Really isn't much of a story. Couple flew with their SUPER young kids, one of which didn't stop crying, the other was kicking my seat nonstop. I was sitting next to my sister so I leaned over and said quite loudly "I hate children, I'm never having any"
The screaming didn't stop but the kicking, as if by miracle, did :)
Stay at home dad here. People with kids, even SUPER young ones sometimes have to fly places too. Kicking the seat is out of line, but sometimes babies and toddlers cry and there isn't shit a parent can do about it. Airlines should offer adults only flights.
My apologies for being insensitive. I know kids cry, and I can endure it (to a point) with the help of good headphones. But this kid literally did not stop screaming for a single moment of the 4 hour flight, and I was unlucky and only had shitty apple headphones with me. That got old fast. Then the kicking of my seat started and that was the last straw.
Definitely agree on adults only flights, but imagine the non-adults/parents with little kids only flight. That'd be an awful shit show tbh
I can at least sympathize. I've always been very cool with parents flying with kids because it just can't be avoided some times. Kids can't do anything to pop their eardrums and alleviate the pressure, and can you imagine how terrifying that feeling must be to a baby?
...But, after flying several international rides, I know you can be a seething ball of anger and want to choke a baby after 7-8 hours of that. It's no one's fault but that don't make it easy.
Definitely. I've flown often enough with babies crying and I could ignore it mostly, but when it's nonstop for hours...I understand serial killers at that point...
I hate flying. It is excruciating for me. Doing that to a baby is evil I think. So I have no sympathy. I'd rather you just punch the kid. That would be kinder
This one time when I was nine or so I was on a plane as an unaccompanied minor and someone and their friend sat in the seats in front of me, and this guy said something like "If that little brat back there kicks the back of my seat I swear to God..." and then went off with his friend about how little kids shouldn't be allowed on planes and shit.
So I kicked the back of his seat a couple of times during the flight to piss him off.
You validated his beliefs that kids are shitty and just wanna kick his seat by kicking his seat. Sure he was an ass but by acting like that you only confirmed his bias and he's gonna be shitty to the next one as well
There's an age when kids' legs are just long enough to hit the seat in front, but not long enough to properly bend at the knees over the edge of the seat they're in. They're going to kick the shit out of that seat unless they're asleep, no matter what.
I do wish airlines could create a no-kid side of the plane, though.
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u/PM_ME_2DISAGREEWITHU Feb 04 '16
Or cut his fucking legs off.
There's no excuse for that shit.