going to click through, but if I know it’s a roundup, I always will.
And if you put the tag at the end of the title, then people browsing on their phones likely won’t see it as longer titles get cut off.
May I offer you a pair of scissors?
I like the scissor comment! That was good!
Silently putting up with this kind of moronic behaviour is ridiculous. Tell the dope to get her hair out of her way right now. If she doesn’t comply, rub some sticky stuff into it and throw it back over the seat. If people are too self-absorbed to behave in public, they have no rights.
I’m with Wiley. A rude little twit has to dump her lice infested hair on my lap. Why do we have to keep working around inconsiderate, lazy people?
Have hummus will travel….
Ring call button. Tell cabin attendant, let them handle situation.
Blow a snot wad in it.
@DFWSteve. Yeah. If you’re too big of a coward to just ask them to move their hair (or they ignore your request if you do), fake a really disgusting sneeze… And then pull their hair a bit and act like you’re wiping your nose with it.
Post the video online: 1 million views, easy.
Gum is the answer. One episode of gum in her hair and that nit will reconsider her future actions
These answers are hilarious. To add to the fun possibilities…
1. Tie/braid her hair in dozens of little knots.
2. Wipe the sweat off your forehead with her hair.
3. Run your fingers through her hair and pretend that it turns you on.
4. Get out your own comb and start combing her hair.
5. Take off your shoes and use her hair to buff/shine your shoes.
That hair would have ended up knotted and twisted with gum (and everything else I could find in my backpack) in the mini phone holder on the back of that seat (around mid pony rail) in that photo. Then when she’s ready to deplane, she’d be trapped and I’d just walk by her – smile – and shrug my shoulders.
Imagune if she reclined the seat, all that hair would be sitting in your lap.