Bye Bye Plane

Quicksilver · #1 07-13-2007, 01:42 PM

People really are funny.

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

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.

blondboinsd · #2 07-13-2007, 02:41 PM

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

the head · #3 07-13-2007, 03:18 PM

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

rebound · #4 07-13-2007, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by the head

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

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.

rayxi · #5 07-13-2007, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by rebound

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.

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

alpac · #6 07-13-2007, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by rayxi

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

You got that right

LeMansX5 · #7 07-13-2007, 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rebound

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.

cpatzer · #8 07-13-2007, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by rebound

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.

+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.

rayxi · #9 07-13-2007, 03:26 PM

"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.

SANguru · #10 07-13-2007, 03:22 PM

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..

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

People really are funny.

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

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.