Bye Bye Plane
 

People really are funny. :rolleyes:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289119,00.html

But before you decide check this out http://www.wsbtv.com/news/13675836/detail.html :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

ATLANTA — The mother of a 19-month-old boy says she and her son were kicked off a plane after she refused a stewardess' request to medicate her son to keep him from talking.

Kate Penland, who lives in Gwinnett County in suburban Atlanta, said she and her son, Garren, had boarded the Continental Express plane last month after an 11-hour delay in Houston on an Atlanta-Oklahoma flight.

Garren kept saying, "Bye bye, plane," Penland recalled. And she said the stewardess objected.

"At the end of her speech, she leaned over the gentleman beside me and said, 'It's not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up,"' Penland told WSB-TV in Atlanta.

When Penland asked the woman if she was kidding, she said the stewardess replied, "You know, it's called baby Benadryl."

"And I said, 'Well, I'm not going to drug my child so you have a pleasant flight,"' Penland told the TV station.

Penland said other passengers began speaking up on her behalf, and the flight attendant announced they were turning around and that Penland and Garren were going to be taken off the plane.

I heard about that! I'm not the one to ask, I can't stand kids on airplanes!

Good parents need to learn that just because they can tune out thier annoying little hellion the rest of the world still hears it!

yelling and crying kids are damn annoying. On the plane is where I catch up with most of my work and quiet time is important..

"A fellow passenger told WSB none of the other passengers had problems with Garren (the child) and that Penland (the mother) never threatened the flight attendant."


That pretty well sums it up. If the other passengers didn't have a problem with the kid then the flight attendant overreacted. She should be fired.

Kids are kids, they will talk. Good and experienced flight attendants know how to handle kids and will always bring something e.g. cards, momentos, etc. to distract the kids. I agree some parents do not ask kids to be quite or not kick the seat in front.

Continental express, American eagle, United express, Ted have the lowest paid rookie flight attendants. I have personally experienced the rude behavior of a rookie flight attendants when she asked the passengers to sit down and shut up. She did not knew that there could be people with connectins in the plane and she lost the job next week.

I take it you don't have kids?

"Good parents" know the difference between a kid talking, and a "little hellion."

I suspect you and the stewardess in question share some personality traits - like intolerance.

:iagree: To dish out advice on how to be a "Good Parent" you need to be a "Parent" first.

You got that right

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I am not offering advice at all...and rebound the closest I have had to a child is my fiancee's 3yr old daughter...whom has lived with us for the past year

:iagree: +1

I have 2 kids. Sometimes you have to travel with them, and yes on a plane. It is not an easy thing to reason with a 19 month old. They are just children learning everything about the world. When they are tired they cry. That is just the way it works.

Wow. this is a tough one. But for those who don't have children you can only imagine what can happen. But try traveling with a 19 month old on a plane and this little human being decides he's having a bad day. Trust me it's embarassing because at that age there's not a lot you can do but try all you can to get a handle on it. But If that little bundle of joy (who by the way is now approaching terrible two's) decides "you know what I don't think i'm satisfied with my arrangements so far so i believe i'm gonna express my displeasure" what will you do? You can't beat him, the police will be waiting for you when you land.

This dosen't appear to be the case this time although the report from GMA seems to point out he's a bit active. Perhaps there's more to come but if the other passengers are any indication the flight attandant may have over-reacted.

But it does lead to a few other questions. Since when does an unruly child warrent turning around an aircraft? Over the past year we have flown a number of times and there seems to always be some child on board who's restless or boarding on "deserving the belt". Wouldn't the Captain want to check things out before making such a drastic move? What about the other attandants? Where were they? I guess it was one of those "You had to be there to see this one" ;)

Sheesh! Enough busting on the head already :throw: