The Top 10 Things that Piss Me Off When Traveling by Airplane

10. Are You Too Fat to fit in your seat? Shall I give up my seat and see if I can travel in the cargo bay?
The passenger sitting next to you occupies more than his/her own seat! Means, he or she, has her elbow, shoulder, leg, foot on your side. What do they think? Who cares if you don't feel comfortable. What other passenger? If this has happened to you like it has often happened to me, then you know how annoying this could be.

Please be considerate to your fellow passenger.

9. All overhead bins are crowded!
You board the airplane and you can't find any space to put your suitcase. All you see are large SUITCASES, packages, big bags and jackets all over the overhead bins. Some airlines will not allow these large "carry-ons", but many still do. I wish these passengers would be considerate to the rest. We all have the right to put our carry-on in the overhead bin.

So I am happy that there are tougher regulations because this used to be much worse than now.

8. Somebody near you is snoring loud.
Please somebody do something!
If it has happened to you, then you know what I am talking about.

7. I am not interested in listening to your important phone Conversation.
Yes, we all know you are so very busy, so while we are all waiting inside the airplane to take off, you speak so loud on the phone and sometimes even have your speakerphone on, so we all can understand and know that you are an important CEO, president, big-shot, ECONOMY CLASS Hollywood Star.

I am sure this has happened to other fellow travelers. I seem to often come across these people!
And I am so glad I am not that super important VIP passenger.

6. Turn your Music Down!
When someone near you is listening to music through headphones and it's so loud that you can hear the music too, it is very annoying. I am sure you have probably come across this and have been enervated.

I do not know how to handle this without picking a fight.

How do you do it? Well, I think the best way is to use a walkman with noise-reduction headphones.. Then you won't care about any external noise! And hey, your noise-reduction headphones will solve #8, #7 and #6! Amazing, this is why it is a real bargain to throw away $400 usd in a walkman and the special headphones.

5. Stop asking me to raise the back of my seat, The seat is broken!
Your seat is broken and the back lowers down by itself, yet, the flight attendant keeps insisting you should raise your back seat.
So what am I supposed to do? Sit without resting my back on the seat? Or what about I just sit on the air?
It has happened to me a few times, not just once. And if it has happened to me a few times, it means it has happened to other passengers too that had the luck of having the same seats than me.

4. Thank you, I really want to see your ugly hands
The passenger sitting in front of you puts his hands/arms wrapped behind the head of his/her seat. So now you must stare at his/her ugly hands and if you are lucky and your seat is equipped with an LCD screen, now you all you will see will be these hands. Be careful, he may hit you too with his hands.

You think I am joking? It has happened to me many times.

3. Go Find another seat, this one is taken by my baby.
A Woman and her baby are occupying your seat and she asks you to find another seat.
This happened to me in a flight. The woman had no manners to ask me. I kindly replied to her, to please patiently wait until all passengers were seated. Later, she asked a flight attendant to help her and I changed to other seat. FYI, I didn't want to travel next to you and your baby. I wish flight attendants also would care about the passengers that travel without babies. After all,

I also paid for my airplane ticket. I know this happens often in flights when someone is traveling with babies.

2. Sit next to a spoiled brat
Have you ever traveled next to a young child that doesn't behave, or around many children that don't behave? They kick you, beat you, yell, scream, spill food, lay on you, take your food and everything you can imagine while the parents just laugh at how "cute" their children are. Trust me, a few hours later, you will be exhausted. I understand they are just children but they aren't mine and I am also a customer. Airlines must also consider travelers traveling without children. It is unfair that those traveling without children are severely affected by those traveling with children.


1. Thank You for Kicking the back of my seat. I really appreciate it.

The passenger sitting behind you kicks, rattles, shakes, puts his/her feet/legs, pushes the back of your seat.
This seems to happen often to me. Particularly in routes originating in sub-developed countries. Don't they realize that this is very annoying and can mortify any passenger? What about if we trade seats and I do the same to you? You are real as**le!
Enjoy!

A Personal Note:
Of course, these are related to the level of education of people. The more educated the people are, the more considerate to others. So most of these things will probably occur less frequently in routes from/to more educated societies. It is probably more common to experience similar situations in routes from/to/within sub-developed countries.