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CABIN PRESSURE

Review your fellow passengers! We invite you to submit your shared-space traveler stories and we'll publish the best. Our aim is to promote travel civility, considerate to the needs and comforts of those around us on our trains, planes, buses and hovercraft. We're all in it together, after all. Don't be gratuitously rude (and we're obviously not down with any bigotry) but do send us your travel tales. take a look at previous entries for the format and then simply click the button below:

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The Unsympathetic Husband: KOH SAMUI - BANGKOK BY AIR

8/10/2013

2 Comments

 
Journey: A 40 minute flight.
The scene: Half way through the flight, the crew ask if there's a doctor on board and carry a young woman up to an empty row and lay her out. A couple of people attend her and she slowly recovers from what looks like a mild seizure.
Describe your fellow traveller: She's with her Australian husband and a young child, around two years old, who is very distressed.
The review: As the woman regains consciousness, she slowly sits up and tries to comfort her child, who is understandably crying. The husband chooses this time to start berating her angrily. "For f*ck's sake, look at the fuss you're created and ALL FOR NOTHING," he is whisper-shouting. He carries on shouting at her and gets even more annoyed when she can't find her shoes, and is all in all about as shockingly unsupportive and unsympathetic as you can imagine.
Verdict: A terrible human being.
Rating: 0/5
2 Comments
Anne
8/10/2013 08:05:01 pm

I once collapsed on a Eurostar train and appeared to have a mini seizure. I came round to the (American) voice of an angel who, with his wife, looked after me all the way back to London even phoning my husband to tell him what had happened so he could get to the train to meet me and take me to hospital. They also over-ruled the brusque train manager who wanted to stop the train and let me off in Lille. I will always remember their kindness and have paid it forward by helping a couple of other people who looked like they needed help on their travels.

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Paul Shandypockets
9/10/2013 05:41:19 am

Thanks for that, Anne - those are the kinds of stories of kindness we like to hear!

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