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I'm Never Getting On A Plane Again After Reading These 22 Disgusting Things People Have Actually Witnessed Others Do Mid-Flight
Flying is stressful enough all on its own, but if you're stuck next to someone who apparently doesn't know how to behave in public, it can turn into a full-fledged nightmare. Recently, we asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share the grossest thing they've seen someone do on a plane, and I sincerely hope you're not eating anything right now. Here's what they had to say:
1."Resting their nasty, sweaty bare feet on the armrests of the person in front of them (me)."
—monicat436c2560a
2."I opened the bathroom door, and from a quick glance, I saw a lady looking at her butt mole in the mirror. Then we both screamed, and I shut the door. The flight attendant told me it wasn't my fault; the lady should have locked the door."
—mushroom_gurl_
3."The kid sitting next to me was picking both boogers and earwax, then showing me how big they were before eating them. Their mom giggled about it."
—sassycrocodile178
4."Once someone had the shits on the plane, and when I finally got to use the bathroom, hell, it was just torture, ultimately the grossest thing ever! Considering plane bathrooms are already disgusting."
—pinkjellyfish654
5."A woman was licking the hair of a man who was sitting by her!"
—om6962
6."I saw a man in the seat diagonally in front of me pull lice out of his hair, look at them, and then squish them the entire flight. I felt like bugs were all over me by the time the flight ended."
—glitterycactus476
7."There was something that looked like poop in the barf bag. I thought they changed those bags, but not that time."
—wildchild4ever
8."He took off his socks and started rubbing his feet, loudly talking to his companion (who didn't seem bothered by this public behavior) about how much lint they were covered in, as all his foot sock lint floated down on the floor under him. Saying he'd need to keep the socks off for a bit since his feet were still so wet. I was luckily far enough away not to smell anything, but close enough to watch this all unfold."
"Comically watching the woman across the aisle with her dramatically twisted face, trying to get her husband to notice foot man as well. Horrified faces on other people who noticed, yet no one said anything. Gross."
—dogdadof2
9."My son was on a flight to China from L.A. The man sitting next to him proceeded to remove his socks and shoes. He then began to peel dead skin off his toes, strip by strip. Each piece of skin he flicked away into the aisle, sideways at people sitting across from him, or over the heads of people sitting in front of him. Apparently, the smell was horrendous."
—babycapricorn129
10."A gentleman who was on the row parallel to mine, opposite side, was clearly sick, sneezing, coughing, and frequently using the restroom. Well, mid-flight, only about an hour and a half in, he hawked up a nasty piece of phlegm, green mucus. Straight from a scientist's lab. He spit it in his clear water bottle that he brought, left it on his tray, on display for everyone to see. YUCK. I can only imagine the feeling of being the passenger beside him."
—honeyymx2
11."Not someone, but myself, unfortunately. The last flight I was on was my first time leaving town without my kids. The anxiety I got from leaving them and being a day's worth of traveling away made me feel physically sick. I knew we'd miss them and I knew it would be hard, but I'd generally been strong about it and despite that aspect, very excited. Once we got as far as boarding the plane, I was nauseous from anxiety."
"We got seated and by the time we were buckled, instructed to stay seated and about to take off, I was fighting back vomiting in a big way. The plane took off, and it got worse and worse the more we elevated.
Before we got fully in the air and able to use the restroom, it happened. I puked VIOLENTLY, but I stopped it with my mouth. My face looked and felt like a chipmunk storing nuts, except it was a day's worth of meals and bile. I had to SWALLOW it, because remember, we couldn't get up yet. This happened three more times, where each time I swallowed it, because it was coming right back up.
The fourth time, my mouth couldn't stop it. It blew out with a FORCE. This happened yet another three times, all actually leaving my body. I puked all over my husband and my lap, and still had to wait a few minutes before getting up to go to the restroom. I felt so bad for my husband and the people sitting around us, because the smell was atrocious. I had to ask for a bag to put my jacket in, a barf bag (just in case anything else was left), and some paper towels for my husband. Still shocked that happened."
—asherd402
12."Saw a woman who was eating a salty pretzel. It dropped salt all over the tray table, and then she licked the salt from the tray table."
—bedonkawho
13."Changing their baby's crappy diaper on the seat and then placing the crappy diaper under the seat in front of them. The whole plane smelled like shit the entire flight."
—shopoholic66
14."An older guy in the row in front of me vomited in his sleep. I think he'd been drinking. The staff cleaned everything up with impressive timing, but that plane never smelled fresh again for the rest of that flight."
—batmanofbuzzfeed
15."This woman on the plane sitting next to me was on the phone, on speaker FULL VOLUME while clipping her toenails on the tray. It was absolutely horrifying and disgusting."
—kaliiiiiuchiisssssfannnn
16."They ate some salad with funky ass, gross-smelling cheese. And being up in the air, there was no escape from the stench! It was horrible! I was trapped!"
—savannahg4e56476eb
17."I saw a guy picking crusty skin off his cruddy-looking feet with his fingers, and then he ate a Subway sandwich right afterwards without washing his hands."
—grilledcheese93
18."The guy in front of me had open seats next to him and fell asleep on multiple packets of mayonnaise. They broke open. Kind of felt sorry for the guy until I realized he was drunk."
—musecubeart
19."A mother picked apart a sandwich, ate a few random pieces, and put the rest inside of a magazine(??) and SHOVED the magazine back into the pocket of the chair in front of her!!!! She LEFT the magazine in the pocket when leaving the plane, so I took it and threw it away at the gate. I was so mad."
—bellagavelin
20."A woman next to me ate a tuna sandwich. With mustard. I was gagging. She continued anyway. It was 8:30 a.m."
—dazzlingcrocodile831
21."I saw someone go into the bathroom barefoot."
—pepperopigeon
22."I had to catch a last-minute flight and was sitting between two of the smelliest human beings. One would have nonstop raunchy farts (actually tilted his butt in my direction), and the other had rank body odor (he was so shiny from oil). When the flight attendant walked past, she got a whiff, grabbed the seat, jerked back, and asked me to come to the back of the plane. There were no other seats to be had, but she allowed me to stay in the kitchen until it was time to land. God bless that woman."
—heroictree78
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