Worse than feet on bulkheads

[Forg]

I’m gonna buy some tracksuit pants to wear, onboard & in public, for my next OS flight … so I might make it into this thread!

 

[ols]

I’m gonna buy some tracksuit pants to wear, onboard & in public, for my next OS flight … so I might make it into this thread!

Gosh
These days you stick out if you are not wearing trackies or some form of athletic attire when going on a plane

 

[Julesmac]

Gosh
These days you stick out if you are not wearing trackies or some form of athletic attire when going on a plane

I happened to be in a Uniqlo store today & bought mrmac a pair of slightly stretchy - I guess you'd call them jogging pants but nice non-crush material in a smart dark green. I think they'll do the trick for our next trip. Definitely not trakkie daks

 

[AuSammy]

I happened to be in a Uniqlo store today & bought mrmac a pair of slightly stretchy - I guess you'd call them jogging pants but nice non-crush material in a smart dark green. I think they'll do the trick for our next trip. Definitely not trakkie daks

After decades of travelling domestically in a suit and tie, my leisure travel, mostly international, is always in what makes me comfortable. (Always clean and tidy). Who cares what others think.

I guess if I was hoping for a.spontanious upgrade I might care more but that isn't going to happen given I have no allegiance to,or status with, any carrier.

[But I don't wear crocs or thongs - always comfortable runners - and my feet aren't on seats or bulkheads et al]

 

[Forg]

After decades of travelling domestically in a suit and tie, my leisure travel, mostly international, is always in what makes me comfortable. (Always clean and tidy). Who cares what others think.

I really don't like to feel too out of place ... I don't like to feel a million eyes glaring at me.
Note that it's all about my perception of whether I'm not dressed appropriately, when I've thought I wasn't standing-out I paid absolutely zero attention to what anyone else was wearing & honestly can't recall any sort of pattern ... which is probably the reality of how little everyone else cares what I'm wearing.

The only time I've flown long-haul with a lie-flat bed, 8 years ago, I was wearing quite loose jeans and it was still pretty uncomfortable. When you're lying there for 4hrs begging for that 90mins of sleep that you'll hopefully eventually be afforded, you toss & turn a lot, so there's a lot of leg-strangling going on.

I don't recall any "no dag clothes" rules on entry to lounges I've seen in the last decade or two, although I guess for a while blokes weren't allowed to wear thongs ... so if everyone else is dressing like a dag too, that's good news for me!
There were "long pants & no trackies" rules in the 80's in whatever the name was for domestic Qantas Club back then ... on P-plates I remember driving to the airport & parking down the road a bit (ie. not paying for parking) & walking to the QF terminal to dream about flights and "we're here to meet his dad" lying to get into the Qantas Club for free food using some of the millionty guest-passes a school friends' dad used to have.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Cleaning, and biting finger nails...
On a flight.
Eek.

 

[Seat0B]

On a Zambezi River cruise boat last weekend. At least the shoes are sparkly!

 

[Seat0B]

I’m surrounded by ill mannered people. Here’s one in J on QF64 JNB-SYD. These shoes are not sparkly.

 

[Forg]

I don’t understand anyone having any sort of problem with either of the last two posts.
Stinky naked or sock-covered feet in the same situations would probably bother me, but safely enclosed feet - don’t understand the issue. If the owners of the assets cared about it they’d do something about it, they’re not seats or something else which makes users dirty.

 

[Quickstatus]

Stinky naked or sock-covered feet in the same situations would probably bother me, but safely enclosed feet

Interestingly many cultures require taking off shoes and leaving socks on feet when you come into a house.

 

[Seat0B]

I don’t understand anyone having any sort of problem with either of the last two posts.
Stinky naked or sock-covered feet in the same situations would probably bother me, but safely enclosed feet - don’t understand the issue. If the owners of the assets cared about it they’d do something about it, they’re not seats or something else which makes users dirty.

We were in Africa. I know for sure what my shoes had walked through and some of it was very unpleasant and unsanitary. I expect others’ shoes to have been similarly befouled. Particularly in the sparkly shoe shot, it is a safety hand railing she has her feet on. If I need to hold the hand railing (which is its actual purpose), I DO NOT want to put my hand on the remains of what she assuredly walked through to board the boat.

In the second shot, that is NOT a surface intended for feet, whether they are in a shoe, in a sock or bare. It is just disgusting to put your feet (in any state) on surfaces that are not intended for feet. On the floor - fine. We all know that dirty shoes or smelly feet may have been there and can adjust accordingly. On a seat, a table, a bulkhead, a bed or any other surface not intended for feet, then feet should not go there. I know your mileage varies. Just my opinion.

 

[Forg]

Interestingly many cultures require taking off shoes and leaving socks on feet when you come into a house.

It’s kinda icky, isn’t it?
I guess there are cultures that eat durian as a kind of culture-wide dare, so other sorts of dares to do horrible things make sense.

Stickin’ shoes up on things which don’t really affect anyone else isn’t something I’d do, but it also isn’t revolting. It’s not as revolting as soooo much else that goes on … it’s not as bad as stuff you can’t avoid doing, like walking on the cabin aisle carpet using the same shoes or slippers that walk on the toilet floor. It just … isn’t as bad as driving a dual-cab or letting a child run wild in the cabin.

 

[Franky]

I don’t understand anyone having any sort of problem with either of the last two posts.
Stinky naked or sock-covered feet in the same situations would probably bother me, but safely enclosed feet - don’t understand the issue. If the owners of the assets cared about it they’d do something about it, they’re not seats or something else which makes users dirty.

I agree they are at the lower end of the scale, but it still gets up my nose that people put their feet up in aircraft as well as chairs etc in the lounges and around the waiting area. I’m at the age which makes we wonder what they do around their own home…. But I wish they would leave their bad habits there when they are leaving for the airport…

 

[Seat0B]

… it’s not as bad as stuff you can’t avoid doing, like walking on the cabin aisle carpet using the same shoes or slippers that walk on the toilet floor.

But the point is exactly that. The shoes that are on the railings, bulkheads seats, tables etc HAVE walked on the aisle carpet and in the toilet floors, and then the filth from that is transferred via the shoes to surfaces that people may legitimately touch. The only place that shoes belong is on the floor.

 

[Forg]

But the point is exactly that. The shoes that are on the railings, bulkheads seats, tables etc HAVE walked on the aisle carpet and in the toilet floors, and then the filth from that is transferred via the shoes to surfaces that people may legitimately touch. The only place that shoes belong is on the floor.

Don’t lick the windows … ?