Speaker 1: Call It What It Is with Jessica Capshaw and Camille Luddington,
Speaker 1: an iHeartRadio podcast. Hey call It Crew, and welcome to
Speaker 1: the newest episode of Call It Short and Sweet. Today
Speaker 1: we are digging in because hello, we've been all seeing
Speaker 1: these stories go viral over and over again. We're digging
Speaker 1: into unhinged airplane etiquette slash behavior slash shenanigans. This subject
Speaker 1: is in the news all the time. I feel like
Speaker 1: weekly there is a story like the one we are
Speaker 1: about to read to you.
Speaker 2: And if not like this one, it's definitely happened on airplane. Airplanes.
Speaker 2: There's so many stories about that happens on airplanes.
Speaker 1: I know for real. Okay, when you read it.
Speaker 2: So, a twenty one year old woman whose boyfriend recently
Speaker 2: got a great paying job decided to surprise her and
Speaker 2: treat her to a first class ticket for her trip.
Speaker 2: She was very excited about it because she had never
Speaker 2: flown first class before, and shortly after takeoff, a woman
Speaker 2: approached her that was the flight attendant and asked her
Speaker 2: to switch seats with someone who had booked two tickets
Speaker 2: in first class. But somehow they had gotten messed up
Speaker 2: and she was separated from her son, and the son
Speaker 2: ended up in an economy and she was in first
Speaker 2: class and asked this young woman if she would please
Speaker 2: trade seats. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: It does make sense. Why isn't the mom giving him
Speaker 1: the first class seat? If you wanted to experience it.
Speaker 2: You wanted to be I guess she wanted to be
Speaker 2: with him.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's little. I'm sorry, you gotta I mean, first off,
Speaker 1: do I feel the mom? Yes, you book two seats
Speaker 1: in first class, you're excited about it. Now the airlines
Speaker 1: screwed up, and we all know, I'm sorry, airlines scrubs
Speaker 1: things all the time. This is where you get to
Speaker 1: the front desk before you get on the flight and
Speaker 1: you're like, what the heck? Can I get some sort
Speaker 1: of aird? Like what? How can you make this up
Speaker 1: to me? Because this is what I booked? And now
Speaker 1: you've screwed it up, right, and you have the conversation
Speaker 1: with the airline.
Speaker 2: Here's my question in this scenario, why wouldn't this woman
Speaker 2: given the situation because she wants to be with her son.
Speaker 2: She wants to sit with her son, right, ideally, that's
Speaker 2: the goal. Why wouldn't she trade her first class ticket
Speaker 2: for the economy ticket next to her son. I mean,
Speaker 2: if she wants to be next to her son, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: if that's the goal, then why wouldn't she trade her
Speaker 2: seat with the person that was stating next to him
Speaker 2: in economy.
Speaker 1: Well, because I don't think that's the goal here. I
Speaker 1: do think she wants to say for both of them
Speaker 1: to sit in first class. That's gonna happen in two seconds, Like,
Speaker 1: raise your hand if you'd like to sit in first
Speaker 1: class like I'm in, I'm in by the toilets and economy,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, please, I'm running down that. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be a very easy way to fix that, right. She
Speaker 1: wants her son to have the experience. This is super entitled.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's crazy.
Speaker 2: But also I think if we're gonna call it what
Speaker 2: it is, and I'm a little fired up, like call
Speaker 2: it what it is, do the right thing, Do the
Speaker 2: right thing. Don't ask someone to give up something that
Speaker 2: they're super excited about for you in your in this
Speaker 2: in this situation, like you give up your seat and
Speaker 2: you goes next to your son, if that's what's the
Speaker 2: most important to you, So I'm gonna call it what
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 1: It is selfish, super selfish. Is are there any scenarios
Speaker 1: where you think that you should you may should maybe
Speaker 1: consider giving up your seat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have given up my seat. I honestly can't
Speaker 2: think of a time that I haven't given up my seat.
Speaker 2: And every time that I did, it made sense. It
Speaker 2: was so that, you know, people who were traveling together
Speaker 2: could sit next to each other. And I was in
Speaker 2: a situation where it was no it was of no
Speaker 2: import to me because I was traveling alone and I
Speaker 2: was happy to do that. And I even did it
Speaker 2: like if I like a window and I was traded
Speaker 2: for an aisle in the situation, I've sort of been like,
Speaker 2: I don't know what goes around comes around, and I
Speaker 2: would give that up in that situation.
Speaker 1: Would you draw the line at a middle seat? So
Speaker 1: that is a tough one, I know, because no one
Speaker 1: wants the middle, No one wants a middle trade.
Speaker 2: No one wants the middle. So in my particular life,
Speaker 2: we go very high low in our family. We are
Speaker 2: either you know, I'm either flying for work and I'm
Speaker 2: in you know, first class or business class, or we're
Speaker 2: traveling you know, party of six. On this one particular time,
Speaker 2: I was flying alone with the three girls, and Josie
Speaker 2: was probably four or five years old, and they messed
Speaker 2: up all the seats and they had us scattered. Even
Speaker 2: though we was there was just one mom and three kids,
Speaker 2: they had us completely scattered. So we get on the plane.
Speaker 2: I'm like, we're going to figure it out on the plane,
Speaker 2: and I figure out a way for or even Poppy
Speaker 2: to be next to each other. But then I was
Speaker 2: I was like, someone has to be next to Josie,
Speaker 2: and it's got to be me. So I go to
Speaker 2: the woman who's on the aisle. I've got the window
Speaker 2: in the middle, and no, sorry, sorry, sorry. So I
Speaker 2: go to the woman who is sitting in a seat
Speaker 2: that's an aisle. That would make it so that Josie
Speaker 2: and I could sit next to other, but I can
Speaker 2: only trade her for a middle but I'm a little desperate.
Speaker 2: I think it's Josie was like four, so it seemed
Speaker 2: weird to have her be alone in an aisle. And
Speaker 2: I think she was looking at me like you absolutely
Speaker 2: canot leave me under any circumstance. And I asked the
Speaker 2: woman and she looked at me.
Speaker 1: But here was it was?
Speaker 2: It was the delivery. She didn't look at me and think, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm torn, I feel really bad. Blah blah blah. She
Speaker 2: took she didn't take out her air pods. She looked up,
Speaker 2: she listened to me. She wouldn't take out of air pods.
Speaker 2: And when I finished, she didn't even take a beat.
Speaker 1: And said no.
Speaker 2: And it was the way she said it.
Speaker 1: She was just like not nice, and it sucked. It
Speaker 1: really sucked. Someone ended up treating ah.
Speaker 2: I went into the middle seat next to her and
Speaker 2: I was, I was, I was full of revenge and
Speaker 2: I am. I pretty much got up to go to
Speaker 2: the bathroom forty five times and made her move her
Speaker 2: little laptop with her little you know, laptops ray up
Speaker 2: and down forty five times, or you do this.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, well, this is Josie. She needs these
Speaker 1: snacks and this is how you press play on her iPad.
Speaker 1: But you gotta skip through this scene here, and it's
Speaker 1: like enjoy, enjoy, my four year old very tricky, I
Speaker 1: do think, because this has happened to me too in
Speaker 1: some of these scenarios. It's not that someone has not
Speaker 1: cared to book seats together. We've just seen this where
Speaker 1: so many flights got canceled. Recently, your flight gets canceled,
Speaker 1: your flight gets pushed, you have to make the connection.
Speaker 1: Now you're booked onto another flight with your family, you're
Speaker 1: all over the place. I think if you're if it's
Speaker 1: not a huge deal to you, If that's not like
Speaker 1: you're a lucky chair, you know, and you can have
Speaker 1: a parent and a little kid together. I do think like,
Speaker 1: at least think about it. At least just think about
Speaker 1: it for a second. I think it's good karma. Although
Speaker 1: there are people listening that will be like, hell no,
Speaker 1: not my problem, and I hear you. I think if
Speaker 1: it's a window for a window, or an aisle for
Speaker 1: an aisle, or even a middle for a middle, like,
Speaker 1: what's the big deal? That's my opinion. Do I think
Speaker 1: it's a big deal when you start to do the
Speaker 1: class thing? Yeah, because you know it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: a first class seat and it's an economy seat. Like
Speaker 1: we've all I mean, it's a first class seat and
Speaker 1: it's an economy seat. Those are different experiences on a plane,
Speaker 1: and someone might not want to give that up.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and they're not just attached to an experiential value.
Speaker 2: It's it's a monetary value. So in this case, for
Speaker 2: this woman whose boyfriend bought her the seat, that was
Speaker 2: it costs more money, and it was it was it
Speaker 2: was a treat.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even think it matters if it's
Speaker 1: like a tree. You know, maybe you're on a business
Speaker 1: trip for the hundredth time and you're in first class,
Speaker 1: like it's you know, you got to talk to the
Speaker 1: airline about that. And I don't know why an air
Speaker 1: host us what do you call them? In the attendant
Speaker 1: is glaring, you know, help reunite the kids together in economy,
Speaker 1: offer up that first class ticket. And I love that.
Speaker 1: This woman, though, is like my son will appreciate this
Speaker 1: experience more than you, Like, what do you know? I
Speaker 1: know little Bobby is too and he needs his gam
Speaker 1: we are and are you talking about maybe she will.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it also, you really have a thing with Bobby's
Speaker 3: I do have another airplane story that I saw on
Speaker 3: TikTok and it was about a woman who was maybe
Speaker 3: like nine months pregnant.
Speaker 1: She had a seat in economy. She saw that one
Speaker 1: of the seats in first class was open, and she
Speaker 1: went to the flight attendant and was like, hey, no,
Speaker 1: one's sitting in that seat. Can I be well, I
Speaker 1: guess upgraded is the term, right, Like, can I can
Speaker 1: I take that seat? The flight attendant said no, Why
Speaker 1: don't know everyone in first class is like, just give
Speaker 1: her the seat? Still said no. Eventually someone ended up
Speaker 1: giving her their first class seat and taking her as
Speaker 1: back an economy. So my question is here, and I
Speaker 1: don't understand this because I already know your answer. I've
Speaker 1: seen this before on flights when there are seats open
Speaker 1: in other classes that are empty, why aren't you filling them? Like?
Speaker 1: Why aren't? Like it doesn't if I paid for a
Speaker 1: first class seat and then I saw someone a seat
Speaker 1: empty and then someone take that seat that had paid
Speaker 1: for an economy ticket or something like that, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: stand up and be like, excuse me, and I'm just checking,
Speaker 1: don't they Like I would not care. I don't desperately
Speaker 1: need that seat to stay open for the flight because
Speaker 1: I've paid the extra money for first class.
Speaker 2: I think they're probably worried about mutiny, like if one
Speaker 2: person just took Like that's why they try and take
Speaker 2: care of all that stuff at the gate, right, Like
Speaker 2: don't you see people where they get called up and
Speaker 2: they get upgraded. I mean there's the because there probably
Speaker 2: shouldn't be empty seats in first class. They should just
Speaker 2: fill those, but they don't. I know, but they can't
Speaker 2: just have people like coming up from economy and plopping
Speaker 2: down there.
Speaker 1: I don't think, well, I'm not talking about a PLoP.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a commerce. Well. No, I'm not just
Speaker 1: saying you know, I'm not saying no. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: like Jan's strolling up and she's like this looks comfy,
Speaker 1: I'll take one. A No, I'm saying like, like, I
Speaker 1: don't know why they don't discreetly maybe go at if
Speaker 1: they see someone like.
Speaker 2: Sneaky Sally sits down.
Speaker 1: If Jan couldn't get it done, maybe.
Speaker 2: Sneaky Sally she just slyly.
Speaker 1: See Kristen Wig when she's like help me, I bore.
Speaker 1: I isn't there a isn't there a system here where
Speaker 1: you get that seat? Maybe I don't think they should
Speaker 1: be left open, Jessica, you on the mall to be
Speaker 1: left open. I don't really care. I mean, I'm like
Speaker 1: I do, I don't really care if.
Speaker 2: They're open, if they're filled, fine, whatever. I just find
Speaker 2: I'm very uncomfortable. I'm very uncomfortable when people get into
Speaker 2: disagreements on a plane. I'm not a terribly claustrophobic person
Speaker 2: in all ways, but on planes, I can get a
Speaker 2: little claustrophobic. And there's something about disagreements on a plane
Speaker 2: that make me feel very claustrophobic, because what the fuck, Like,
Speaker 2: where are you gonna go?
Speaker 1: There's nowhere to.
Speaker 2: You know, figure it out if you will.
Speaker 1: Have you been on a plane where shit's gone down
Speaker 1: a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've gotten into it where there were some harsh words. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah. My husband was on a plane where he
Speaker 2: sat next to this was terrible. He sat next to
Speaker 2: a man that was an acquaintance that you know, we
Speaker 2: his wife and his family, but not close. And he
Speaker 2: gets Christopher gets onto the flight and the guy is drunk,
Speaker 2: like before takeoff, and he proceeds to get louder and
Speaker 2: sort of like more just uninhibited, I guess, yeah, and
Speaker 2: he fully gropes the flight attendant, Yeah, like a hand
Speaker 2: under somewhere I don't know where. He didn't see the
Speaker 2: whole thing, and the flight attendant went away, and then
Speaker 2: when she came back, she came back with reinforcements and
Speaker 2: they kicked him off the plane. Like, he straight up
Speaker 2: got ejected from the plane, likely in the air.
Speaker 1: They hadn't take it off, Okay. I was like, what
Speaker 1: button is that? You're just through the roof? I mean,
Speaker 1: I support it, but like, is there a parachute?
Speaker 2: And wold before they took off? They came on and
Speaker 2: they took him off. But I mean, how horrible number
Speaker 2: one that someone would do that, and number two, what
Speaker 2: terrible luck that we knew.
Speaker 1: Him well not anymore and well he can bye.
Speaker 2: We never liked him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, did you see the guy that asked to
Speaker 1: use the bathroom? Have you seen this? This guy on
Speaker 1: the plane? This has gone viral. It'sky on the plane
Speaker 1: asked if he could use the bathroom. I had not
Speaker 1: taken off yet, but they were doing the fastened seat
Speaker 1: belt signs or maybe it had taken off and it
Speaker 1: was I don't know, but the seat belt sign was
Speaker 1: on and they said, you know, they don't like you
Speaker 1: to get up and use the bathroom. He gets up anyway,
Speaker 1: he undoes his pants, takes out the old dingo yep,
Speaker 1: and peace right in front of whoever it is was
Speaker 1: around him on the floor and what's gone viral. You're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to look this up because it's your
Speaker 1: use our photos that other passengers have taken of. Like
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been out, the ding dong's been blurred out,
Speaker 1: but the peace Stream is in view in these pictures
Speaker 1: and he just peed on the floor and absolutely got
Speaker 1: arrested after. Yes, people, I think I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is about planes, but I feel like people get unhinged.
Speaker 1: There's something about maybe maybe it's you know, there's kind
Speaker 1: of the culture of like you get to your you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if it's like six in the morning,
Speaker 1: you're like, I'll have a mimosa or five. It's like
Speaker 1: there's the drinking culture before you get on the flight,
Speaker 1: and then it's like you're stuckle together and maybe your
Speaker 1: flight's been delayed and you're frustrated. But there's something about
Speaker 1: it's like a pressure cooker situation where people get.
Speaker 2: Unhinged, unhinged, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I've definitely been
Speaker 2: with people who with the kids, especially because you're so
Speaker 2: aware of it. But like some lady was really losing
Speaker 2: your shit, and it was she was on the phone. Honestly,
Speaker 2: I didn't hear the other person's side, but her side.
Speaker 2: It was just they were screaming at each other and
Speaker 2: all the explatives, and I mean I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: there mean a lot of earmuffs, a lot of.
Speaker 1: Covering of ears, a lot. Okay, I do have one
Speaker 1: more story. This one's a little bit juicy. This is
Speaker 1: this one also went viral on a plane. Guy on
Speaker 1: a flight recently sat next to some chick strikes up
Speaker 1: a very loud conversation, clearly married, and is hitting on
Speaker 1: the lady next to him. Okay, is this in fact?
Speaker 1: I want to know from our listeners, is this okay
Speaker 1: to do? This is a scenario. The guy gets on
Speaker 1: a flight, talks to the chick next to him, is married,
Speaker 1: but is talking very loud and clearly starts the conversation
Speaker 1: of hey, we're flirting. Da da da dah. Gives enough
Speaker 1: information about himself that he could be id'd. Talks about
Speaker 1: how once they get off the flight they're gonna hook up,
Speaker 1: they're gonna go and clearly it's an affair in the making.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think at one point maybe they went
Speaker 1: to the bathroom together. Anyway, the woman a few seats
Speaker 1: in front take some pictures put them on the web
Speaker 1: and it's like, is this your dude, because your husband,
Speaker 1: who is this person is hitting and is full on
Speaker 1: ready to have an affair whenever he lands in wherever
Speaker 1: it was. My question is is if you hear an
Speaker 1: affair in the making on a plane, do you feel
Speaker 1: like it's your duty to expose it? Now? Would I
Speaker 1: do it? No? Because you know, like I would say
Speaker 1: hell Mary and hope that lady finds out. But is
Speaker 1: it right?
Speaker 2: What's the end of the story. Did she find Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was plasted all over the web and in two seconds,
Speaker 1: of course that wife was like, this is my husband,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Did not know that that affair
Speaker 1: was about to happen? Wow. My point is is that
Speaker 1: these are the kind of crazy shenanigans going down on flights.
Speaker 1: You got people peeing, You've got people having it, starting
Speaker 1: affairs loudly groping, I mean disgusting. You got people asking
Speaker 1: to you know, I'm gonna sit on your lap and
Speaker 1: in this because I love this seat so much and
Speaker 1: I need to have it. Forty seven B. My question,
Speaker 1: I guess my question is for the call that crew
Speaker 1: with this episode, because we've really gotten into it airplane etiquette.
Speaker 1: Have you been on a flight that has been completely unhinged?
Speaker 1: Hear us in the comments. We want to hear this
Speaker 1: and what happened.