Seriously? On An Airplane?

What next? Proctologists holding consultations

Disgusting I agree. I was on a plane just last month where a couple whipped out their toothbrushes shortly after takeoff. I couldn't believe anyone could be so oblivious to the people around them. I'm sure there was saliva spraying all over the place while they did their business. I'm just happy that I was two rows back and across the aisle. I probably would not have been able to hold my tongue.

This is no joke. I know this is my post and I would not have posted this unless it happened to me in the past, but it almost just happened again. On Friday of last week I was on a flight from Austin to Atlanta. The middle seat was open and the woman in the aisle seat was the wife of a pastor in Austin on her way to South Africa for a mission. All great and noble stuff, but about 30 minutes into the flight she rifles through her purse and pulls out a nail file. My eyes just roll into the back of my head as I think "here we go again!". Just as she placed her file against her nail, the flight attendant asked her which snack she wanted, handed it to her, and so she put the file back into her purse. I was like "Whew!". I talked her ear off for the rest of the flight so she wouldn't think to break out the file again.

You can't bring clippers on board anymore anyway so the whole thing is moot.

I appreciate that flight attendants are primarily there for pax safety, but some of them are so long in the tooth that a modest shaving of a few calcium-rich molars could contribute to the haul of nail clippings!

Or was that Job Description?

Didn't Pan Am have a PAN AM CLIPPER?????!!!!!!

I wonder - should flight attendants be issued with something like a butterfly net = just to catch an escaping clipping?

Hell = flashbulb moment!

Gather all the nail clippings = they are precious =- worth $'s

Gather and compress them and sell them off to the Far East.

Nail clippings are pretty much the same stuff as rhino horn and A.) No need to hurt the rhinos and B.) We are all so to know how much rhino horn sells for.

Why have I been wasting my time up front when all the fun and action seems to be down at the back of the plane?

Gather up the larger fly-away (!) nail clipping and use them as cocktail sticks = always looking for more ways to save the environment

My brother, a pilot with a well known airline, and some of his crew pals deviced this method of transporting babies and children on flights.

They would be deep frozen at Check In, , wrapped in astronaut foil, kept in the unpressurised hold and upon landing, they would be unwrapped, popped into the microwave at 1200W for 15 minutes, reactivated and returned to the doting parents/keeper. Every industry has its' dark humour - or were they serious? I know how many gins and tonics it took them to put that together

As there seem to be so many nail clipping episodes in cattle class, soon a farrier will need to be employed as cabin crew. Well, why not .......... Virgin Airlines offer massages?

The airborne nail clippings probably had more nutritional value than the meal - they should have been squabbled over and seen as a prize.

Memo to airline CEO: Introduce toe nail raffles for frequent fliers and or get flight attendants to pass round a sick bag and collect them all for grinding down as per Italian pepper grindings and used to garnish the next generation of "Healthy Meals" ... mmmmmmmmmmmmm "Yum yum"

These complaints are fascinating = do tell me more about what happens to those who have to turn right when they board - I have heard the cabin crew call them self-loading freight

These complaints are why First Class was invented - one meetse a better class of petty criminal ther

This isn't nails, but it irks me none the less. Two men who had been drinking excessively in the airline's waiting room bar, were traveling with a toddler girl. As the plane took off from Dallas on the way to Indianapolis, these jerks were busy tossing that little girl in the air as if she were a ball. They stopped after the attendant ripped them a new one and left them with their jaws down on the floor.

I must say I haven't encountered anything like that when flying.



A few things I dislike are someone hogging the entire overhead bin with a steamer trunk that should've been checked, someone who didn't bathe or put on clean clothes before leaving the house on their trip, & someone whose before-lfight meal had extra onions & garlic on it.

I think Shirley111 has it nipped in the bud. Next time we are so lucky to sit next to a pig , we can just think of starving African children or the Homeless in the great U.S. of A. The guy sitting next to me is taking a dump...........oh those staring children in Africa. So far that was the funniest reply yet.

OMG! Seriously?! Clipping and filing their nails you say?! What's next- peeing in your seat because you're not allowed to use the toilet during take-off?! EEK GADS! ..............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Really? I have tried to post serious posts about real-life issues and not one response- but let someone post a blurb about fingernail clipping on a plane and everyone has to weigh-in! WOW!

For those of you that think it's okay to clip away in public, on a plane or in the subway, or on a crowded bus....are you really so self-absorbed to think we should not mind? How would you feel if I decided to neatly shave my balls next to you? Oh don't worry....I promise to not have any hairs hit you in the face, but c'mon, why would you mind that I want to keep my balls smooth?

Really, Ugh! That's totally disgusting as are many other things that people do on airplanes and other public transportation!!

Many years ago I had a nail cutting episode happen to me on a subway train. A woman was cutting her daughters nails with pieces flying all over. One of the pieces hit me in the face just below the eye and it really hurt. An inch or two higher and it would have hit me in the eye and seriously injured me.

Clipping your nails in public isn't just inconsiderate it can be downright dangerous.

Nails, nose picking, brushing hair and some people have to get up a hundred times.

The two day re-heated hospitol food and the girls have to deal with all this and still be nice.

Let me salute the stewards that fly and keep their cool and still look good at the end of the ride.

Cheers

Seriously; cutting nails in any public place is disrespectful to the people around you (forget about being disrespectful to yourself). One wouldn't brush his teeth in public now would he? It's the same thing.



I was working in an all girls' office and it was a nightmare when they would file their nails in their cubicles. I am a woman too but I keep my nails short coz it's more practical. Surely these things can be done at home instead of public places?



I detest people on planes who possess little or no manners. One time when I was traveling by plane there was a group of Iranians who kept talking at the top of their voices, running up and down the aisle and asking people to move from their seats so they could all be together. They came up to my boyfriend, friend and I who were sitting together and DEMANDED that two of us move to two separate seats on the flight. I told them straight that there was NO WAY any of us were moving and that they needed to learn some manners. They grumbled loudly making sure I heard but I didn't care.



People lack consideration nowadays.

My nails are long and sexy and usually very beautifully manicured and painted so the only reason I would ever wind up on a plane filing on one of them would be if it got damaged. Having a nail that snags is just too unbearable and I'd have to file it or else I'd go insane.



Doing my nails on a plane isn't something I would want to do since I'd have to have my whole kit with clippers, files, buffers, various polish coats and colors. I'd much rather relax, listen to an audiobook or movie on my iPod or maybe nap.

Get a life. When there are so many more important things in life to worry over and be concerned about, this just seems so trivial. Sure, it's not ideal but if it peeves you, just concentrate on the starving children in Africa or the homeless in the good old US of A and get things in perspective.

On a recent trip to the doctor's, a waiting patient chose to pass the time by clipping her fingernails while the nails flew unceremoniously all over the place. Another time a patient chose to pull out her underarm deodorant from her bag and apply it while waiting. Incredible lack of consideration for others and desperatly poor manners. These actions only go to show the overall lack of caring towards others and displays a stunning amount of absorbtion with self.

Hey Austin, i agree with most others, but i think that most of the weaklings, are afraid to do something else, like socialize with others. Some drink to idiocy, others TRY to pick-up people and others like me sit, smile, keep to myself and read a book till arrival. If they REALLY irritate you, open the hatch exit and give them a giblet----Not being serious-----michelle

That´s discusting. I cut my nails in my own bathroom, never in any other room. Nails are full of bacteria.

Imaginitiveone, unless you are rescuing earthquake victims, getting shot at in Iraq, or doing heart transplants, you ain't THAT busy. Cut yer claws at home.