Paris plongeurs circa 1933. 'Vanlifers' with a broken shower. Matt Damon's mullet. The word 'dirty' gets thrown around a lot when describing things people don't like (or which they don't like the smell of).
The following photo, taken this morning by DMARGE on a Jetstar flight between the Gold Coast and Sydney (and subsequently posted to Instagram), pungently combines the two: a pair of feet besmirching an airplane bulkhead.
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We're not just talking about the state of these Superstars (which possessed only a moderate odour), we're talking about the week-old-prawn action of putting them up on the wall.
Unlike the Great Decline Divide (is there an unwritten rule against reclining at all on short flights?), which this viral incident in February brought to a head, this bulkhead behaviour is not a question that has split opinion for decades. It's pretty simple: you don't do it.
Or so we thought.
Taking to Instagram, we were proven wrong. 45% of our respondents said it was fine. What gives. Perhaps it was because they saw the Jetstar pamphlet?
Leaving snobbish assumptions aside and dealing with the issue at hand, Zarife Hardy, director of the Australian School of Etiquette, has some good tips for both the sedentary wall climbers and the non-sedentary wall climbers of Australia (and for that matter the world).
Speaking to 9Honey Travel, Hardy said good etiquette is about making people feel comfortable in your presence.
In delicate situations, Hardy said there a few different paths you can go down, with communication key for all of them.
"Talking to your cabin crew privately is a great place to start – do so in the galley, not in front of others."
"Politely ask them if they know of any other available seats that you may be able to move to."
If no spare seats are available, then consider befriending your seat neighbour, 9Honey Travel adds, explaining it's harder to be angry at someone you're having a friendly chat with.
If you decide to deal with a situation like this front on, as Lizzie Post, etiquette expert and co-president of The Emily Post Institute, told Refinery29 regarding a similar scenario: tone is crucial.
"Remind yourself that you don't know who you're dealing with," Post explains. "That's why we try to apply things like soft, pleasant tones in our voice and a pleasant expression on our face – we're not scowling at the person or not rolling our eyes at them."
Want more airplane etiquette tips? Watch this (air)space.
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