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It seemed everyone wanted to be safe, clean, and practice good hygiene habit when the COVID-19 pandemic started.
My, how that has ended with a fury.
On my recent trip to Los Angeles, I had some time to kill in Detroit between flights and visited the main A Concourse Delta Sky Club. While in the lavatory, the man in the urinal next to me departed without washing his hands and used the handle to open the door (they have foot pulls on the doors, FYI. Some clubs, like MSY, even have motion-activated door openers).
Eeeew!
But on the way home, (that was a MUCH better flight experience than the outbound journey), I visited the Minneapolis C Concourse Sky Club and find what you see above that is:
Double eeeew!
Who does this?
Who, in the first place, brings a drink into the lavatory? And then, secondly, who leaves the drink in the lavatory for the staff to clean up?
I mean, seriously. It seems we have gone from a level of let’s be ultra clean and ultra respectful of sanitation to let’s all put our feet up on the furniture. And since you asked:
Yes, this was also the view from my regional ride. I guess I should be happy the dude kept his shoes on, maybe?
I mean we are now seeing a constant stream of not just disgusting behaviors, but rude ones as well like this inconsiderate individual who decided everyone should enjoy the experience of many coats of nail polish applied.
Sigh.
Dogs in seats. Baby’s diapers changed on seat tray tables. Toenail clippings sent flying all over the cabin. Bare feet everywhere on jets. Hair flipped over a seat. I guess travel really is fully back to what it once was — and more? – René
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Totally agree on the cup and intent of the post, but don’t know why the guy’s shoes on the wall matter? He’s putting his shoes on the carpet a foot below, where we all put our bags, but that wall doesn’t get touched or licked. I don’t get it?
@Bob – I think other readers will share with you why that is also gross.
Walls are not meant for feet or shoes. Do you sit at your dining room table with your shoes on the wall?
His shoes very easily could scratch and damage the wall.
The cup in the bathroom – who does this? The same drunk slobs who do it at bars. And the same drunk slob that was on my flight from BUF->MCO last week… he got sh!tfaced in the lounge, used his A boarding on Southwest to then proceed to save 5 seats for his traveling companions who were at the END of C. (WHY does Southwest allow this nonsense!?)
Oh, during the flight? Loud. Obnoxious. Drinking more. The FA’s thought it was funny, most other pax found him annoying. Then for about 30m before landing, he’s shouting from his middle seat to his companion in the window seat ACROSS the aisle. Oh, and took his top dentures out twice to pull gum out of them and clean them with napkin. While proceeding to touch all the overhead lights, etc. I am sadly no longer shocked by the amount of tasteless, rude and disgusting behavior that comes out of people.
Farm animal. Please people, planes are not your living room or a bar, have a little decorum!
Oh, and his wife who was in front of me… also kept flipping her hair back. Seatback up and down multiple times. And then the last 30m of the flight shaking/tapping her legs to the point that her whole seat was shaking including the floor. Classy couple.
On my recent 13 hour flight from ICN to ATL in Delta One, I got up to use the bathroom 4 times. In 3 out of those 4 times, the person using the bathroom before me did not flush. Is this a new thing, the new normal? I jokingly told the FA after the third occurrence that Delta should put signs in the bathroom, “Please flush after using.”
It’s really sad how lacking common sense and courtesy are anymore. I run several airbnbs and I have never liked going to airbnbs or hotels where there are signs all over everything. However, I seem to find myself having to put signs up for some of the most basic things anymore or people don’t do it. (even with the signs some still don’t…)
Things like not leaving the front door wide open, especially at night when bugs are attracted to the light inside. Not draping wet towels over the original/antique wood banister. Turning off lights/heating/AC when people leave. Shutting windows when heat/AC are on. Closing windows when it’s raining (esp when rain is coming in) I’m surprised I don’t need to leave signs for things like turning off the faucet when you’re done showering or washing your hands. Closing the refrigerator door before you go back into the living room – I’m sure the day is coming where I will lol
PREACH
This is the way America is today, people just think about themselves. Most now think they are owed something. Welcome to the new America.
I fly every weekend. I hate when passengers decide to bring the stinkiest of foods to eat on the plane. I’m talking a 3 hour flight. Why don’t they just eat it in the terminal.
I agree. Some lounges, such as Qatar Airways lounges in Doha, have two or three attendants staffing the restroom. They monitor everyone and immediately clean everything. Sadly, in the U.S., with its college-educated flyers, restroom behavior is akin to an underage drinking session. I had thought that all these lounges were private, exclusive, and classy, with members subject to being banned. I now am learning that they simply are benefit vehicles for credit card banks with no regard for decorum.
Onboard misbehavior, including feet on the wall and other rude activities, are exhibited by all ages, genders, races, etc., and are akin to what we did in grade-school clasmates’s basement rec room out of sight of the parents upstairs. First class is no solution. Every domestic first class flight I’ve been on has at least one person in row 1 with feet on the wall. Disgusting. Supposely classy DL is no different that SW etc.
I am dreading my upcoming holiday flights that I’ve booked.
As someone who was raised female, I still have it burnt into me never to leave a drink alone. So I might carry one in with me, but leaving it behind for someone else to clean up after isn’t right.
Good point.
I was in the Minneapolis SkyClub about a year ago and saw a guy using the urinal, and his friend followed him in to continue a conversation. The friend had a bag of potato chips and kept eating them while carrying on the conversation!
I guess this is not a sanitation issue for anyone except the guy eating the chips, but I was still grossed out.
Sorry, Dave, I was hungry! Wait, what? 😉