When you irritate a gate agent, an entire first class cabin, and 2 flight attendants, you know you’ve done something wrong.
What is normally a short hop from DCA to JFK, this turned into over 2 hours – from gate time, to boarding to a delay on the tarmac – of listening to this man.
First, at the gate, he decided to scream at the gate agent that he was going to miss his connecting flight in JFK because of the delay of the DCA-JFK flight. He went so far as to call out to the pregnant gate agent that “he paid her salary” and that she “needed to do what he said.” Whoa. It got worse on the plane. He started talking to another passenger in Spanish, and had a loud, obnoxious, “New Yorker” tone of voice – and wouldn’t shut up. He talked, he talked and he talked. He woke up sleeping passengers. He annoyed the 2 flight attendants by telling them that he only wanted one cube of ice in his drink. He nearly drove me to suicide after listening to his harsh voice.
When the plane landed, there were 15 other first class passengers clamoring to get off the plane — it was actually a stampede to see who would get off first, and away from this annoying passenger.
I digress. See (or, rather, hear) this passenger for yourself. Imagine listening to this for over 2 hours non-stop…
Jamie Larounis is an avid traveler, blogger and miles/points educator. Traveling well over 100,000 miles a year and staying in hotels for over 100 nights, he leverages miles, points and other deals to fly in first class cabins, and stay in 5-star hotels. The Forward Cabin shares his experiences, musings, reviews, tips, tricks, resources and industry news with you, the fellow traveler.
wow he was loud! That was just outright rude what he did to the gate agent (especially when the delay is not her fault!) Was the delay due to weather? maintenance?
Either way, I hope he wasn’t paid first class passenger (or was he a DL elite?)
I think his company paid for his ticket. Delay was due to ATC congestion, I believe.
Sounds like a contender for one of my In-Flight Delights!
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style is witty, keep doing what you’re doing!
What?!?!? I was expecting like hootn’ and hollern’ on that youtube clip. All that dude did was talk a couple notches to high.
I dont know what it is with you bloggers but him speaking Spanish has no relevance to his inappropriate behavior. It’s like when people talk about someone else doing whatever it is good or bad and they just have to point out that that person was black or something. It doesnt actually matter.
Anytime you speak of someone you better mention they were annoying white, black or brown people solely because they were speaking yacht club English, Ebonics or Spanish.
That’s fair.
Re: the “talking in Spanish”–I understand the objection to that data point, but consider this possibility: I consider it really rude to speak in a foreign language if you are speaking in a tone/volume that implies you are talking “to the room.” I don’t even appreciate the nail techs speaking to each other in Vietnamese while I am paying them to work on my nails. It’s just rude. And annoying.