One woman was flying home from a seven-day family holiday in Tenerife on an easyJet flight when she spotted one couple’s antics which left her feeling a bit sick
A holidaymaker was left aghast after witnessing a couple’s behaviour on a budget flight. Erin Butcher, returning from a week-long family holiday in Tenerife, spotted a man ‘picking dirt from under his partner’s toenails’ during an easyJet flight.
Erin initially noticed a woman’s bare feet resting on the tray table during the flight. The 27-year-old fashion merchandiser was then left feeling ‘disgusted’ when the man began to pick at her French pedicure toenails and ‘flick bits of dirt’ around. She alleges that this went on for 20 minutes, causing other passengers to laugh nervously in confusion. Erin shared footage of the stomach-turning incident on social media with the caption ‘Nothing beats an easyJet flight. Hope no one ate off this tray table on the next flight’.
The video, posted on TikTok on July 31st, has since gone viral, amassing over 336,200 views.
Erin, who hails from Southwark, South East London, described the incident as ‘unhygienic’ and a ‘depressing’ end to her holiday. She said: “I felt so disgusted and I couldn’t believe it.
“The partner was sprawled across the seats with her feet on the tray table, which was shocking enough.
“Her partner then started picking at her toenails and flicking little bits [of dirt] everywhere. It was disgusting.”
She added: “I was absolutely horrified. I was with my family and none of us could actually believe what was happening.
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“Even to do that in the privacy of your own home is questionable but to put them on a tray table where people are eating off all day.
“I was relieved I wasn’t sitting next to them. I had the perfect view from my aisle seat which is horrifying. I couldn’t really take my eyes off even though I wanted to.
“Her feet were on that table the majority of the four-and-a-half-hour flight. She was really making herself at home. It’s so unhygienic.
“Other passengers around us had noticed as well. Everyone was laughing and it was quite unbelievable.
“As if things aren’t depressing enough when your week in the sun has just ended and you’re faced with toe picking the whole way home.”
Numerous users flocked to the comments section to voice their revulsion. One user penned: “Totally gross.”
Meanwhile, another remarked: “That’s disgusting anywhere.” A third chimed in: “Save it for later.” Whilst a fourth user questioned: “Why on earth?”.
EasyJet has been contacted for comment.
The incident follows another recent controversy where a plane passenger slammed a mother for changing her baby’s soiled nappy on a tray table instead of taking the child to the lavatory.
She revealed on Reddit: “I’m a really nauseous flyer, so I took a Dramamine ahead of time and did my best to get some sleep during the flight.
“This didn’t happen because of the baby’s crying, but oh well, I know flights are scary and stressful for infants and there was nothing anyone could do about that.
“What got to me was the couple changing their baby’s extremely stinky number two diaper right in the middle of their seats, using the mum’s food tray as a changing table.
“We were at the back of the plane right by the bathrooms, which I confirmed had baby changing tables when I had to go back there to throw up after the smell hit me.”
Much to her relief, the pilot eventually spoke out against this behaviour – but unfortunately it was too late to prevent the odour from spreading throughout the cabin.
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