16-year-old high schooler breaks airplane rules, entire flight gets petty revenge: 'I get what's coming to me'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 8, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

When disembarking from a plane, many people simply cannot wait to escape out of that metal tube. After being crammed in a stuffy plane, squished in an uncomfortable seat next to strangers for hours on end, nothing sounds better than getting off that plane as fast as humanly possible. You're hungry after eating nothing but tiny bags of pretzels, and bored after watching movies and TV for hours on end. We all want to get off that plane, but it seems to take forever to deboard. Everyone has to get their luggage out of the overhead bins, and if you're stuck at the back of the plane, you just have to wait around for ages while everyone in front of you takes their sweet time. 

This teen wasn't aware of how this usually works: the people at the front leave first, and everyone in the back has to wait. At least the people on the plane got some hilariously petty revenge, as you can read all about down below. 

Next up, take a sneak peek into some drama at the workplace, like one person who revealed that they "handed in my [2-weeks] notice and my boss suddenly stopped talking to me." 

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  • 01

    "The 16 year-old d***** with no idea of flight etiquette"

    This is not my own revenge, but rather the revenge that someone has done on me. I thought I should share. I (A 16 year-old Highschool student) recently flew home on an airplane packed to the brim with people. I, being a poor , sat in the very last row with my backpack on my lap. This whole flight was extremely delayed and overbooked, arriving about three hours later than
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  • 02
    intended. Everyone was tired, everyone was p ed off. Then the plane landed, and we were held on the plane for a couple minutes while they de- boarded the first class people first. I was not aware of this, and as soon as the seat-belt sign turned off, I jumped out of my seat and got about halfway up the airplane before the line of people getting up and getting their luggage stopped me. So there I am, bulging backpack on,
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    no semblance of manners, blocking off four rows of seats with no way to get out. I apologized profusely to everyone, and they all grumbled about how stupid kids of today are and all that stuff. The guys behind me looked like they had just come from a biking trip (athletic frame, biking shirts, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, Bike Locks). They were especially quiet, and didn't talk much, only glared at me. When things had
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    finally sorted themselves out and I walked shamefully up the aisle with the line of angry passengers behind me, I noticed that the biker dudes didn't looks so grumpy. Huh. Fast forward an hour, I'm home and starting to unpack. I turn to my backpack to get out my carry-on materials, and find that EVERY ZIPPER HAD BEEN COMBINATION LOCKED SHUT. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Those
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    smart-a sons of exacted perfectly deserved had revenge on me, and all I could do was laugh. I ended up having to cut the zippers to get my stuff out, but it was still hilarious. Needless to say, I will now be waiting my turn on any and every flight I ever take from now on.
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    TL;DR: I'm a on a flight to everyone in a section and I get what's coming to me, unable to access luggage.
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    ABC EXIT SORTE enRoute AT AIR CANADA En Fr ARGO GILET DE SAUVETAGE SOUS VOTRE SÉCE EX EXIT SOF SORTIE DEF LIFE VEST UNDER YOUR SEAT enRoute AIR CANADA
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    Hmm, good question!

    PrincessPi How did you not notice the added weight of the lock? One by itself, sure, but several?
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    WeirdF OP I don't know. I think it was the constant jostling around by the people around me, maybe the fact that it was midnight and I was exhausted, but I just didn't. They weren't really that large.
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    faffywaffle98 Just so you know, you can stick a pen in a zipper to unzip it and then while both zipper "sliders" are still stuck together zip it back up with a good bit of wiggling.
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    EXIT EXIT ABCD SORTIE SORTIE DEF EXIT SORIE enRoute AIR CANADA En Fr GILET DE SAUVETAGE SOUS VOTRE SIEGE LIFE VEST UNDER YOUR SEAT 2001-45 AIR CANADA Touch anywhere to begin, or press Toucher cran pour concrappy Enter enRoute
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    AmmoBradley The good thing is you knew you were in the wrong, as opposed to most bags who think everything they do is by the grace of god.
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    [deleted] The important thing about this is that you learned. Nobody was hurt by your actions, just a bit upset. When you're in new situations, you f That's just life. Next time you'll go with the flow a bit better I'm sure.
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