My pet peeve... sticking your feet up!

[DTM1]

I don't understand why people are fussed about this.

I also put my feet on the lockers on the side of the upstairs J seats before take-off and being able to recline seat.

I once had a csm ask me to take my shoes off first - fair enough - and I always do that now.

As someone else said - that's the beauty of the bulkhead seat.

 

[NM]

As someone else said - that's the beauty of the bulkhead seat.

And if someone does not want to place their feet there, then don't select a bulkhead seat .

 

[11sjw]

Wow, don't get all the hate re thebulkhead.

I've even used the back of the armrest for a footrest when balancing my (then) 18 month old. It never seemed to cause a problem (it was only for a few minutes). Don't ask me why/how but at the time it seemed to work re balancing between getting baby food, comforting said child and allowing my circulation to function. Sorry if it was you but your elbow never encountered my foot and it was gone inside 5 min.

 

[medhead]

and allowing my circulation to function.
Sorry if it was you but your elbow never encountered my foot and it was gone inside 5 min.

For me those are 2 key points, putting the feet up helps circulation for me and also allows me to stretch out a bit. If doing it on an armrest, whats the problem if you don't touch the arm of the person. Especially, if we take row 4 in a 738 as an example.

 

[anat0l]

If doing it on an armrest, whats the problem if you don't touch the arm of the person. Especially, if we take row 4 in a 738 as an example.

Fine, but if you do touch my elbow am I allowed to break your legs:?:

 

[Postcode]

I wonder how people at their own home would react if a guest put their bare feet/with socks/with shoes/whatever on their coffee table. Great place to stretch out and make use of available space it seems. Stuffed if I'd let them in my place again. Feet are for floors. It's their natural habitat.

 

[JohnK]

It would appear we have opened a can of worms. :shock:

This could be as big as the reclining debate....

 

[Postcode]

It would appear we have opened a can of worms. :shock:

This could be as big as the reclining debate....

Maybe so. But treating others with consideration doesn't cost.

 

[JohnK]

I agree with you but many people on this thread believe there is nothing wrong with putting their feet (shoes/socks/whatever) on bulkheads or armrests.

If I put my feet on coffee table at home mum starts screaming at me. We also try to avoid walking inside the house with our shoes on.

I have a really bad habit where I sit on my foot while I am eating and mum gets very angry with me. She has every right to be angry....

 

[Flashback]

Ensure you hog both armrests as well and have a great Indian dinner as well. Extra garlic too. Always appreciated. Don't forget the five newspapers you could have read all day but choose to read it in a plane.

This reminds me of a story a guy at work told us yesterday. Catching the tube to work as any traveller would know, in peak hour, is mayhem and you're lucky to have any space at all. Generally you really are squished in like sardines. Anyway this guy in front of him was reading a newspaper, arms stretched and the newspaper fully open. Anger rising, but OK.... let it go. Anyway, he then went to turn the page and knocked the guy from work on the head:!:

A simple ""^£&!%* mate, can't you see how crowded it is in here, put the newspaper away!" was all it took, but really, some people just have no thoughts for anyone else but themselves!

Just to add my £0.02 worth, though ; I don't foresee any issue with people putting their feet up on the bulkhead, but disagree with putting up on the seat in front or arm rest. You may not be touching but from experience of this happening to me when I sense the foot sitting there, you feel less at ease to use the arm rest and that's annoying.

 

[Rebekkap]

Only the first comment was a direct response to you. The rest was just a general rant. Sorry....

No worries

 

[Rebekkap]

I wonder how people at their own home would react if a guest put their bare feet/with socks/with shoes/whatever on their coffee table. Great place to stretch out and make use of available space it seems. Stuffed if I'd let them in my place again.

Guests at our house are welcome to put their feet up - and do, as do we - although I must say not with shoes on. But we're generally a take-your-shoes-off house.

Feet are for floors. It's their natural habitat.

So I'm guessing you spend each night sleeping with both legs hanging out the side of your bed and both feet on the ground?

Sitting with your feet on the floor for 12+ hours in cramped conditions on a long-haul flight is clearly NOT a "natural" position for a human - which is why, given a bulk head, my shoes are going to be off, and my feet are going to be on it.

I personally wouldn't put my feet on an arm rest, that's someone else's space and I think it would be intrusive.

But no-one from the anti-feet-on-bulkheads camp has explained just exactly how someone having their feet up on the bulkhead actually affects them. All the other behaviours described - reading newspapers on trains, feet on someone's arm rest, sprawling around outside your own space, etc - have an actual physical effect on someone else. Putting your feet on the bulkhead doesn't. It's analogous to someone wearing pants you don't like, or painting their living room hot pink - you might not like the look of it, but it simply doesn't affect you at all.

So I fail to see - and no-one has demonstrated - just how this behaviour can be characterised as "inconsiderate".

 

[medhead]

Fine, but if you do touch my elbow am I allowed to break your legs:?:

Sure, if you want to come behind the curtain and mix with the great unwashed. Go for it.

 

[medhead]

If doing it on an armrest, whats the problem if you don't touch the arm of the person. Especially, if we take row 4 in a 738 as an example.

Finally remembered to get a picture. If my foot touches your elbow in this situation then I salute your double jointedness.

 

[wyvern]

Nothing wrong with it IMO if your socks are clean. Especially if you have paid extra for the bulkhead seat.

 

[Fantic125]

On QF005 last night, seated in 26A, my feet (in clean socks) were all over the baulkhead, as they were when I flew the same route in January (and a couple of times last year). :shock:
Hopefully my feet will also be caressing the baulkhead again on the way home, unless I get another upgrade to J like I did a few weeks ago on the SIN-SYD leg.

Maybe Qantas did that just to stop me putting my feet on the baulkhead :shock:!

@ Medhead - nice Windsor Smiths!

 

[medhead]

@ Medhead - nice Windsor Smiths!

Or florshiem's. Kangaroo hide. Really light weight.

 

[JohnK]

The guy sitting next to me in 23K yesterday on the A330 SYD-BNE had his right foot all over the bulkhead for the duration of the flight.

To be honest it is not a good look when you are sitting next to someone and they have their feet all over the bulkhead. Surely there must be another way to rest the feet....

 

[Rebekkap]

The guy sitting next to me in 23K yesterday on the A330 SYD-BNE had his right foot all over the bulkhead for the duration of the flight.

To be honest it is not a good look when you are sitting next to someone and they have their feet all over the bulkhead. Surely there must be another way to rest the feet....

I can't think of one - let us know of you come up with someting.

Meanwhile, I suggest an eyemask if you don't like the look of it

 

[JohnK]

I can't think of one - let us know of you come up with someting.

How about crossing your legs and that way one foot is in the air with no pressure on it?

Putting your feet up on a bulkhead still requires some pressure so are you actually resting your feet?

Meanwhile, I suggest an eyemask if you don't like the look of it

Thanks for the helpful suggestion.

So you won't be offended if the person next to you picks their nose, or scratches their head and then shakes their hair, or clips their finger nails, or cleans their ears, or smells? After all you can just as easily put on an eyemask or block your nose.