UP,UP AND AWAY……
I’ve had to keep myself calm….I have been so excited to share this with you.
You know how you hear stories about crazy things that happen on airplanes??
WELL IT FINALLY HAPPENED TO ME!!
Hubby and I were so excited! We were flying a new route to a favorite destination..
Everything was working like clockwork,,,,.they started boarding the plane, and everyone was on….zim -boom-bang..AND THEN IT BEGAN…
We were only three rows back..we noticed that there seemed to be some kind of commotion in the front row……lots of getting up and down….the stewardess was trying to get, what turned out to be a woman, to put her bag in an over-head compartment…you can’t keep your bag on the floor unless there’s a seat to put your bag under…because she was in the front row, no seat was in front of her, so the bags had to go up…she just could not comprehend this.
The stewardess was patience itself….and finally got her to give up her TWO bags. We were a little “bemused”, because you’re allowed ONE carry-on bag, and a purse.
After round one, we realize something else is going on…she has a cane that has to be stowed somewhere….somewhere being directly over hubby’s head!!
Then the fun began..she also had a KITTEN!!!! the kitten somehow wasn’t supposed to go in it’s little flight bag, according to it’s owner….she also was told, along with, “put the cat in the bag” to move to the empty seat in the row behind her…so that the kitten, IN it’s bag, could be placed under a seat…meanwhile there were repeated orders to “put the cat in the bag”.
As she began to move herself and the kitten, AND it’s bag, the woman she would be sitting next to started to get upset….she didn’t want to sit by the “cat woman”..so “cat woman began to move her things back up front.
The SECOND woman starts to go on a “rant” about how she had to move once already because somebody took her seat..so the stewardess is now trying to explain to HER that every seat is an ASSIGNED seat and you have to sit in the seat that is indicated on the ticket..at this point ANOTHER woman several rows back, starts to applaud and yells out, THANK YOU! THANK YOU!… Apparently she was the person who had to argue with woman number two in order to get her rightful seat…whew…SO..
Woman number two is still arguing with the stewardess and I heard someone in front of me say, “shut up!”
So cat woman has a SECOND stewardess chasing the kitten who “mysteriously” keeps getting out of it’s bag…the stewardess is yelling, “shut the door!,shut the door!, as the kitten tries to escape off the plane.
Finally the upset “seat stealing” second woman changes seats..cat woman is in the aisle…we’re all locking eyes with complete strangers and laughing…and as If in slow motion…I see the kitten come sliding out of it’s travel bag…no one else is noticing..so what do I do??…I start saying loudly…”CAT OUT OF THE BAG!” “CAT OUT OF THE BAG!”….the cat has started to crawl under hubby’s seat!!!! Well then all kinds of people start rising out of their seats to see what is going on …..and with absolute calm…hubby reaches down…grabs the kitty’s tail and pulls it out from under the seat…..still holding it by the tail (and by the way, the cat was not hurt in any way..very calm in fact..). Hubby says “sorry, it’s the only thing I could think of to do!”…everyone laughed….
At last the cat woman gets settled….the young boys in front of me are meowing…..
The cat woman covers herself up with…I kid you not….one of those survival type shiny things that look like they’re made out of aluminum foil..(I’m sure she thought it would protect her from aliens…she had already put on a hooded sweatshirt with the hood up and she put a flannel shirt on over that!).
The poor stewardess was SO flustered that she had to stop giving her emergency instructions, because her words were getting all mixed up…again…everybody laughed! As we were finally getting ready to take off the girl behind me said..”how many crazy people are they allowed to put on one flight?”…I looked at her through the seats and said..”three, so far”.
When we finally reached our destination we watched cat woman walk across the Tarmac…..lugging her big backpack, a suitcase thingy with all kinds of papers crammed in it, her cane, her kitten in a bag and her “alien deflector,survival ,windshield cover thingy”…..
Everything else that happened on our trip just couldn’t compete with the excitement of that flight.
I’m with Cindy. Don’t you always travel with a camera handy? Surely you have a compact back-up camera that does video?! A well-captured episode like this could go viral!
July 28, 2012 at 4:10 am
I do keep a camera handy as often as I can..with a video camera….it would
Be SO great to have something go viral:)
July 29, 2012 at 1:25 am
Hysterical. I believe every word of it, too. Things are just crazy these days
July 26, 2012 at 2:15 am
Every word is true!! LOL. Just crazy…..I couldn’t believe it, but I loved it!!
July 26, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Cat out of the bag! Cat out of the bag!
I thought I would never get through the rest of the story I was laughing so hard at that line. Hysterical! You can’t make stuff like that up.
July 25, 2012 at 9:29 pm
I love your life! never ordinary
July 25, 2012 at 8:31 am
Unreal how some people will behave! I love cats, but it seems that the cat had more sense than this woman.
July 24, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Oh, it had WAY more sense!
July 25, 2012 at 12:32 am
I am laughing… what an exciting cat story! I can imagine how your husband found her and hold her… You are amazing writer, Thank you dear Suzanne, but I should say this, I am so glad it wasn’t a squirrel
Love, nia
July 24, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Thank you for the compliment regarding my writing!! That means a lot to me!! I am SO glad it wasn’t a squirrel….hubby would be covered in bite marks….:)
July 24, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Truly, getting there is half the fun.
Kitten was smart, trying to get away from crazy cat lady.
July 24, 2012 at 1:00 pm
I thought about that later…..the one good thing is that you could tell she was very concerned about it’s being comfortable. Yikes, for some reason I never thought about cats being owned by “crazies”!
July 24, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Awesome story!! Why didn’t you video tape it? You know, I’m really surprised too that they allow animals on planes because I am really, really allergic to cats, and I’m not sure that I could have been in an enclosed space like that for a whole flight with a cat! I could have added to the ruckus by complaining about the cat making me sick!! LMAO
July 24, 2012 at 11:21 am
Crazy woman number four!!!!!
July 24, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Crazy woman number four!!!!!I didn’t tape it because they had already told us to put our cell phones away…when I told Hubby that I was going to get the phone out and tape it, he got nervous..as if anyone would have noticed in that chaos….he thought if cat woman saw me, she was just strange enough to come unglued…so..no video…but I’m never flying without my little video camera again!
July 24, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Ah, men are such chickenshits aren’t they? LOL Oops, I said a bad word – sorry
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July 24, 2012 at 8:39 pm
Oops!!
July 25, 2012 at 12:32 am
What a cat fight, Suzanne. I’m also amazed at what some people get away with as cabin baggage. I want one of those alien deflecting shrouds.
She sounds as nutty as a fruitcake.
July 24, 2012 at 8:22 am
You would look smashing in an alien deflecting shroud!! She was just totally out there…we couldn’t figure out how she ever navigated through the airport..through security and onto the plane with the cat still in her possession…she couldn’t keep it under control for one minute on the plane! Pass the fruitcake..there was enough for everyone on the plane
July 24, 2012 at 7:44 pm
It could have been just another boring flight….that was a bonus and I hope they charged extra for the entertainment
July 24, 2012 at 7:36 am
It was a bonus for me…I told hubby while all of this was going on…”Oh this is definitely going on the blog”!
July 24, 2012 at 7:45 pm
That was hilarious from start to finish
Emu
July 24, 2012 at 5:17 am
That is hilarious! Hope you have a good trip, and a less interesting flight back lol!
July 24, 2012 at 4:53 am
Now you know why they lock the door to the cockpit.
July 24, 2012 at 4:51 am
Great fun, you’re a good storyteller!
A very good one.
Greetings
Dina
July 24, 2012 at 3:43 am
Hilarious… The visual I see when reading the story made me laugh and laugh. .
July 24, 2012 at 3:35 am
If not now, when. If you fly, sooner or later it’ll happen to you. lol
July 24, 2012 at 3:14 am
You hear of stories like this… to experience one a bargain… unfortunately with my personality, I would have been stirring all the shenanigans up even more… just something I like to do, really get things going..
I honestly didn’t know you could take live pets on a flight with you…
July 24, 2012 at 2:51 am
Quite a story!!!
July 24, 2012 at 2:38 am
I jusr had to stop and read this…
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July 24, 2012 at 2:35 am
Every word of this is true
July 24, 2012 at 2:38 am
That’s hysterical!
July 24, 2012 at 2:33 am
Several of us just kept making eye contact….our eyes were HUGE..we couldn’t believe it!
July 24, 2012 at 2:39 am