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[Shorty2U]

I saw this on Yahoo and it cracked me up!

"Funniest questions asked to a Flight Attendant"

(Where is the common sense? I cant believe someone asked where are the lines between the states. Haha!).

Here they are;

1. “Do they pay for your hotel rooms?” I love this one. Can you imagine if the whole crew was staying in different places and the junior people were grabbing a park bench to sleep on, or couch surfing in their uniforms? Yes, the airline pays for hotels and arranges transportation to and from the hotel. Otherwise, every flight would be late while we figured out where so and so was staying.

2. Where are the lines between the states? You would be surprised how many people think there are actual lines between the states like on a map.

3. On night flights we will go through the cabin with trays of orange juice and water. Passengers will look at the tray and say: “Which one is the orange juice and which is the water?”

4. “When do I change the time on my watch or will it change itself as we go?”

5. “I don’t mean to scare you, but something out there has been following us for hours!” It’s the light on the wing.

6. We ask, “would you like cream and sugar in your coffee?” and they hesitate like it’s a difficult ‘Jeopardy’ question.

7. It takes years before you realize you can answer people’s questions with the wrong answer and they never know the difference. When they ask what river they are looking at, I always say Mississippi—no matter where we are in the country. Same thing with the circular irrigation circles you see in farm areas. “What are those circles out there?” Private helicopter landing pads.

8. What country is Hawaii in?

9. We point to where the bathroom is and the passenger just stands there. I’ll point to it again and they will say “it’s vacant.” They have no idea what the word vacant means, I guess we really shouldn’t use such fancy words like vacant.

10. “Have we landed yet?”

11. “Do you have a writing pen?”

12. We no longer have pillows in the economy cabin. A passenger asked me for a pillow and I told him they were discontinued. He asked “were people choking on them?”

13. “How do I move my seat forward?”

14. “When did you guys start wearing uniforms?”

15. On the customs and immigration form it says: S#X M-F. Passengers will ask if it means how many times they have S#X Monday to Friday!!!

[straykatz]

I don't know whether to laugh at this or feel sorry for the people asking some of these questions.

[brewhaha]

#9 They probably should have a sign on their forehead.

#15 What about the weekends?

[Topaz Gem]

I think the oxygen in airplanes at those high altitudes affects people's brains

[Kachina624]

Anyone who has worked with the public knows how many incredibly stupid people there are among us. Sometimes you wonder how they survived to adulthood.

[Clover29]

I used to say to new people at work, "Ask anything you like, there's no such thing as a stupid question". I learned quickly that there was indeed such a thing. I kept saying it anyway, because it's friendly and welcoming to new people, but the occasional stupid question did get through. Like the one about penguins.

[betteb]

On 5/28/2014 kachina624 said: Anyone who has worked with the public knows how many incredibly stupid people there are among us. Sometimes you wonder how they survived to adulthood.

Oh boy is that ever the truth