Being crammed into a crowded plane isn’t most people’s idea of a good time, but one passenger has said the only way to make it better is to ban taking off shoes and socks.
Sharing his thoughts in a post on Reddit, the user, who posted under the name MilitaryBaker, sparked a fierce debate on the matter.
In a post on the Unpopular Opinion subreddit, the disgruntled traveler wrote: “You shouldn’t be allowed to take off your shoes or socks on a plane.”
“Airplanes are one of the smelliest places you can be,” the user wrote.
They went on to acknowledge that while it is more “comfortable,” some people’s feet find it “literally intolerable.”
In a post on the Unpopular Opinion subreddit, the disgruntled traveler wrote: “You shouldn’t be allowed to take off your shoes or socks on a plane” (file image)
‘There was someone sitting behind me last night on my flight home and I almost threw up and had to inhale the smell of their smelly feet for two hours.’
The post was filled with comments from travelers sharing their own experiences.
“I had a similar experience. I spent the entire flight thinking about how to tell them to put their shoes back on, but I also wasn’t sure who exactly was to blame and I probably would have been too anxious to say anything too,” one user explained.
“Better than freshly washed socks and freshly washed feet under the seat in front of you. Anything else, no,” another agreed.
“Airplanes are already one of the worst smelling places.” “What kind of flights do you take?” asked another.
‘I always think it smells bad on flights too, but it could be someone sitting near me, I don’t know.
“I always carry a scarf that smells like clean laundry and put it over my nose if any smell bothers me. I once sat next to someone who had really dirty hair and smelled like dirty, greasy hair. It was torture being stuck to that person for an entire round-trip flight.”
While it may help you relax on board, flight attendants often advise their followers to never take off their shoes on a plane, even if they’re wearing socks, because they may accidentally step in “bodily fluids” during a bathroom trip.
The post was filled with comments from travelers sharing their own experiences.
According to two different flight attendants, the floors of airplanes are extremely dirty, sometimes even covered in urine.
“Sometimes it’s not water you see on the bathroom floor,” Delta crew member Leysha Perez told Insider. “It’s probably bodily fluids you’re walking on.”
“For God’s sake, wear shoes,” agreed another attendee, who works for a major U.S. airline but whose identity was withheld for privacy reasons.
“Walking around the plane barefoot or even in socks is disgusting.”
Another woman named Danielle, who works for Emirates, went viral on TikTok last October when she shared a similar sentiment on her account, while listing the five things she would never do if she were travelling as a passenger.
Your favorite activity? Going to the bathroom without shoes.
She shared: ‘It may look like water on the ground, but trust me guys, it’s really not. I’m sure you can guess what it is.’
Other things on Danielle’s list included falling asleep with your face against the window (since “hundreds, if not thousands” have probably touched it before you), touching things in the bathroom with your bare hands, and using the seat tray without sanitizing it.
He also warned against “joining the mile-high club.”
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