Mom says she, toddler booted from plane

[mendeleev 68]

I think all babies should be medicated before they are allowed on a plane.

I think all business travellers (esp. those travelling in coach) should be medicated before they are allowed on a place.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I think all babies should be medicated before they are allowed on a plane.

I think all business travellers (esp. those travelling in coach) should be medicated before they are allowed on a place.

Cool. Works for me. As long as the med is some Jack.

[Twomoles 8]

I think all babies should be medicated before they are allowed on a plane.

Hmm, how. Anesthesia, bang on head? Also we can put them in sound isolating box!

Maybe babies should smoke dope before flying?

[jundp 191]

This case was ridiculous, but there's also sometimes where the parents are lenient.

I've travelled with a kid jumping in the seat behind me, kicking the back of seat so hard I couldn't relax. I talked the mother who did nothing, the kid kicked at my back for about 2 hours, no matter how many times I looked back to express it was bothering me. Worst, the kid was actually doing it on purpose, as she was laughing that I had to keep taking my back off the chair, and laughing when her mother told her to stop. After 2 times that the mother asked her to stop, she gave up and went back to reading her magazine, and let the kid have her way. The kid was around 6 and old enough to obey her mother.

I'd have taken her off the seat, distract her with something else, dunno, but I wouldn't let my kid disturb another passenger.

Oh man. You are nicer than I am. I would have turned around and said "you really need to stop" and if the kid didn't I would have requested a seat change. But I'm a b!tch like that

If my kid was acting the way you described I would have a fit. I can't stand parents who don't care.

[mawilson 2,133]

Oh man. You are nicer than I am. I would have turned around and said "you really need to stop" and if the kid didn't I would have requested a seat change. But I'm a b!tch like that

I would have threatened to kill her and the baby

[Ladylethal 12]

Maybe I am nice, but I didn't want to start ranting and then cause a general disturbance.

My dad had a kid running around once in the plane, it was a connecting flight and turns out him, the mother and the kid were the only 3 passengers flying to the last destination, since it was actually 'cus the crew were to be dropped home for their days off. He simply got up and told the flight attendant he was gonna sleep in 1st class and please don't let the kid go there. He said he never slept so well.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Once they have children do people forget how annoying kids can be? Are parents that clueless or uncaring of others? When I have kids I'll remember.

[Fandango 1,440]

I'll wait til I hear the FA's side before being swayed by a biased article.

Surely there's more mitigating factors involved. For instance, if the kid was talking throughout the safety dem...I know that's taken very seriously & there shouldn't be any disruptions.

Meh, I dunno. I think there's gotta be more to it.

[eric&gen 0]

I cant understand whats the big deal a kid saying bye bye plane. This topic is stupid and it really shows who likes kids who doesn't like kids on here. I've been on very long flights non stop with screaming crying kids especially my own i never had a problem with it.

[homesick_american 1]

I think all babies should be medicated before they are allowed on a plane.

yeah...just like most animals are.

Uh...no they're not.

[homesick_american 1]

I cant understand whats the big deal a kid saying bye bye plane. This topic is stupid and it really shows who likes kids who doesn't like kids on here. I've been on very long flights non stop with screaming crying kids especially my own i never had a problem with it.

I refuse to believe that you wouldn't be irritated by 10 hours of that. If that's the case you're simply not human.

[Marilyn. 340]

the kid wasn't saying this for 10 hours , he was saying bye bye to a plane that was taking off beside them.... the story I posted said the kid was asleep before they got back...

[eric&gen 0]

I cant understand whats the big deal a kid saying bye bye plane. This topic is stupid and it really shows who likes kids who doesn't like kids on here. I've been on very long flights non stop with screaming crying kids especially my own i never had a problem with it.

I refuse to believe that you wouldn't be irritated by 10 hours of that. If that's the case you're simply not human.

Yeah i would be irritated but im not going to raise hell over it gripe and make a big scene out of it ill just go about my own business throw my ipod on and cancel out the noise the best i can. Especially when the father of the two twins sitting in front of me is six foot something muscle bald head lol.

[homesick_american 1]

I cant understand whats the big deal a kid saying bye bye plane. This topic is stupid and it really shows who likes kids who doesn't like kids on here. I've been on very long flights non stop with screaming crying kids especially my own i never had a problem with it.

I refuse to believe that you wouldn't be irritated by 10 hours of that. If that's the case you're simply not human.

Yeah i would be irritated but im not going to raise hell over it gripe and make a big scene out of it ill just go about my own business throw my ipod on and cancel out the noise the best i can. Especially when the father of the two twins sitting in front of me is six foot something muscle bald head lol.

Not me. Undisciplined brats irritate the piss out of me.

[pedroh 21]

This case was ridiculous, but there's also sometimes where the parents are lenient.

I've travelled with a kid jumping in the seat behind me, kicking the back of seat so hard I couldn't relax. I talked the mother who did nothing, the kid kicked at my back for about 2 hours, no matter how many times I looked back to express it was bothering me. Worst, the kid was actually doing it on purpose, as she was laughing that I had to keep taking my back off the chair, and laughing when her mother told her to stop. After 2 times that the mother asked her to stop, she gave up and went back to reading her magazine, and let the kid have her way. The kid was around 6 and old enough to obey her mother.

I'd have taken her off the seat, distract her with something else, dunno, but I wouldn't let my kid disturb another passenger.

Crying babies is one thing (although I won't accept crying babies in the movies, if you don't have a sitter, a family member, someone to stay with the baby, please watch your movies on DVD until you can actually take the kid to the cinema without them screaming their lungs out), but obnoxious kids is something else. My mom has never let us misbehave in the streets. We tried it once, and learned our lesson (not by being spanked, just so you know), and if we ever even threatened to misbehave, one look from my mom was enough. We never made scandals in stores to get toys, or thrown things in the market 'cus we wanted cookies, etc.

One other bad experience I had was traveling by bus, a mother with a baby in the seat next to me, and the mom decided to change the diaper of the baby in the bus, by my side, and she didn't really have a bag to put to dirty diaper away so it was just folded and placed on the floor by her feet, full of baby smelly poo (mothers here should know how smelly baby poo can get). To top it off, we got stuck in a jam for about 2 1/2 hours, with that diaper stinking worse every minute. Argh! I just wanted to breath (the mom had the window closed 'cus of the baby).

Ditto!!!

I'm tired of the situations that you just discribed. I was in the same situation a little while ago at the restaurant this time. I was on a date with my husband, we didn't go out since March because we work too much even on the week ends, so we made a big deal of this time we could spend together. We dressed up and went to the restaurant.

We start to eat and enjoy our evening when 2 women and a 5 year old kid get there. The waitress gave them a spot 4/5 tables apart from us. The kid was wondering around, staring at everybody and ask questions and play on the floor next to our feet and so on.

First it was kinda cute (for other poeple, I feared the worst as soon as the kid got in the restaurant) and it became extremely annoyig and irritating when I couldn't have a conversation with my husband because some kid would stay at the end of the table and stare. I asked the kid to leave and he was like "no, I won't" and then laughing. Because I was not fawning all over him he was trying his thing at some other tables, a few were responsive but a few were not either.

Guess what his mother was too busy tchitchating with her friend and was calling him randomly once in a while. I asked the waitress to tell her about it that her kid is annoying customers and the thing I heard was "they don't understand". The waitress was obvioulsy annoyed too because kiddo was an obstacle many time to serve the plates. She called her kid and he started to cry and it all looked like WE (by we i mean, the people in the restaurant annoyed by a kid that should NOT be in a fancy restaurant in the first place unless he behaves because his parents make him...), we were the bad guys. The kid was obliged to sit next to his mom and he was unhappy about it and was making it clear to everybody. A real nightmare.

Countless time I go to the movies, to the restaurants or any social situation where kids have to be the center of attention.

To be honnest I've never seen so much misbehaving kids in my entire life!!!! And I don't talk about the parents that drag their kids wherever they feel like so you have a baby crying while you watch a R movie at the theatre... Now we always hear that asking parents to make their kids behave or to remind them that a kid doesn't belong to the restaurant or the movies or parties is selfish because we don't know, we don't have kids, it's so hard and this and that. Honnestly I don't want to hear any complaints about how hard it is to have kids, having babies is a choice. I just notice the new generation of parents (in America) never think they are selfish by forcing their kids on others.

Back to the topic. I really think there is something this lady won't tell.

OWNED

thats why when i want to go to fancy restaurants i look for the ones that say 'no kids'... It's not that common here in the USA but in Mexico it is, fancy date-like restaurants which clearly have a no kids policy.. and I dont think you need to post it, it's common sense, if you wanna go to have a nice dinner, why would you like to annoy other customers with a crying baby? I mean, if you can't get a babysitter, then don't go..

when i was working @ the shack, I also had a lot of customers bringing their kids with dirty feet, no shoes, It's disgusting, I always asked my boss if we could have a 'no shoes no service' sticker on the door, but he said we couldn't :S...

again, on the plane, not this case specifically, looks like there's an inverse relationship between height and common sense.. the higher the plane the stupider people become, stinky people, kids who kick the seats and parents who don't give a sh!t for the behavior, just excusing them 'they are kids!'.

thank god again for the ipods, psps and noise cancelling headphones.. too bad the cheap flights i pay for don't offer booze anymore i'd love a jack and coke on the flight