Live from the Line: Would you like fries with that?

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I’m back at work, hence this short update live from the line. I worked the red-eye to Washington DC last night and it had such a CRAZY group of people on board.

One, specifically, cracked me up so much I had to share.

We were light, 100 people, so we were sitting in the last row of seats snacking and this guy came to the back and started touching things on the galley counter. I jumped out of the seat and asked if there was anything I could get for him. He said “do you have chips” as he was touching my trailmix.

I said, yeah we have pringles you can buy. He said “no no, I want french fries”

My eyebrows raised as high as the empire state building as I looked over quickly to my other FAs sitting there laughing uncontrollably, and said “I’m sorry we don’t have french fries” he said “really? no fries” I said, thats right.. no fries.

He then said “okay how about pineapple juice” — then I lost it. I said to him “how did we just go from french fries to pineapple juice?, unfortunately, we don’t have pineapple we have apple, OJ, cranapple and tomato” and he said “pineapple.”

Finally, I pointed at the OJ and said: “How about OJ?” he agreed.

Later, one of my other FAs was doing a trash pickup.. and as she got to his row he stopped her. He opened up her trash bag, looked inside, touched some items and said “no thanks, I’m okay” — as if she was passing out free food/beverages from her trash bag!! I was on the floor laughing! She was so grateful I happened to be behind her and witnessed this because she said no one would have believed her if she re-told that story.

Weird people come out in the night!