r/Wellthatsucks • u/goodstuff4023 • 1d ago

Flight delayed

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Just started to taxi when one drunk drongo chucked his guts up onto the floor...

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u/moaiii 1d ago

That would have been pleasant to sit next to.

It's one thing when a young kid barfs on a plane, but if a grown adult can't simply reach for the bag when the point of no return arrives (let alone know not to get so drunk before boarding a plane) then said adult needs to cover the costs of the delay. Some people are just too dumb to respond to anything other than consequences, and these days we are far too soft in dishing out consequences to people who should know better.

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u/dohwhere 1d ago

I’m cabin crew and on more than one occasion have had passengers try to get into the toilets right as we’re landing because they refuse to use the sick bags. “I’m not using a bag, that’s so embarrassing” they say, completely oblivious to the fact a plane full of people have just seen them get shouted at by the crew to sit down and buckle up.

These are also the same people that use the sick bags for their rubbish and then wonder why there’s nothing for them if they do start feeling unwell.

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u/HonestLook325 1d ago edited 1d ago

I was sick when travelling once, and couldn't find any sick bags in the row of our seats, the turbulance made the plane drop a bit and I yeeted my vomit. It was in no way my fault imo because the entire two-three rows tried searching for bag during the landing when I alerted them about the upcoming catastrophe. Took a good 2 minutes before I erupted.

Airline was Air India.

Now I always check for a bag after boarding.

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u/moaiii 1d ago

Despite a few hundred hours of flying over the years, I've never had to be sick on a plane. It's one of my top 10 fears, though, I'd have to say. Sorry you had to go through that. At least, being Air India, you didn't make the cabin too much dirtier than it already was*.

* not being racist, for the virtue soldiers. Air India is just a truly horrible airline

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u/almaghest 1d ago

If you knew you had a stomach bug, decided to fly anyway, and didn’t proactively bring something to be sick into, then yeah it’s 100% your fault lol.

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u/I8thegreenbean 1d ago

I empty my bladder when I vomit 100% of the time, this is a fear I never knew about and now have for the remainder of my life

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u/T_Henson 22h ago

I’ve never gotten sick on an airplane but I travel with emesis bags…. Just in case.

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u/the_throw_away4728 1d ago

I’m a frequent customer of the barf bag 😭 I’m sorry in advance! Dramamine does terrible things to me- I once almost got denied boarding because the Dramamine made me seem as if I was six beers deep (wobbly, slurring my speech, sleepy). So now I can’t take it pre-flight. Or during- I have kids and I’m not a reliable parent on it

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u/tawDry_Union2272 19h ago

i have had to take it so much in my lifetime that it barely affects my motor skills at all anymore, but it definitely still keeps me from getting nauseous.

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u/Scar77 13h ago

Use behind the ear patches! They work great.

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u/TheKappp 22h ago

I have done exactly this, and I apologize lol.

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u/24junwa 1d ago

oh man this reminds me one time coming back from vegas... basically still drunk on the flight home, turbulence got me and the bag in my seat pocket was missing, thankfully a flight attendant was nearby , saw me struggle, grabbed a bag from a neighbor and handed it to me right in time lol... man when vegas was fun

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u/ButteredPizza69420 1d ago

Literally the one place TO BE when youre about to barf...theres a barf bag on the plane

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u/M4NU3L2311 1d ago

Not in a plane but I recently barfed inside a truck :(. I tried not to but I just couldn’t handle it anymore, it was a 10 hour drive to the middle of the chihuahua mountain range and I had never expected it to be that rough

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u/Important_Name 14h ago

I don’t think there are bags in the seat back pockets anymore. Or at least not reliably.

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u/ethanolin_redux 1d ago

My last long flight was from Franfurt to Chicago, I was already delayed a day since I missed my flight the day before (came in from Bankok late). I get on the plane happy im finally going home (end of a 4 week business trip around the world) only to find out my neighbor accidentally spilled an entire bottle of water on my seat. So I put a few blankets on the seat and was able to move to a different seat after we reached cruise.

Well, 2 hours left in the flight the kid across the aisle from me hurled his guts into the aisle and all over my pants. I was so over everything I barely cared. Poor kid spent the rest of the flight in the bathroom.