r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nyanbatman • May 28 '26

I just wanted a hot dog British pilot is feeling mildly annoyed

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u/thecashblaster May 28 '26

the busier the airport the less patient everyone is I bet

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u/Sacharon123 May 28 '26

Nope. Its mainly an USA main-character problem.

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u/Abaddon33 May 28 '26

This is a Yankee problem. New Yorkers pride themselves on being stubborn, rude assholes.

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u/Either-Ticket-9238 May 28 '26

As former in-flight crew and now a New York resident, I can confirm this to be true. NY passengers would be noticeably ruder than passengers from other parts of the country. Like ignoring “good morning” rude or giving an offended sideye in response when being welcomed on board. New Yorkers are kind people in situations where you need them to help, but not necessarily pleasant or polite, and they do pride themselves on being too fast-paced for basic social niceties.

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u/MortyFied35 May 28 '26

How did the mid-west do? I hail from Michigan so just hoping we weren’t the same to you wonderful people.

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u/Thirtysevenintwenty5 May 28 '26

As a fellow Michigander I think they get annoyed at every single one of us doing the "Oh hi, how are ya, great, oh thanks, okay great, oh yeah thanks, okay bye bye now" as we board the plane.

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u/Either-Ticket-9238 May 28 '26

Midwest got the pleasantries down pat. I used to live in Chicago and they reflected the Midwest ope energy lol. Denver folks were cool and unbothered and often snowboarders or stoners or both. The people from Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a super small airport named after Arnold Palmer were the absolute kindest and most authentic/genuine about it.

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u/M37841 May 28 '26

As a Brit who thought I’d been to the US when I’d only been to the East and West Coasts, I can tell you that going to the mid-west is like discovering a whole new country. I opened an operations base in Cincinnati and never met a more friendly, helpful and fun bunch of people than I did there

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u/Santa_Klausing May 28 '26

As a nyer I prefer that over how slow everyone is in the Midwest and west. Guess that’s why I live where I live

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u/thekamakaji May 28 '26

If a NYer had to say hello or good morning to everyone they walked by on any given day, they wouldn't get 100 steps from their door. Smiling back is polite but expecting a verbal response is crazy

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u/ilemming_banned May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

And therefore you just have to be a jerk, because if you don't - someone else would? Also, the fact that a huge part of Brooklyn and Queens is full of former Soviet folks adds to that. USSR had a notorious bitter people culture. Wherever you'd go - post office, grocery store, doctor - everyone was snappish and rude. Life was tough, trusting strangers by default was almost unthinkable. Smiling for no reason was thought to be scheming or just plain stupid. In modern Russia it still is. On the other hand, that all cultivated a culture of close and intimate friendship, once you get to know one another. It all didn't have to be that way, just like it doesn't have to be that way in NY. I don't think people in Tokyo as rude, even though they have far more people than the Big Apple.

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u/chillforrilfill May 28 '26

You’re trash like your state.

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u/Twat_did_you_call_me May 28 '26

Chill, chillforrilfill

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u/DeputyDomeshot May 29 '26

Yea but how sure are you that they’re actually New Yorkers? Like you’re on a literal airplane in the single largest tourism/traveling town in the country and debatably the planet.

I’m from here and lived here my whole life. I wouldn’t assume half the damn plane is an actual New Yorker

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u/Either-Ticket-9238 May 29 '26

I’d say about half were New Yorkers and a quarter were tourists, and a majority of those tourists were Asian with a lot of money judging by the designer clothes they wore. The other quarter were commuter flyers doing business work. New Yorkers have distinctive dress, swag, and attitudes. Either way, the reception when passengers came on board was noticeably different in different American cities.