Well, the experience was bound to happen to me sooner or later: I found a bare foot on my armrest aboard an airplane on a recent flight.
A Bare Foot On My Armrest.
The intruding bare foot — which belonged to a woman — was on an area of the armrest where the elbow of my arm would typically be placed.
To resolve the issue, what I did was used a safety information placard to lightly swat the bare foot several times. The tickling effect was apparently annoying enough for the bare foot to be permanently removed from the armrest.
Final Boarding Call
The name armrest itself implies that that part of the seat is used for resting arms and not feet.
Also, the armrest belongs to the passenger who sits in that seat — not to the passenger who sits behind that seat — so it was an invasion of space in addition to simply being disgusting to do, in my opinion.
Passengers who have a need to rest their bare feet aboard an airplane need to figure out how to do so in their own space — not in the space of other passengers.
All photographs ©2025 by Brian Cohen.
