Stupid things passengers say to fly free…

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I’m in the middle of a 4 day trip right now, in Los Angeles on a layover, but yesterday while deplaning in New York a passenger asked me “is there someone up there [pointing to the jetbridge] I can talk to?”

I said yes, but asked if everything was okay and he said yes. So I continued my “bye now, buh bye now” speech.

As we’re walking off the plane 2 of the gate agents were standing in the jetbridge and I asked them if everything was alright with that guy. What they told me, I’ll never forget.

He told the agents that he believed there was roaches on the airplane. Apparently, they were all over the place and he wanted to be properly compensated for it since he had to live with it for four hours and forty minutes. The agents asked him if he notified the cabin crew.. his response: “i didn’t want to bother them, they were so busy.”

So, riddle me this, if you saw an army of cockroaches would YOU tell your cabin crew? Would the 149 other people on the airplane notice and tell the crew? If you don’t tell someone how are they supposed to remedy a fix?

The first guy who didn’t want to ‘bother the crew’ with something stupid, would have had a perfect situation TO BOTHER the crew with! Don’t ring your call button because we passed you with the trash cart 15 minutes ago and you were still eating, NOW you want it throw it away.. but RING IT if there’s an army of roaches, please.

What some people do for a free flight is amazing……….