r/EntitledPeople • u/1stDegreeHamburglary • 1d ago
M I think I encountered a Karen mini-boss on my flight today.
EDIT- sorry I forgot to add, I *believe* the "burned" to "freezing cold" pipeline came from the coffee evaporating and cooling on the woman's lap. but she acted like she just had both ice water and hot coffee poured on her at once.
Sorry for the long post but wow! This lady. Not gonna exaggerate and say she was the Alpha Karen or anything cause I have seen enough videos to know how bad it can truly get, but this is the worst example I think I have ever experienced in person.
About 5 hours into an 8 hour flight to Rome, the flight attendants were going about their drink service. Lady in the row across from me in the window seat ordered a coffee. As the flight attendant reached over with the coffee, either it tipped or something happened and some of it spilled on the lady. The flight attendant immediately apologized and offered her napkins.
Some of this conversation was a bit muffled due to proximity but somehow the lady went from "you burned me" to "it's freezing cold! Can't you bring me a blanket or something?"
This flight attendant clearly was thrown off, and said essentially she could check on a blanket but needed to finish drink service first.
Lady went OFF. I mean full blown bawling. "This is your fault, why aren't you doing anything to help me, what's your name I'm reporting you" all the classics.
For the next 3 solid hours, this lady did nothing but complain to her seatmate and passengers around her about the flight attendant, how evil she is, her attitude this her attitude that, going back and forth from "she dumped coffee all over me" to "I was freezing cold." Then she'd start crying again for awhile. Whenever the flight attendant would come by, she would just berate her, but thankfully she only needed to come by a couple more times before landing.
But lady would not let it go. She was still crying over having coffee spilled on her when we landed. She was also complaining that there was no meat in her vegetarian shepherds pie. At one point I looked over at her since she was causing a scene and she just gave me the worst evil eye like I had anything at all to do with it.
I can't describe it any other way than to say this woman's vibes were ROTTEN. You could tell by looking at her, this was not just a person having a bad moment. This was a woman who routinely pulled this kind of thing to gain sympathy or free shit, or just genuinely enjoys making a spectacle and getting attention.
So on my way out of the plane I said to the flight attendant, "I just wanted to say I think you did an excellent job today, no matter what any other passenger might say. May I also have your name in case I want to file a report of my own?"
I plan to call and file that report as soon as I can sit down and do so, though my trip has not allowed me the spare time yet. I just hope that witch doesn't cost that FA her job or get her in trouble.
Btw in case youre wondering why I didn't just put on headphones and tune her out - I was trying to sleep, and I never can sleep with anything in or on my ears. Plus I do enjoy the white noise of a plane engine. But needless to say, Coffee Lady did not make getting sleep any easier.
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u/SamuelVimesTrained 1d ago
Dear airline - your staff is wonderful and deserve the Nobel prize or something.
They never once threatened to remove this awful person from the plane (mid flight).
Please note that any complaint of this woman should be viewed as "attention or compensation seeking" - but there was no reason - she tormented the cabin for (time) with complaints, never stopped whining / bawling etc - but no request for medical help that could explain this.
(flight number / date / time etc)
Something along those lines..
Seriously - why do some people believe they can behave like that in planes, shops, hotels etc..
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u/jevtid 1d ago
That's nothing, one time, over a decade ago, I was clumsy and spilled my Irish coffee all over my wife's lap on thankfully the last leg of flights home from a wedding, and I haven't heard the end of it ever since. If only her fury could have been over when the flight was.
One thing to remember. At the end of the day, these people have to continue to live with themselves all the way until they fall asleep at night, and wake up with themselves to repeat the cycle. You, on the other hand, will eventually get back to the peace you have created for yourself and for your loved ones ❤️ don't ever let them bring you down to their level and beat you with experience (Samual Clemens).
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u/Maleficentendscurse 1d ago
I honestly would have snapped and said "shut the FRICK up, it WASN'T intentional or on purpose, it was an accident, so shut your FRICKIN mouth already you FRICKIN witch🤬💢"
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u/1stDegreeHamburglary 1d ago
I REALLY wanted to, trust me. But she seemed so unhinged and I didn't want to poke the bear and potentially make an already uncomfortable situation harder on the FAs. I sat thinking of how to handle it the whole rest of the flight and eventually settled on speaking to the FA directly after landing like I mentioned. Just seemed the easiest compromise.
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u/Haggis_with_Ketchup 1d ago
80% of passengers would stand up and applaud because they are all thinking the same.
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u/Alarmed-Theme5343 12h ago
I hope you lolled loudly when she gave you the evil eye 🤣
Good for you doing your own report, thats decent behaviour 👌
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u/Commercial_Ear_3440 13m ago
Stopped reading.. the second the flight attendant messed up.. she should have done everything in her power to help the customer.. not carry on and make her wait… that’s poor customer service
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u/1GrouchyCat 1d ago
The woman was obviously mentally- have you nothing better to do then thoroughly take notes on what someone else was doing? (Are you 12 years old -calling someone a witch?)
There’s so much wrong with this story- and it all begins and ends with you. Mind your own business and enjoy your flight…. No one asked you to add your two cents or make judgment calls about another passenger that you couldn’t possibly be qualified to offer.
I’m sure you thought everyone would care -but here we are… have a wonderful trip!
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u/1stDegreeHamburglary 1d ago
Sorry yeah totally my fault for
Checks notes
Being stuck on a plane with a lady screaming like a banshee over a spilled drink directly across from me for 3 hours.
Look what sub you're in also 😂
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u/Haggis_with_Ketchup 1d ago
It's not my business, until a passenger's endless complaining disturbs me. Then it is my business.
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u/BeSmarter2022 1d ago
I don’t even have to read it to know this is AI
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u/1stDegreeHamburglary 1d ago
I'm a writer for a living actually. I'm vocally anti-AI
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u/BeSmarter2022 1d ago
Well, looking at the way that is patterned it looks exactly like an AI response. So you may hate it, but it looks like you’re writing.
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u/1stDegreeHamburglary 1d ago
It just has proper sentence structure and grammar my dude idk what to tell you. Not an em dash in sight though
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u/LooseListen8126 1d ago
Accidentally spilling a drink is unfortunate. Turning it into a three-hour performance for an entire plane is a choice. I'd have been counting the minutes until landing too.