That’s an alternate title for this post over at my other gig.
The author of this blog post is a good friend, and I understand where she is coming from. But the comments are getting me pretty riled. Just take a look at Mario’s two cents. He says KIDS SHOULD BE SEDATED or take the bus.
Stuff like that gets my dander up. I mean, weren’t these asshats who hate to fly with kids once kids themselves? Did their parents sedate them so so jackass in a suit and tie could enjoy his warm $8 bottle of Bud Light without listening to a kid cry?
The business travelers are the ones who should be segregated. How many times has my child almost been DECAPITATED because a jerk in the seat ahead of us pulled a carry-on the size of a compact car out of the overhead bin without looking to see who was behind him?
I, for one, would pay a lot more for a plane ticket if it meant I wouldn’t have to sit next to some overweight dude in his Friday casual slacks and a Bluetooth headset growing out of his left ear.
Oh, I am mad now.
Go over and jump in, will you?
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Personally, as someone with kids, I think that resturants and planes should have a child and non-child sections. We don’t fly much but I know at resturants, I always feel a lot better when there are other kids sitting around us. That way, the chance that my kids will the only ones acting like animals goes down. I would prefer to sit with other families as a general rule.
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I think the key here is instead of segregating the sections that the airlines should invest in more kid friend media (which was suggested over there)
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I think there should be a family airline that has wider aisles and little areas the kids can play in when the seatbelt sign isn’t on. You know those toddlers don’t want to stay in their seats anyhow! When people look at me like I have less right than them to be there just because I have a kid, it drives me crazy. How else am I supposed to get from WA to NJ?
Also, other passengers need to consider this: would you rather listen to a child babbling happily or looking at you over the seat or one SCREAMING bloody murder because I WON’T let him do those things?
Why can’t we all just get along?!
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I jumped in. XD Adults really irritate me sometimes. They tend to forget that children are the most precious and important people on the planet.
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There is a kid-free section. It’s called FIRST CLASS.
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I don’t have kids, but I have been on planes and the times I have gotten annoyed at someone on a plane it was a loud obnoxious drunk person. I don’t really remember any bad plane experiences where a baby/young child was being loud. Maybe I somehow tune them out, but it’s more often older people that annoy me.
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This kind of thing makes me really mad too. Against my better judgment, I’m heading over to that other post now. My dander is prepared!
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Going there now!
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Delurking (love your blog btw) to say that the whole premise of the article you pointed us to is flawed.
I lived overseas for six years (as a single woman) and flew perhaps 20x – 30x a year on just about every airline imaginable. Kids were rarely, if ever, an issue.
Having flown with my own boys a total of 16 times, I can say that I have only ever received compliments on how quiet and well-behaved they are.
In all the many times I have flown, I can remember two instances of babies who cried longer than a few minutes.
Anyway, the flaw? There are always people on flights who annoy others. Do we then make separate sections for:
1. People who drink too much.
2. People who can’t easily fit in the seat parameters.
3. People who eat/chew noisily.
4. People who choose not to pee in the toilets, but all over the washroom floors.
5. People who get up too many times in the flight.
6. People who have too much PDA going on with a seat mate.
7. People who are so nervous about flying they are stressed out/do hail mary’s all flight/jump at every noise.
8. People who do nothing but complain.
9. People who are traveling with a sports team/ school trip and constantly yell at each other from seat to seat.
Because I’ve sat next to all of the above. And worse.
Geez, the airlines are gonna be pretty busy carving up all those sections don’t ya think?
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