‘My girlfriend ruined everyone’s flight when she brought a whole lasagne’

One man was humiliated when his girlfriend brought a lasagne on board a plane as part of her hand luggage. Little did she know, this decision would lead to an unpleasant olfactory experience for everyone on the flight.

The couple was running late at the airport and didn’t have time to enjoy a proper meal before boarding, so the man described in a post on Reddit.

In a moment of hunger-induced desperation, the girlfriend decided to order a lasagne at the airport terminal, intending to eat it during the flight. However, the pungent aroma of the lasagne quickly filled the cabin, capturing the attention of everyone on board.

A flight attendant, in a polite yet informative manner, approached the couple and acknowledged the situation.

“Oh, you’re the person eating lasagne. We can smell it throughout the whole plane,” the flight attendant remarked before leaving them to their meal. The man felt mortified by the attention they were receiving and discreetly asked his girlfriend to put the lasagne away. Unfortunately, his request was met with resistance.

In his Reddit post, the man expressed his interpretation of the flight attendant’s comment as a subtle hint to his girlfriend that her meal was causing discomfort to fellow passengers.

He believed that putting the lasagne away would be considerate towards others who might not appreciate the strong smell of food in such close quarters. However, his girlfriend disagreed and refused to comply, leading to a disagreement between the couple.

He wrote: “My interpretation of the flight attendant’s comment was a passive-aggressive way of telling my girlfriend that everyone could smell her lasagne throughout the plane.

“I thought it would be best to put it away for the sake of others who might not appreciate the strong smell of her food. My girlfriend put up a bit of a fuss and didn’t want to put it away at which point I told her it was likely ruining other people’s flight experience having to smell her food. She didn’t take kindly to those words.”

Social media users weighed in on the situation, with many siding with the girlfriend. They argued that lasagne is not typically considered a smelly food and questioned why there was any cause for complaint.

One user even pointed out that with airlines no longer serving meals on most flights, passengers often have to bring their own food on board. They suggested that the flight attendant’s comment was merely an observation rather than a passive-aggressive reprimand.

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