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On October 24, 2008, I flew from JFK to SJC on JetBlue’s flight number 173. About halfway through the flight, I went to the front of the plane to get some water, since there has been no beverage service for about 4 hours. A service cart blocked the passage and one of the female fly attendants was standing behind the cart. As she saw me approaching, she said in a monotone voice with a completely blank expression on her face, "could you go to the back of the plane."

Thinking that she might be mistakenly believing that I was there to use the toilet, I informed her that I wasn’t there to use the toilet but was trying to get some water. She repeated, for a SECOND time, exactly the same phrase, "could you go to the back of the plane," again in a monotone voice with a completely blank expression, despite the fact that there were 5 bottles of water lined up right next to her and it would’ve taken her about 1 second to pick one up and hand it to me.

I thought that perhaps she didn’t hear me due to the noise since she kept repeating the same phrase, and so I asked her again specifically that whether I should go to the back of the plane for water. Instead of answering my question with a simple "yes", she repeated, for a THIRD time, exactly the same phrase word-by-word, "could you go to the back of the plane," once again in a monotone voice with a completely blank expression.

I can’t think of any reason for this kind of behavior except plain rudeness, especially when she repeated the same phrase for the third time instead of answering my simple inquiry.