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A flight attendant was yelled at by a passenger for not bringing them a drink while another traveller was fighting for their life.
If you spend enough time cruising through the clouds at 30,000 feet where the air pressure has a habit of playing with people's heads, you're bound to encounter some unusual things and irrational behaviour.
That may be elderly men brushing their teeth and gargling while sat in their seat, or the unusual placement of bare feet.
For one flight attendant one of their most unexpected and annoying encounters came as they were trying to save the life of another customer.
Going by the username FriendlySkyGuy on Reddit, he was sharing some of his most memorable moments in-flight when someone asked which passenger they found the most aggravating to deal with.
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The passenger decided to interupt the life saving process (Getty Images/iStockphoto)"The ones who are so wrapped up in their own world they forget that they're traveling with 200 other human beings, and are being attended to by other humans," he explained before opening up about one particularly frustrating encounter.
"I had a medical situation on my flight. As I'm attending to it, as a second, more serious situation happens," the flight attendant said.
"I leave the first passenger with one crew member and go to help the other two in the back by grabbing supplies - I thought we were gonna have to use the defibrillator.
"I heard a call bell go off, but it didn't look important - no one was slumped down or laid out in the aisle like the other two - so I kept going.
"As I finish up the situation, the call bell rings twice. I run over, and this woman has the nerve to go off on me and yell that I haven't attended to her this whole time. We must've been in the air for 45 minutes out of a three hour flight and she 'needs a g******ed Diet Coke.'
"No care for the two people on the floor, or the flight attendants and EMTs that happened to be onboard. No, no, this woman needed her diet cola."
In the comments below a fire fighter recalled a very similar incident when they were on a plane and an emergency announcement came over the Tannoy, calling for help to save a passenger's life.
The moral of the story seems to be - don't interrupt people saving lives because you need a drink (Getty Images)"A passenger had become unresponsive and had some pretty serious medical issues going on. Myself, a nurse, and two flight attendants were working together in a cramped space to help this person while a third flight attendant was relaying information," the fire fighter explained.
"Thankfully we were already on initial approach so didn't have to divert but it was clear we would be met on the tarmac by rescue as we didn't have time to taxi to the gate.
"As we're doing our best for this individual a woman approaches and loudly says 'Um you need to move, I can't get to my bag, it's in that overhead.'
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"I'm sure one of the flight attendant was about to politely tell her to go away but another passenger got to her first with a very loud 'Hey b**** this guy might be dying I'm sure your bag can wait. Sit the f*** down."
"In the midst of a very serious situation, I couldn't help but notice that all three flight attendants had that smile that says 'I could never keep my job and say that, but I'm glad someone else did'."