Embarrassing moment on a flight

One of our employees has just flown MAN to JFK and woke up from having a nap shouting that the plane was on fire[:0].
My worse one was sat at the very back of a flight from Naples. It was a 6am early flight and I had fallen asleep with an empty aisle at the side of me. I awoke with head back, mouth wide open (possibly been snoring)with 6 people in a line next to me waiting to visit the toilet.[:I] I later imagined them having a competition, who could be the first to throw a rolled up piece of paper into my open mouth.

Has anyone else had an embarrassing or funny moment on a flight?

Loads of them. But if you think I am going to publish them on the world wide web, you've got another think coming!

Not knowing how loud I was laughing at little britain and team america in upper untill the FA politely told me to be quiet and that the rest of the cabin were laughing at ME laughing.

A one time experience on easyJet that has never been repeated...

Had a wonderful day out (with my VS pilot mate) to Brussels and back at the sharp end of a Eurostar then went for a few beers near Waterloo. I then caught the GatX for the 2115 EZY to Edinburgh. I checked in and found out the flight would be 120 mins late so went to the bar - again!

By the time I got on the plane I was shall we say, tired so sat down and buckled up. I didn't know a thing until the wheels hit the deck at EDI and woke me up.

Time travel is not a fantasy!

Regards

John

[honey lamb]

Originally posted by JAT74L
A one time experience on easyJet that has never been repeated...

Had a wonderful day out (with my VS pilot mate) to Brussels and back at the sharp end of a Eurostar then went for a few beers near Waterloo. I then caught the GatX for the 2115 EZY to Edinburgh. I checked in and found out the flight would be 120 mins late so went to the bar - again!

By the time I got on the plane I was shall we say, tired so sat down and buckled up. I didn't know a thing until the wheels hit the deck at EDI and woke me up.

Time travel is not a fantasy!

Regards

John

I did something similar on a VS flight to JFK. [:I] We had left home at 5:00am for our connecting flight to LHR and then had a layover of 5 hours. Naturally I partook of the champagne which is of course de rigeur in the Clubhouse and you do realise that it is impossible to make one glass last that length of time so of course had another one or three. The barman who was Irish and whose auntie lived six miles down the road from me insisted! Then on board the plane I decided it would be churlish to refuse the champagne and the pre-dinner drinkie that was on offer. I ordered dinner (I remember it was rack of lamb) and tired out from our very early start, promptly fell asleep. I woke up somewhere over Maine and asked for my lamb only to be told I had been given it, had nibbled a bit of it (in my sleep?) and in any case we were due to land shortly. [:0]

My toes still curl at the memory and I just pray that I never fly with that cabin crew again. [:I][:I]

[ChuckC]

I had something in mind but decided it is just too painful to recall! Perhaps I will share the story at a Social ... someday.

Chuck-

[Scrooge]

Did something similar a couple of trans atlantic flights ago,pulled a night shift at work,drovedown to LAX,had lunch,checked in,got to the gate,figured ok 20 mins till boarding..1 hr till take off,sleeping pill time...They were working great,feeling a little groggy,till the PA lets me know that the flight was delayed an hour [:0]...

Crawled on to the plane,sat in my seat,had the FA yell that I couldn't put the seat back till after take off (we were still loading pax so I figured a 15 min nap couldn't do any harm.

Push back really feeling out of it,get to the end of the runway,engines power up,power down,power back up.....woke up over Scotland,don't even remember take off [:I],I had been sitting up right for 8 hrs or so,the poor guy next to me looked ready to cry,seems I had forgotten to use my anti snooring stuff and as the wife will tell you,I can snoore like a train,poor guy had had me snooring in his ear the whole way over [B)][:#]

Originally posted by ChuckC
I had something in mind but decided it is just too painful to recall! Perhaps I will share the story at a Social ... someday.

Chuck-

I have no shame!!

As a wheelchair user I often dont worry about wearing a belt (as I dont stand up often)

But one one VS flight gravity caught up!![:I]

fortunately I was on a LGW 747 in the old zone B of UC so only one crew member saw me!

Took me a moment of thought there J. I was thinking you meant a seat belt, but of course you mean a trourser belt. Just one question........... you were not going commando at the time were you?

Originally posted by sailor99
Loads of them. But if you think I am going to publish them on the world wide web, you've got another think coming!

Well its not stopped you in the past!!:D:D:D

Originally posted by sailor99
Took me a moment of thought there J. I was thinking you meant a seat belt, but of course you mean a trourser belt. Just one question........... you were not going commando at the time were you?

Nope - underwear was present and clean!:D

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by Jonathan

Originally posted by sailor99
Took me a moment of thought there J. I was thinking you meant a seat belt, but of course you mean a trourser belt. Just one question........... you were not going commando at the time were you?

Nope - underwear was present and clean!:D

Just like your mother taught you,in case of accidents,bet she didn't think it would be this kind though [:I]

indeed - still loosing your trowsers/pants (*delete as appropriate depending on side of pond)is better than loosing your head

The only embarressment I've ever had would be laughing too loud at various comedy shows.[:I]

Cheers,
VS045

I have had some horribly embarassing airport moments, but not too many in flight.

In November, I was on VS2 to LHR... in that last row of Y where there's only two seats on the side. I booked the seats on purpose, as I was traveling alone and figured sitting next to one stranger was better than two.

So I'm sitting in the airport waiting for the flight to board (had to kill over 3 hours from the time my CO flight arrived in EWR to when the VS flight left), and there is this gorgeous girl walking around the gate area.

So finally time comes to board, I get on, head all the way to the back of the bus, and I'm sitting there. Low and behold this girl comes and sits next to me. After my attempt at the awkward self-introduction, I realize that I need to take my contacts out.

Have you ever attempted to gracefully remove contacts in public, using an economy tray table to hold your little contact holder. Thinking back, it would have been much smarter to just go to the lav and do it, but I wasn't thinking about that at the time, and it was a smidge embarrassing.

Then to make matters ironically funny, as soon as I got my contacts out, she turns and goes, "oh... good idea", and proceeded to do exactly the same thing.