Worse to be next to on a plane. Bad breath guy or

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  • aj_31
    aj_31 Posts: 994 Member
    Could they possibly make those damn seats any smaller or closer together?

    I cant stand the guy/girl/ thing, sitting next to me to be elbowing me in the ribs...keep your arms in your lap damn it.

    Try 6'4" and not being able to sit in bulkhead or first class....then you get the inconsiderate jerkoffs that recline their seat.

    My husband has the same issue. It totally sucks for tall people.
  • crw72209
    crw72209 Posts: 169 Member
    I think BO, unless they are a mouth breather....

    Airplane manners:
    Aisle guy - you get the extra room of the aisle
    Window guy - you get the window and wall to lean against

    So IMO....middle seat should get BOTH arm rest.

    Also......it makes me mad when I'm stuck in the middle and the two guys think they are entitled to have my legs space! I want to say "your package can't be THAT big, close your damn legs"
  • cheerforsteelers
    cheerforsteelers Posts: 686 Member
    Never had to sit next to anyone with bad breath or body odor. I've been lucky with people who sit next to the window (I like aisle seats) and sleep pretty much the whole way. I don't mind chatting a little bit, but I definitely don't want to sit next to children unless they're my own...which I don't have any of my own right now. I recently had to fly with my friend and she spilled into my seat. I have never experienced this as I never spilled into anyone's seat and never had anyone do it to me. We flew southwest and we could sit anywhere. I encouraged her to sit wherever she wanted because the plane got full quick and we had to find two seats together. She insisted on sitting right beside me and right in the middle seat. I was really uncomfortable...couldn't move my arms however I wanted to and was pushed up against the side of my seat where the armrest was digging into my leg. I love my friend, but now I understand.
  • SmartAlec03211988
    SmartAlec03211988 Posts: 1,896 Member
    I haven't had the displeasure of sitting next to someone awful yet.

    On my 8 1/2 hour flight from Geneva to New York I actually had a great chat with a British lady for the bulk of the flight.
  • cheerforsteelers
    cheerforsteelers Posts: 686 Member
    Could they possibly make those damn seats any smaller or closer together?

    I cant stand the guy/girl/ thing, sitting next to me to be elbowing me in the ribs...keep your arms in your lap damn it.

    Try 6'4" and not being able to sit in bulkhead or first class....then you get the inconsiderate jerkoffs that recline their seat.

    I sat next to a guy about that size once. OMG! I felt so bad for him, all crammed into that seat. And he was a talker, too. lol I was reading a book, but I think I got through about two sentences the whole flight. But he offered to buy food for my daughter and me on the flight, so I couldn't be too upset with him.

    This is what I know: His name is Tony. He lives in San Diego and owns his own plumbing business that is very highly rated on Yelp. With that information, I did some Googling and I found his business website when I got home.

    I live in San Diego and know who you're talking about LOL.
  • rjsehm5
    rjsehm5 Posts: 39 Member
    BO would be worse for me but what I just can't stand is sitting next to someone who is super sick...coughing, sneezing and blowing their nose every five minutes.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    Could they possibly make those damn seats any smaller or closer together?

    I cant stand the guy/girl/ thing, sitting next to me to be elbowing me in the ribs...keep your arms in your lap damn it.

    Try 6'4" and not being able to sit in bulkhead or first class....then you get the inconsiderate jerkoffs that recline their seat.

    I sat next to a guy about that size once. OMG! I felt so bad for him, all crammed into that seat. And he was a talker, too. lol I was reading a book, but I think I got through about two sentences the whole flight. But he offered to buy food for my daughter and me on the flight, so I couldn't be too upset with him.

    This is what I know: His name is Tony. He lives in San Diego and owns his own plumbing business that is very highly rated on Yelp. With that information, I did some Googling and I found his business website when I got home.

    I live in San Diego and know who you're talking about LOL.

    Too funny. He was very, very friendly.
  • yo_andi
    yo_andi Posts: 2,178 Member
    I once shared a middle row with a woman and her three kids under the age of 4, for an 11 hour flight to Dubai. By the end of the flight I was babysitting the two oldest kids, because my heart broke for this poor frazzled mom, whose husband was sitting across the aisle from her on the other side, blissfully unaware of the pandemonium with his enormous headphones on. I wanted to kill him. And the kids. But mostly him.
  • SovanJedi
    SovanJedi Posts: 27 Member
    I'll take either of those, just PLEASE don't sit me next to a screaming toddler!
  • k8lyn_235
    k8lyn_235 Posts: 507 Member
    bad bo guy.. or guy who keeps falling asleep and landing on your shoulder
  • SeaChele77
    SeaChele77 Posts: 1,103 Member
    Bad BO anyone. Girl, guy, grandma, kid.....
    I can turn my head from bad breath....don't breath on your neighbor!
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    The pilot - who has just had a major heart attack....
  • Alliwan
    Alliwan Posts: 1,245 Member
    Could they possibly make those damn seats any smaller or closer together?

    I cant stand the guy/girl/ thing, sitting next to me to be elbowing me in the ribs...keep your arms in your lap damn it.

    Try 6'4" and not being able to sit in bulkhead or first class....then you get the inconsiderate jerkoffs that recline their seat.

    My husband has the same issue. It totally sucks for tall people.

    ^this. Poor hubby is 6'4" and the jerkoff in front of him ALWAYS wants to put his seat back, always. So hubby cant have the tray down when we eat/snack/drink and his knees have to be open into the seats/aisle next to him because with the seat back, his legs wont fit behind just his seat.
  • moosegt35
    moosegt35 Posts: 1,296 Member
    Could they possibly make those damn seats any smaller or closer together?

    I cant stand the guy/girl/ thing, sitting next to me to be elbowing me in the ribs...keep your arms in your lap damn it.

    Try 6'4" and not being able to sit in bulkhead or first class....then you get the inconsiderate jerkoffs that recline their seat.

    6'4" would be a cake walk. Try 6'11", if I don't get the emergency seat it is pretty miserable.
  • amelia_atlantic
    amelia_atlantic Posts: 926 Member
    They're all bad!

    On a recent flight back from Paris I was sitting next to elderly Lebonese woman who didn't speak English, would mumble things I couldn't understand and got up every 40 minutes to use the bathroom. That's fine, except she would completely cover herself in ROSE oil. Old lady rose oil. I couldn't smell or taste anything else for about 6 hours.
  • deadlights
    deadlights Posts: 30


    This. I wish there were special "18 and over only" flights.

    ^^^
    THIS
  • mcjmommy
    mcjmommy Posts: 148 Member
    When I was 15, I flew out to visit my dad in New Mexico and sat next to someone who told me as soon as they sat down that they had too much to drink and felt like they were going to be sick. She spent the whole flight clutching a barf bag and as soon as we touched down she started throwing up. It was awful! I'll never forget that flight ... ICK!
  • hunlun1
    hunlun1 Posts: 8 Member
    going4lean=BO means body odor. Smelly. Like needs a bath with some dial soap.
  • Marksman21
    Marksman21 Posts: 126 Member
    I'd have to vote BO guy.

    Granted, worse than those two is the person of any size who suddenly things every arm rest in your seating row is open season. Give some freakin' space, people!
  • bleacheblonde
    bleacheblonde Posts: 333
    Both would be terrible...but I think sitting next to a baby or toddler is the worst.

    I sat next to a hick trucker guy once on a flight...I mean he literally was missing his front teeth and wearing dirty jeans and a camo hat and told me all about his "old lady" and his truck driving experiences. He was nice though and not smelly, but he was watching a movie with the volume way up on his laptop, which was irritating.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    On a flight from Australia to the US - so SUPER long flight - the person behind us stuck their nasty bare feet between our seats. We had to put the armrest up to block their feet from touching us! How gross and RUDE!

    Edited to add - I'm not even one of those anti-feet people at all, but a stranger's bare foot on my arm is wrong.
  • magj0y
    magj0y Posts: 1,911 Member
    I don't want to sit next to anything that smells, not old enough to drink or spills over their seat. Inadvertently, I always get the spiller and the screamer in close proximity,
  • SVCat
    SVCat Posts: 1,483 Member
    Could they possibly make those damn seats any smaller or closer together?

    I cant stand the guy/girl/ thing, sitting next to me to be elbowing me in the ribs...keep your arms in your lap damn it.

    Try 6'4" and not being able to sit in bulkhead or first class....then you get the inconsiderate jerkoffs that recline their seat.

    6'4" would be a cake walk. Try 6'11", if I don't get the emergency seat it is pretty miserable.

    Damn...that would really really suck.
  • Deipneus
    Deipneus Posts: 1,861 Member
    My worst seatmates are men or women who:

    1) Take up my space
    2) Put armrest down and then hog it
    3) Keep window shade open under all conditions
    4) Reclines seat into my knees.. hard. I'm only 5'11" and 165 so it's not like I'm huge. Airlines shouldn't let
    these things go back anyway. There's no room.
    5) Won't shutup when I'm clearly not interested in talking to them.
    6) Make everyone wait while they take their good old time putting luggage in or taking down from the overhead compartment.

    I'm actually okay with crying babies. Babies cry, that's life.
    I've flown a lot and never sat next to someone with noticeable B.O... and yes I shower daily!
  • TonkaDanteFriend
    TonkaDanteFriend Posts: 70 Member
    Tall people are probably the worst people to sit next to unless we're in an emergency exit row. I'm 6'6" and I'm pretty much going to spill over into your leg space whether either of us like it or not, especially if the person in front reclines.
  • VenusEnvy
    VenusEnvy Posts: 92 Member
    Creepy guy who ignored my headphones and book to hit on me for 3.5 hours. I swear he was a serial killer and probably had a body in his checked luggage. At one point he said, "You have really pretty skin." Silence of the Lambs?
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    Never been on a plane, but I was once on an international train (4 hour train ride) and the guy that sat next to me annoyed me beyond belief. One of those self-involved, italian leather shoes, long black coat, elderly business men, who should be annoying people in 1st class.

    First of all he had just smoked a cigar, so he STUNK. Thanks a-hole, I have asthma. Made my clothes smell too.
    He was really big, so he took up more space of MY seat than I did. I was completely wedged in a corner, couldn't even look around me (off course with my luck, I was in the only seat without a window). He kept nudging and poking me in my ribs to move over even further. Not even possible, I was already being flattened between him and the wall.

    And then he went and read a big newspaper and his arm was -literally- just an inch away, right in front of my face.
    A couple of hours in he ate a rank sandwich, that really smelled of dead fish (on a train? Really?)
    He kept coughing the entire time as well.
    And when he had to get off the train, he couldn't even be arsed to put his table back up. He was actually struggling to get out of his seat, because his table was down, but does he bother to put it up? No!

    I was incredibly annoyed at him and basically wanted to strangle him.
    And the trouble with an international train in Europe is that you don't even know what language you're supposed to swear at him in.
  • cheerforsteelers
    cheerforsteelers Posts: 686 Member
    People need to not be able to recline. I don't recline because I know it's not comfortable for people behind me. That's just me though. My legs are longer and my knees are almost up against the seat so when someone reclines I feel like my knees are in their back.
  • rubyautumn4
    rubyautumn4 Posts: 818 Member
    Just people in general.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    My worse experience I ended up sitting mostly on the wall of the plane instead of my window seat. The person next to me took up her entire seat and about 3/4 of mine. She didn't even bother to try and move to give me a little more space. The bad part was the plane was full and there was no where for me (or her) to move to. Thankfully it was a very short flight and Northwest upgraded me to first class on the next flight. Ahhhh, free vodka & cranberry & I felt much better.

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