The Detroit News is writing about a man who was tossed off a Delta Connection flight after using a swear word when referring to how long it was taking to close overhead bins.  Mind you, he wasn’t swearing *at* the flight attendant.  He made the comment to a travel companion and was overhead.  Specifically, he said:

“What’s taking so fucking long to close the overhead compartments?” *

The plane taxied to the runway but then returned to the gate where the passenger was removed for being “disruptive”.   He was accomodated on a later flight and received an apology.

And this points out just how powerful a flight attendant can be.  And how silly. 

In general, it’s far more appropriate and polite to refrain from using the word “fuck” in public.  It is also very common to hear it and not just in Brooklyn.   Just because you overhear someone using the word, even in reference to your activity, doesn’t mean that it rises to disruptive.  In fact, on a recent trip between Dallas and Chicago, I can say that that word was used a few times in a conversation between two passengers in front of me commenting on our delay due to a hold because of weather.

Are we going to return to our departure airport and remove those two women for saying “I’m fucking tired of being on an airplane.”?

My message to Delta and other airlines:  Tell your flight attendants to grow up and start discerning what a real disruption and/or threat is.

* It’s my blog and I can use the real word if I wish.  You are presumably adults reading this and you are presumed to be capable of identifying that the use of the word “fuck” isn’t prurient. **

**  If you had to look up the word “prurient”, please stop reading my blog.

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