Unwritten Rules Every Flight Attendant Should Know

Rich Henderson (0:00)

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Drew Henderson (0:41)

Hopped up and she said, and you do that too.

Rich Henderson (0:45)

Whoever brought in Flight 963, here's your topper, you bitch.

There is nothing worse than getting on a new aircraft, only to find the galley has been left an absolute disaster by your previous crew. We spend a lot of time on the show talking about passenger etiquette and all the things they do wrong. So today we want to talk a little bit about flight attendant etiquette. If you've never worked on an airplane, the galley probably just looks like a tiny little kitchen to you, and maybe doesn't mean much. But for flight attendants, it's our kitchen, office, break room, storage closet, and sometimes our only little corner of sanity on the aircraft.

Drew Henderson (1:35)

It is my whole world.

Rich Henderson (1:36)

It's our whole world. And there are definitely some unwritten rules about how you behave back there. Whether or not everybody follows these rules, well, now that's one thing. But we're always, we always promise to speak the truth on this show. So here we are, truth telling once again.

But before we get into it, Andrew, how's flying been going lately for you?

Drew Henderson (1:57)

Flying has been good.

I have been, I chose to fly low this month. So my sanity is a hundred percent intact at the moment, which is, I mean, obviously good for everyone. But what's funny is that we were talking about this on, but like before boarding one day, because apparently I had missed a conversation between co-workers that were flying together where one of them had mentioned to the other one that their pet peeve was wet galley counters. And so I like they flew together the day before where they learned this pet peeve about each other and they were telling me about it. And I was like, oh yeah, that's a big pet peeve. Like I hate putting my elbows down or like getting coffee on like the shirt that rubs the galley because you forgot to wipe it down.

Rich Henderson (2:41)

And now you have a line of coffee right here.

Drew Henderson (2:43)

So then somehow I got brought into this conversation. I didn't, I just offered my opinion. I didn't get brought into it. I just offered my opinion.

Rich Henderson (2:50)

I inserted myself. Yeah.

Drew Henderson (2:51)

But I was like, oh, you know what gets on my nerves? I was like, is when people don't like close and close the door and latch it properly and put the latches down.

And the one coworker set up, she put because we were in a break time doing this. So she was like laying across the seats. She popped up and she said, and you do that too.

Rich Henderson (3:14)

The truth comes out.

Drew Henderson (3:15)

Well, not me. She was talking to the other coworker that we were there that was having the conversation. Right. And I mean, it was just really funny because I mean, she didn't mean to. She didn't know she did it. And, you know, sometimes people just do it. But I wasn't even talking about her because I didn't know she did it. I was talking about a coworker that really bothers me that they don't like put the latches back down when they walk away from Galley Gossip. It was funny, she popped up out of nowhere and was like, can you do that too?

Rich Henderson (3:41)

I think that just further proves my point, though, is so many people are annoyed by all these little tiny behaviors. And no one talks about it.

Drew Henderson (3:49)

No one really talks about it.

Rich Henderson (3:51)

Or worse, somebody bitches on Facebook and is like, whoever brought in Flight 963, here's your topper, you bitch. And it's like, what, like, petty, like, just...

Drew Henderson (4:03)

It's so funny. But it's, it's, what, what I realized that day is it's really funny to me what people actually, like, get irritated over.