'Are those snakes ok back there?' 25+ Wild things passengers overheard aboard their flights

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    Font - What's the craziest thing you've overheard on a plane?
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    Font - _joeBone_ ² W I was flying solo into Orlando. The woman next to me was so excited about her new boyfriends boat and was going on and f ing on about how excited she was for this trip. I nodded and put my headphones in and about 1 minute later, she grabbed the cord on my headphone and pulled it out of my ear so she could blather on about it... I asked her if she had lost her mother fing mind. 16.4k Reply Share
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    Font - KittikatB Some guy told his partner that she didn't need more yarn and every woman in earshot promptly told him how wrong he was.
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    Font - DeousPascitCorvos Not so much what he said, but I sat next to this fully grown man that was playing plants vs zombies the whole 3 hour flight with incredible enthusiasm. Everytime a plant got eaten or he killed a difficult zombie he'd jump in his seat, pump his fist and aggressively whisper yeerrsss, YEERRSSS, gert em yessss....
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    Font - zaramarley07 I overheard a passenger passionately arguing with their seatmate about the correct way to eat a slice of pizza with chopsticks.
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    Font - lpcoolj1 I was sitting next to a dad and his daughter who was about 5. He was super cool and was chatting away while his daughter started talking to me. She was so sweet and bubbly. And gave wayyy to much information to me. She said something along the lines of " I went to my grandma and grandpas house and they're married, I wish my dad would marry my mom but they can't talk to each other but I always wish they were married like my grandma and grandpa." Her dad would have been horrified.
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    Font - + UpToNoGood140 "We aren't cleared to taxi at the moment. We should be taking off within an hour."
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    Font - mauore11 A guy coming home early to bust a cheating wife. He was on the phone with a friend/family who told him the other guy was at his house abd they didn't expect him back until the next week.
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    Human body - Damolisher2 "Yo, are those snakes OK back there?"
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    Font - 2hahahha2 The absolute mayhem that broke out when the captain announced that we were in fact not gonna get to take off because of night air traffic restrictions at our destination after we had been sitting and waiting in the aircraft for 2 hours already... That entire evening was just a great mess, first we had to wait for a flight attendant who was called from stand by, then we finally got to board the plane, but apparently the airline had a severe ground staff shortage so there was no o
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    Font - when the luggage was there we didn't have a tow, then the captain told us we wouldn't get landing clearance at our destination but that we couldn't deplane either, because, well, ground staff shortage, and the only guy who was allowed to attach the jetbridge was busy with other planes, so we sat there for another 2 hours, absolute horror for the flight attendants, cause people were raging and didn't understand that the airline employees pn the plane had nothing to do with rescheduling/ co
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    Font - general... I actually kinda enjoyed the whole thing, turned out to become a little adventure, I got to transfer to another airport in the city, spent the night there and flew out with a better airline the next morning, paid by the original airline + cancellation compensation, but man poor flight attendants
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    Font - Panzerpython When i was 16 i was taking a flight from Oslo to Stockholm, around 45 minutes. Before lift off, the guy in front of me( around 30 years old) broke up with his gf who sat next to me....... They yelled so much and loudly during that flight I had the worst head ache when we landed. Why not just wait 45 minutes?
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    Font - willk95 I once was flying back home from Washington DC on a relatively short flight. The woman sitting next to me had a whole bunch of angry, profanity filled texts and emails open that were written to her ex- husband. I didn't want to be snooping, but when you're sitting on a cramped cabin and can only look at what is in front of you, it's kind of hard to ignore.
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    Font - Dugsage Delayed for some issue. I hear banging on what I assume is a luggage door underneath. After several minutes I hear it we'll fix it in "f Pittsburgh"
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    Font - some-stranger Last time I went on a plane the people infront of me where talking loud enough for me to hear and I was bored so I listened in on their conversation Apparently they had smuggled a rare snake onto the plane to sell to a buyer they found in Australia
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    Font - Traffodil Pilot accidentally left the intercom switch on. The whole plane heard him say "ooo. That's weird". Nothing else. Plane took off amid varying levels of anxiety throughout the cabin. I'm here to tell the tale today, so thankfully it wasn't too weird!
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    Font - RonnyLuvsU A 5 year old boy once said "Dad, can you ask them to pull over so I can go to the toilet?". Haha
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    Font - StyrkeSkalVandre Two older guys in my row on the way to an academic conference. One of them mentions that the first thing he is doing is attending lecture on some esoteric physics topic, but before he can even finish the name of the topic, guy #2 says "oh, of course: The Effects of co-limited tesseracts on quantum membrane string interactions (or somesuch physics jargon.) Are you familiar with the topic?" Guy #1 gets half way through saying "well actually I-" before he is cut off by guy #
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    Font - "Because, you see, most people, even in the field are woefully undereducated in this particular subject..." and then proceeds to talk guy #1's head off for about ten minutes. Guy #1 just nots and smiles patiently through the whole exchange. At the end of his missive, guy #2 says "So, the lecture is being given by Dr. So- and-So, one of the leaders in the field, and absolute legend. Do you know his work?" And, of course, guy #1 puts on a very kind but somewhat sheepish look and says
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    Font - "Actually, I am Professor So-and-So: your understanding of the field is actually quite good!" Guy #2 turns red as a tomato for a few seconds but seemed to get over it quickly and they spent the rest of the flight casually talking shop about theoretical physics.
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    Font - SlashingSimone Flying domestic US. Two oldish ladies spent the whole flight talking about how ugly my husband is, in French. I guess they assumed no one could speak it. We can.
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    Font - Ellie_Llewellyn Nervous passenger: Excuse me. How often do planes crash? Flight Attendant: Only once!
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    Font - As we started landing a kid, around 3/4, yells out "were going down, nooooo" haha was funny, I'm a nervous flyer and it lightened the mood.
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    Font - Facelesspirit While boarding, there was a guy in his 20's sitting next to a solo mom with an infant. Infant is crying. Guy loudly asks her, "can you shut that fing thing up?" There was a gasp in unison of every mother within 5 rows forward and back. A fa was within earshot and immediately intervened by removing him and finding someone willing to switch seats with him.
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    Font - Pawpaw-22 The lady beside me told me that she was farting a lot, and she didn't care about telling me because she wouldn't see me again
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    Font - absurded Flying from Luxembourg to London we hadn't yet taken off and were waiting for a slot to land at Heathrow: "Sorry, we've waited so long we've got to go and top up the fuel tanks before we can take off."

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