How people can be so intolerant of others. This happened on my flight home from Perth last night
I am in a window seat, my gf next to me and and a stranger on the aisle (with her husband sitting on the other aisle seat), and three middle aged women right behind us - all in their 50s.
So we are on board, waiting on the tarmac to take off, and the three ladies take their seats behind us, all taking incredibly loudly, without any concern for anyone else around them bar themselves. You know, those loud and obnoxious types who generally don't give a shit and think the world revolves entirely around them. One wants to go to the toilet but is advised not to as people are boarding (and they were at the gate 15 minutes early so could have then), they weren't happy about that.
Anyway, we're still sitting on the tarmac, and the flight is perhaps 15 minutes delayed for whatever reason and I hear one of them remark something along the lines of "oh we're already 15 minutes late, who knows how much longer it will be". They then proceeded to have a pissing contest over who worked more in the last week for the next 10 minutes (not exaggerating), and literally were counting out the days on their fingers to see who had worked more. "I worked five of the last seven days!" "Well I worked four of the last six!". This went on and on and on. I felt like I would have had more fun poking myself in the eye with a fork.
They have not quietened down at all, and were being incredibly obnoxious and loud. I turned to my gf and said I am going to say something, she advised against and just let it go and we'll be in the air soon. Few more minutes pass and they're still talking out the top of their lungs. I bit the bullet and turned around and said "Sorry, do you mind keeping it down a bit?" [note I was not at all aggressive and asked very politely]. The main culprit (her name was Bev), directly behind me, who I spoke to about being noisey snaps back with "WHY, DO YOU HAVE A BABY?!", I said, (paraphrasing) no, you're just being quite loud, and there are other people around who you should be considerate for. I get a reply with "I have never been called loud in my life". I said, well, you are. Lady next to her says "sure, we'll be quiet." I think this is the end of it, so I turn around and go back to reading.
Less than two minutes later Bev starts kicking my chair (we're in the air by now), and I thought to myself, **** this, and I put my chair all the way back to give her the shits. (I should not have done this as it was stooping to her level, but I'd had enough). A substance is in then squirted over my chair, on to me, what I was reading, my chair and the wall. It was dettol. I call the attendant over and say what has happened. The attendant tries to defuse the situation and says I;m sure it was an accident and it might have just been from the pressure. I turn around and confront Bev and tell her she has squirted something on me, she proclaims her innocence. I then say to her (paraphrasing, again) - "would you like me to put my chair forward?", she says "I think you've put it back to annoy me", I ask her again if she would like me to put it forward, "she says if you don't mind". I said "all you had to do was ask, it's not hard".
Food comes along and they had sold out of two items. Bev wasn't too happy and said "well can we get a free meal because we can't get what we want?" Flight attendant explained this was out of her control and offered what they have. Bev said something about knowing it wasn't her fault but thinks her and her friends deserve a free meal for not having the food they wanted. Gf and I found this quite funny at the sense of entitlement she had.
They're still noisy but they aren't directly annoying us (the lady beside my gf actually said I did the right thing and said I was very polite in the way I asked her about noise etc). Bev and her mates start taking the piss out of us with the bogans sitting behind them (all WC supporters

) saying they are too loud etc (we heard her admit to them she squirted dettol despite her claiming her innocence earlier

). They then jokingly ask her to be quiet and she said something about herself being too noisy. She would have had about five wines on the flight too.
I had to go to the toilet and I ended up chatting to the flight attendant about what happened, and she started to understand where I was coming from etc - another one overheard and said one of them said "stick your leg out" to try and trip her.
Anyway, they're loud for the rest of the flight but don't directly bother us aside from being obnoxious etc. I was over it by the time we landed and just wanted to get home etc (was nearly midnight).
So I get to the baggage carousel and Bev and her mates aren't far behind. Bev tries to coax her friend to come over and stand near me but her friend is having none of it, and says something like "don't be silly, just stay here" etc. Bev is like "no it will be funny, come on, come on."
Before I know it, Bev is standing literally a foot in front of me. I just thought to myself how pathetic and childish can a grown woman be to sink to this level. She deliberately tried to find me, and with her pea-sized brain, thought it would be hilarious to stand next to me. It was funny at how pathetic this woman actually was. I moved slightly and she would move too. I tried moving toward her in the hope she would bump into me. Her daughter (also on the flight), said "mum, stop being embarrassing". I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I thought of so many things I could have said/done in hindsight, but I maintained my composure and kept a cool head.
Our bag was like the third out, and I said "I hope you don't have to wait too long for your bags" and she said "thanks mate" and we were on our way.