Pet peeve: deboarding an airplane by row

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nope! This happens on 90% of my flights. Crazy making. It's somebody from Row 4 who fancies himself a true gentleman, and he stands up in the aisle, blocking all the folks behind him. He then waits on every single person in row 3 to exit before he will get the eff out of the way.

That's how it's done. Front to back lady. If you want to exit early, pay more for the front of the plane.

Exactly! OP, you are out of line. If everyone behaved likeyou want there would be total chaos.

[Anonymous]

Eye-opening thread. I had no idea all the destitute jackasses from coach rushing the aisle actually consider the issue and think they’re in the right.

No doubt the same folks (generally, underachieving white men) who don’t tip their servers, bicker with staff, refuse to let people merge, sue their neighbors over the fence line.

So glad I’m not you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When it is my turn, I take my turn as quickly and efficiently as possible. I have a hidden disability, but it is still my turn and I am using it appropriately. You can be a jerk all you want, but I’m going to take my turn, and it’s going to take as long as it takes.

You’re not all that important. If you were, you would have had a first class ticket.

What does this even mean? If you're standing in the aisle gathering your things, yes, people should wait and they do. No one will shove you aside. If you're still sitting in your seat or you're standing in the row gathering your things, then people who are standing and ready to move forward will move forward. Are you saying you're going to sit in your seat for as long as you want shouting "It's my turn! I'm taking my turn!"? Because that would be as insane as someone mowing you down while you're standing in the aisle.

I have to scoot to the end of the row and swivel my legs out before standing, check my balance for one moment, reach back to retrieve my personal item from the seat where I’ve scooted it behind me. It doesn’t take long, and I would venture to say I’m still moving faster than the vast majority of people, as I never have overhead baggage. But what may look to you like laziness is actually just me moving at maximum speed and efficiency. I see your glare, though. Good thing I’m in so much overwhelming pain that you are the least of my worries.

Sorry about your hidden disability but why don’t you wait for everyone in the aisle to move forward before standing up? I used to do that when I traveled with a young child who sat by the window.

Um, I do—in the aisle of *my row and the row across from me,* not every aisle passenger on the plane. I usually do have an aisle seat. But because other people perceive that the few extra seconds it takes me to stand and get my balance is “off” or “wrong” or “different,” they get completely huffy, even though as soon as I’m standing, I’m exiting. LIKE I SAID, I take less time than most people, overall, because I am never reaching up to get a bag from the overhead bins. But any nanosecond is a chance for rude, impatient people like OP to huff.

Thank you for your reply. But what’s the problem of letting other people who are already in the aisle (even if they sat in rows behind you) pass, if you know you take longer? Or why not sit by the window or just towards the back of the plane?
When my kid was young I would sit there with him until I saw that all the “fast” people left. Never was a huge problem.
I am not saying you should do it, but to avoid the glares AND to speed up the process a bit, it may be something to consider?

I hope the PP completely ignores you and all the rude a**holes like you.

I am absolutely confident there is nothing in your life so important that you can’t wait 5 seconds for someone to check their balance. You should really consider why you feel 5 seconds of your life is more important that basic civility.

[Anonymous]

I literally just paid to get an aisle seat up front precisely because I have a tight connection.

^^^
That’s what you do when you are in a hurry or simply lack patience to deplane the way commonsense dictates (front to back).

[Anonymous]

I hate it when people rush the door from the back of the plane. It’s rude. I’ve sat in the front, middle and back. Sure I want to get off as quickly as possible, but I wait my turn.

On a recent flight to Germany a woman and her two daughters rushed from the back literally pushing people to the side to get closer to the front. The plane parked at a satellite gate and used stairs instead of a jet bridge. One set of stairs was in the front of the plane and the other in the back- where she was just seated. For her “efforts” she went from being one of the first off to the last off.

[Anonymous]

It’s all the overhead carryons that take forever. We take our time and by the time we’ve use the restroom our bags are waiting for us at baggage claim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s all the overhead carryons that take forever. We take our time and by the time we’ve use the restroom our bags are waiting for us at baggage claim.

And by that point those of us who only brought carry ons and booked seats in the front of the plane are already relaxing at the hotel/back home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When it is my turn, I take my turn as quickly and efficiently as possible. I have a hidden disability, but it is still my turn and I am using it appropriately. You can be a jerk all you want, but I’m going to take my turn, and it’s going to take as long as it takes.

You’re not all that important. If you were, you would have had a first class ticket.

What does this even mean? If you're standing in the aisle gathering your things, yes, people should wait and they do. No one will shove you aside. If you're still sitting in your seat or you're standing in the row gathering your things, then people who are standing and ready to move forward will move forward. Are you saying you're going to sit in your seat for as long as you want shouting "It's my turn! I'm taking my turn!"? Because that would be as insane as someone mowing you down while you're standing in the aisle.

This isn’t that hard. Imagine you’re on a smaller 3 by 3 aircraft. Seats 5 c and 5 d are standing in the aisles waiting to deplane while seats 5a-b and e-f are still sitting in their seats waiting to exit since there isn’t much space. Any civilized person in rows 6 and beyond would wait to allow 5A-B and E-F to stand and exit once 5C and 5D have moved along but then you have barbarians further back in the plane like op who are pissed that 6C and 6D are being “overly courteous” and think because they are already standing in the aisle they are entitled to push their way through, basically just creating a free for all.

Exactly this. The cases where someone is truly being egregiously slow are very rare. I travel a lot, and on the few occasions where someone truly was still “packing up” and not ready to go, they have waved the people behind them on through. But, yes, if you’re in the window seat, it’s going to take you a moment to slide across, stand up and get your carry on out of the overhead. I’ve been in that situation, and basically gotten trapped in my seat by the people behind me who had been sitting in aisle seats charging down the aisle. Yes, sometimes it seems like it’s taking forever for a plane to deboard when you’re sitting in the back, but that’s just how long it takes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s all the overhead carryons that take forever. We take our time and by the time we’ve use the restroom our bags are waiting for us at baggage claim.

And by that point those of us who only brought carry ons and booked seats in the front of the plane are already relaxing at the hotel/back home.

Congratulations? You see the issue here, dipshit? You’re having an aneurysm about people being too slow, and your pressing objective is… to get to an empty hotel room or your house and “relax”?

You’ve gotta be the same guy who lines up with your Group 6 ticket 45 minutes before boarding.

Find something to do with your life other than “being first” in utterly meaningless daily transactions

[Anonymous]

Op is the worst kind of traveller there is. Can’t even imagine how much bad karma s/he has accumulated. Everyone around you despises you as you make the whole system fail with selfishness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s all the overhead carryons that take forever. We take our time and by the time we’ve use the restroom our bags are waiting for us at baggage claim.

I travel with just a backpack. No overhead, no check in. In and out as fast as possible. Yet somehow I still manage to wait my turn to leave and not be a jerk.

[Anonymous]

What did OP do that was so terrible? Good grief. Is being annoyed so bad? He said he wasn’t pushing or even saying anything. He isn’t annoyed at the slow people. He’s annoyed at the White Saviors who virtue signal by holding everyone up behind him to wait on someone who isn’t even ready to get up.

I hate virtue signalers. They are my pet peeve. Proper who love to make a show about how progressive and kind they are. Just move your butt along and get off the damned plane. Save your performance for when I’m not stuck behind your super kind butt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I fly Southwest as much as possible. I'm always in one of the first few rows.

I can't stand watching the human catastrophe that happens the minute the seat belt sign goes off.

First, every white man on the aisle leaps out of his seat and snatches all his crap from the overhead bin. (They never ever put their "personal items" under the seat in front of them.) Then, they stand in the aisle and GLARE at everyone in front of them, which at this point is mostly other white men.

The door opens, and a few white men up front escape. But then there's the older woman in row 3 who can't reach her bag in the overhead. Does the white man huffing and puffing behind her help? No, he shoves past her and the younger woman in the middle seat helps her get her bag down.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Not a white man but if you can’t get your overhead luggage without help you should wait for the crew to assist you or at least for the stream of passengers to subside

Ever seen a FA help anyone with luggage?

They don’t. Ever. They’re not allowed.

[Anonymous]

If the person in front of you is walking into the aisle, you wait.

If the person in front of you is in the aisle getting their carryon from the overhead bin, you wait.

If the person in front of you is not moving into the aisle for whatever reason (just waiting, still packing up), you walk past them.

This is not rocket science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the person in front of you is walking into the aisle, you wait.

If the person in front of you is in the aisle getting their carryon from the overhead bin, you wait.

If the person in front of you is not moving into the aisle for whatever reason (just waiting, still packing up), you walk past them.

This is not rocket science.

Exactly!! I hate it when Mr Blocker decides he’s gonna wait anyway. Keep walking dude. Don’t hold everyone else up behind you. Just because you’re in front doesn’t give you the right to hold everyone up behind you. That is rude.