For your own peace of mind, avoid using this amenity on your next plane ride. In this video, learn about why you should never use your seat’s back pocket on a plane. From apple cores to dirty tissues, the back pockets have been used for a variety of unsavory items that may make you reconsider the convenient storage space.
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00:00You should never use your seatback pocket on a plane and I'm going to tell you why.
00:03We all know the seatback pocket is dirty, but cleaning crews find some seriously gross things
00:07in there when cleaning out the trash, including apple cores, socks, underwear, dirty tissues,
00:12you name it. Just think about it for a minute. A passenger is coughing into a wad of tissues,
00:16and instead of disposing it in the trash, they put it in the seatback pocket. Now imagine you're
00:20sitting in the same seat on the next flight and you slip your phone and your water bottle into
00:24the same seatback pocket. You get the picture. So what are you doing? Risking it for the storage
00:28space or avoiding the germs?