A 27-year-old woman travelling home from Tenerife got the shock of her life after watching a couple engaging in a disgusting and disturbing act onboard the budget airline
A holidaymaker was left horrified after noticing what a couple were doing on a budget flight. Erin Butcher was flying home from a seven-day family holiday in Tenerife when she caught a man ‘picking dirt from under his partner’s toenails’ during an easyJet flight
Erin first noticed a woman’s bare feet propped up on a tray table during the flight. The 27-year-old was then left feeling ‘disgusted’ when the man appeared to pick at her French pedicure toenails before ‘flicking bits of dirt’ around. She claims the couple did this for 20 minutes, while other passengers laughed nervously in confusion.
The fashion merchandiser shared footage of the stomach-churning moment with the caption ‘Nothing beats an easyJet flight. Hope no one ate off this tray table on the next flight’.
The clip was uploaded on TikTok on July 31st and has since gone viral, racking up more than 336,200 views.
Sickened, Erin says it was ‘unhygienic’ and made for a ‘depressing’ end to her holiday.
Erin, from Southwark, South East London, 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.
“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.
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“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.”
Many users took to the comments to express their disgust. One user wrote: “Totally gross.” While someone else commented: “That’s disgusting anywhere.”
A third added: “Save it for later.” While a fourth user commented: “Why on earth?”
EasyJet has been approached for a comment.
It comes after another plane passenger recently blasted a mum for changing her baby’s dirty nappy on a tray table rather than taking the infant to the bathroom.
She said 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 delight, the pilot ended up speaking out against this behaviour – but sadly it was too late to stop the smell from making its way around the cabin.