The passengers and flight crew on flight 931 operated by United Airlines from London to San Francisco might have been flushed with envy for other transatlantic flights which had an ample supply of toilet paper, because one of the lavatories supposedly was depleted of its supply of toilet paper midway during the flight.
Napkins were reportedly substituted to absorb the void left by the lack of toilet paper, according to FlyerTalk member SFO_Runner, who was bowled over by the alleged claim that the flight crew could not be bothered — or, more appropriately, tear away from what they were doing — to simply transfer a roll from a different lavatory.
Was that claim true — or were they simply full of sheet?
I would have thought that the members of the flight crew would have searched the bowels of the aircraft for another roll of toilet paper to resolve this rather tear-able tissue issue — and if they were unable to find one, they would simply go back to square one instead of using method number two of substituting napkins. What a waste.
After all — is that not one duty of many upon which the flight crew should plunge into pertaining to serving their passengers and ensuring their comfort? This really blows that they did not seem to lend a dire ear to the needs of their passengers. Should they not have been more Charmin to their passengers instead of simply poo-pooing them?
Perhaps this is a piss-poor attempted movement by United Airlines to wipe their financial slate clean in its quest for its bottom line to be profitable? If so, it seems to smell an awful lot like brown-nosing by members of the flight crew to be in good standing with the bean-counters if they decided to prune away some of the rolls of toilet paper available for the passengers.
I wonder if the in-flight entertainment aboard that aircraft was paper view instead of complimentary. Either way, I would bet that it would contain at least one song by The Commode-ores.
Please allow me to float this question to you: would you have flipped your lid if you were on this flight and had to use napkins instead of toilet paper to regain that “fresh” clean feeling?
In the meantime, tanks for reading this article. I gotta go…
