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45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Not something I overheard, but something semi-interesting nonetheless. I once went and got sushi with my mom and I noticed a guy and a girl at another table very clearly on their first date. They were both dressed very nice, lot of awkward laughter, the guy was being ultra gentlemanly like pulling her chair out for her. You know, just the usual stuff that tips an observer off that they were still very much getting to know each other and wanting to make a good impression.

Fast forward 2 and a half years. I was boarding a plane in Atlanta, GA heading to Colorado with my brother to go skiing when I saw the same couple seated near the back of the plane. I was in the row directly in front of them, so when I put my bag up, I turned to them and said, "This is going to be super weird, but did you guys have your first date at (insert sushi restaurant)?" They both got wide eyed in shock and laughed and told me that they had in fact had their first date there. I told them I was there that night and just happened to recognize them when I boarded the plane. It was friendly and we chit-chatted for a bit, they were going skiing at the same place we were, so it was cool and all.

Day 2 of our trip, my brother and I decide to go to the top of the mountain and take a few of the more advanced slopes down to the bottom. There were maybe a dozen or so people up there, and before taking off we decided to look at the trail map to make sure we were going to get back to where the shuttle could pick us up without having to hike our gear for 2 miles. About 20 feet away from us, a guy got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend and everyone clapped as she jumped up and down with excitement and said "YES!!" They took of their helmets and goggles to kiss, and it was the SAME FREAKING COUPLE!! I literally was there for their first date, met them for the first time on a plane purely by chance because I was sitting in front of them, and was present when he proposed to her. I assume they're still married because at the rate we're going, I'm probably going to run into them again if one of them decides to file for divorce.

JudgementalChair , j Report

Final score:

394points

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Red Lotus 🪷 1 year ago

Let's hope they don't file for divorce, they sound cute.

151points

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Some guy told his partner that she didn't need more yarn and every woman in earshot promptly told him how wrong he was.

KittikatB , Margarida Afonso Report

Final score:

375points

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Red Lotus 🪷 1 year ago

THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH YARN!!

171points

According to Martingano, people are, fundamentally, social beings. "Research in social neuroscience reveals that our brains have something akin to an 'autopilot' setting, referred to as the 'default mode network.' This part of our brain becomes active when we're resting or not focused on another task. Intriguingly, it plays a significant role in processing social information, suggesting we are naturally inclined towards contemplating social situations and interactions," the UW-Green Bay assistant professor explained to Bored Panda via email.

"This includes what others are doing or saying. If we find ourselves on an airplane with little else to do, it is likely that our thoughts will default to people, people we know, or those around us. Additionally, you might find a research study of interest which indicates that, from infancy, human brains are highly attuned to human voices, demonstrating our inherent curiosity in others' conversations."

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I am a pilot for a major airline. Decades ago I was running for a deadhead flight home and managed to snag the last seat. A mother and young daughter were seated next to me.
Halfway through the flight the mother, seeing my disheveled look after flying all day, asked if I wanted her daughters PB&J sandwich that she wasn’t going to eat.
I politely declined, but she insisted.
That was the best Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich I’d ever had!

Delicious_Ad8201 , Douglas Bagg Report

Final score:

358points

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Sunshine Lady 1 year ago

That is soooo sweet ❤️

107points

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Nervous passenger: Excuse me. How often do planes crash?

Flight Attendant: Only once!

Ellie_Llewellyn , Lukas Souza Report

Final score:

304points

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Red Lotus 🪷 1 year ago

This is the kind of flight attendant I want on my flight 😆

112points

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share 😳on my flight to Denver, a really nice woman sat beside me. We can just started chit chatting about flying and how excited we both are to get to Denver. She asked me why I was going to Denver, and I said because I’m going to see my cousin get married. Then I asked her. She told me she is going so that she can go back to her old childhood home and kill herself. I was shocked, and didn’t know what to say. She continued on with why- that’s the house she was continually beaten in and sexually assaulted by her father staring at the age 4. She told me how much shes suffered and can’t continue on. I just sat there not even realizing I was holding her hand, and told her how truly sorry I am for her. She just half smiled and said thank you, and the pain will be over soon. Now many of you may react or feel in different ways to what I did next. I went and told the flight attendants that I was sitting next to a very suicidal person. I gave them very little detail but enough to make some action. Upon landing in DEN, the flight was met by emergency services. The lady somehow figured it out that they were there for her. She turned cold and numb said nothing but walked right to the awaiting ambulance.😵‍💫I hope she is ok🙏🏽

Jayflys787 , Tim Gouw Report

Final score:

274points

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Tam illo 1 year ago

As someone who was suicidal myself, I think it's good that this person called emergency services. I know from experience that the psych ward is awefull but I still glad I went there instead of acting on these destructive thoughts.

238points

Meanwhile, we were curious about why some people feel guilty when they overhear someone's private conversation. Martingano shed some light on this. "Studies suggest that guilt tends to emerge when we believe we've infringed upon social norms or expectations. Although eavesdropping can offer insightful information about our social environment, it can also be perceived as a violation of these norms, particularly those pertaining to privacy," she said.

As with most things, eavesdropping has its fair share of upsides and downsides. According to Martingano, one of the potential benefits is that eavesdropping can "serve as an opportunity to refine our theory of mind," which is the foundational element of empathy. "In this context, eavesdropping can help us practice identifying norms and behavioral cues, ultimately enhancing our ability to navigate social interactions," the social psychologist explained.

Meanwhile, on the negative side of the scales, you have the discomfort or guilt that you might feel from violating social norms and someone's privacy. It's also essential to take the information you hear with a grain of salt. "It's crucial to bear in mind that overheard information may be incomplete or misconstrued, potentially leading to misunderstandings or false impressions," Martingano said.

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Two older guys in my row on the way to an academic conference. One of them mentions that the first thing he is doing is attending lecture on some esoteric physics topic, but before he can even finish the name of the topic, guy #2 says "oh, of course: The Effects of co-limited tesseracts on quantum membrane string interactions (or somesuch physics jargon.) Are you familiar with the topic?" Guy #1 gets half way through saying "well actually I-" before he is cut off by guy #2 who says "Because, you see, most people, even in the field are woefully undereducated in this particular subject..." and then proceeds to talk guy #1's head off for about ten minutes. Guy #1 just nots and smiles patiently through the whole exchange. At the end of his missive, guy #2 says "So, the lecture is being given by Dr. So-and-So, one of the leaders in the field, and absolute legend. Do you know his work?" And, of course, guy #1 puts on a very kind but somewhat sheepish look and says "Actually, I am Professor So-and-So: your understanding of the field is actually quite good!" Guy #2 turns red as a tomato for a few seconds but seemed to get over it quickly and they spent the rest of the flight casually talking shop about theoretical physics.

StyrkeSkalVandre , Hanson Lu Report

Final score:

257points

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Dani M 1 year ago

Science meet cute

89points

DeousPascitCorvos , Renzelle Mae Abasolo Report

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Not so much what he said, but I sat next to this fully grown man that was playing plants vs zombies the whole 3 hour flight with incredible enthusiasm. Everytime a plant got eaten or he killed a difficult zombie he'd jump in his seat, pump his fist and aggressively whisper yeerrsss, YEERRSSS, gert em yessss....

Final score:

250points

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

Aww...

70points

SlashingSimone , Gerrie van der Walt Report

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Flying domestic US. Two oldish ladies spent the whole flight talking about how ugly my husband is, in French. I guess they assumed no one could speak it. We can.

Final score:

240points

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Miss Revelle 1 year ago

I would have asked them in French, "And where are your handsome husbands?"

160points

Any time that you take a large group of people and plop them in an area that’s cut off from the rest of the world for any amount of time, you create some friction. This can lead to positive interactions like complete strangers sowing the seeds of friendship because one of them’s reading a book the other one likes.

Or it can lead to conflict as someone wants to recline their seat but there’s not enough space, someone's listening to music too loudly… or someone’s desperate to use the bathroom right this very second and the entire plane is privy to their pain. There are a lot of emotions swirling up above the clouds, and they make for good stories once the passengers disembark at their final destination.

#10

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share A 5 year old boy once said "Dad, can you ask them to pull over so I can go to the toilet?". Haha

RonnyLuvsU , Steven Thompson Report

Final score:

233points

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Nina 1 year ago

😅

33points

#11

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Not that crazy but a fun story.

Last December I was flying from Frankfurt to Chicago and was seated in the absolute last row of the plane where the staff prepares stuff so you can hear them just chatting with each other.

Right before takeoff I heard one of the flight attendants say to another “is that thing **still** broken?? I swear they’ll never get around to repairing it” which is not something you want to hear on a flight. The guy next to me was like “did you hear that?” looking at me like wtf I hope nothing major is broken. The attendants then said something like “well at least it’s not maggots this time” and me and the guy next to me were thoroughly concerned about how this flight would go.

After laughing it off, I spent the next 9 hours chatting to this complete stranger about our entire lives, relationships, family drama etc. We had four glasses of wine and decided to watch the matrix together making sure to pause whenever the other person paused. I don’t think we exchanged names, but if you’re out there guy from Wisconsin living in Italy and teaching English, thanks for the most fun flight I’ve ever had!

Kalzone4 , Lukas Souza Report

Final score:

221points

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StrangePenguin 1 year ago

that’s so awesome!

55points

#12

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I sat in front of a kid (12-13) and his older sister, who I assume was his guardian. It was a cross-country flight, and the kid was casually talking about how he had never flown before and he is looking forward to it. He seemed likely on the spectrum a bit. It is pretty wholesome so far. Then the plane starts to move and he instantly freaks all the way out, screaming, "WE ARE ALL GOING TO F*****G DIE!!! Let me off this plane, it's a f*****g coffin, you're all going to die. It's going to be a f*****g fireball." Etc.

The stewardess comes by and tries to calm him down. The sister is talking to him in English and Spanish, trying to get him to relax, telling him he is embarrassing her, she's never taking him to Puerto Rico if he keeps acting like this, etc. The guy in front of me turns around and loudly offers the kid Xanax. Finally, the hero of the story, a big Southern black lady says, "James (not his name) honey I'm gonna need you to calm down sweetie 'cause you're making all the rest of us real nervous now, ok?"

Eventually, and for no noticable reason the kid relaxes and starts talking about how cool flying is. Like a switch, he starts looking out the window, saying things like, "Wow! The view is really cool! I feel safe now, everything is OK after all." Audible collective sigh of relief.

Where was his sister flying him to? Astronaut camp. I think about him every time I fly.

cjthepossum , Vignesh Moorthy Report

Final score:

217points

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️ ️lefty libra️ (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)

yeaaaa i was on my first flight couple weeks ago. yea i got two panic attacks and i almost passed out but were all good now

65points

At times, it’s impossible not to overhear a fellow plane passenger if they’re talking very loudly or even yelling. Other times, our curiosity kicks in and we start to eavesdrop on strangers’ conversations. Before we know it, our minds are filled with saucy details about their personal lives.

According to Maddie Cohen, writing for Umbrella Security Services, eavesdropping is entirely natural—it’s a primal part of us. Being aware of our surroundings is useful because it helps keep us, our loved ones, and our property safe. Knowledge really is power. And you can learn a lot by actively listening to your surroundings.

However, there’s another reason why folks eavesdrop: it’s fun! It can be incredibly entertaining to learn about the hidden aspects of people’s lives. Listening in on a conversation is basically like watching a real-time soap opera (though perhaps with slightly poorer editing…).

#13

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Way too late for anyone to see this and it wasn't so much overheard as said to me:

I was flying alone and this little girl (maybe 5) wandered down the aisle and said hello.

I asked where her parents were and she said they died and a police officer was flying with her to take her to her aunt. My brain was not able to conjure any response at all apart from " errr.... sorry" she asked if she could look out my window so I moved over to the aisle seat and let her, me continuously looking for a cop that she might be travelling with.

She then told me how her parents were driving back from a party last week and their car got pushed off the road by a truck into a tree. She was quietly crying while telling me this story. Suddenly I hear "oh there you are" from the aisle. There's a woman standing there.

The girl says "hello mommy" and leaves with her.

Soopercow , Jeremy Kwok Report

Final score:

217points

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JB 1 year ago

The kid wasn't necessarily bullshitting. Young children who go through trauma like losing their parents can often generalise terms like mommy and daddy to the people who care for them in the aftermath. It's actually very likely that this girl applied the term to the police officer/CPS worker traveling with her.

124points

#14

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share “I’ve told you many times Brenda, I am not shaving my balls! It’s my balls and I’m a man!”

EngineeringVirgin , Brett Jordan Report

Final score:

206points

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Miss Revelle 1 year ago (edited)

Brenda: Keep that same energy when you want me to shave my legs and armpits!

119points

#15

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Delayed for some issue. I hear banging on what I assume is a luggage door underneath. After several minutes I hear “f**k it we’ll fix it in Pittsburgh” 😳

Dugsage , Calle Macarone Report

Final score:

197points

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Nina 1 year ago

Aaaaaaah

44points

Quartz points out that eavesdropping is something all of us have done, and may actually make us better people. According to language science professor John Locke, the author of ‘Eavesdropping: An Intimate History,’ all of us have to be geared up for eavesdropping because we live in complicated social arrangements and compete with others.

“Monkeys generally are very watchful and not just by eye, but by ear. They recognize on some level that they need to know things that others are unlikely to want them to know. We can assume that the very earliest humans, or proto-humans, were like that as well,” Locke told Quartz.

The professor points out that “there is no group of people in the world, no society that doesn’t do this [eavesdrop], and that hasn’t been doing this for recorded history—even recorded art depicting people with an ear to the keyhole. It’s an extraordinarily strong motive. Some people do it all the time. Others claim that they don’t do it, but we’re all a bit interested whenever we realize that we’re about to receive a few clues about what some people who don’t want to be observed are doing.”

#16

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Not that “crazy” as such but when literally about to touch down, a lady got up and started walking urgently towards the bathroom.

The cabin crew immediately started saying “Madam! We’re about to land! You have to sit down!”

The lady responded by screaming in a panic “I’M GONNA S**T ME-SELF!!!”

They allowed her to continue

ChangingMonkfish , Pascal Meier Report

Final score:

189points

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Red Lotus 🪷 1 year ago

The only appropriate response.

104points

#17

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I was flying to Seattle from Atlanta and there was a baby crying for the majority of the flight. The parents were doing their best and it really was not their fault, just a s****y situation. About halfway to Seattle, the man seated in front of the baby snapped and started screaming at the baby and his parents, cursing at them saying how they’re awful parents and he’s gonna beat them all (including the baby) to a pulp when they land. A flight attendant tried to ask the guy to calm down and he said he would also beat her up. The pilot had to come on and tell everyone to calm down or else we had to make an early landing. We made it to Seattle and the guy ended up having to be tackled by 4 cops at the gate because he was trying to run away after being approached by them.

_surya_p_ , Paul Hanaoka Report

Final score:

184points

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Jesse Setliffe 1 year ago

He tried to run from four cops? In an airport? Wow...you know I'm trying, but I can't see a scenario where that ends well for him.

122points

#18

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share This isn't "crazy" but its definitely the most fun I've had on a plane:

This guy introduced himself as "Caribbean Boy," chatted with nearly everyone on the plane, asked them what their plans were, complimented everyone, then started singing (Bob Marley type stuff). He had most of the passengers clapping along, everyone was smiling. Most charismatic man I ever met.

jdmillar86 , Aleksei Zaitcev Report

Final score:

180points

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

Sounds lovely

49points

White Sauce Hot Sauce 1 year ago

Except for the people trying to sleep.

8points

Donna Peluda 1 year ago

Unless you don't like Reggie. Plans are small confined spaces. Be polite, be considerate and shut the fffff up unless it's a medical emergency.

6points

Stephanie Did It 1 year ago

Do you mean Reggae?

1point

Nancy Marine 1 year ago

You just met the main character.

6points

Linda van A. 1 year ago

This is my nightmare.

4points

Skim Beebles 1 year ago

That would annoy the c**p out of me.

2points

Mørkesverd 1 year ago

Yup. Headphones on, eyes out the window.

2points

Fenchurch 1 year ago

Sounds like a nightmare to me!

2points

Sammy 1 year ago

NO JOKE AS SOON AS I FINISHED READING THIS SOMEONE BEHIND ME IN A TRAIN STARTED PLAYING HAPPY BIRTHDAY BY STEVIE WONDER🤯

2points

John Harrison 1 year ago

Caribbean Boy is why I spent so much money on my noise-cancelling headphones.

1point

Marcela Mikulová 1 year ago

Was he high? Sounds like that...

1point

AlyDawn 1 year ago

My husband's personal hell

1point

KariAdoresHerKats 1 year ago

Every trip should have a Caribbean boy on it

1point

Vermonta 1 year ago

Better than nuns singing

0points

RayRayBean 1 year ago

He is the main character

0points

jiggy majiggy 1 year ago

I would have shut him up quickly I'm African boy but I don't take it upon myself to be the centre of attention

0points

PolymathNecromancer 1 year ago

This is a really cool picture

0points

Verena Abt 1 year ago

We once had a man in the last row singing all songs from all Bob Marley albums, all the way from Kingston to London.

0points

#19

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share On a flight from Honolulu to LA, I hear a woman say, “Why are there so many white people on this plane?”

Poultrygeist74 , Kenny Eliason Report

Final score:

174points

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Little king trash mouth 1 year ago

I swear some people don't realize you CAN keep thoughts to yourself. Not everything needs to be vocalized.

125points

#20

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I was flying solo into Orlando. The woman next to me was so excited about her new boyfriends boat and was going on and f*****g on about how excited she was for this trip.

I nodded and put my headphones in and about 1 minute later, she grabbed the cord on my headphone and pulled it out of my ear so she could blather on about it...

I asked her if she had lost her mother f*****g mind.

_joeBone_ , Laura Thonne Report

Final score:

170points

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Jesse Setliffe 1 year ago

Some people just can't take a hint.

71points

#21

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Hour long plane trip from Dothan Alabama to Atlanta. Sat in front of 2 guys arguing the validity of demon possession. One believed that it wasn't a possession per se, but merely the devil interfering with your thoughts. The other believed it was an actual demon possession, and he knew people that did exorcisms which solved the problem. It was a fascinating philosophical discussion. I was entertained for the full hour.

The world is different down south.

nick717 , Alev Takil Report

Final score:

169points

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Mouse 1 year ago

If ever there was a time to spin your head around Beattlejuice style that would have been it.

57points

#22

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Two mormon missionaries trying to convert the sweet, naive man sitting between them the entire flight.

floweringsouls , Gianna Bonello Report

Final score:

163points

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Red Wyvern Emperor 1 year ago

The plane would be two people lighter if I was that unfortunate.

125points

#23

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Sitting next to a young woman and her boyfriend on a flight about to depart to San Diego. They were going for a romantic getaway, and apparently she decided to “find God” on the way to the airport. What did that mean? Well, she decided that they weren’t having anymore sex until he married her, but kissing, hand holding and other PG rated intimacy were perfectly ok.

Boyfriend tried his best not to flip out, but you could tell he was very agitated. An hour later we’re in the air and they’re both awkwardly sitting there without saying a word. She gasps and starts crying rather loudly. Apparently he logged into the planes WiFi, canceled the hotel and booked himself a turnaround flight home. Pretty sure they were done as well.

KidPowered17 , Sofia Sforza Report

Final score:

162points

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Sunshine Lady 1 year ago

You can't change the boundaries just like that, girl.

36points

#24

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Pilot accidentally left the intercom switch on. The whole plane heard him say “Ooo. That’s weird”. Nothing else. Plane took off amid varying levels of anxiety throughout the cabin. I’m here to tell the tale today, so thankfully it wasn’t too weird!

Traffodil , Rayyu Maldives Report

Final score:

162points

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jessica r 1 year ago (edited)

He was doing the Monty Python pilot prank https://youtu.be/LR2C-UK3Wxg

64points

#25

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share “There’s a bomb on the plane, it’s going to go off at (insert time here)”

(as the time he said approached)

“Ten, nine, eight…”

The police were waiting for him when we got there.

RummazKnowsBest , Nabilah Saleh Report

Final score:

154points

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1 year ago

sorry what!

30points

#26

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share When i was 16 i was taking a flight from Oslo to Stockholm, around 45 minutes. Before lift off, the guy in front of me( around 30 years old) broke up with his gf who sat next to me……. They yelled so much and loudly during that flight I had the worst head ache when we landed. Why not just wait 45 minutes?

Edit: Wow, 1k upvotes. Thank you 😊

Panzerpython , Ina Carolino Report

Final score:

144points

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Monday 1 year ago

Because she's captive. On the plane he can get out everything he wants/needs to say whereas on the ground she could have just walked away.

53points

#27

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I was in window seat, lady next to me daughter on isle side

She kept saying see you can see the earth is really flat from up here. No curve at all etc

It was like she wanted me to go oh wow you're right

B***h if you think the earth is flat i don't think you understand gravity enough but some how trust a plane?

Kahela , Matthew Huang Report

Final score:

135points

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StrangePenguin 1 year ago

on a plane you can clearly see that the earth curves

100points

#28

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Once I was flying between two Australian cities, and there were a bunch of highly manicured young men sitting in front of me. They looked somewhat familiar, but I couldn't place them. Naturally, I spent the entire flight trying to figure out who they were, mostly by looking between the seats while they were texting their friends.

I saw them write a bunch of messages to mates about how much "they didn't want to hang out with us" and "they just spend all their time in their rooms".

It wasn't until we landed and I walked out into a room of screaming teenage girls - signs and selfies at the ready, that I placed that we'd been sitting directly behind Five Seconds of Summer - an Australian boy band which was reaching popularity at the time. I can only assume they were texting about the band they were touring with - a little known outfit called One Direction.

MongooseBrigadier , Marten Bjork Report

Final score:

128points

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Susan Green 1 year ago

Who sits behind someone and reads their text messages? It’s none of your business.

54points

#29

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share My competitor's entire sales plan for a prospect I was on my way to visit. Definitely helped my pitch.

HavingNotAttained , Bambi Corro Report

Final score:

127points

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Mouse 1 year ago

One of the reasons I never do work on a plane.

32points

#30

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share passenger 1 - i cant wait to get there, this party is gonna be insane

passenger 2 - did you hear, jose's estranged wife is gonna be there

passenger 1 - why is she estranged?

passenger 2 - because shes strange, and hes mexican

AgentLead_TTV , Annie Williams Report

Final score:

126points

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Rivers of Belief 1 year ago

Hahahaha

34points

UpToNoGood140 , Inés Álvarez Fdez Report

#31

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share “We aren’t cleared to taxi at the moment. We should be taking off within an hour.”

Final score:

124points

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StrangePenguin 1 year ago

said at 8:52

16points

#32

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share "Ladies and gentlemen, we've been facing some strong headwinds and... it appears we burned up a *little* more fuel than we anticipated so we will be making a diversion to Fiji."

This was flying from the US to Australia in a 747. I had seen on the trip map that we had been flying in the wrong direction for like 2+ hours. When we did land we landed hard and they told us that because of the landing we had to sit on the ground with the engines off in Fiji in the summer while technicians looked at the plane.

When we were airborne again, our destination was fogged out and we diverted from Sydney to Melbourne. I don't ever want to spend 26 hours on a plane again.

thrax_mador , Raden Prasetya Report

Final score:

123points

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Chocolate llama 1 year ago

when it's by air but the pilot knows a shortcut

51points

#33

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share A guy coming home early to bust a cheating wife. He was on the phone with a friend/family who told him the other guy was at his house abd they didn't expect him back until the next week.

mauore11 , Chris Moore Report

Final score:

122points

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Nina 1 year ago

Ouch..

45points

Alternative-Yak-8657 , Christopher Ott Report

#34

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I was sitting next to a father with his small child. The child wouldn't stop hopping around, until the father said "sit still and be a good boy or the plane will crash because of you and we will end up dying."
Never seen a kid so quiet before.

Final score:

121points

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SpaceFrog 1 year ago

That is so messed up.

157points

#35

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I was sat next to a teenage boy and his dad. The kid was telling his dad how much he loved the song “sexual healing” by Marvin Gaye, when the kid was finally done talking the dad just looked at him and said “you’re a virgin”

itsrae2you , Florencia Simonini Report

Final score:

117points

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troufaki13 1 year ago

He can still appreciate a good song though :)

72points

#36

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share "He's 17!" - my dad, to the flight attendant who was about to serve me a Jack & Coke instead of the Coke I had asked for. Killjoy.

ZormkidFrobozz , Lukas Ballier Report

Final score:

116points

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Me 1 year ago

My friend was served a gin tonic instead of tonic water at a restaurant when she was 12, they realised after she mentioned how different it tastes in another country when the glass was nearly empty.

64points

clever_whitty_name , Omar Prestwich Report

#37

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Ohh. I got this one...

Passenger W is struggling to get his luggage into the overhead compartment and passenger E seated next to me starts getting upset. W's carry-on clearly doesn't fit.

E speaks up saying to be careful because his luggage is there. Flight attendant comes over and says passenger W needs to check his bag. W grows increasingly disturbed, but it works out.

Then W says to the flight attendant "I'm sorry, it's just that I haven't taken my medication. I get so nervous with all these body bags on board. You know I have body parts in my luggage."

Passenger E turns to me and says, "did you hear that? I just have a laptop in my luggage!"

Final score:

107points

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StarlightPanda! 1 year ago

Wtf. o_O;

36points

#38

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I overheard a passenger passionately arguing with their seatmate about the correct way to eat a slice of pizza with chopsticks.

zaramarley07 , Pinar Kucuk Report

Final score:

106points

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Sunshine Lady 1 year ago

The pizza on the picture looks awesome

68points

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#39

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Sat next to a college guy once who , while drinking some alcoholic beverages, started crying and telling me he killed his best friend in a drunk driving accident. Because he had good lawyers he got off wo jail time. He was sobbing and drinking. When we landed I made sure he was NOT driving.

MarleneFrancais , Gus Ruballo Report

Final score:

97points

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Monday 1 year ago (edited)

You'll probably find it was his parents that hired the lawyers to get him off thinking they were doing him a favor. There was a similar story on reddit a while back with a vastly different outcome. If I remember correctly the kid hit another car while driving drunk (other person only had minor injuries though) and the wealthy parents paid the best lawyers in the city to come up with a defense to get their kid off, but the kid ended up confessing to everything, apologizing and accepting their punishment.

51points

#40

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share A small child once told me that she had to fix the plane by lifting the armrest up and down. She also called me a dog-headed boy girl.

Roasted.

Prag-O-Matic , Steven Coffey Report

Final score:

97points

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SpaceFrog 1 year ago

Horrid child.

52points

#41

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I was sitting next to a dad and his daughter who was about 5. He was super cool and was chatting away while his daughter started talking to me. She was so sweet and bubbly. And gave wayyy to much information to me. She said something along the lines of " I went to my grandma and grandpas house and they're married, I wish my dad would marry my mom but they can't talk to each other but I always wish they were married like my grandma and grandpa." Her dad would have been horrified. And I was just sad.

lpcoolj1 , Kenny Eliason Report

Final score:

95points

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

On my daughter's zoom class (2nd grade) this one little girl was always like 'my uncles here. He's sleeping on the couch. His wife left cause he's a gambler" in this high little voice lol.I don't know how the teacher kept a straight face she was like "Thank you Jordan but that is not on topic"

50points

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#42

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share "Yo, are those snakes OK back there?"

Damolisher2 , Alev Takil Report

Final score:

91points

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

I don't know about them, but I for one am sick of these motherlovin' snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!

53points

#43

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Before takeoff, after the doors were closed, a kid of about 6/7 yrs old towards the front of the plane stood up on his seat, faced the rest of the plane and yelled “we’re all gonna dieee” while his parents tried to pull him back down.

leafygirl , Hanson Lu Report

Final score:

89points

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Red Lotus 🪷 1 year ago

Lol, the first time I rode on a plane I shrieked at the top of my voice when we were taking off "Slow down, slow down!!"

48points

#44

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share The absolute mayhem that broke out when the captain announced that we were in fact not gonna get to take off because of night air traffic restrictions at our destination after we had been sitting and waiting in the aircraft for 2 hours already...
That entire evening was just a great mess, first we had to wait for a flight attendant who was called from stand by, then we finally got to board the plane, but apparently the airline had a severe ground staff shortage so there was no one to get the luggage onto the plane, when the luggage was there we didn't have a tow, then the captain told us we wouldn't get landing clearance at our destination but that we couldn't deplane either, because, well, ground staff shortage, and the only guy who was allowed to attach the jetbridge was busy with other planes, so we sat there for another 2 hours, absolute horror for the flight attendants, cause people were raging and didn't understand that the airline employees pn the plane had nothing to do with rescheduling/ compensation/ or the reasons for this mess in general...
I actually kinda enjoyed the whole thing, turned out to become a little adventure, I got to transfer to another airport in the city, spent the night there and flew out with a better airline the next morning, paid by the original airline + cancellation compensation, but man poor flight attendants

2hahahha2 , Dan Gold Report

Final score:

83points

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Mouse 1 year ago

Years back my dad was on a flight forced to sit on tarmac for 5+ hours. The airline CEO was on the same flight. He ordered pizza delivery to the actual plane. Enough for the whole plane.

66points

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#45

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share I was on a flight and happen to glance over and see the phone of the guy sitting next to me. He was scrolling tik tok and watched some clip of a girl dancing in revealing clothing. I’m not even convinced the girl in the video was of age, but anyways, this like 50 year old dude just comments “Yummy!” and then keeps scrolling.

W_4ca , Javier Cañada Report

Final score:

68points

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Red Lotus 🪷 1 year ago

114points

#46

Everyone is boarded and the plane is in the middle of the taxi when a kid about 10 seats up and on the left side (I was on right side) starts crying and screaming at the top of his lungs "I NEED TO POOP" and "I'M GOING TO POOP" over and over again until the seatbelt signs came off. I've never seen so many worried faces and the look of panic as the mother picked up the kid and bolted to the toilet.

cmcorms Report

Final score:

41points

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#47

On a charter flight from Goa to the UK

"He's taking Ecstasy, and he has a knife in his bag," said an old couple to the stewardess, referring to me.

I said, "I don't have a knife, I'm taking vallium. I just want to go to sleep"

Stewardess believed me & moved the couple.

BigMushroomCloud Report

Final score:

40points

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Okokok! 1 year ago

10 minutes later OP started a Rave party ;)

20points

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#48

Just happened last week.

Our flight crew was definitely not happy and there were a lot of difficult people on the flight. The vibes were bad before we even took off.

As we began our descent the flight crew just went to the back of the plane and proceeded to do *nothing*. I was sitting at the very back. They were just hanging out, openly talking about how they were “done” and couldn’t wait to land. And then they made one of the craziest announcements I’ve ever heard:

“Ladies and gentlemen we’ll be doing the honor system today, please make sure your neighbors have their seatbelts on and things stowed away.”

I would say that 90% of the people on the plane had headphones on, or didn’t heart it, or ignored it, or didn’t speak English. The other 10% were looking around like “what the f**k?”

And then we hit the worst turbulence I’ve ever experienced while flying. No warning but *this s**t happens during landing* and tons of people didn’t have their seatbelts on, nothing was stowed, there had been no trash collection, and at least five people were in the aisles getting things from overhead or trying to use the bathroom. These five people becoming human sized projectiles. All the flight crew did was shout from the back of the plane. Which…at that point was probably all they could do. One dumbass was like “I fly all the time, we aren’t even *close* to landing.” He proceeded to open an overhead compartment and immediately get taken out by a bag that had shifted.

Anyway it was a huge f*****g mess. Stuff and people were going everywhere for about five minutes and then we landed. And then people just started chaotically grabbing things and trying to rush off the plane which caused numerous arguments. Kids were screaming. Etc.

It was by far one of the stupidest most avoidable things I have ever experienced in my life. A very real “omg I can’t believe I might die with these a******s” moment.

I’ve also never seen that much trash and general debris all over the inside of a plane before, let alone on a *2 hour flight*.

anon Report

Final score:

39points

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Penny Hernandez 1 year ago

The flight crew would have been in the cockpit. I think the OP meant the cabin crew.

13points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#49

Two guys next to me gloating to each other about how they brutally beat their wife and kids. Then they went on to discuss what would be a reasonable cause to murder them, like if they cheated or stole from you or something. They were giggling like schoolchildren. They definitely did not realize I spoke Spanish and probably thought I couldn't understand them.

Edit: I was like 14/15, there was no way I had the balls to say anything to those guys or report anything

frogvscrab Report

Final score:

35points

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AnxiT-Rex 1 year ago

Some people just make me sick

11points

#50

An old couple, like in their 70s on their way to Florida getting into an argument, and the wife just started bawling out of nowhere. The husband didn't want to buy her a cocktail.

She started talking about divorce after the vacation and he was just laughing. He even said "you do this every time we get on a plane."

He did eventually buy her the gin and tonic though.

gonzagylot00 Report

Final score:

34points

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Maggie Stephenson 1 year ago

Divorce over a cocktail?

2points

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#51

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share The lady beside me told me that she was farting a lot, and she didn’t care about telling me because she wouldn’t see me again

Pawpaw-22 , Hanson Lu Report

Final score:

32points

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Auntriarch 1 year ago

That's just mean.

15points

#52

Not that interesting but I was going through security and the guy in front of me had this really fancy looking box that got taken to look at, it went missing at some point and As I was putting my shoes on I heard him very stressedly scream “WHERE DID YOU PUT MY FATHERS ASHES?!”

kinfloppers Report

Final score:

32points

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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

How did he lose them?

2points

#53

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Have a buddy who’s flown many many times and is comfortable with it, but he said one time he heard an older (80’s) lady talking about how easy it would be for her to sneak a bomb on the plane. She apparently went into detail with her “gals” about how exactly she would do it. He said he didn’t really worry bc it sounded like she was joking but it made him uneasy because of how simple she made it sound lol.

lkzzzzz , Kelly Report

Final score:

31points

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

Thank you for not passing on what he heard.

7points

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#54

Last time I went on a plane the people infront of me where talking loud enough for me to hear and I was bored so I listened in on their conversation

Apparently they had smuggled a rare snake onto the plane to sell to a buyer they found in Australia

s0me-stranger Report

Final score:

30points

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SpaceFrog 1 year ago

I hope you reported it. That's terrible.

43points

#55

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share Two guys daring each other to seduce one of the flight attendants

anon , ismail mohamed - SoviLe Report

Final score:

30points

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Małgorzata Nowaczyk 1 year ago

🤮

24points

#56

Sitting on a plane in Chicago, waiting for take-off. There was a delay so the guy across the aisle was talking on his phone, very loudly. He looked familiar, amd was wearing a hat from a company in my hometown. I end up overhearing his entire conversation in which he proceeded to s**t talk my brother, whom he indirectly works with. We were over 500 miles from home. He was using full names, details that couldn't be misconstrued, it was hilarious. I wanted to call him out on it but he looked a lot crazy so I kept quiet.

SomeoneSomewhere5 Report

Final score:

29points

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AlexJ 1 year ago

I'd call the brother and put him on speaker so he can also enjoy the conversation about him.

8points

BurlyJoesBudgetEnema Report

#57

A 2 hour domestic argument circling around the man's "arrogance" and the woman's "bitchiness"

They were told before take off if they didn't cut their s**t they'd be kicked off the plane, and they did until about 20 mins after take off, then they were just bitching at each other the entire flight

They were going to Croatia to see the man's "homeland" as he called it, but I got the impression this was a recent revelation as she kept correcting him on his own family history. "Your grampa wasn't from _______, dumbass, he was from _____"

I wanted the plane to crash

Final score:

29points

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TheGoodBoi 1 year ago

Hearing the dumbass part would make me giggle lol

1point

#58

On an Aegean Flight from Athens, and a baby/toddler kicked apparently was repeatedly kicking the guy's chair in front of him The guy got up and was angry, threatened to kill the baby. The other father yelled back threatened to press charges, and they were yelling and ready to fight. They had to be separated. The flight continued and by the end of the trip, they apologized and it was resolved.

ttjclark Report

Final score:

27points

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Stardust she/her 1 year ago

Went through a whole character arc in a few hours

28points

#59

I had a seat near the lavatory.

Some poor bastard was in a rush to use it, and once he got inside, it sounded like he fired up a chainsaw followed by some alarming gurgling, gushing noises. It took a while for him to come out, but he seemed okay.

MasterClown Report

Final score:

23points

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Peppy 1 year ago

🤢

4points

#60

“Want me to kick his a*s?!” Said by the friend of a man who kept refusing to turn his phone off before takeoff. Pilot had to come back and warn him it was his last chance. The passenger next to him kept telling the FA he had his phone on still. Everything seemed settled and then randomly toward the end of the flight the two parties involved decided a fight was in order and a light brawl occurred somewhere near Las Vegas. Once we landed at LAX we went right to the gate and they were arrested and taken off the plane.

PioneerDingus Report

Final score:

21points

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Hugh Cookson 1 year ago

'Light brawl' - love it !!

3points

#61

Not exactly overheard, but I had a guy sit next to me on a plane when I was about 14 and he was absolutely sloshed, he even told me he went to just about every bar in the airport before the flight, and then let me know all about some wedding he was going to. He even asked me for some of the candy I was eating.. But the best part was that he let me know the wedding gift he was bringing was a humming bird carcass, and that he had a machete in his suitcase? It turned out he was in the wrong seat, by the way. The plane had not even taken off and he managed to tell me all this before he was moved.

dilfenjoyer77766 Report

Final score:

21points

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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 1 year ago

How on Earth did a machete get past security?

6points

#62

Nothing too crazy. A couple in their 50's who were all over each other (like tongues in ears, hands in pants etc). They were busy working out the logistics of their next getaway. They were both cheating on their partners and laughing at how gullible their SO's were believing another "business trip" would come up so soon.

Running_zombie_ Report

Final score:

19points

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StarlightPanda! 1 year ago

That's horrible.

28points

#63

I was once next to this young kid, his dad, mom, and I think one other kid. I’m looking at the kid play on his iPad and playing this guitar game, when I hear the mom tell the dad, “You cheated on me again!?” She starts to hit him and he completely disregards it, and she says again, “Why did you do it again?”

SinisterShad0w Report

Final score:

19points

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

I hate people who cheat on guitar games.

10points

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#64

I lived in Thailand and the sex tourism there really can't be overstated. So so many ugly old white dudes with young Thai women.

Anyway I was flying from Chang Mai to Bangkok with an overweight pasty white guy who I assumed was with a prostitute. They were arguing about money and I heard him say, "I gave it all to you. Then he started taking out bills and just shoved them in her face. He eventually scoffed and gave me a look like, "Ugh whores, what can you do eh buddy?".

Final score:

19points

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StarlightPanda! 1 year ago

That's really sad..

18points

Dropped_Croissant_ Report

#65

I once was flying back home from Washington DC on a relatively short flight. The woman sitting next to me had a whole bunch of angry, profanity filled texts and emails open that were written to her ex-husband. I didn't want to be snooping, but when you're sitting on a cramped cabin and can only look at what is in front of you, it's kind of hard to ignore.

willk95 Report

Final score:

14points

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Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago (edited)

Flights are boring, you take the entertainment you can get

3points

#66

girls saying theyre gonna put shrooms up their a*s lmao

Final score:

13points

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Mouse 1 year ago

Presumably in a condom to sneak into a show or something.

1point

#67

“Cleared to Land, Any Runway.” — On a United flight on Thanksgiving two decades ago, listening to “from the cockpit,” after our transcontinental flight had a duck go through an engine at our dawn take-off from an airport (Sacramento, CA) surrounded by wetlands. There was smoke in the cabin and the pilot had declared an emergency. Ground control didn’t respond at first, raising the question of whether the bird had first hit something else and damaged the radio.

Postscript: we landed fine, met by emergency equipment, and were towed to the gate. Our flights were auto-rebooked before we could get off the plane. Our re-rebooked flight was direct to our destination region, making up for the later departure, although involving a little more driving in the snow.

raines Report

Final score:

11points

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Thinhenien 1 year ago

Poor duck

6points

#68

not something I overheard but a friend was telling me he was on the flight between Stockholm/Thailand (either from/to) and there were two old guys openly talking/bragging about all the s**t they had done with young boys whilst in Thailand

SnooOwls3879 Report

Final score:

11points

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Mouse 1 year ago

Sad & gross

23points

I_Am_The_Grapevine Report

#69

B3! F**k. Anyway, I watched two people argue if their acid tabs were kicking in via the plane battleship game. C3! F**k me and f**k you. Are you getting these texts? When is this flight taking off?

Final score:

7points

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Peppy 1 year ago

5points

#70

45 Hilarious Conversations People Overheard On A Plane And Decided Were Too Good Not To Share A tragic airplane moment: we've been sitting on the tarmac waiting to take off for two hours. The guy in front of us fell asleep immediately upon boarding, he just woke up and started getting ready to get off the plane - he thought we'd landed. My wife broke the news to him.

tomgara Report

Final score:

0points

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Benita Valdez 1 year ago

So mid 90's was flying from New York to Florida and then on to South America. A couple and their 3 kids board the plane and get settled. Before the plane begins to move to the runway the mother starts freaking out and screaming get me off this fůcking plane. I can't do this I just can't. So the plane stops, let's her and her special needs child get off while the dad and other 2 kids stay on and tell the flight attendant not to worry about removing their bags as he had stuff in them too so he'll take them. Flight was delayed about an hour but ran smoothly after with the dad apologizing to everyone constantly and that his wife's anxiety just couldn't handle it. I felt so bad for him but there was no way in hell I was going to talk to him; did not want the really cute guy next to me know my mom was that crazy lady (I was like 12). She had my aunt pick her and my brother up from the airport while the rest of us went on our 2 week vacation. Only crazy experience on a plane

10points

Benita Valdez 1 year ago

Thanks for the crazy memory mom 😊

6points

Agfox 1 year ago

Many years ago I was flying between Sydney & Brisbane where the landing was one of the roughest I'd experienced. Instead of the usual welcoming message on the PA, one of the cabin staff said "Welcome to Brisbane. Please remain seated while the Captain taxis what's left of the aircraft to the terminal. After a landing like that your luggage will definitely have moved so be very careful opening the overhead compartments etc". It caused great hilarity amongst the passengers, with many people speaking to the staff member as they exited the aircraft but I wondered how it was received by the Captain & First Officer.

10points

Cathy Mitchell 1 year ago

At the grocery store a couple were debating about Twinkies, didn't hear the first part, but got the context that they are new vegetarians. A: do you think there's animal in here? B: rolls eyes "what kind of meat is used in a Twinkie?" A: "right here, made with dairy and beef fat" B: looks sad "you mean I can never eat a Twinkie again? I'm out"

6points

Kathryn Baylis 1 year ago (edited)

Most interesting overheard conversation for me: Mid-2000s. Flying from Reno to Phoenix. Window seat, of course. In front of me is a geologist. That man gave the most fascinating description of every rock formation we flew over. He gave the name and approximate age of everything, and explained exactly how it was formed, what it used to be (like if it was a body of water in prehistoric times), and if there were visible differences in the layers of large formations, he told us what each level was. I had brought a magazine to read, but nothing in it would’ve been as fascinating at listening to that scientist, who obviously had a passion for his field, tell his seat mate—-and me, secondhand—-all about the prehistory of the landscape we were flying over.

5points

atje 1 year ago

"This is the Wolf talkin' and we're headed south in a hurry. Sit back, buckle up, and settle in. Atlanta to Miami faster than light. Wooooooooooo."

4points

Hey! 1 year ago

One summer we went on vacation to PEI (Canada) and on our return my youngest son was explaining to the hostess that when he went on vacation he was 7 y.o. and now he was 8 and aiming to be a pilot. The hostess offered him a visit to the cockpit, which he gladly accepted.

4points

ConstantlyJon 1 year ago

When I was a kid, we were flying from Detroit to Denver to connect to Seattle. We had to make an emergency landing in Chicago, but they didn't tell us what was wrong, just that we had to land in Chicago instead. Pilot told us before we landed that there may be some emergency vehicles on the runway, but not to worry, it was just protocol. We landed (safely!) and I kid you not, the entire runway is lined up with fire trucks and ambulances as if they were expecting us to crash land or something. We still have no idea what was wrong, but damn that was scary as hell. We got upgraded for first class for both our flight to Denver and Seattle after that. Only time I've ever flown first class.

3points

Lace Neil 1 year ago

On a plane once, this batty woman was walking up and down the aisle asking everyone with a book what they were reading. When she'd asked me and got my answer, she went quiet and sat down and didn't move for the rest of the flight. I was reading a book about the Tenerife Airport disaster.

2points

Andy Frobig 1 year ago

My plane trips have been pretty mild, but last year I took Amtrak across the US and back, and it was mayhem. Not enough room here to describe: a guy locked in the observation car until they could kick him off, a guy drinking 3 beers in 10 minutes & then asking if anybody had pain meds to sell, and much more. I took this trip before covid and it was not like this then

2points

Frost the Icewing 1 year ago

I once overheard someone say " Hide your pots and pans, the pansexuals are coming.

1point

Frost the Icewing 1 year ago

A year ago I was on an overnight flight to Italy and the person next to the person in front of me had their screen and phone on at the same time at night.

1point

Jason Kruse 1 year ago (edited)

2 short ones: Most recently on a flight from LA to Boston--a woman talked my ear off the entire flight about going to an outdoor wedding uninvited to win her ex-boyfriend back. He wasn't the groom but if memory serves, in the wedding party and she was definitely going to cause a scene. And the other was waiting to board (I think we were flying out of Utah--it's been awhile so the details are fuzzy) and this woman was on the phone yelling at her husband's mistress. Awkward.

1point

OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago

Not a conversation but still interesting. My now husband and I were waiting to board at the gate and a late teen/early 20s girl was sitting opposite us, or better said, lying on the seats napping bc she was obviously hungover. She only awakened when we were boarding and as chance has it, she got the window seat next to me, and she goes off to sleep again. Now, were running late, sitting on tarmac waiting for takeoff but the weather is crazy, it was early January in a frosty country and even though the weather was better than the usual cold for the city (it was around 0°C) this night the temperature plummeted down to -30°C and since were not ready for takeoff, the plane is frosting over. The plane gets sprayed with a pink foam that I've only ever seen then, several times before we finally take off, I'll never forget the look on the poor girls face when she rose from her nap to look outside to see if we've taken off but instead saw all pink. Must've discouraged her from drinking for good

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Brainmas 1 year ago

Little kids in planes are hilarious. We were flying somewhere when my daughter was 5 or 6, and as soon as.the plane got off the ground, she put her hands up and went "wooo!" like it was a roller-coaster. Everyone got a good chuckle.

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Amelia Jade 1 year ago

I have two, both into Vegas. The first was from Boston to LV late at night. We were preparing to land and one of the women behind me was completely confused by the time difference. I can't remember the time it was, but she thought her phone was wrong because only a couple of hours had passed but the flight is over 5 hours. Apparently, she didn't know about time zones. But then she got all excited because that meant they had time to party once they check into their hotel. The other was from Florida to Vegas, with my kids. We all got to listen to the two guys across the aisle spend the entire trip talking about how much alcohol and drugs they planned to do, the strip clubs they planned to visit, and the prostitutes they wanted to hire. No judgement, whatever floats your boat. But then they mentioned their wives and kids.

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Red Reilly 1 year ago (edited)

Not so much a convo, just something that happened. This splits opinions with my friends I've told so let me tell it and have you say. I was on an 11 hour flight with work and saw a friend I hadn't seen for 8 years was one of the stewards, while in the air he would come over and we would quickly catch up in snippets before he had to go do work stuff. Next to me, married couple, husband silent, wife not. She constantly tries to join our conversation, she's bored I get it, so we chat to her. But she doesn't stop, I give a hint we haven't seen each other and are trying to catch up. NOW. at one point, I get up to use the loo and so does the husband, which I didn't know until I got back. The wife has used all three seats as a bed. I go 'um' and she snaps up, I'm like '... yeah I don't know you, that's kinda weird'. so next time she tries to talk to me I just turned and go 'maybe lets not talk for the rest of the flight' Her being entitled or me being jerk?

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Lydsylou 1 year ago

Hey being entitled.

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Robert T 1 year ago

Wholesome one from when I was a child. I'd be about 10 or so and for whatever reason I was not sat with my parents. Flight was going to be a good few hours and my seatmates were a young couple going on holiday. I finished up playing cards with them for a good proportion of it, and looking at whatever books or puzzles I'd brought with me for the rest of the time.

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pull_my_finger@rogers.com 1 year ago

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Benita Valdez 1 year ago

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Benita Valdez 1 year ago

Thanks for the crazy memory mom 😊

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