Mom & Toddler Booted Off Plane

[RICHARD]

Byuh, bye?

Well, I have to think that being around a small child - repeating one phrase for the length of a flight - does sound kinda daunting.

Of course, an overhead bin would hold a small child.

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I AM KIDDING.


Again, service based jobs are the pits - especially these days.

a 'bubbly child' is parent code for- My child babbles on for hours and hours and there are times I want to strangle him. For the one thousand parents who realize that their kids are a distraction there is the one parent who's child can do no wrong, who's diapers do not smell and their wailing, screaming or bubbling isn't that bad......because they learned to tune it out a long time ago!

Matbe the kid would have shut up after the plane took off. Or maybe one of the people around the Bye Bye Kid would have complained during the flight, What does a F.A. do then?

O.K. parents, let me have it.

[wombat2u2004]

I think a lot of people are not cut out to deal with kids.
Shame really......they were kids themselves once....and probably louder.
Wom

[columbine]

Apparently it's not universally considered a bad idea to drug children for the sake of convenience. Babysitters get in trouble for it all the time.

I always keep good Florida airboat earplugs in my purse.

Love, Columbine

[Cataholic]

There are times Jonah repeats the same thing over and over, like last night as we drove home from the Y. He said, "mommy, we go Y" about 50 times. While it might be mildly annoying (since we had just come from there), it surely didn't make me pull over and beat him. It is a tiny blip on the road called life.

It does make me wonder if there is more to the story. I think of the low rumbling noise made in taxi-ing (how do you spell that?), the fact that she had just finished her speech (I didn't know real people still made the speech, I thought it was recorded), and it couldn't really have been going on that long. Turn a plane back? What about all the people that might have been making a tight connection?

But, even if there isn't more to this story...why is this child's conduct (can you call it conduct?) any more or less irritating than anything else that can be witnessed on a plane? The people snoring, stinking, talking loudly, taking up my seat space? All mild irritants.

As for drugging my child, I am not going to drug my child to make your life run smoother. For other reasons? Maybe, but, not for your pleasure.

[lizbud]

I believe the article mentioned that the flight had already been delayed
11 hours before finally boarding. But still, just because the stewardess was
cranky she didn't have to take it out on a customer.

[jackie]

There are always three sides to every story. The moms version, the steward's version, and the truth.

If what the article says is the truth, the mother deserves compensation, and the flight attendant should be fired. But how often is the media 100% truthful and unbiased?

[moosmom]

For the people annoyed:

Just throw on your iPod or favorite listeninmg device and crank it up!!! What's the problem?

For the Flight Attendant:

You need another profession, honey. You ARE Continental Express Airlines. It's all about Customer Service.

I would GLADLY welcome a kid who isn't screaming over candy, throwing a tantrum in the middle of the store, or flipping the over a cart with your 10 week old sister in the safety seat.

I have one technique that works like a charm. It's called the "HAIRY EYEBALL" and shuts 'em right up.