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During my summerjob in ground passenger handling at a fairly small airport, my job included to accompany passengers from the planes to the arrival terminal.
While this was a quite easy and uncomplicated job, sometimes I believed that some passenger were really out of their minds. So here are just a few stories:
One day when I headed after the passengers to the terminal, I remarked a young mother with a young boy, was acting strangely. So I followed her and saw that just next to the entrance to the building, she helped the boy to let his pants down so that he was actually peeing at the terminal. I really couldn't believe it, so I went over and told her in the calmest voice possible that we had toilets inside. She just replied that the boy really had to and that she couldn't wait to find the toilets. Meanwhile, the boy calmly went on. Getting quite unnerved I asked the boy to immediatly put his pants on again. BTW the toilets were clearly marked outside the terminal and just a few feet away.
Another night, a passenger steped out of the plane and immediatly lit a cigarette right next to the plane that was just being refueled. Me and a collegue immediatly told him to put it of, but he just said no. My collegue was getting really pale, and I explained that this could lead to an imminent explosion, but he just passed us withput taking notice. So we ran over, and said that if he wouldn't put it down he would face an arrestment (which we had the right to do in the case of a threat) Only then he put it down...
And the last one, which is not a sucky one but just...stupid
we were waiting for two late passengers, who finally came running to the counter. When I went down with them to the plane, the woman screamed " Oh, and how are we supposed to enter the plane now?" Not knowing what she meant, I looked at the plane and saw that the gangway was on the other side of the plane (as it always was) and for us the only visible "entrance" was the baggage load area. So I told her that the pilot was informed and would wait. But she ran screaming to the baggage load "whole" and yelled that she could never enter through this. I didn't answer, and just showed her the gangway. Oh dear!
While this was a quite easy and uncomplicated job, sometimes I believed that some passenger were really out of their minds. So here are just a few stories:
One day when I headed after the passengers to the terminal, I remarked a young mother with a young boy, was acting strangely. So I followed her and saw that just next to the entrance to the building, she helped the boy to let his pants down so that he was actually peeing at the terminal. I really couldn't believe it, so I went over and told her in the calmest voice possible that we had toilets inside. She just replied that the boy really had to and that she couldn't wait to find the toilets. Meanwhile, the boy calmly went on. Getting quite unnerved I asked the boy to immediatly put his pants on again. BTW the toilets were clearly marked outside the terminal and just a few feet away.
Another night, a passenger steped out of the plane and immediatly lit a cigarette right next to the plane that was just being refueled. Me and a collegue immediatly told him to put it of, but he just said no. My collegue was getting really pale, and I explained that this could lead to an imminent explosion, but he just passed us withput taking notice. So we ran over, and said that if he wouldn't put it down he would face an arrestment (which we had the right to do in the case of a threat) Only then he put it down...
And the last one, which is not a sucky one but just...stupid
we were waiting for two late passengers, who finally came running to the counter. When I went down with them to the plane, the woman screamed " Oh, and how are we supposed to enter the plane now?" Not knowing what she meant, I looked at the plane and saw that the gangway was on the other side of the plane (as it always was) and for us the only visible "entrance" was the baggage load area. So I told her that the pilot was informed and would wait. But she ran screaming to the baggage load "whole" and yelled that she could never enter through this. I didn't answer, and just showed her the gangway. Oh dear!
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