Category: Writers Block
This happened to me back in the summer of 2007 when I was attending a
summer program in Colorado. Alex was my boyfriend at the time, and now
we're just friends. At the time we were 15 and 16. I will be writing this as
if I were writing this back in 2007
It was the day we were returning home from Colorado. At 8:30 AM,
counselors and remaining students congrigated outside to say goodbye to
us. Then a driver took Alex, our friend Tamilah, and I to the airport. We
went inside and checked in.
After going through security, Alex and I decided to stop at McDonalds for
lunch. We each got 20 piece chicken nuggits, large fries, and large Cokes.
I paid for our lunch and then we sat down to eat while we waited to board
the plane.
We were eating for a few minutes, then Alex's Coke spilled all over the
floor. He dropped it, and there was soda and ice on the floor.
"Hey Kristin, can I have some of your Coke since mine spilled?"
"No I am not comfortable with that. It wouldn't be appropriate for us to
drink from the same straw."
"But mine spilled," Alex insisted, trying to grab the drink out of my hands.
At that point, I tried to hold it tighter.
"No," I replied as Alex managed to grab the Coke away from me, and it hit
the floor. Now there was Coke and ice all over the floor. Alex tried to get
up, but someone told him to sit back down.
"Now yours spilled," Alex said.
"Yes it did."
"Can I use your headphones to listen to music on the flight?" Alex asked
me.
"No," I said, "I would like to use them too."
"But I want to use them too," Alex insisted.
I reached into the McDonalds bag and pulled out a pack of honey sauce. I
opened it and poured it on Alex's head. Then the flight attendant came
over.
"What is going on?" she asked.
"Kristin won't let me use her headphones," Alex explained.
"Well she wants to use them too," she said to Alex, "and what did you pour
on his head?" she asked me.
"Honey sauce," I answered.
"I'll get you a wet rag. Try and wipe off as much as you can," she said.
When she returned with the rag, I went to work wiping his hair. I couldn't
get it all off, but I did wipe off as much as I could.
"I wiped off as much as I could the rest will come off when you take a
shower," I told him.
"Okay," he said.
"I will let you use my headphones, and you and I can just take turns," I
said.
"Okay that sounds good," Alex agreed.
The flight attendant returned, and I was nervous at this point.
"If you guys continue arguing, you cannot stay on this plane, and you will
not go to newark. The pilot will not take off, and the gentleman who is
supposed to be sitting next to you does not feel comfortable sitting with
you guys."
I think my heart went into my throat. I started asking myself what if I
can't get home, and what would happen to my luggage?
"We came to an agreement," Alex told her.
"Yes we are going to take turns with the headphones," I told her.
"That's fine, but you still may not be able to stay on the plane."
She walked away, and after a few minutes, she returned with another
flight attendant.
"Kristin, I need you to come with me to the jet way. Your mom wants to
talk to you," the first flight attendant said.
I got up and followed her to the jet way. The other flight attendant was
helping Alex. Once on the jet way, the flight attendant handed me a cell
phone.
"You better sit down on that plane and shut your mouth, or I am not
getting you." was all she said.
I then handed the phone back to the flight attendant.
"It'll be okay," she was saying, "I think that now they know what it takes
for them to be able to stay on this plane." The flight attendants led us
back to our seats.
"We're sorry," Alex said.
"If we hear one more sound, this plane is coming back to the gate," said
the flight attendant.
"Okay," I said, "can we talk as long as we don't argue?" I asked her.
"Yes you can talk as long as you don't argue."
We both agreed and apologized to the man sitting next to us. The flight
attendant did have to come back over to us one last time because Alex
had his weather band radio on and he had to turn it off, but other than
that, we were on our best behavior for the rest of the flight.
When we got to New Jersey, my mom was talking to the flight attendant.
"They were okay after what happened," she said.
"I'm going to have her write a letter. Who should we send it to?" my mom
asked her.
"Continental Airlines," the flight attendant replied.
I found out that the flight attendant told my mom that Alex and I were
causing a ruckus. My mom asked her on the phone what they would do if
anyone else was fighting. The flight attendant said she would just
separate them. My mom told her to just separate us; there is nothing
wrong with us we just can't see. Then she said to put me on the phone.
Once she told me to sit on the plane and be quiet, we were on our best
behavior. Alex and I decided to break up after that as we figured we
would need a break from each other.
You were sixteen or seventeen, and this actually happened?
This is the sort of thing you might expect from squabbling eight-year-olds.
Also, I highly doubt that an airline attendant would be bothering you while you were sitting in the airport and telling you that your "ruckus" was going to cause the plane not to take off. Kids throw fits all the time, and as far as I know I've never heard of a plane slowed or otherwise bothered by it. And that's basically what you were: a couple of kids being immature. The both of you were idiots. Alex for trying to wrestle a coke away from you, and you for deciding to dump honey sauce on his head. Seriously, what. the. fuck.
Also it seems highly improbable that your mother was on a phone and telling you to behave. How did she know to call? How did the airline attendant know who you were if it was she who contacted your mother? and a better question: why would an airline attendant even bother to do that if she knew your mother was at the other end of the flight?
Honestly, if even half of this truly did happen, I feel bad for the poor person who had to deal with the pair of you.
There's absolutely no way this is true. First, flight attendants don't leave the
plane. Those are called gate agents. second, they have absolutely no right to
tell you that you can't board. The gentleman would have no way of knowing that
he was going to be sitting next to you. The flight attendants, if somehow they
knew about all this, would just think it was two people playing around and being
dicks. They'd talk about you in the galley, but that's all. They can't kick you off
the plane for messing around unless you really get crazy, and you weren't.
There's no way that they would know your mom's phone number, and no one at
the airport would have used their personal cell to call your mother. They have
courtesy phones for such things, and that still doesn't explain how they knew
what number to call, or what your name was, or why they'd think they had any
power to silence you. The flight attendant also would never have told you that
the plane would return to the gate. if the plane returned to the gate, you would
have been in handcuffs. Those planes don't return to the gate for anything short
of an emergency. So yeah, this is utter bullshit.
Yes, I was 15 he was 16. When the flight attendant approached us asking
what was going on, we were on the plane at that point. When Alex asked me
about the headphones, we were on the plane. So the flight attendant
approached us on the plane. Yeah I'm not sure how they got my mom's
phone number. Also my roommate and I were up until 4 in the morning talking
so that also explains my behavior.
I actually thought this was gunna be about standing up for your rights or something like that and getting almost thrown off a plane just because you were doing that. It's why I clicked on the post. I don't understand the point. and I don't know why I clicked on it either now I've read it.
Cody, this is true. They probably didn't know how to deal with us since we
we were blind; they probably thought something was wrong with us or
something. We were already on the plane in our seats when someone
approached us asking what was going on, so it must have been the flight
attendant since the gate agents don't come on the plane.
John, the point was just to write a story.
Something was wrong with the pair of you beyond your blindness. You were acting like children when you were more than old enough to behave yourselves.
Sorry. This is still bullshit.
Also, learn to actually write detail properly. At no point in your story did you mention boarding the plane. It appeared as if everything was happening on the ground in the airport at the gate, particularly as you also mentioned being called into the jetway. Funny thing about that, too: they wouldn't call you into a jetway even if your mom wanted to talk to you, because they travel up and down them while trying to prepare planes for boarding. They don't need any more clutter than they can afford.
Next time, please don't try and pass this off as real. There might be elements of reality here, but you're clearly either embellishing or really badly misremembering bits. I hate to say that about someone else's life and stories, but there are just too many bits that don't make sense.
Honestly, if there are other issues going on here, perhaps the parents numbers were supplied, considering the extra responsibility.
I don't know, but it's possible.
And the more I read, the more I think there is definitely something other than blindness.
I'm not even trying to be a bitch, but this isn't even the kind of behaviour you see from blind kids sheltered beyond belief.
Yeah I agree this is BS, or as Holly said something is truely wrong.
I like post 7. That's the truth. Smile.
OK, let me get this straight: not one, but two cokes spilled onto the airplane floor, according to your atrociously detailed story?
Also, I think people are conflicted on your story status because in Writer's Block, we commonly see works of fiction unless stated otherwise.
These stories you're writing are actual things a lot of us could see happening in a day of your life.
Maybe differentiating this a little more would help?
What Danni said.
I don't recognise this as being fact by any stretch of the imagination.
It could be considered fiction... badly written fiction... but there is no way on God's Green
Earth that this is fact.
If you read the story, you can tell it is a story.
Some things in the story won't happen as pointed out.
If it's a "story," then why did she write the following:
This happened to me back in the summer of 2007 when I was attending a
summer program in Colorado. Alex was my boyfriend at the time, and now
we're just friends. At the time we were 15 and 16. I will be writing this as
if I were writing this back in 2007
I wrote that part to give you all a little background information. I know I
forgot to include when we boarded the plane, and you can't edit board posts
so I couldn't fix it. Yes, we were in the airport eating our lunch, so 2 large
Cokes spilled onto the floor of the airport. Then when we boarded the plane,
Alex asked me about my headphones. I just forgot to include that.
Now I've heard it all.
Rereading this, it does say "getting off this plane", so this is a clear case of having missed a bit of the narrative thread. There was a transition from airport to airplane someplace.
So you poured honey sauce in his hair while on the plane, and then, presumably while other people were trying to board, got dragged out into the jetway, where a flight attendant somehow had your mom on the phone. Then your mom proceeded to scold you like a young child, which is essentially what you had coming.
I'm just going to ask this straight up. No meanness, no rancour, no offense intended.
Are you mentally impaired in any way? Do you have a brain injury of some kind which interferes with your ability to think clearly? Are you suffering from some sort of condition where your emotional and mental development has been stopped before it finished?
Because many many posts you've made here are pointing toward this. You're doing things a child might do, and it doesn't seem to strike you as odd. You're showing mental tendencies a much younger woman might show, and aren't thinking things through clearly. That's why I ask.
If I'm correct in this assumption, there's no shame in saying so. We cannot help our disabilities, after all. I can no more blame someone who's mentally disabled for behaving inappropriately than they can blame me for not being able to read print with my eyes.
All right, not sure I believe your story.
But you two turds need to realize a couple of things:
Airplane security is very important. Having the guy next to you complain about you is one thing. However, raising a ruckus like that, spilling liquids on each other, while not directly a security violation, could certainly pose as a nice distraction for someone who's got a boxcutter and intends to use it.
You tied up valuable flight staff with your chenanigans and the Captain was no doubt performing the requisite preflight safety checks when she or he was interrupted by your tomfoolery.
Something else you turds probably didn't know: On the water or in the air, the captain's word is the law. Period, end of discussion. That means she or he could have you cuffed to your seat if they felt it necessary.
Bet you didn't think of that. Sure, the plane wasn't in the air, and yes, the captain at that point could have told yu to deplane. And it would have been their right to do so based on the disruption you all were causing.
a story can be non-fiction. it's called ... well, non-fiction. Now, if these are stories based on her life, that is a little disturbing. I'm not sure why you, apple feel the need to post all of it here, but if you're looking for honest writer's feedback - which if you want to improve your writing can be really helpful, it would be good to explain up front what you want. Otherwise you have people not sure how to respond and calling you a pointless topics spammer. And since yoou've already admited - with a "lol" no less that you were suspended for spamming, that's just shameful. I can't ask you to not waste your or others' time, because lots of people find your posts entertaining - though perhaps not in the way you'd like unless you're a narcesistic masochist. But I would highly recommend considering your reasoning for posting all these little ... anicdotes. I'll say this much for you, on the writer's block, you're almost queen of the responses, and I'm jealous that you get all the attention.:) But then I realize it's not really your writing everyone's interested in.:)
And, that's exactly the problem Remy. People are laughing at her, but for the wrong damn reasons, and if I see one more person post about how pointless it is. She's not going to stop until we stop giving her what she wants. The bashing and stuff is getting old too. Just keep strolling down the boards, and ignore this nonsense because she's not adding any insight to her posts, just pointing out the obvious and just watching people make fun of her.
Also, I really do want to know if there's a mental disability going on here as well. I'm suspecting it, but nobody can be one hundred percent sure until we absolutely as a matter of fact know.
Well Apple, why don't you come out and tell us. What do you want from us? Do you know, yourself? Do you want writing critiques? insults and psychoanalasys, to get a rise out of us? A big ol' pile of "aawwwwwwws"? It's obvious you want attention - anyone who posts on the boards wants them to be red. But you're sending mixed, and decidedly clumpy messages.
I'm not bashing. I also don't think ApplePeaches is mental.
Lake, remember my rant about white lies?
For whatever reason people can't resist telling them.
That was why she started her story with, "this happen to me."
There are two many holes in it.
You are in an iairport to start with. Sure, soda gets spilt, but the staff would have come over to clean up, and him trying to snatch your soda wouldn't have happened.
Just other things that don't stack up.
I just can't believe the story from the contence.
I have no problem with it as a story, but as a truthful one.
Yeah if I didn't want responses, I wouldn't post on the boards. I am just
writing a story and am looking for responses.
I found this post to be rather entertaining and yeah I myself am curious to know whether you have another disability or not and may I say that you mentioned being blind a lot for things but for what you did was not because you are blind.
I think you would be taken off the plane for causing problems because they wouldn't want it to happen while flying because then they wouldn't be able to get other assistance to help them if necessary.
I don't think she'll be able to admit it if she does. And it is obvious that she does, which is why I try not to write judgemental posts.
This post is especially out there though I will admit.
Post 18 is brilliance.
I still can't figure out if you're trying to pass this off as something that actually happened to you or if you're trying to write a short story. If you're trying to write a short story, might I suggest making the characters, oh, I don't know, maybe 6 or so? If my son acted that way, even at age 6, he would have gotten his ass beaten. If this is truly something that happened to you, then I dare say you've definitely got some other issues in addition to your blindness because the things you post are in no way appropriate for someone of relatively normal intelligence and the age you describe.
Yes this is a true story of something that happened to me. I understand my
blindness had nothing to do with our behavior. If we were already in the air,
the captain would probably have done an emergency landing wherever we
were.
I doubt that. But you would have been in a lot of trouble at the other end.
So, are you saying that you're mentally impaired as well or just an extreme brat.
Wow. I feel sorry for your mother. If my kid turns out like you, I will have failed. lol
And let me be clear: if there is a mental disability here, that's fine. I'm not bashing that. But she's so unappologetically brash and ridiculous, I can't not bash. Those of you who can ignore her without sniggering or who are trying to give her constructive feedback, you're far better people than I am. lol. And that's fine. Call me a snob or whatever you like, but when I see that someone is a genuine asshole moron and they display it proudly in public, I reserve my write to point and titter. If they don't wake up and gain a reality check from the mockery, then I'll at least have some cheap entertainment between work hours. lol. Hey, people watch Jerry Springer and judge judy for the same reasons, no? I may be a snob and what maybe the op would call a meanie, but at least I'm not a fool. lol.
Unfortunately, I do believe something like this happened here, if not in this exact sequence, then at least in some form. You're a sorry disgrace for an adult person, apple, and if I were your mother, I'd have locked you up in a barbed-wire cage before I let you board a plane without a dedicated chaperone. You're a fool; not necessarily because you do stupid shit--because that may well be a symptom of a disability--but because your proud enough to post it up publically. That, is precisely why I take the time to point and titter. Amen.
Bernadetta, I too, wish you'd cut out the badgering. No one knows whether there is a mental disability at play here, and judging from posts I've read recently, it seems like there is...so really, grow up, and go elsewhere if you want cheap entertainment.
I think there's a secondary disability. If a flight attendant called my family, they had better have a GOOD reason!
And, we have had terrorist threats. If you can't keep civil, don't fly. I shudder to think what a distraction could cause to get on a plane!
I had a caregiver fired, for not letting up on where my parents were. It's really unfair, if someone starts calling moms and dads, when they don't want to deal with a blind person.
Blessings,
Sarah
My stepfather once told me that captains can do emergency landings
wherever you are; you get fined and they don't care if you get your luggage.
While that is true, that doesn't mean they would do an emergency landing for
two children acting extremely immature
And you're a child, and so you believed that fiction. LOL But I guess it wasn't successful in motivating you to behave.
This is about her saving face.
She wants her story believed, and it isn't being belived, so she's drawing straws so to speak.
ApplePeaches is not mental.
There not going to land a plane because you are acting an ass, you are going to be arrested at the other end. Flat out.
Yeah well he told me that after the airplane incident.
OOO, account disabled? Sounds like there's a story there. lol
Damn, now what will we do for pointless entertainment?
I read this post over the course of three days, as I was doing it during school hours. I
will have you know, that even at six, or younger, I would not have fought with
someone over a coke. while some little children can be less mature than other little
children, you at that age should have known better than to do those things. And fighting
over headphones? Really? Child, grow the fuck up! Even my nephew, who is two, knows
better. Then there's the matter of whether or not this is even true, or makes sense.
Now, the attendants could have looked on the contact information for the flight, as
those booking tickets have to submit phone numbers (I think) and they would not have
dragged you into the jet way. None of this makes sense in any sequential or logistical
way. Now I'm going to shut up, as I'm posting simply for something to do.
Yeah. For sure.
School must not be to interesting at all anymore.
Laughing.
what the fuck did I just read? seriously! ok, first of all, fighting for stupid
things? flight attendant comming out of nowhere? are you fucking ok in the
head? Grow the fuck up! now! face it, you're in your 20s not in your little kid
years! Ok, I'll shut it now.
Ok, Well, I just read this, and I have no idea why I even bothered! I'm 15, and I sure as hell do not act like that! If someone were to ask, hey, may ,I borrow your headphones, I'd say, yeah, sure! And just get a move on! Really, Kristin? I do not understand your menntality at this point. You fight over stupid stuff, like a 5 or 6 year old! And trust me,, I know what that's like, ,I have two siblings.
Adding to daniele's post, I also have a little nephew who fights over my
phone. but am I acting rash like you? no! I let him borrow it. so ha! you are
loca in the head. maybe you need a phsycyatrist! (shit, spelled that wrong
but you know what I mean)
LOL, this again...
I know wright? doen't get old... :d hahaha!
I'm not even old-school when it comes to discipline, but I'd have been tempted to take off my belt and use it like our fathers did in the 70s.
lol, mom and dad still does it, so it works so well. Even though I never got the
belt, these 2 deserve it. (I don't mean to be rude but you need it, Kristin!)
actually, she was sixteen at the time this supposed incident unfolded, but still, old enough to know what is and isn't appropriate behavior in public.
true! I'm 16, about to be 17, and I don't act like that! Sorry, but you are
mental!
I haven't looked at this thread since December and it popped up in the recent
topics thingy. I was banned again for bothering somebody. And yeah I don't
know how the flight attendant got my mom's number. Maybe it was supplied
I'm not sure. This definitely was a true story though.
clearly your mother or someone had to buy the plane tickets, so of course her contact info would have to be given as you were under eighteen in case there's an emergency. In your case, and rightly so, she was called as a measure for dealing with your ridiculous, childish, downright embarrassing shenanigans. shame upon you; I hope you've learned since this incident what is and isn't okay as far as carrying yourself in social situations is concerned. If not, it's a wonder you go out in public at all. *SMH*
Do you think it's OK to bother (or harass) people on this site and elsewhere for your own amusement?
omfg! bothering someone? Hmm, I wonder who you were bothering. Hmm, it's
easy! I've seen it! cody. You. Need. Help. Right. Now!
Bothering ... someone. I love it. Stalker chick.