Yeah, you and your dirty hands aren’t gonna fool someone like her with such a lame attempt at damage control.
Another vote for “She was deadpanning; get over it.”
Nobody said it was a great joke.
I couldn’t wait until they turned off the “fasten seatbelts” one time. It was taking forever. I asked the attendant nicely and was told to wait. I saw someone else get up and go to a restroom so I did the same. As I was approaching the restroom an attendant suggested I go back to my seat and I said I would after I went to the restroom or they would be cleaning up urine. I got a nasty look but I didn’t get tackled or further questioned about my bathroom habits.
If she was making a joke to the OP then it was a bad joke and kind of rude.
Making a light-hearted joke (“did you wash your hands?”) is one thing; putting a customer uncomfortably on the spot in front of other customers (“[prove you did by telling me] what color is the soap?”) would have annoyed me a bit too.
It was a joke, but unlike the plane, it failed to land.
Kinda rude? Man, if a stewardess asked me if I had washed my hands, my autopilot response would be, “How is that any of your fucking business?”
Another vote for slightly missed joke. We have West Jet which also goes out of their way to be entertaining and not stuffy. One attendant did the whole seat-belt spiel in rhyme and it ends with “let’s get this Boeing going”. I have also seen them do toilet paper unrolling contests down the aisles.
Lame joke that fell flat.
The flight attendant was just making a small joke. As any viewer of Pee Wee Herman knows, when someone asks you if you washed your hands you say “no I didn’t!” and put your hands all over their face.
I sense quite a bit of hostility in this thread toward the flight attendant. Another reason why I dislike flying are all of the self-important passengers who are regularly rude to the flight crew and each other.
You get what you give.
I’ve had my share of rude flight crews. But I wouldn’t throw it back at them while flying. Would not do any good at the time. They can always pull out the interference with a flight crew and really mess up your day. Doesn’t matter if the charges don’t stick. You get detained and they get the last laugh. I’ve seen it done to other passengers more than once.
Another vote for a joke that didn’t play well with the intended audience (you). I fly enough SW to make their A list in the first 2-3 months of the year, and I dread it when I have to fly anyone else. Rather than get testy, I would hope I would be quick enough on my feet to respond “I judge soap by the content of its cleanliness, not by the color of its additives” or something equally silly.
I washed my hands in the blue water.
I wouldn’t let that get me and IMHO no overstepping.
The best thing there would have been a quick come back, “same color it was when we took off” or “not quite sure, but you should get some of that nice purple soap, I really like that flavor”
Of course the easy out would have been like Al Bundy used to do and say no and then rub her hair or pat her shoulder in a congratulatory method.
I think she was trying to make a joke, but it came off as weird and rude. I probably would have just given her a ‘look’ and not responded (which is what I do to anyone who says something rude/awkward/inappropriate - most often customers/patrons where I work).
One of my best friends is an attendant for Southwest. He is basically a one-man comedy routine on flights, and I’m sure he annoys plenty of people, especially since he has a bizarre and deadpan sense of humor (he’s had complaints before). But he is fully within his rights according to the company to make small talk and joke around with passengers, other attendants, and the pilots. Flights are boring and I can’t fault attendants for trying to keep themselves entertained.
I should add that the rest of the flight was fine, and that was the only comment that made me go “huh??” even by that flight attendant. She was nice the rest of the time, it just seemed like an oddly accusatory question to ask a passenger–basically accusing them of lying. Especially when I HAD washed my hands but HADN’T looked at the soap. (I use pump soap by putting my thumb on top of the pump, and making a fist around the nozzle part, and pushing down. The soap goes into my closed fist, where I then rub it against my other hand, then rinse. I never see the soap except as bubbles–and those are generally white regardless of the color of the soap.
You could, of course, have just made her feel awkward by saying “I’m colourblind”.
It was a joke… nobody expects you to memorize the color of the soap. Just a funny way of raising an eyebrow and saying “are you sure about that?” with the expected (and normal) response of someone chuckling.
Bad jokes always are. If it was a hilarious joke, everybody would be saying it was NOT rude, and people need to loosen up!
Anyway, I see it as a joke. I also would have said “Before or after?”
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Try:
“We [del]love[/del] hate you, you [del]love[/del] pay us
'Cause we’re faster than the bus
Now please sit down and shut the fuck up
Or the Sky Marshal will tase your butt.”