When flying, pressing the call button is a given when you need help from the cabin crew, but one flight attendant has shared exactly when you should "never" touch it.
Whilst some fliers prefer to get out of their seats and seek out staffers themselves, there are certain times you should never press the call button, even when they're nowhere to be found - as it drives them "bonkers".
According to Kat Kamalani, pressing the attendance button while the aircraft is on the tarmac, or when it is landing or taking off could actually be dangerous to you and the flight staff, The Mirror reports.
The professional shared her knowledge on TikTok, saying that flight attendants won't come near anyone who turns their lights on at these times.
In a clip posted by user @katkamalani, she said: "It drives flight attendants bonkers when you hit your flight attendant button if we are on the tarmac or if we're going up or down on the aircraft."
This might seem a bit strange but Kat explained: "The reason being it's a huge safety issue for us, we could get injured and same with you guys. So if we're on the tarmac, you hit this and it's not some kind of emergency we're going straight back to our seat."
So on the tarmac you may get a response but she added: "If you hit this while we're going up on the aircraft or we're going down landing, we won't even come to the light we'll come to it afterwards.
"But don't hit this button if you need a barf bag or a blanket, water, headphones, food, any of that stuff because your flight attendant won't be so happy."
One passenger confirmed Kat's warning and wrote: "Had to hit the help button on the tarmac once. The attendants ignored it two times, but my mom was having a heart attack.
"After the third time they came over to tell me to stop pushing it, then they saw what was happening. A truck picked us up from the plane so we could get medical help."
Commenters were quick to defend passengers who may not know any better, with one saying: "I thought they would just come whenever they thought it was ok. I didn't know they would hold a grudge on it."
Others questioned why the attendants didn't "announce this to us at the beginning of the flight before we move" with the safety demonstration.
Another quipped: "A barf bag is kinda good to have, no? Consider the alternative....which is cleaning it up once the light is out."
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