--- title: Viral Video: Sassy Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant Cracks Jokes description: "For those of you traveling with children... why?" canonical: https://time.com/2905696/heres-proof-that-southwest-flight-attendants-are-the-sassiest-people-of-all-time/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-20T16:45:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:59.721Z og:title: This Video Is Proof That Southwest Flight Attendants Are the Sassiest People Of All Time og:description: "For those of you traveling with your children... why?" og:url: https://time.com/2905696/heres-proof-that-southwest-flight-attendants-are-the-sassiest-people-of-all-time/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Video Is Proof That Southwest Flight Attendants Are the Sassiest People Of All Time twitter:description: "For those of you traveling with your children... why?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Proof That Southwest Flight Attendants Are the Sassiest People Of All Time by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 20, 2014 4:45 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jun 20, 2014 4:45 PM UTC Air travel is so much more pleasant when your flight attendant jazzes up the usually dull pre-flight safety speech with a hilariously sassy shtick. Southwest is usually pretty good at training its staff to do this. Take, for example, this flight attendant on a recent flight from San Francisco to Chicago. He kicks off his speech with a pretty solid zinger: “In the event you haven’t been in an automobile since 1960, flight attendants still have to show you how to fasten a seatbelt.” From there, he continues for nearly five minutes, and according to the [YouTube description](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNx5-bEKk8A&feature=share), he even threw a cocktail party mid-flight. Oh, and be sure to check out his super patriotic necktie. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2905696/heres-proof-that-southwest-flight-attendants-are-the-sassiest-people-of-all-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2905696/heres-proof-that-southwest-flight-attendants-are-the-sassiest-people-of-all-time/"},"headline":"Here's Proof That Southwest Flight Attendants Are the Sassiest People Of All Time","datePublished":"2014-06-20T16:45:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:59.721Z","description":"\"For those of you traveling with children... why?\"","url":"https://time.com/2905696/heres-proof-that-southwest-flight-attendants-are-the-sassiest-people-of-all-time/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Airlines","viral","Southwest Airlines"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2905696/heres-proof-that-southwest-flight-attendants-are-the-sassiest-people-of-all-time/","name":"Here's Proof That Southwest Flight Attendants Are the Sassiest People Of All Time"}}]}] ```