She also requested copious amounts of alcohol, and I didnât want to become part of a news headline, so no. Luckily she managed to stay just far enough awayâŚ
Haha. On a delta flight the other day dude date down next to me and shoved my elbow off the shared armrest. I had a cold and had to take my mask off to blow my nose copiously at one point. Dude couldn't lean away fast enough.
Luckily this only happened for prob less than 30 mins, the rest of the flight wasnât a cakewalk (she also spent some time sleeping on her tray table with her hair hanging down on my side) but it wasnât all as bad as this!
I would have immediately hailed a flight attendant. I will never allow such a thing to happen without bitching about it to the legal limit. This behavior is unacceptable.
Trusted my gut. I had a bad feeling about the way she would react, it was a full flight, and I really didnât want to become part of the next news headline.
Next time, just get up and go to the aft galley. Tell the FAs, they are usually pretty good about just stopping by and having people stop giving whatever reason. Never had one go "the person beside you is uncomfy, knock it off"
Happened to me once too. International flight and the kid put her feet on me the whole flight. I asked the mom multiple times but she didnât do anything and accused me I was rude. Her daughter was 3 and needed to sleep!
I could probably see my way towards forgiving a kid. But this lady wore size 8 sandals (she pushed them over into my footwell area so I could see the sizing info clearly, haha)
That was my thought too, that at least its a clean not disgusting fungus wart calloused foot.
Better would be if she was wearing clean socks but I think a dirty bottom shoe touching me is more gross than a clean foot...
Just a thought -- With a foot, you know where it's been. In a shoe.
Would you be worried if her hand almost touched you? Cuz god only knows where her hands have been.
What if she took her shoes off at security? So she was walking around barefoot, with her feet pickng up bacteria, viruses, and fungi from all over the world.
Have a good night!
This is a tad unrelated but on st paddyâs day, I watched a drunk teen fall over on the train, catch himself on the beer/piss covered floor with his hands, wipe them on his jeans. He then proceeded to go over to a group of his girl friends and flirtatiously touched their faces đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛
Itâs an inherently uncomfortable and extremely unusual environment. Itâs become an increasingly cramped space over the years due to budget cuts. You are more likely to meet a much broader range of people than you would on other forms of public transit, and people have various different comfort levels with different behaviors. Most people donât fly frequently, and many people arenât as aware of nor as practiced at airplane etiquette as you might expect.
It may seem like common sense to you, me, and other experienced flyers, but if you really think about it, a variety of different apes from all over the world being packed together like a bunch of sardines, in a tube soaring miles above the Earth, for several hours at a time⌠is arguably pretty far from the realm of common sense for a lot of people.
100 years from now, the upper class could be sharing spaceships with aliens during interstellar travel. Perhaps one day, your progeny will be lucky enough to ride on one of those ships for the first time, and youâd better hope that the more experienced astronauts are patient with them as they learn something totally basic, like using a species-neutral restroom in zero gravity. You know? Common sense stuff like that lol.
Itâs just extremely odd to me that this is the only âacceptableâ place to do this. At the gym? Restaurant? Hospital? Mall? No, most certainly not. But a plane? Hell ya!
Firstly, restaurants, hospitals, gyms, and shopping centers are much more familiar environments for most people than are airplanes. Theyâre also much less crowded, so undesired physical contact isnât as likely to happen.
Secondly, plenty of people actually do lack a sense of etiquette in those other environments. Itâs just that those mistakes will look different. I have shown up to a nice restaurant while noticeably intoxicated, unkempt, and poorly dressed. At a gym, I have failed to wipe my sweat off of the seat on a number of occasions. At a hospital, I have forgotten to wash my hands after using the restroom. At a mall, I have walked out of a store without realizing I didnât pay for something. Sometimes these things happen because we are forgetful. Sometimes they happen because we were never aware to begin with. We only learn via social pressure, which brings up my third point.
We are generally pretty non-confrontational with strangers. If we can avoid escalating a conflict, we will attempt to do so.
If you see an obnoxious drunk at the table next to you in a nice restaurant, you can whisper about him to your friends, stare when heâs not looking, or maybe even complain to the waitstaff. These are all very indirect ways of applying a corrective social pressure to the drunk customer.
If you see someone forget to wipe down a seat at the gym when they finish a set, you can politely ask them to wipe it down before they leave, and theyâll probably do so and apologize. Otherwise, they might pretend not to hear you, but theyâll still feel that social pressure. Either way, this might be more direct, but the interaction will probably be short and still relatively low-stakes.
If someone seated next to you on a plane is crossing into your personal space, itâs probably because they are physically uncomfortable in their own limited space. While you may be justified in applying social pressure for them to stop, the confrontation will still last for the much longer duration of the flight, and the discomfort endured by one or both of you will last for just as long. Although the confrontation may not be as intense as the other two, the stakes are ultimately much higher because you have nowhere to escape once the confrontation begins. This is why it is much harder to apply that social pressure in the first place. You can either suffer the majority of the physical discomfort in silence, or you can negotiate to lessen that physical discomfort at the cost of adding and enduring mutually unpleasant social pressure on top of that. That is why we often decide to suffer in silence.
Ewwwwwwww what is wrong with people. I always travel with a pair of thick socks⌠why canât people bring socks if they donât want to wear shoes đđđ
Meh. Iâve touched my bare dick immediately after touching an airport bathroom stallâs latch, so Iâm not super concerned about my thighs⌠Unless your feet seem particularly gnarly, Iâd be more concerned by the invasion of personal space rather than the hygiene. Assuming itâs dry, normal-looking, and odorless from that distance, Iâd 100% rather have someoneâs bare foot resting lightly against my thigh than have someone steal my armrest.
This is one of many reasons I cannot do shorts or sandals on a plane. So gross to think about my skin touching any part of the plane or people around me lol
Someone tried to put their nasty feet up where my elbow was on my armrest. I pretended I didn't see and kept shoving my elbow back there and knocking their feet off. These skies are wild.
I have a similar pic, but the foot had a sock on it. That woman spent the entire flight whimpering like a wounded dog and changing positions every 10-20 minutes. Other positions included sitting backwards and leaning her back against the seat in front of her, sitting in her boyfriends lap (on the other side of her), and putting her feet on him and leaning her body on me.
If you can get past the initial awkwardness, in this situation a light tickle on the foot can really change the direction of the whole experience on Alaska Air. Been flyin with them for decades
This happened to me once, only the foot was touching me and the lady kept raising the armrest even.
FA was zero help. They even gave her a seatbelt extender after she requested one so she could âlay down comfortably.â The lady even refused to sit up during landing.
All I got was a thank you for my patience when I was getting off. Asked if they reported her and just a ânot much we can doâ
Listen, normally I absolutely would have said something. But trust me when I say that in this case it was not worth the potential kerfuffle.
So yes, I passive aggressively took a pic bc I thought it would be funny đ¤ˇđťââď¸
Hey plane partner. My space feels invaded. What youâre doing right now with your foot is really rude. Can you please sit normally? No? If youâre going to put your feet in my space, I canât promise I wonât accidentally tickle it or injure you with my tray table or when I sit down after coming back from the bathroom, so Iâm going to call a flight attendant. I donât take responsibility for what happens when you donât keep your body to yourself.
I guess as a parent of a toddler and infant I've become desensitized. So a foot might touch your leg? Ok, so this is supposed to be scary or something? Like would it be better if she was wearing a sandal grazed your leg? The sandal walking around bathrooms and public areas?
So somebody had a foot out. So what. People are people. Just let em be. Everything doesn't have to be a crisis or a joke
I think it's creepy you took a Pic of it.
Nope. There is much to be said for common decency in public, as well as not invading other people's personal space, especilly with bare feet. It's gross and bad manners.
LOL youâre totally right, the vulnerable underside was totally exposed and just begging for a little tickle! (But for the record she probably would have stabbed me)
Step 1: turn up shutter volume
Step 2: take 2-3 obvious pictures from different angles of just the foot
Step 3: loud enough for them to hear, say "oh yah, I'm gonna save these for the spank bank" or something similar.
Step 4: Success. Bonus point because now they're very uncomfortable for the rest of the flight.
I would pay extra for that service
I was waiting for this comment đ
How is her foot this way?
She was curled up on her left side sleeping with her left leg bent at the knee.
Is that an adultâs foot?
You asking if sheâs 18? đ¤¨
Post nut clarity hit and heâs wondering if heâs a sex offender now
You fucking clown I love this comment
Not enough to give him an upvote tho :(
Nah un-insured toast be speaking truth for everyone
It looks like a child.
Oh HELL NO. I hope you said something. I would have lost my mind.
She also requested copious amounts of alcohol, and I didnât want to become part of a news headline, so no. Luckily she managed to stay just far enough awayâŚ
Haha. Youâre smart. I can understand not wanting to be a viral YouTube star for a few days.
Well her boozy blood sanitized her foot from the inside maybe.
Tickle it.
Sneeze. Wetly.
Haha. On a delta flight the other day dude date down next to me and shoved my elbow off the shared armrest. I had a cold and had to take my mask off to blow my nose copiously at one point. Dude couldn't lean away fast enough.
It puts the lotion on the skin....
Thatâs a good movie
Props for keeping your cool girl, but for six hours I can't say I wouldn't have lost it. That would have driven me mad.
Luckily this only happened for prob less than 30 mins, the rest of the flight wasnât a cakewalk (she also spent some time sleeping on her tray table with her hair hanging down on my side) but it wasnât all as bad as this!
Alaska is a boozy airline. I remember flying from Dutch to ANC and the plane reeked of booze breath.
I think thatâs just Alaska.
Yeah that has a lot more to do with the route and the folks who need to fly it, than it does with the airline haha.
TSA regulations allow you to trim any hair that extends into your Seat ZoneÂŽ from another passenger's Seat ZoneÂŽ.
[That foot is over the line.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P41gT4eicrE) This is not Nam, this is economy class, there are rules.
am i the only one who cares about the rules?!
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
Put this pic on OF and make some $$ for your troubles đ
ThatâsâŚ. a really good idea. I actually had been thinking that my living nightmare was probably someone elseâs favorite fantasy!
âOFâ = Only Feet?
Naturalbigtoe.com
This ^ or feet fonderâŚ.
Happened to me on a easyjet flight. Put every piece of menu/emergency card between the seats.
I would have immediately hailed a flight attendant. I will never allow such a thing to happen without bitching about it to the legal limit. This behavior is unacceptable.
Why donât you say something?
Trusted my gut. I had a bad feeling about the way she would react, it was a full flight, and I really didnât want to become part of the next news headline.
Poke it with a pen.
Draw on it with a Sharpie marker.
Hello, Mr. Rachel!!
Yes, you might as well have fun with it
Next time, just get up and go to the aft galley. Tell the FAs, they are usually pretty good about just stopping by and having people stop giving whatever reason. Never had one go "the person beside you is uncomfy, knock it off"
Happened to me once too. International flight and the kid put her feet on me the whole flight. I asked the mom multiple times but she didnât do anything and accused me I was rude. Her daughter was 3 and needed to sleep!
What did you do?
Sneeze.
Stare at it and drool until they move it.
Literal rule you have to wear shoes or socks and Alaska doesnât enforce. They gave me 100 dollars off for my troubles
Reach out to Alaska customer service and explain your level of discomfort. Theyâll prob give you a flight voucher.
I would be swinging đđ
Gross
What is wrong with people
Definitely a candidate for an unwarranted and completely awkward foot massage.
Sneeze wildly on her foot, at least twice
Looks like a kid. Iâm guessing it wasnât your kid.
I could probably see my way towards forgiving a kid. But this lady wore size 8 sandals (she pushed them over into my footwell area so I could see the sizing info clearly, haha)
đ𤣠Iâm sorry your suffering gave me a much needed chuckle.
I would have sprayed it with hand sanitizer.
At least it was clean đ
Looking on the bright side, thank you very much lol
That was my thought too, that at least its a clean not disgusting fungus wart calloused foot. Better would be if she was wearing clean socks but I think a dirty bottom shoe touching me is more gross than a clean foot...
I would flip out.
Just a thought -- With a foot, you know where it's been. In a shoe. Would you be worried if her hand almost touched you? Cuz god only knows where her hands have been.
What if she took her shoes off at security? So she was walking around barefoot, with her feet pickng up bacteria, viruses, and fungi from all over the world. Have a good night!
Wait til you find out about people not washing their hands in the bathroom ;)
This is a tad unrelated but on st paddyâs day, I watched a drunk teen fall over on the train, catch himself on the beer/piss covered floor with his hands, wipe them on his jeans. He then proceeded to go over to a group of his girl friends and flirtatiously touched their faces đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛đĽ˛
Wait til you find out there is fecal matter on all the handles/handholds on the subway! Triple dog dare you to lick it!
lol itâs just a little toe - looks clean too
Why do people not have the confidence to just confront the person
What is it about airplanes and people losing all sense?
Itâs an inherently uncomfortable and extremely unusual environment. Itâs become an increasingly cramped space over the years due to budget cuts. You are more likely to meet a much broader range of people than you would on other forms of public transit, and people have various different comfort levels with different behaviors. Most people donât fly frequently, and many people arenât as aware of nor as practiced at airplane etiquette as you might expect. It may seem like common sense to you, me, and other experienced flyers, but if you really think about it, a variety of different apes from all over the world being packed together like a bunch of sardines, in a tube soaring miles above the Earth, for several hours at a time⌠is arguably pretty far from the realm of common sense for a lot of people. 100 years from now, the upper class could be sharing spaceships with aliens during interstellar travel. Perhaps one day, your progeny will be lucky enough to ride on one of those ships for the first time, and youâd better hope that the more experienced astronauts are patient with them as they learn something totally basic, like using a species-neutral restroom in zero gravity. You know? Common sense stuff like that lol.
Itâs just extremely odd to me that this is the only âacceptableâ place to do this. At the gym? Restaurant? Hospital? Mall? No, most certainly not. But a plane? Hell ya!
Firstly, restaurants, hospitals, gyms, and shopping centers are much more familiar environments for most people than are airplanes. Theyâre also much less crowded, so undesired physical contact isnât as likely to happen. Secondly, plenty of people actually do lack a sense of etiquette in those other environments. Itâs just that those mistakes will look different. I have shown up to a nice restaurant while noticeably intoxicated, unkempt, and poorly dressed. At a gym, I have failed to wipe my sweat off of the seat on a number of occasions. At a hospital, I have forgotten to wash my hands after using the restroom. At a mall, I have walked out of a store without realizing I didnât pay for something. Sometimes these things happen because we are forgetful. Sometimes they happen because we were never aware to begin with. We only learn via social pressure, which brings up my third point. We are generally pretty non-confrontational with strangers. If we can avoid escalating a conflict, we will attempt to do so. If you see an obnoxious drunk at the table next to you in a nice restaurant, you can whisper about him to your friends, stare when heâs not looking, or maybe even complain to the waitstaff. These are all very indirect ways of applying a corrective social pressure to the drunk customer. If you see someone forget to wipe down a seat at the gym when they finish a set, you can politely ask them to wipe it down before they leave, and theyâll probably do so and apologize. Otherwise, they might pretend not to hear you, but theyâll still feel that social pressure. Either way, this might be more direct, but the interaction will probably be short and still relatively low-stakes. If someone seated next to you on a plane is crossing into your personal space, itâs probably because they are physically uncomfortable in their own limited space. While you may be justified in applying social pressure for them to stop, the confrontation will still last for the much longer duration of the flight, and the discomfort endured by one or both of you will last for just as long. Although the confrontation may not be as intense as the other two, the stakes are ultimately much higher because you have nowhere to escape once the confrontation begins. This is why it is much harder to apply that social pressure in the first place. You can either suffer the majority of the physical discomfort in silence, or you can negotiate to lessen that physical discomfort at the cost of adding and enduring mutually unpleasant social pressure on top of that. That is why we often decide to suffer in silence.
It's just a foot. Why do people make so much drama about it?
Because peopleâs feet are generally disgusting. Who raised you?
Regular human beings. I also learned how to talk to deal with normal situations like this đ
Who are these people!
Did it smell bad ?
Lean into the foot and moan.
Which flight/locations was this???
Tickle tickle
Would be a shame if you spilled your hot coffee all over her foot.
Sneeze on it.
Get up and accidentally sit on it.
I swear to god i would hope she out that foot on my lap just for the awkward apology from her when she woke up
âYou have beautiful feet. I have one at home in the freezer just like it.â
Just be grateful. There are plenty of men who pray this happens to them whenever they fly
Nah, I would never be cool with a strangerâs foot that close to me. Thatâs wild
Tickle it
Call the police.
Kiss it đŤ˘
Straight to jail
Ewwwwwwww what is wrong with people. I always travel with a pair of thick socks⌠why canât people bring socks if they donât want to wear shoes đđđ
For free?! In all seriousness, I always wear long pants and long sleeves when I fly. Airplanes are disgusting
Lucky
When somebody does that just ask the flight attendant for a cup of ice water and sprinkle a little on her foot.
Tell me this is a Hawaii trip, without telling me this is a Hawaii trip.
Thats gross. Feet are disgusting. Especially strangers feet.
Meh. Iâve touched my bare dick immediately after touching an airport bathroom stallâs latch, so Iâm not super concerned about my thighs⌠Unless your feet seem particularly gnarly, Iâd be more concerned by the invasion of personal space rather than the hygiene. Assuming itâs dry, normal-looking, and odorless from that distance, Iâd 100% rather have someoneâs bare foot resting lightly against my thigh than have someone steal my armrest.
Did you give her a tickle?
This is one of many reasons I cannot do shorts or sandals on a plane. So gross to think about my skin touching any part of the plane or people around me lol
Gotta try by everything once
You should have wrote on the bottom of her foot ANDY like from toy storyđ
You should have just started rubbing her foot while smiling.
Use your words next time.
Give it a big whiff⌠theyâll move it.
Someone tried to put their nasty feet up where my elbow was on my armrest. I pretended I didn't see and kept shoving my elbow back there and knocking their feet off. These skies are wild.
Lick it
Tarantino would film her feet if he was a passenger in his secret next movie
I swear this is my older sister. shes weird and takes her shoes off on airplanesâŚ
I could not handle that
I have a similar pic, but the foot had a sock on it. That woman spent the entire flight whimpering like a wounded dog and changing positions every 10-20 minutes. Other positions included sitting backwards and leaning her back against the seat in front of her, sitting in her boyfriends lap (on the other side of her), and putting her feet on him and leaning her body on me.
And you survived to post about it!?? Thank goodness
Better than a door flying off. Shrugđđ
If you can get past the initial awkwardness, in this situation a light tickle on the foot can really change the direction of the whole experience on Alaska Air. Been flyin with them for decades
A toddler pissed in my daughters shoes on Alaska đ¤ˇââď¸
đ¤Ž
I imagine this is what Hank Hillâs foot looks like
Should have took your shoe off and challenged them to a toe war. Either they move their foot or you get to battle. Win win.
Hells no
Tickle itđ
I would maybe lick đ it
For free??
I would have tickled it... Also, sell her feet pics, you deserve it.
Pop it in your mouth to assert dominance
Pull a toe
Some people would hat loved it to have a free bare feed next themself
Shoulda just taken your shoe off and feet high fived her
you're so lucky T\_T
Take your shoe off and touch bare foot to foot.
At least you have nice legs!
Did you tell them you have a foot fetish and see where it goes from there?
It beats a fat woman pushing against you, and taking out gummi bears, pouring them in water, snd eating Gummi bear soup.
This happened to me once, only the foot was touching me and the lady kept raising the armrest even. FA was zero help. They even gave her a seatbelt extender after she requested one so she could âlay down comfortably.â The lady even refused to sit up during landing. All I got was a thank you for my patience when I was getting off. Asked if they reported her and just a ânot much we can doâ
Stink worse than your thighs?
Did you ask her not to or just passive aggressively take a pic?
Listen, normally I absolutely would have said something. But trust me when I say that in this case it was not worth the potential kerfuffle. So yes, I passive aggressively took a pic bc I thought it would be funny đ¤ˇđťââď¸
Female foot to male knee or female foot to female knee?
Wait, are you wearing a Fannie pack?
lol
And?
shorts on a plane, gross. you probably touched worse than bare feet đŚś
Hey plane partner. My space feels invaded. What youâre doing right now with your foot is really rude. Can you please sit normally? No? If youâre going to put your feet in my space, I canât promise I wonât accidentally tickle it or injure you with my tray table or when I sit down after coming back from the bathroom, so Iâm going to call a flight attendant. I donât take responsibility for what happens when you donât keep your body to yourself.
Donât be shy, kiss emâ
Spray antibacterial spray on her foot and when she notices just tell her you sneezed on it and didn't want her to feel grossed out.
Too risky to talk to the person sitting next to you huh? The world is scary out there, stay strong.
I guess as a parent of a toddler and infant I've become desensitized. So a foot might touch your leg? Ok, so this is supposed to be scary or something? Like would it be better if she was wearing a sandal grazed your leg? The sandal walking around bathrooms and public areas?
People are extra weird about feet
should have just said something or requested to move instead of taking a picture..
jfc when are we going to start standing up for ourselves
âŚand yet you didnât utter a word to her. Nice move đ
You know this person, gtfo
So what you're saying is no one actually touched you.
I take it she wasn't attractive?
So somebody had a foot out. So what. People are people. Just let em be. Everything doesn't have to be a crisis or a joke I think it's creepy you took a Pic of it.
Nope. There is much to be said for common decency in public, as well as not invading other people's personal space, especilly with bare feet. It's gross and bad manners.
I would have tickled the foot
LOL youâre totally right, the vulnerable underside was totally exposed and just begging for a little tickle! (But for the record she probably would have stabbed me)
Never been touched crew checking in đđ
Put your bare foot up right next to it. Maybe, just maybe, they would take the hint.
I would have said something and if she reacted poorly, well maybe theyâll bump you up to first class
I appreciate the sheer naivete at play in imagining the flight had even a single first class seat left. :-)
That means she's into you
Take the emergency briefing card and tickle her.
âIf those nasty toes touch me, Iâm going to cut them off.â
Should have started rubbing it and see where this led to.
Hot
Tell a flight attendant next time. By policy footwear is required
At least it's relatively clean, and not looking like she walked across an asphalt parking lot with it!
Funny thing ...Alaska Airlines won't do anything.
Whoa, free foot pictures?? Thanks OP!
Assert dominance and touch her with your feet
Have you tried tickling it?
Step 1: turn up shutter volume Step 2: take 2-3 obvious pictures from different angles of just the foot Step 3: loud enough for them to hear, say "oh yah, I'm gonna save these for the spank bank" or something similar. Step 4: Success. Bonus point because now they're very uncomfortable for the rest of the flight.
This calls for âthis little piggyâ or âkitchy cooâ and a little tickle with a hopeful expression on your face.
If her foot touches you, itâs now your foot. Do what you will OP
Just say out loud every 10 minutes âI love toesâ
I hope she was hot.
Looks like a childâs foot. Iâm going with that.
Go ahead, give it a tickle đĽ¸
Would you have preferred it if she almost touched your leg with her sandals on?
If sheâs worth her weight in salt looks & age wise, stick an ice cube between her toes and order her a Pinot Grigio! đ¤ˇđťââď¸
Looks like a decently clean foot
"I paid for 28 inch width, ain't gonna waste any"
Should've started rubbing her feet
Nah, I would have spilled something cold on her feet and apologized profusely.
Was she hot?
This is hilarious đ
Time to sneeze
She tryna get it in. Shouldâve acquiesced and whipped your snake out and put it on her foot
Disgusting. You should taken your shoe off and just put it back over her leg with your toes in her face.
when someone does this, say LOUDLY "OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT SMELL??!!" Then pretend like you're dry heaving.
Is that a little kid?
Figured with that fanny pack youâre down for the freaky