So Long, And No Thanks For All The Fish

We flight attendants see all sorts of stuff. This is the strangest thing I’ve seen. The gate supervisor came up the jet bridge and paged a passenger. The passenger hit his flight attendant call button, and we let him come up to the main door. The gate supervisor asked the passenger to describe his suitcase. Then, the supervisor asked him what he had in his suitcase.

Customer: “Fish.”

Apparently, this guy had packed a bunch of fish he’d caught into his suitcase.

He managed to get it through check-in and even through the TSA screen, but after being bumped and tossed in handling, by the time it got to the plane, it was wet and smelly, and the baggage loaders refused to put it on the plane — thank God!

The gate supervisor had to explain to this guy that everyone was going to be much happier if he got off the plane and retrieved his suitcase, and he even offered the guy rebooking and a voucher if he would come back without the fish.

He deplaned, and that’s the last I heard of it.