What's The Rudest Thing You've Witnessed Or Heard About?

magicmushroom · 22-03-2016 09:56AM

Arghus wrote: »

She sounded like a wagon for sure, but I probably would have just handed her 10 cent to get her out of my face.

I couldn't really, if I done that with her I'd have to do it with everyone in the queue!

The other customers were so nice though - after she'd gone one of the others in the line said to me something like don't let her ruin your day - you seem like a lovely person, you handled that really well

magicmushroom · 22-03-2016 10:05AM

Just thought of another one.

I was on a flight once, waiting to take off.
Anyway, the second the seatbelt signs went on, some HORRIBLE woman decided she needed to use the toilet immediately.

The air hostess comes over and asks her to sit down, the woman said I'm going to p!ss myself, I need to go; the air hostess said I'm very sorry but I am not allowed to let you get up, you MUST sit down, it will only be for a couple of minutes.

The woman was so rude to her - called her names like stupid B!tch, told her she had a crap job etc - she was only a young girl and probably new enough.
Someone else then came over who seemed to be senior to the air hostess, told the air hostess to go and sit down.
The woman then told the manager - oh my God she was SO rude to me, I only politely asked could I go to the toilet and she told me to shut up and sit down etc, spoke to me like a piece of sh!t - with her husband next to her saying yes yes she did...none of which was true.

I was SO ANGRY on the poor girls behalf, I wanted to say something but my husband wouldn't let me haha

Jan Laco · 22-03-2016 10:22AM

magicmushroom wrote: »

Just thought of another one.
...none of which was true.

I was SO ANGRY on the poor girls behalf, I wanted to say something but my husband wouldn't let me haha

So nobody corrected the injustice? And the poor girl has 2 witness accounts against hers??? I find that ruder than the woman in a panic about the toilet....because if she pissed the seat who would get the fault? Herself.

razorblunt · 22-03-2016 10:32AM

I'm sorry magicmushroom, but any sympathy I felt for your original post, evaporated after reading the hostess story, unless of course they happened in reverse order. I've always believed that anyone that's worked in a customer facing role is all the better person for it as they see the absolute crap that workers have to put up with.

There's no way I'd let the old lady speak to a shop worker speak to an employee like that if I was in the queue behind them, nor would I let the air hostess cop that flack had I been sitting in your seat.

Saying that though, I've been caught short on a flight before where I opened the seat belt and just ran to the loo. I apologised afterwards but I was in a bad way.

fussyonion · 22-03-2016 10:44AM

On an Aer Lingus flight coming home from Spain.

My seat was an aisle seat and my other half's seat was the aisle seat across from me.
(We were each a row behind the very front seats)

When we boarded the plane, I found my seat but my other half's seat was occupied by a woman who had no legs. Her husband was sitting at the window seat so there was an empty seat between them.

The women was clearly disabled and my other half didn't say anything; he squeezed in between them.

An air steward came down and asked to see my other half's ticket. After checking it, he said: "This aisle seat is yours", gesturing to the aisle seat occupied by the disabled woman.
My other half said: "No it's grand, I don't mind sitting here."

The air steward insisted he "must sit in his allocated seat" to which my OH reiterated he was fine where he was.

The air steward then turned to the woman and said: "Sorry you have to move to your own seat, this man needs your seat."

I didn't know where to put my face as the drama unfolded.
The husband said to the air steward: "Well the seats in front of us (the extra legroom seats) were ours. We actually paid for them but you have another couple sitting in them. My wife has to have an aisle seat."

This carried on for several minutes and I felt so sorry for the husband and wife. I could tell she was mortified.
My other half chipped in by saying; "Look, I'm happy sitting here. The woman can have my seat. It's fine."

The steward kept insisting and the husband kept saying that their seats had been taken, to which the steward said "Well the legroom seats were double-booked so there's nothing I can do about that."
I was gobsmacked.

The legroom seats had been double-booked yet this disabled woman and her husband weren't given them? Why didn't the couple in front take the seats behind then, if that was the case?

The absolute embarrassment of the husband having to actually lift his wife out of her seat and put her sitting in the middle, while my OH took his seat...it was undignified and unbelievably rude.

The husband was close to tears and vowed to complain to Aer Lingus when he got home, to which the steward replied: "That's fine" and he gave his name by gesturing at his badge.

The passengers around us were all horrified and offered to give their seats but they weren't allowed to.

During the flight, the steward seemed to realise the seriousness of the situation because he got down on his hunkers (patronising or what) and offered to buy the woman and her husband a drink to apologise but the husband refused.

I hope they did complain.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 22-03-2016 10:55AM

magicmushroom wrote: »

I couldn't really, if I done that with her I'd have to do it with everyone in the queue!

The other customers were so nice though - after she'd gone one of the others in the line said to me something like don't let her ruin your day - you seem like a lovely person, you handled that really well

I was in lidl last night. This woman, about my age, was in there with her kids. Not a scrap of manners on them. They were racing around the place, screaming, roaring, throwing tantrums. The kind of kids that would have you booking an appointment to have your tubes tied.

Anyway, at the cash desk, I was in the que, there was two desks open.
The cashier at her desk smiled at the cashier at my desk, it wasn't even a proper smile, it was like a smile you give someone when you make eye contact. Your one went ballistic, called your one the height of offensive racist names, and accused her of laughing at her children. The poor girl was completely taken aback. Everyone was horrified. She left anyway but the girl was clearly shaken. Lots of customers trying to comfort her. One lady paid for flowers, and then handed them to her, which set her off crying again.
But Jesus, you'd never see the likes of it in civilised society.

magicmushroom · 22-03-2016 11:30AM

razorblunt wrote: »

I'm sorry magicmushroom, but any sympathy I felt for your original post, evaporated after reading the hostess story, unless of course they happened in reverse order. I've always believed that anyone that's worked in a customer facing role is all the better person for it as they see the absolute crap that workers have to put up with.

There's no way I'd let the old lady speak to a shop worker speak to an employee like that if I was in the queue behind them, nor would I let the air hostess cop that flack had I been sitting in your seat.

Saying that though, I've been caught short on a flight before where I opened the seat belt and just ran to the loo. I apologised afterwards but I was in a bad way.

To be fair, the woman was irate and seemed to have had a few drinks.
We were sitting in the aisle next to her, we had a 4 hour flight ahead of us and were on honeymoon.
I absolutely agree I should have said something, I still feel a bit bad about it to be honest. But you kind of had to be there to appreciate how vile this woman was...not worth intervening because I only would have had a torrent of abuse myself.
The manager had heard most of what happened anyway which is why she came over so I'm sure the young girl didn't get into trouble.

But yes, I should have said something - I do agree with that.

razorblunt · 22-03-2016 11:54AM

magicmushroom wrote: »

To be fair, the woman was irate and seemed to have had a few drinks.
We were sitting in the aisle next to her, we had a 4 hour flight ahead of us and were on honeymoon.
I absolutely agree I should have said something, I still feel a bit bad about it to be honest. But you kind of had to be there to appreciate how vile this woman was...not worth intervening because I only would have had a torrent of abuse myself.
The manager had heard most of what happened anyway which is why she came over so I'm sure the young girl didn't get into trouble.

But yes, I should have said something - I do agree with that.

Sorry, I just re-read my post, it actually wasn't meant to read as hostile with the opening line, I can't use smilies on this web browser, it was actually written tongue in cheek!

I know what you mean though, I just have a habit of engaging brain before talking though, I'm also stubborn so I'd have brazened out the 4 hr flight with her. Though my wife would probably have pretended not to know me at the time!

pgj2015 · 22-03-2016 11:55AM

magicmushroom wrote: »

To be fair, the woman was irate and seemed to have had a few drinks.
We were sitting in the aisle next to her, we had a 4 hour flight ahead of us and were on honeymoon.
I absolutely agree I should have said something, I still feel a bit bad about it to be honest. But you kind of had to be there to appreciate how vile this woman was...not worth intervening because I only would have had a torrent of abuse myself.
The manager had heard most of what happened anyway which is why she came over so I'm sure the young girl didn't get into trouble.

But yes, I should have said something - I do agree with that.

The woman was a bully, if you had stood up to her, you would find you would of put her in her place, 100% of the times iv seen bullies stood up to ,they always back down.

magicmushroom · 22-03-2016 11:59AM

pgj2015 wrote: »

The woman was a bully, if you had stood up to her, you would find you would of put her in her place, 100% of the times iv seen bullies stood up to ,they always back down.

Yes, I know. As I have already stated, I regret not saying something.

RonanP77 · 22-03-2016 12:12PM

pgj2015 wrote:

The woman was a bully, if you had stood up to her, you would find you would of put her in her place, 100% of the times iv seen bullies stood up to ,they always back down.

Maybe thats the case from your experience but in general this thing about bullies always backing down is bull. Yes, a lot of the time they will, but I've seen people stand up to bullies and get dogs abuse for it or get punched in the face. The chances are if someone stood up to this one it would've blown up into a big row.

Personally it's a chance I would've taken, I hate to see anyone being bullied or abused and can't help but get involved. Most people would see that as a negative thing though on my part.

pgj2015 · 22-03-2016 12:36PM

RonanP77 wrote: »

Maybe thats the case from your experience but in general this thing about bullies always backing down is bull. Yes, a lot of the time they will, but I've seen people stand up to bullies and get dogs abuse for it or get punched in the face. The chances are if someone stood up to this one it would've blown up into a big row.

Personally it's a chance I would've taken, I hate to see anyone being bullied or abused and can't help but get involved. Most people would see that as a negative thing though on my part.

i would of done what you would as well, but from my experience when you turn on a bully they are shocked at first then they go quiet, often they try to make friends with the person who has pulled them up on their behavior.

Duggy747 · 22-03-2016 12:57PM

Went to America, got to meet a lot of people who were friendly with those we were staying with. Really nice and friendly people to us but, boy howdy, did they have this one side to them that they could turn on & off like a switch.

One guy goes full-throttle American on me by throwing me this:

Him: "So Duggy, you guys got any níggers in Ireland?"

Me: "Wh...........what!?!"

Him: "Níggers!"

Me: "Black people, you mean?"

Him: "Right"

Me: "Uhhhhh...........yea, of course there's black people living back home. A big number might come from <name African countries> to study / work while there's............"

Him: "Lol, I bet they have bones in their noses and hit their bongos"

*proceeds to racist the fúck out right in front me pretending to sing tribal music*

It got uncomfortable around the place, others are looking down at the ground getting embarrassed he was acting like this in front of me and the GF. The conversation quickly turns to cinema where Captain America said:

Him: "So, do you guys like have...........a Hollywood in Europe?"

Me: "Like.............a film industry? Yeah? Every country......."

Him: "America invented cinema, like a lot of things!"

Me: "Uhhhh......."

He went on about how he'd like to visit Ireland but there'd be nothing to do there beyond the Blarney stone.................keeping in mind this guy has never left the US in his nearly 40 years alive.

One of the days he randomly picked up an ornament in the house and went:

Him: "Hmmm, says Made in America................superior!!"

dub_skav · 22-03-2016 01:05PM

There are not only 2 options in that particular situation (edit: airplane bully story). The less confrontational option is just to make sure that you talk to the manager - either later or quietly at the time - to explain the truth.

While the bully does not get their comeuppance at least the staff member is not incorrectly blamed for the situation.

I have done that in a restaurant previously where a customer was misrepresenting a situation. I caught the manager's eye a few moments later and explained what had happened. They thanked me for my efforts and said that they had known there must be more to the story

Victor · 22-03-2016 07:19PM

fussyonion wrote: »

The legroom seats had been double-booked yet this disabled woman and her husband weren't given them? Why didn't the couple in front take the seats behind then, if that was the case?

Do you mean the escape aisle? In the event of an incident that requires aircraft evacuation, people need to get out as quickly as possible. Therefore those in the escape aisles and in the aisle seats along the main aisle need to be physically able. This is a conversation that the cabin crew should have had with the couple before other people joined the aircraft.

During the flight, the steward seemed to realise the seriousness of the situation because he got down on his hunkers (patronising or what)

You mean he didn't stand over and talk down to someone?

Samaris · 22-03-2016 08:37PM

Victor wrote: »

You mean he didn't stand over and talk down to someone?

Tricky one. My own choice is to stand a couple of paces back, within easy talking distance, but far enough back to not to be looming over someone in a wheelchair. In an airplane, that's awkward, but in close quarters, it would probably have seemed more...normal to speak from a standing position and try to keep your body language from encouraging any intimation of "speaking down to them".

I'm inclined to agree from how it's described that it would seem patronising. You do that with a child. He presumably wouldn't have done it when speaking to anyone just plain sitting down on the airplane (else he'll spend the whole flight bobbing up and down).

What's The Rudest Thing You've Witnessed Or Heard About?

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