Economy passengers may rage after being marched through first class

[JimDandy]

70. It sure is getting unbearable. On a Delta Connections flight between Seattle and Denver last Nov,

the flight attendant held up the entire B boarding line for economy class for more than a minute, by standing in the aisle in first class and taking alcoholic drink orders from the 1st class passengers. She took drink orders from 2 of those 1st class passengers in that time. I was the economy passenger at the front of the line standing right next to her. She refused to look at me, let alone acknowledge me or the fact that there was a line of about 30 people piled up behind me (They had made all of us check our carry on bags in the breezeway, anticipating no room in the overhead bins). She started to take another order from a 3rd passenger when I finally, quietly said, "Excuse me, we need to board." She turned her back to me and kept right on taking his order. The passenger had the decency to look uncomfortable, but never said a word. He declined a drink and the stewardess finally moved aside so we all could pass. I thought nothing more of it.

Guess what the flight attendant did in retribution to me? Came time to take drink orders from the economy passengers and the fellow next to me gets asked and given a drink. I had been watching the attendant the whole time during his order. Then, without ever directly looking at me-the only other person in those 3 seats, the flight attendant starts to push the drink cart to the seats behind me. I pipe up saying "Excuse me I'd like____" and the attendant replies, without apologizing, that she hadn't seen me! She backs up and gets me the drink. That wasn't the end of it. It came time to pick up the garbage and, yep, I kid you not, she does the same routine. This time as she moves down the aisle behind me, I say loudly over the seats "Would you come back and get this garbage or shall I just aim and throw toward your bag? Several seat rows of passengers undoubtedly heard me. She did the whole "didn't see you" spiel again, but this time she apologized. I made the connection pretty fast then, between my earlier request in 1st class and her snubbing treatment of me.

I've never had anything like that happen on a flight before. The whole flight was memorable because shortly after the garbage service, the plane hit turbulence so bad that I fully expected it to rip apart. Through 5 minutes of really bad shaking, passengers were doubled over in their seats some of them screaming in fright. Worst. flight. ever.