My worst was my 6th. It was my first year in school and so the first one where a bunch of kids were invited. And a lot of kids showed up. Sounds good, right? Problem was my alcoholic mother was in no way equipped to deal with a houseful of little kids and parents she didn’t know. So she was taking frequent trips to…

Same. I’d always assumed it was because she broke around the same time as Adele, and that she fell by the wayside because her work seemed a bit more perfunctory than Adele’s. But now I feel badly for even critiquing her in retrospect. I hope she pursues music again to the extent that she desires.

I often wondered why she dropped off the face of the earth. I’m so glad she’s recovering.

I’m sorry about your dad. Maybe the universe thought you could use a floofy support dog at that moment.

The first time I flew with my dog, I tried to be a responsible pet owner and sedated her a bit so she’d be calm and relaxed. Well woowee, relax she did: my adorable air-gulping french bulldog farted incessantly for the ENTIRE flight. If you’ve ever known a pug/bulldog/frenchie, you know that those things burn your…

Back in 2015, I took a flight to Denver for a workshop. The woman who sat next to me was super-sweet and we had a great convo. She took that flight weekly as her family was in the process of moving from my state to Colorado, and warned me that in the past month there’d been a lot of turbulence on landing during the…

I would actually like to share the BEST thing I’ve ever seen on a plane. I sat in an aisle seat, with middle/window taken by a mother and a kid who had obviously never flown before. He spent the whole flight glued to the window shouting “MOM! LOOK! LOOK AT THE CLOUDS! OH MY GOD! MOM! LOOK AT THE MOUNTAINS! OH MY GOD!”…

We were flying back from our honeymoon. My husband had traveled a ton for work the year before and had enough miles to get us first class upgrades on a red eye back to NYC, which was a serious treat after a lovely week in Mexico. As the plane took off and we settled in, the flight attendant came and went over the…

I was once on a Cathay Pacific flight where the back of the seat was fixed, and to recline it you basically scooched the seat itself forward. Meaning that the intrusion into knee-space happened to the person who wants to recline, not whatever poor chump was sitting behind them. It was such a 100% correct and righteous…

Flying home from Salt Lake City to New England on Southwest. My wife and I sit down and a mother with a boy (about 3) and girl (about 4) sits behind us. The boy and girl almost immediately get into a LOUD argument about why she gets to sit in the window seat. Mother gets that settled down but the boy continues to cry…

An old friend of mine went on holiday with another friend. They were both young, loud and obnoxious. So they spend the flight back talking very loudly and making stupid in jokes. They land and are getting ready to get off the plane when this guy walks up to Old Friend and punches him with the line ‘That’s for ruining…

I'm sorry that happened to you. What a creep.

In high school the Spanish club was flying to Madrid for our Spain trip. We had spent the first few hours pumped, but had many hours of a redeye left to go. I’d been having conversations with the guy next to me, someone in the grade ahead I didn’t know particularly well, but thought was kind of handsome and pleasant.…

Sat with a complete petulant brat of a woman. Bad first impression, when she insisted I trade seats with her teenaged daughter because it was “her first time flying” and she should get the window. Sorry, I booked the window seat intentionally, that’s a no. (Daughter did not seem to care.) It’s relevant that she had a…

Coming back from Ontario, my late night flight was the connecting flight for some a couple college level sport teams (both men and womens). There must have been 60 people in total. Right from the start, none of them wanted to sit in their assigned seats were just dumping into whatever seat they liked. The coaches had…

My first time flying; O’Hare to Louisville. I was 17 and flying with 50 other teenagers from a theatre festival.

that time last yr when, after having been dumped whilst on a cruise with my now-ex’s family in Mexico, we were at LAX waiting to go home and saw famous “comedian” Chris D‘elia sitting in the waiting area and glaring at anyone who dared look @ him

A man sitting next to me on a flight to Vegas spent the first couple hours reading a giant book that was nothing but hardware coupons (I believe it was actually called The Giant Book of Hardware Coupons). Then he spent the last 20 minutes of the flight using an app on his phone that approximated a guitar, listlessly…

1. I think *I* was the bad person on a flight once. Last day of a trip to Hawaii with my parents (I was 15 or 16), I come down with a stomach flu and am barfing regularly. But we have to get back to our home on the East Coast, so we have to get on the Hawaiian Air HNL - LAX flight and then home. I was still in active…

The airlines are wrong for squeezing too many seats in planes. If the space between rows was realistic, then reclining back would not be an issue as often.