From pimple poppers to book plot spoilers – the most annoying plane passengers revealed
Most people have run into an irritating fellow traveller at some point in their lives - these, however, are the worst of the worst
FOR all the joys of jetting off to a new destination, there is always the chance your plane journey can introduce you to an unwanted pest - the obnoxious traveller.
No one wants to be at the receiving end of an inconsiderate passenger's outrageous exploits but for the following group of travellers, they found themselves in that exact position.
Fortunately for us, , so that we can enjoy all the disgustingly hilarious details of the most annoying plane passengers you will ever come across.
Rancid feet
Jon Green managed to get the last seat on a British Airways flight after being stuck at Boston Logan airport during a snow storm. After this, he must have wished he hadn't.
"The guy in the aisle seat popped off his shoes, propped up his feet on the bulkhead, and was asleep in moments," Green told the forum.
"And then I noticed it. The smell.
"Those feet… if they’d been washed in the last fortnight, I’m a monkey’s uncle. The stench was hideous.
"It was, frankly, beyond my ability to convey in prose… but if you can imagine a tub filled with a half-and-half mixture of cabbage and dead rats, all allowed to rot for a month in a hot room…well, that’s probably where he marinated his socks."
Pus-filled pimple poppers
Flying from Mexico City, traveller Sara Izquierdo found herself surrounded by something no living being ever wants to be surrounded by: pus.
"I sat next to a couple... the man asked his wife to check out the scratched up cystic pimples on his head and his fat neck.
"She went at them with her fake nails and started popping these pussy yellow large bumps. And the white/yellow gook just popped out.
"But what really got me, was the lady didn’t use the napkin they gave her with her drink to wipe the stuff up.
"She wiped it on the seat in front of her. Leaving little globs of it there and slowly approaching my side as she popped more."
Seriously? Horrendous.
BUS-TED! Coach passenger shames rude backpacker who refused to remove her smelly feet from next to his HEAD
'Mr. Iraq'
Packed onto a full flight from Stockholm to Oulu, Ed Daniel was unfortunate enough to be sat next to a man he described as "Mr. Iraq".
No, he wasn't being racist, but rather using a formal type of onomatopoeia to describe the passenger's noisy pants music.
"The guy in the next seat loosened his seat-belt, leaned over toward the aisle, and EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeRAK!" Daniel said.
"The longest, squeakiest, loudest fart you can imagine. It was rancid."
The stench was so bad, it appeared to be physically torturing an innocent young child.
"After about quarter of an hour, calm had returned to the cabin when EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeRAK! Oh Jesus," he continued.
"And a minute later, the baby three rows back started screaming. No, that’s not a coincidence.
"The baby was still griping when EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeRAK!
"It screamed so loudly that it stunned itself into silence for a moment, then tried to turn itself inside out for the remainder of the flight. As did this guy’s ass."
'Old person smell'
We have all experienced a rather unaware older citizen at some point in our lives , but unfortunately for Jessica Bontrager, she was seated next to one of the worst.
"An older man, perhaps in his mid-seventies... his seat was right next to me," she wrote.
"He had that 'old person' smell, but stronger than I've ever experienced before,
"I decided that sleeping would be the best way to make the flight go by faster. I drift off… and am abruptly awaken by an elbow in my ribs.
"I move closer to the window, start falling asleep and… JAB.
"He appears to be fast asleep, and his arm slipping off the armrest and hitting me.
"At this point, I'm taking up maybe 1/3 of my seat. JAB goes his elbow into my lower back.
"But this time he doesn't move it. No such luck - his elbow is now resting on my ass."
Book plot spoilers
Spoiler Alert: If you are currently reading the book where X character dies, stop reading now...
"I was reading a book," Mohammed Al Modhayan said of his flight.
"The person next to me says hi, then continues 'I didn't read that book, but I saw the TV show. I stopped watching that show when character X died.'
"He realised that he pretty much spoiled the story for me. I smiled at him and calmly told him I had not reached that part yet.
"He turns to his other side, smiles and says to the other passenger 'I think I’ve just spoiled that book for him'."
You think!?
Perfume perpetrators
National Security attorney Jay Gairson was stuck on a Dubai to Seattle flight in business class with some of the most inconsiderate passengers imaginable.
"The couple in front of me, every 30 minutes would get up, pull out a bottle of perfume, spray themselves and then spray the cabin," Gairson said.
"Five minutes later, everyone else in the business class cabin would start choking.
"Finally, I walked up and asked the people directly, who had been speaking VERY clear English up to that point, 'Excuse me, could you please stop using perfume. My seatmate has asthma and it keeps activating it'.”
After pretending they couldn't speak English, the perfume sprayers exploded.
"Finally they yelled at all of us, 'All of you stink! We have to do this to keep from getting sick! You people are so rude!'
"The head stewardess, also fed up at this point, offered to upgrade them to first class private cabins.
"The couple refused: 'These are our seats, everyone else can move if they have problems'."
