I am immature but what a wonderful day

[JManInPhoenix]

:thumbsup: I can't stand flying with other people's kids...

 

[quackagator]

Great story. Got a giggle from me

 

[Exterous]

OP you really needed to put your fabricated story on Twitter so you can get a bunch of people to follow you and even "news" to pick the story up and laud you as a hero of the modern age! :sneaky:

There's always got to be one. Who urinated in your grain based breakfast food of choice this morning?

Need a review from your wife.

I think she would agree that this and most other days were better than our wedding day 😛

you should have just acted your age and punched the kid in the face.

Heh

 

[Exterous]

I cannot condone this grammar, sir. It is an affront to the past tense and I will not stand for it.

Understandably so. My diction in the heat of the moment sometimes suffers 🙁

If your flight doesn't include Newark Liberty International, then it's perhaps the second worst possible route you can fly at best (at worst?).

I don't know...I haven't had the pleasure of transiting EWR yet but I would think the concentration of kids, families, elderly and the very infrequent traveler would be a tough combination to beat

but when it has happened I address the kid directly.

Engage with a child?😵 i tried that once but apparently f bombs are not appreciated when doing so

 

[soulcougher73]

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Thank you for the story. 🙂 I had cases where kids wouldn't stop kicking my seat. Most of which ended quickly once I told the kids to shut the fuck up and stop fucking kicking my fucking seat, be it in Russian or in English. They got the point. Must have been a frightening experience for them. 🙂

This doesn't work if the kids are foreign.

 

[Nintendesert]

FWD FWD FWD FWD FWD

Grandma approves!

 

[Markbnj]

Engage with a child? i tried that once but apparently f bombs are not appreciated when doing so

Yes, how you do it is very important.

 

[slag]

Speaking from experience, sometimes it just can't be helped. My wife and 5 yr old were flying out to California from KC and it just so happened his legs were just the right(wrong) size to where they can't bend and go to the floor, so they stick straight out and hit the seat in front of him. Kids don't sit completely still, even most adults don't, and there just isn't much that you can do sometimes if the child is required to be belted in and cant sit on his feet. He wasn't even kicking the chair, his feet sometimes brushed it. He was sitting as still as he could, but the asshat in front of him still griped to my wife about it. She put him in his place though as she should have because there's just no way she can shorten his legs so they don't hit the seat and you can't expect a kid to sit completely motionless for a 3.5 hour flight or whatever it was..

Sometimes you just have to put on your big boy pants and be a little inconvenienced. If you don't like it, get a first class seat. The guy even complained to the stewardess and after she checked with my wife, told the guy he'd have to just deal with it.

I flew from Las Vegas to KC once sitting halfway in the aisle because the guy I was sitting near had broad shoulders as do I. He couldn't sit any closer to the window, so I just sucked it up and was inconvenienced for the trip.

 

[Tweak155]

Speaking from experience, sometimes it just can't be helped. My wife and 5 yr old were flying out to California from KC and it just so happened his legs were just the right(wrong) size to where they can't bend and go to the floor, so they stick straight out and hit the seat in front of him. Kids don't sit completely still, even most adults don't, and there just isn't much that you can do sometimes if the child is required to be belted in and cant sit on his feet. He wasn't even kicking the chair, his feet sometimes brushed it. He was sitting as still as he could, but the asshat in front of him still griped to my wife about it. She put him in his place though as she should have because there's just no way she can shorten his legs so they don't hit the seat and you can't expect a kid to sit completely motionless for a 3.5 hour flight or whatever it was..

Sometimes you just have to put on your big boy pants and be a little inconvenienced. If you don't like it, get a first class seat. The guy even complained to the stewardess and after she checked with my wife, told the guy he'd have to just deal with it.

I flew from Las Vegas to KC once sitting halfway in the aisle because the guy I was sitting near had broad shoulders as do I. He couldn't sit any closer to the window, so I just sucked it up and was inconvenienced for the trip.

I wonder how the kicking stopped for the OP, then...

 

[Buttzilla]

as a frequent flyer myself...THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Nintendesert]

I wonder how the kicking stopped for the OP, then...

He made up a bullshit story and you morons belived him? DERP.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

X10 :thumbsup:

 

[Ventanni]

If parents don't control their kids, the kids will control their parents. Ask any successful parent this and they'll confirm this. No, that doesn't make children the scourge of the earth (lol), but the simple fact is that the very nature of the critical learning period that all children go through doesn't leave any boundaries between information, exploration, creativity, and authority. Even the children of good parents will act up/out from time to time; this is part of being human, but as parents if we do nothing in response to our children behaving in an inappropriate manner, in this case kicking the back of someone's seat, then all we're doing is positively reinforcing to that child that their behavior is okay.

 

[Exterous]

Speaking from experience, sometimes it just can't be helped.

In this case it could be helped as evidenced by the improvement. For brevity I did not include several other incidents that were not foot related. Besides - did your wife argue with him that it never happened or did she explain the situation? Things would have been different if she had expended even the slightest bit of effort to control the situation

He made up a bullshit story and you morons belived him? DERP.

🙄

 

[Ayrahvon]

Every time I read one of your posts, I hear your words as if it is being told by the narrator of A Christmas Story.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Things would have been different if she had expended even the slightest bit of effort to control the situation

Agreed. The worst part of misbehaving children is not the child, it is the parent running interference for their little angel.

Everyone's kid is "really a good kid," even after their are sentenced to prison. It is never their fault.

Even if the parent does nothing a little validation never hurts. The mom can be smart enough to give you a tired look and say "He has been winding up at Disney World all week, I am at the edge of my existence trying to control him. I am truly sorry for the inconvenience, but it might not stop because I am out of ideas for ways to bribe him to behave in this victory lap."

Then you feel sorry for the wench, and each seat kick is a reminder how lucky you are that you don't have to deal with that kid 24/7.

 

[Mermaidman]

This is why, on Southwest Airlines, it's better NOT to place yourself adjacent to open seats. Find a seat next to known quantities.

See point #5 here:
http://www.airlinereporter.com/2010/11/how-to-get-good-seat-southwest-airlines/

 

[darkswordsman17]

There's always got to be one. Who urinated in your grain based breakfast food of choice this morning?

Can't tell if serious or not. There's been tons of these made up stories like this where someone puts it on Twitter or Facebook (pretty sure there's been ones on forums as well) and then there's even news reports about it and everyone goes around digitally clapping the person on the back only to find out the whole thing was made up. This reeks of being that.

 

[Exterous]

Every time I read one of your posts, I hear your words as if it is being told by the narrator of A Christmas Story.

Haha - thanks

This is why, on Southwest Airlines, it's better NOT to place yourself adjacent to open seats. Find a seat next to known quantities.

See point #5 here:
http://www.airlinereporter.com/2010/11/how-to-get-good-seat-southwest-airlines/

Thats part of the problem with the MCO - PHX flight. The known quantities are terrible. The options were: Middle seat, behind\in front of a row of three young kids (no chance of parental control if they aren't even in the same row), and in an open area

Can't tell if serious or not. There's been tons of these made up stories like this where someone puts it on Twitter or Facebook (pretty sure there's been ones on forums as well) and then there's even news reports about it and everyone goes around digitally clapping the person on the back only to find out the whole thing was made up. This reeks of being that.

Eh - I'm not on either enough to know so it was serious. I can assure you this is true although that doesn't really constitute proof 🙂

 

[Ichinisan]

EXCELLENT.

Thank you, OP.

 

[Jeff7]

Loved it. And I for one wouldn't consider it childish. How can a parent seriously sit there and do NOTHING about that; I wouldn't let it get much past one or two kicks, much less wait for someone to ask me to have them stop. Planes need to be filled with people considerate of EVERYONE around them.

But you'll hurt the kid's precious little feelings, and mentally scar him for life! He'll need a team of therapists to pull him through this traumatic event of being told that he's got the mental discipline and friendly courtesy of a raccoon in the late stages of rabies.

Agreed. The worst part of misbehaving children is not the child, it is the parent running interference for their little angel.

Everyone's kid is "really a good kid," even after their are sentenced to prison. It is never their fault.

Even if the parent does nothing a little validation never hurts. The mom can be smart enough to give you a tired look and say "He has been winding up at Disney World all week, I am at the edge of my existence trying to control him. I am truly sorry for the inconvenience, but it might not stop because I am out of ideas for ways to bribe him to behave in this victory lap."

Then you feel sorry for the wench, and each seat kick is a reminder how lucky you are that you don't have to deal with that kid 24/7.

I don't remember how it got around to this, but part of one conversation with my mom included her telling me, "If you do anything that rightfully lands you in prison, don't bother calling home for help."

Point. Taken.

If parents don't control their kids, the kids will control their parents. Ask any successful parent this and they'll confirm this. No, that doesn't make children the scourge of the earth (lol), but the simple fact is that the very nature of the critical learning period that all children go through doesn't leave any boundaries between information, exploration, creativity, and authority. Even the children of good parents will act up/out from time to time; this is part of being human, but as parents if we do nothing in response to our children behaving in an inappropriate manner, in this case kicking the back of someone's seat, then all we're doing is positively reinforcing to that child that their behavior is okay.

The parents of misbehaving kids at the grocery store: "I'm going to count to 5, and you'd better stop or we're leaving."

7 countdowns later D:, the kid has again learned the meaning of "empty threat."

 

[sixone]

I don't remember how it got around to this, but part of one conversation with my mom included her telling me, "If you do anything that rightfully lands you in prison, don't bother calling home for help."

Point. Taken.

My parents said something similar when I was old enough to go out on my own. "If you call us for help, we'll come get you - no questions asked. If the cops call us to come get you, the answer is NO."

I wasn't dumb enough to believe the "no questions asked" part. So I didn't call - and neither did the police.

 

[Paratus]

My wife and I work hard to make sure that our kids don't bother other passengers and "special flowers" who have a difficult time being in public. For crying that means having the right toys and getting up and walking the cabin with our youngest. It also means nursing/using a bottle/or sippy cup on landings and take off to prevent their ears from hurting.

However when some special flower decides to recline into my kids space I stop giving a shit whether they bump or hit the chair in front of them. There's a special hell for child molesters, people who talk at the theater and people who recline in coach.