Disclaimer: This article is based on actual news from the real world – honestly! However, it has been sprinkled with a healthy dose of satire.
In a story that has single-handedly redefined the phrase “romance is dead,” a man on an easyJet flight decided the most appropriate venue to ask his partner to spend forever with him was not Paris, not Rome, not even the duty-free perfume aisle, but the spot directly outside the plane’s lavatory. Nothing says “till death do us part” quite like the faint smell of blue sanitizer and the sound of someone struggling with the flush button.
Some dream of Venetian gondolas, others settle for EasyJet lavatories; both involve water, just slightly different plumbing. (ifeelstock/depositphotos)
The grand romantic gesture happened en route to Benidorm, which is Spanish for “Vegas if everyone had already lost their dignity before arriving.” The couple chose to make the most of their in-cabin time by doing what every easyJet passenger dreams of: interrupting someone else’s desperate pee run with a lifelong commitment.
TikTok user Nicki Gunner posted the now-viral video of the event, captioning it with what we assume was a cry for help: “Nothing beats an easyJet proposal outside the toilets on a flight to Benidorm.” Which, fun fact, was also the working title of Pulp’s 1995 album, “Different Class”.
The video shows the man lovingly gripping his fiancée’s hands while standing directly outside the aircraft lavatory, a place known for both emotional vulnerability and the faint aroma of chemical regret. The man then drops to one knee and retrieves a ring, which thankfully wasn’t stored in his ass. Passengers clapped. Flight attendants clapped. Someone inside the bathroom clapped, which is worrying for entirely different reasons.
Witnesses described the moment as “romantic,” though those witnesses also booked a £12 flight to Benidorm, so their standards are legally inadmissible in most countries. The crew offered congratulations, proving once again that flight attendants can smile through literally anything.
The proposal sparked debate online, mostly between romantics and people who have ever had food poisoning at 30,000 feet. One commenter wrote, “Why not propose on the holiday?” Another added, “This is real romance,” which we assume was sarcastic, but we can’t be sure because Brits express emotion exclusively through eyebrow movement.
Skeptics pointed out that there’s no airport in Benidorm, suggesting the couple were flying to nearby Alicante, a detail important to only three pedants and one man who owns an atlas and won’t shut up about it.
Supporters of the airborne engagement suggest the couple may have met on a previous easyJet flight, perhaps after bonding over a shared chicken tikka panini and a mutual trauma involving seat 27A’s recline mechanism. Which means their relationship was forged through cancelled flights, missing luggage, and at least one screaming hen party. If love can survive that, it can survive anything.
Other passengers were touched by the proposal, especially the guy exiting the bathroom who walked into a spontaneous standing ovation and briefly assumed he had just dropped the best deuce of his life.
The couple has not announced a wedding date, but rumor has it the ceremony will be held at a Ryanair terminal, with a honeymoon suite inside the Gatwick lost luggage department.
EasyJet even waived the £35 bathroom fee.
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