Comedian takes ‘revenge’ on a woman who let her dog pooh in an airport

Comedian Steve Hofstetter is a travelling comic.  Being a travelling comic means that he almost lives at airports because of his bookings around the world.

An active social media user, Steve also likes to document some of the strange things that he comes across when he’s travelling.  This week even he questioned something that he did.

He started a post on his Facebook page saying “Today, I may have gone too far.” 

While at the Los Angeles International Airport, Steve was getting to catch a plane to Japan where he was doing some shows.  On the way to the gate he notices a woman who has a dog and the dog is doing a pooh in the airport.  Steve wrote, “The woman was loudly face-timing with her back to the dog, so I assumed she didn’t notice. That was likely the thought shared by the gentleman who tried to get her attention. ‘Excuse me, miss?’ he said, in a polite tone. The woman glared at him. ‘Your dog,’ he sheepishly continued, pointing to the mid-poop pup.
The woman rolled her eyes and went back to face time as the man slinked away, seemingly embarrassed. ‘Some people,’ she bellowed to her face-time companion with no hint of irony, ‘are just so damned rude.'”

When another woman told her she should pick up the pooh she yelled “They have people for that” and walked away.  Steve flagged a cleaner and got it sorted out.  When he continued to the gate he noticed that the same woman was at the gate. As he described, “While her dog barked at the world, the woman had moved from face-timing with no headphones to listening to music with no headphones. I don’t like to throw around the word “sociopath” but I don’t know how else I could explain just how selfish and terrible of a person she was. I’d bet her car was somewhere in long-term parking, parked across three spots with paint on the bumper from the child’s bike she hit without leaving a note.”

Steve sat down and started a conversation with her and asked where she was going.  When she said Japan he told her “Then you better hurry. That flight got moved to gate 53C. This is the flight to London.” She didn’t even thank him and ran to the gate which is located in an entirely different terminal and not the right gate at all.  She was sitting at the correct one.

Steve finished, “I don’t know if she made it back to this flight before we took off or not, but I didn’t see her board and I don’t hear her dog. Her missing her flight was not my original intention, but it would be a fine punishment for her being so rude to everyone and making a low-paid stranger clean feces off the floor. What makes me wonder if I went too far is the knowledge that Delta only has one flight to Tokyo each day. Whoops.

“Maybe she can re-book on another airline. I hear they have people for that.”

What do you think of his story?  Do you think he was in the right?