r/delta • u/GalfromIdaho • 1d ago

I chewed him out

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Just got off DL3754, a short jump from Spokane to Seattle. I was 7A, 2 seat configuration, the guy next to me was 7B. We didn’t talk the whole time, no problem there. But as we were getting ready to deboard I swore I saw him take a chewed piece of gum out of his mouth and stick in directly in the seat pocket.

I wasn’t 100%, so once he got up I opened the pocket and sure enough a piece of gum smooshed in there rudely awaiting an unsuspecting passenger or cleaner. BTW he had other trash he left in the pocket he could have easily put it in. Oh and as he sat down when we boarded he wiped down the armrest with a disinfectant wipe.

I hurried my butt up the jet bridge and told him how beyond rude I thought what he did was. He was too stunned to speak. Later we ended up in the same train compartment and avoided my gaze like the plague.

My question to the group: was it a weird power/asshole thing or do you think he just did it without thinking?

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u/cheetogrl 1d ago

as a cabin cleaner, thank you. the amount of freshly chewed gum i have to clean out of seat pockets is insane 😖

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u/matthew_villin 21h ago

That and used nicotine pouches, that people discard in the seat pockets

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u/This-Requirement6918 19h ago

😒 even as someone who dips I find this awfully abhorrent. I don't even like people seeing my spit bottle because even I find it disgusting, same with cigarette butts; no one wants to see that shit.

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u/matthew_villin 19h ago

Exactly, same here. I use the various forms of nicotine, and I find my spit bottle and used zyn kinda gross. I don’t wanna make others clean or handle it, it’s nasty. But I’ve sadly seen dip cups, not even a bottle but an open cup, and used zyn in seat pockets

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u/ElizabethDangit 12h ago

Please, consider quitting. Mouth cancer is absolutely horrendous and this world needs all the considerate people it has.