Alternatively, stare at the child as if they were a favorite dish that you haven't had in months and say "your child looks wonderful, I could just Eat. Them. Up."
Modern airplanes are going to implement the "personal air bubble" technology developed not too long ago to help reduce the spread of germs. You will breath 95% of the air around your seat, and 5% of the air around the seat next to you.
Bro did you just hand grenade yourself in the future?
Furthermore she articulated that if a woman was to fart in the presence of a man and the man responded by farting louder than the woman, than that would be rape.
"This is clear victim blaming and government should pass laws to make male farts above a certain decibel illegal to make human flatulence equal and not discriminate against women."
I have no words to adequately describe the WTF moment I had here.
People always seem to rest their arms further up the rest than I like so I almost always have room too. Two people can use one armrest without touching.
3-6 hours, fine. But if we're in a long-haul 13 hour flight you better at least go to the bathroom before we take off because if you disrupt my sleep you bet your ass im going to bitch.
No way. My knees can't handle that long in such a cramped position. I try to get aisle seats for long hauls like that for exactly that reason. But if I don't get one, I'll definitely be waking you up once I've been in pain for 2-3 hours and can't stand it anymore.
One time I booked a window seat on a flight to Japan. A couple come in and take their seats one in my row and the other on the row behind me. Her row was full and we were lucky to not have a third person in ours. When she noticed that they locked the door and the seat is going to be open she walks over and asks me if I wanted to switch my window seat for her aisle seat in a full row so she could sit with her boyfriend but you know it was totally up me. I told her that I booked a window seat because I love to look out the window (I am a very nervous flyer and for some reason being able to see how far I will drop to my death makes it easier on me).
She said it was fine but then proceeded to hang out in the aisle while we waited to taxi talking to her boyfriend while staring me down. I made eye contact smiled and turned to look out the window for the next twelve hours. Her boyfriend didn't say a word throughout the whole exchange.
Jeraldo · 95 points · Posted at 07:18:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't understand this. She still could've sat next to her boyfriend? She just wanted the window and the extra space in a row not assigned to her.
She definitely wanted to be in the same row as her boyfriend plus the extra room from the open seat. I think I may have even paid a little extra to get that window seat so fuck giving it up.
I had this happen to me. Some douchenozzle behind me asked me not to put my seat back because he was too tall. Being nice I asked if he'd like to switch with me so we would both be happy. "No, I'm sitting next to my fiance." He then puts in earplugs and ignores her the entire flight. I shoulda told him he has another 50 years to listen to her shit so he doesn't need to sit next to her now.
Once, I was on a flight as part of a school trip, and this lady asked if she could swap seats with me to sit with her daughter (who I assumed was fairly young). We weren't really sitting close together and I was going to spend the whole flight doing past papers anyway as exams were next term, so I happily agreed to swap.
When I got to her seat, it was one of the rows right behind a bulkhead, with tiny and flimsy tray tables built into the armrest. Obviously a massively worse seat, and I couldn't do my work in that seat. Plus, the daughter looked like she was 16 or 17, so could probably cope with being by herself for a few hours. So I had to awkwardly go and ask to swap back to my original seat (thankfully she obliged).
skjall · 104 points · Posted at 04:06:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd probably start browsing progressively friskier subs. Celebs, gentlemanboners, GW... Fuck people like that who think they're entitled to shit.
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 08:44:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Start farting constantly. Pick your nose and flick it everywhere. Take out your compact mirror and pop some blackheads. Cry back at the baby if it cries. Cry at the adults even if the baby doesn't cry. Tell them it's to acclimate everyone. Give the baby candy.
Why flick your boogers when you can eat them right in front of the kid while the kid watches and soaks in that information that picking ur nose and eating ur boogers is perfectly acceptable if this grown man is doing it in public.
But why would you want to sit next to someone with a kid if there were other seats open? And for 13 hours? Just to make everyone uncomfortable, including yourself?
Secretly I wouldn't. But sometimes you've got to play people at their own game, it's a principal principle thing.
Edit: A word
KToff · 6 points · Posted at 07:22:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The word you're looking for is principle. Principal means most important as an adjective or can also refer to the head of a school when used as a noun. A principle on the other hand is a guiding belief or a way things work.
It's a pretty shitty game if the objective is to make everyone in a cramped metal tube as unhappy as humanly possible, and the prize is misery for everyone.
Etilla · 52 points · Posted at 05:40:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/pettyrevenge and because they are doucebags expecting to be accomodated thanks to their 'master plan'
They're not entitled you to changing seats and they don't need you to change seats it's just something they want. If you're happy where you are wanting to stay there doesn't make you a piece of shit. Them being cunts to try to force you to do what they want makes them a piece of shit. Let them keep gradually escalating things and make themselves look worse and worse. Maybe they'll eventually learn that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and won't do it again. That's the ultimate benefit of this but it's probably unrealistic that to expect people like this to have the self awareness to learn anything from these experiences. So you have to content yourself with making their life as bad for a little while as they make everyone else's.
It's a waste of my life to try to point out how ironic and self - centered that logic is. Have fun being miserable and trying to "teach" others with your terrible behavior :)
If someone is just being obnoxious I don't give a fuck about them and sit at my assigned place. If they ask, no problem, if they behave like this - noise cancelling earphones, music set to loud, lock up elbows on armrests and sleep.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm responding to the guy who said he would opt to be an asshole to a family for 13 hours, rather than find another seat and make everyone (including himself) happy and comfortable.
Jesus Christ. Even though the post states that it was the opposite parent to the mother that wrote it everyone is STILL assuming that it's a woman. It. Was. A. Guy.
Haha, it's actually fava beans (unless you're like a huge fan of Brett). Funny enough, Lecter does wind up in cattle class at one point, next to a child, his mother and a screaming baby - his wine gets confiscated :(
watch hentai and loli and shota on phone while staring at baby...
myrpou · 1 points · Posted at 10:13:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I've got AIDS!, the vaginal kind"
Drewbox · 1 points · Posted at 12:26:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As an airline employee, I'm the master of the middle seat! Nothing can bother me anymore. I just put in my headphones, pull my hoodie over my eyes and enjoy the free flight.
It's pretty rage inducing that only one of the comments says something rational, the rest are all "you go girl!" bs and "life of a parent" rationalization of douche behavior. Well, at least the douches congregate together and we hopefully only have to encounter them on the occasional flight
This is bullshit. I have kids and the attitude that some parents have that having a child entitles you to some sort of preferential treatment everywhere you go is terrible.
Someone tell this fucking moron to book seats A, B, and C next time so they can have a dedicated seat for their child. If not they have no right to complain or ostracize someone who paid for a seat.
Finally, this entire story seems a bit /r/thathappened - like the dude just gets up pre-flight and goes and finds another open seat. Did everyone start clapping and the flight attendant handed the dad $100 for his quick thinking?
arnorath · 907 points · Posted at 01:10:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed, but it's still rage-inducing that she'd make up a story like this for approval. "Hey, I was a massive jerk to a total stranger. Give me likes!"
[deleted] · 231 points · Posted at 01:59:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Says more about the people she surrounds herself with, than herself, if this is what she does to pander for likes.
13speed · 3 points · Posted at 12:50:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Skinny jeans, even skinnier arms, wears large-frame glasses, has a three-day beard that he thinks makes him look manly, but is really a passive-aggressive douche canoe whose only direct physical confrontation in his life was back in seventh grade when Simone Kellums kicked his ass.
Dude? It's _______! You know _____ she's always doing crazy stuff like that! Remember when told that snooty waiter to stick his tip where the sun don't shine? Remember when _______ was at the soccer game and those punk kids were playing that God Awful boogie gangster music? Well you know _______ doesn't play that! She went and dumped her Coors light on their radio when they were out playing frisbee. Serves em right! Start acting up, getting to big for your own good, we'll go ahead and try it. No sir-e-bob good ol _________ will be teaching them the way things work around here!
Your reading comprehension is good enough to catch that detail in the OP, but not good enough to notice that three people have already pointed that out to me, or that I don't care.
no it fucking isn't. buy a seat for each person that is flying. that includes your snot-nosed little brat. if it was person before it was born, it most certainly is a person when it's sitting on a plane.
Seriously, I flew with my son once without buying him a seat because it was only an hour flight and I thought, hey, if we're lucky the plane won't be completely booked and he'll get a seat anyway. Worst case scenario, he sits on my lap for an hour - no big deal. Well, the plane was at capacity and that hour with him on my lap was one of the worst hours of my life. He wants a drink? Well, I've got to try to get my bag out from under the seat while balancing twenty pounds of squirming drool monster on my lap while penned in by a stranger whose phone my kid is desperately trying to grab. It was total misery. I felt like a complete asshole. Always buy a seat.
vagijn · 18 points · Posted at 06:53:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
himit · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Having gone international with a lap baby several times... Ring in advance and make sure you get a seat with a bassinet. That's what they're there for.
As for the bags, prepare. A small one with the essentials that you can squish beside you. A bigger one with entertainment that you grab and put by your feet once the flight's mid-air. That bassinet can also double as handy storage and the little bit of extra legroom as play area, so kid isn't always sitting down. And expect to go on lots of walks around the cabin.
I've only done one flight 27th a lap baby and no bassinet, and that was because we had a cat too and had to sit at the back of the plane. By this time we were travelling pros but still... 0/10, would not recommend. Was awful in every way. And both the cat and baby behaved.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 08:34:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We flew on UA with our kid several times before he was 2 and always bought a seat for him. Way more comfortable for us and far safer for him, since he got to sit in his car seat.
phedre · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the airline and country, and even sometimes the agent. Check here for advice:
I mean, this is a perfectly fine way to go about this. If the seat in the middle ends up being empty, have at it.
But don't be a dick to the guy like me who travels alone for work and buys that seat.
If you want to guarantee a free seat, buy one.
phedre · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You travel for work and you'd take a middle seat? Oh HELL nah. I did the work travel thing for years and if they tried to stick me in a middle seat I would have raised holy hell.
But I flew enough that I had "my" seat based on aircraft type so I could maximize my sleep potential.
I traveled for work 2 years straight, ~200 flights a year. I was on maybe 20 flights where I had open seats next to me. The idea of a flight having enough open seats to be able to pick your seat is unlikely...
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 03:59:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't seen an open seat on a plan in the last three four years.
I've definitely done that before... had all three seats to myself in a YWG -> YUL early AM flight, pulled those armrests up and treated myself to a reasonably sized bed for the flight (reasonable given I was on an airplane).
I got really lucky and an entire row to myself from Vancouver to Toronto. So much luxurious room to spread out I didn't know what to do other than take my shoes off and sleep across.
Air Canada planes on major routes almost all have that ability - They also all (on major routes) have the personal in flight entertainment system as well.
vmont · 1 points · Posted at 06:58:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flew once last year and there were entire empty rows.
The only flights that had empty seats were the delayed ones where people had rebooked flights. Or it was carry over from other delayed flights. Mostly weather stuff, and in the US.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I flew yesterday to denmark with open seats and I flew roundtrip to Phoenix last week and both ways had open seats.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Norwegian, American, and Soutwest
jt3611 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Southwest, Delta, AeroMexico. I fly to Mexico a lot from the North East US and prob 2 out 10 planes is full capacity. Even the planes to Mex City or Cancun are not 100% capacity, thankfully.
Eh, I've flown from Nebraska and seen empty seats on a plane. Believe it or not, I was on a flight out of Lincoln that had maybe a dozen passengers. Way more seats than people.
Odd. I've only been on 7 flights and 2 of them had open seats next to us. Doesn't seem like it should be that rare.
Jonne · 1 points · Posted at 10:43:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had flights where i had entire rows for myself, but airlines are pretty good at filling seats these days, especially on the popular routes. I definitely never expect to have a free seat.
Yeah but chances are you were taking the early morning / late evening commuter flights. the 7am flights to major business locations are always packed, the 2pm ones I guess less so.
It depends on where you're flying to and at what time of the day / week / year you're flying. If you're flying for business, then most likely you're flying very popular routes that a lot of businessmen fly and your flights will generally always be full. If you fly routes like Boston to Copenhagen in November on a Tuesday, your flight will probably be relatively empty.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Results may vary I guess. I don't travel that much but depending on time and location, I sometimes have an open seat. One flight I was on had many empty rows! Luck of the draw.
I used to fly regularly (although a lot less than you) because of a long distance relationship. I would fly on the weird Tuesday morning flights that were cheap because few people wanted them. There were plenty of open seats.
If someone else (e.g. a business) is paying for your flights or if you have to have a specific schedule (that likely resembles other people's specific schedules), then, no, you'll never find a seat.
bbibber · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You fly 200 times a year and don't have enough status to be automatically upgraded to business, which on short haul means an open seat next to you???
We had to choose the cheapest flight which meant that my status was spread across Delta, United, and American but I still had plenty of status. I got upgraded to premier seating pretty much every flight... they're still full on Mondays and Fridays. Though as many have pointed out, other week days are a lot less busy.
And I didn't fly much short haul except from a hub to destination. I lived in Washington at the time so I mostly flew across the country.
Rarus · 333 points · Posted at 00:15:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
First class Bangkok to JFK last weekend. Family of 4 on the right 1 kid is like 8, 1 baby. Dad brought everyone in the section a pimped out goodie bag.
Ear plugs, noise canceling Bose over ear, bunch of mini alcohol bottles. Kid slept in the late flat like 7 hours straight till our layover.
Was next to me again heading to JFK. Baby was absolutely silent almost 10 of the 14 hours. Dad also let the older one had a little wine and he was out.
Snitsie · 300 points · Posted at 00:37:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That guy must've been making bank to be able to just give out noise canceling Bose headphones like candy.
Just checked, even flying Emirates it's barely over 6k each. And, while it's hard to say, but I'd bet that if you're taking kiddies along the trip probably involved using some miles.
Guys who fly a lot for work, rack up some serious miles, and then get to spend them on nice holidays for the fam. Of course, he could be just damn rich too. ya never know. The only reason I say, is that I use my miles for first class intercontinental flights. Depending on when the flight was, it might have been for a song too. There are some serious deals if you know how to work the system.
Rarus · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I use my Amex or capital one venture to book then my company pays. I do this route at least once a month. Then I do BKK/FRA with EU offshoots 2-3 times a month then usually 2 BKK/SNG.
Do kinda a work binge now till April then not much. Til then between flights, hotels, expenses, and stipends, the miles are amazing.
between flights, hotels, expenses, and stipends, the miles are amazing.
Chase Sapphire Reserve. 3x on travel and meals, then X 1.5 extra using them. Wish I had your schedule... for a month or two.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:07:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
A 1-way trip New York-Bangkok in a private jet is a six-figure affair. Not even the same ballpark.
Rarus · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cause its crazy stupid wasteful expensive. Did it once with the owners of my company. But cost it kinda made sense. 8 people and the plane needed to be in Asia.
The people who are flying private all the time are either crazy rich or their status basically requires it logistics wise.
fuckin' a, it hurts to fly economy next to a kid, I cannot imagine how much worse it would be to fly first class, pay 12 grand and still end up next to a screaming drool monster (c).
Yeah we do, at least as much as an economy flyer needs the toothpaste anyway. They're just socks, eyeshade, lotion, a comb/brush, maybe a cloth, some aftershave and mouthwash.... plus headphones that work with the airline's two-pin systems so they don't get stolen.
__yhs__ · 6 points · Posted at 07:01:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Noise canceling bose headphones are given for free during flight when in first class.
Source: flew first class.
They come with the seat, not from the passenger. Plus there are no non-stops JFK-BKK. Of course he could have been changing somewhere that involved a really long flight.
[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 02:05:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Priceline. I did a quick check for the cost of a one way first class ticket from Bangkok to New York about 6 weeks in the future. Cheapest result was just over US$4300.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:33:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
OP said the seats were actually 12K each.
Rarus · 44 points · Posted at 02:28:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
First is usually 10-16 seats. Each headset was probably $200. Considering he dropped 35k+ for 4 seats, not so insane.
You get them for the duration of the flight just by virtue of being there in the cabin. That, plus the route doesn't exist, means you're no worse off than the OP.
dog_cow · 2 points · Posted at 06:31:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like /r/thathappened to me.
Which airline doesn't give out noise cancelling headphones in first class as a standard? You get them in business already in many airlines. Also the alcohol you get in first class is better than some mini bottles from duty free...
Rarus · 43 points · Posted at 00:41:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Korean air. I get free booze and likely anything he can get to me I can buy. It's a nice gesture. Chill bud. Please tell me what flight you are being handed noise canceling headphones to keep.
In every decent airlines business class you get noise cancelling headphones in business class and above. Whether or not they are new or just cleaned I don't know and it also isn't relevant to this topic.
That part doesn't sound strange but.....how do you get 'a bunch' of mini drinks per person (so, dozens in total) through security? I know you can take about 10, but more than that...
I admittedly do not fly much, and most of the flights I have been on in the past were full or overbooked, so I am probably mistaken with how easy it is to switch seats.
My flight from Beijing to NYC I had a whole aisle to myself. My flight from JFK to Beijing was 12hrs of being a sardine. It can go both ways, especially when you're flying international.
As someone who flies more than you, no it is not unlikely at all.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:26:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flying domestic is a bit different. The first time I flew overseas there were quite a lot of free seats. I had the entire row to myself both ways.
giguf · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty anecdotal evidence. Loads of planes have plenty of free seats, both short and long haul. Unless you are flying to a popular destination in high demand months, there is gonna be at least 1 seat you can move to if you are only one person.
merv243 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
MSP to Philly for a few months for work. 7 of the 10 normal flights (not counting the ones that got all fucked up due to weather) I either had, or moved to, an empty row. And these were at pretty prime business travel times - Monday morning, Thursday evening. Just depends on the flight.
Rare to have zero open seats. 80%+ full, sure, and if you only fly on holidays then I can see why you'd think that but I doubt even a third of flights are completely full.
I rarely fly on holidays. Usually in June and October. Not exactly big holiday months.
Temp237 · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
US allows airlines to overbook. Other countries can have laws forbidding the practice of selling product (seats) that are not available. So if people don't show up, it's not a full flight.
If you fly often enough you'll eventually be on a flight where it's less than half full. Most single passsengers have their own row. Not frequent, but it's awesome when it happens. And the crew loves it too so you get even better service if you know how to play your cards right.
Sure. Southwest between Oakland or SMF to or from LA/BUR is usually crowded during commuter hours, but I've flown the same routes at the odd hours and been on flights practically empty in some cases.
Yeah but I feel like the seat between two people with a baby would be like the absolute last seat taken. Who would sit their with other options open?
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:34:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because that's not what happened.
Parents Book A and C and left B open, hoping no one took B (they said the baby didn't need to reserve a seat). Unfortunately, some guy ended up picking seat B (probably registered online and there wasn't much left), so he came over and that was the seat he bought and paid for.
The parents are 100% in the wrong on this. If you want to make sure your child has a seat you buy them a goddamn seat. Besides, what if the plane was fully booked? What if he didn't have anywhere else he could go? The fuck was he supposed to do, sit on the floor?
IMO if we're going to make obese people buy a seat, a parent with a child should have to do the same.
"This fucking lady" - It was the dad though. It is literally stipulated that it was the father who wrote this and everyone still keeps saying it's a woman.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Transatlantic flights are usually booked solid.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That just makes it even worse for the parents. What happens if there's no other seats available? Is she gonna be a bitch to him for 13 hours? Is he supposed to sit on the floor?
Fuck entitled parents. I'm with George Carlin. If you're bringing a kid on the plane, you sit in the back in your own section with all the other kids, and you get on and off last.
I don't even mind kids. Kids are fine. Parents make me want to throw them out the window.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It probably wasn't a full flight. Honestly he did the best thing. Even if he switched seats with one of them so he wasn't stuck in the middle, it would have been a miserable flight. You can be sure the kid cried more than once.
I always booked an extra seat for my kid, even when he was just a few months old. The extra space is invaluable (this was before diaper changing tables in airplane lavatories were a thing).
One time a standby guy barged onto the plane to make sure there were really no seats available (this was pre-9/11). He spies my seat and tries to bully me into giving it up. He probably thought I was pulling what that guy was pulling, but I whipped out the boarding pass and he got to go back to the waiting area.
It was only a 30 minute connecting flight, so if he wasn't an asshole I probably would have given him the seat.
I have been waiting so long to get this off my chest...
I particularly hate when parents will go to restaurants or public venues and let their kids run around and scream. They do nothing to actually "parent" the child or teach them "hey, you behave here!" Instead, they let the kid go on whatever chaotic rampage they want because they think it's funny, then- BEST PART, the kid runs up to your table and stands there / stares at you / touches your shit. The parents look at you and smile hoping to get a positive reaction "Isn't my baby thing AWESOME?" I usually shock them with a look like this.
Bpdbs · 5 points · Posted at 03:42:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As someone who worked in a supermarket I can honestly say some parents have the most inflated sense of entitlement. No your baby is not a little angel, he is a snot nosed little brat who needs to stop damaging all my stock and playing with my displays
I like to be level headed all the time, but at work serving yesterday there were so many families (summer holidays).
Tourists with child running between our legs while they looked at their phones.
Muffin crumbs everywhere.
Screeching for minutes at a time, parents just ignoring it.
This isnt even a family cafe, some parents these days just seem overly entitled and expect parenting to be a part time job. Kudos to those of you who control and educate your children on manners from a young age.
Had a parent do something similar and I talked to an attendant and there were no empty seats. The mom kept bitching at me. 200$ soundproof headphones are worth.
I think the worst part, isn't even that they didn't book a seat for their child....
It's that they intentionally booked seats with a space inbetween.
Like, book AB and if C happens to be open, then you can move to it and put your kid in the middle... but at least you actually had the foresight to realize that if the seat isn't open, you can sit next to your partner and have your child right next to either of you on your laps.
I have kids and the attitude that some parents have that having a child entitles you to some sort of preferential treatment everywhere you go is terrible.
Not all parents are like this however, and the same is true that some non-parents have insane entitled attitudes partly due to the fact that they aren't parents.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:20:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What utility did this post have in any way?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The things we must do!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
On my few flights i had to take to go to and from the UK to Philly there were many empty seats that were up for grabs if you wanted to move, and many people did, so it's not that far-fetched. This goes for every flight i had (4).
Finally, this entire story seems a bit /r/thathappened - like the dude just gets up pre-flight and goes and finds another open seat.
That's actually not that unrealistic. In my experience, planes are either full or they have a bunch of open seats spread around. If this is recent, considering the events in Turkey in the past year, I wouldn't be surprised if travel to Turkey has dipped a decent amount in the past year, but not enough to warrant completely redoing the flight schedules. If that's the case, there would probably be a dozen or so seats open on each flight.
Unless you're in somebody else's seat, nobody is going to be checking to see if you're actually assigned to that seat, as long as you are in Economy. I've changed seats on a few flights when the plane was fairly empty and I wanted a better view or whatever.
If there is a spare 2 seater, even if they aren't annoying, I will find it and sit here.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shitty play no doubt. I would just suggest I take the aisle or the window so they could sit together- knowing them though, they would decline the offer just to try and make me move even more. I would sit there with a full on man-spread just to be a dick.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:43:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Liza Minnelli appeared on the wing of the airplane and did a tap dance while singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow."
To me it's the shitty way she went about it. $1000 is a lot of money and many can't afford that. Clearly the plane wasn't fully booked but she could have mentioned her needs to a flight attendant or asked him directly like a goddamn grownup.
Yeah this doesn't quite add up. You pretty much have to sit in your allocated seat before take off, only afterwards can you move around the cabin.
Also in my experience the airline & attendants will go out of their way to give parents a spare seat if the flight isn't full.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:12:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Finally, this entire story seems a bit /r/thathappened - like the dude just gets up pre-flight and goes and finds another open seat. Did everyone start clapping and the flight attendant handed the dad $100 for his quick thinking?
There is usually an empty seat somewhere on most flights and its not big hassle to switch.
The problem is you have to wait till after take-off because some late comer could come for his seat before the plane pushes out.
It all depends on when you fly both time of day and time of year. Sometimes you are just flat out boned.
I dunno if people like that would be on each side of me, I would totally stay there just because I won't give them what they want. Fuckers aren't privileged to anything and I won't give it to them, even if it means dealing with a yelling child.
Paratwa · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That attitude is one of the few things that annoys me about my wife.
"But they ( or we! ) have kids... !" She wails
Yeah uh so do most people it's rather common that's like saying you have a mom or dad
"But the kiiiiids"
Yeah but everyone else shouldn't have to put up with extra bullshit cause of that.
Then she scowls at me and won't talk cause she knows it makes no sense.
djheart · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you are two parents and one child under 2 I think it is a legitimate strategy to book A and C and hope that no one books B. That said, when I have done it and it didn't work out I have always offered the window seat and they are usually quite happy to take it...
I was once booked on an international flight between an overweight married couple in their 50s. They had the same attitude, like I was inconveniencing them by sitting in my assigned seat. I just assumed they preferred the aisle and window seats and booked them, hadn't considered until now that they perhaps did this to discourage anyone from sitting there.
What you detected as annoyance might have been mortification that they knew they were spilling over into your seat with their excess body weight.
Heavyset people often comment on this.
They might have been annoyed that the airplane's seats were so small, too.
qwimjim · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm dumbfounded people like this exist. I've flown a LOT with my kids. They're 1 and 3 and the oldest probably has about 20 flights under her belt with the longest being 16 hours. These people have the polar opposite attitude to me when I fly with my kids, I do everything I can to not make life miserable for everyone and these guys think the world revolves around them and try to make life miserable for their neighbor to force him
to leave. Incredible.
It's one thing to book A and C and hope no one shows up in B and if they do you just give them the window seat. But to expect the guy to move and leave you an empty seat? And basically fuck with him until he does? That's fucking greasy
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol. I commute on planes for work all the time and switch seats. It's not a big deal.
Jeez I don't see what the big deal is, they saved some $ and the dude found another seat. A mild inconvenience, but shit if I had a kid I may try and use this trick.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 01:45:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd be fucking pissed if I was the middle guy and somebody pulled this shit. Be careful you don't your ass kicked on an airplane in front of your baby.
Eh, I mean with this intention I suppose it's a bit shifty, but if I got on a plane in the passengers situation and the parents were talking about how they made a mistake letting their kid sleep earlier, I would not really consider that being rude, just poor planning, and try and find a different seat. Airlines are in no way guaranteed to be comfortable
If the parents genuinely needed to save money, but had to take a flight, I would save two seats next to each other, and then, one parent get up and find an empty seat and let the kid sit in the parents assigned seat. Or nicely ask the person to move, not be disrespectful and make someone uncomfortable.
Weak will. If I had been in that seat, you best believe they'd regret messing with a truer troll.
Your opening move is to take off your shoes. This immediately bothers some people, and is universally effective if you've been walking around outside all day doing touristy things.
Start coughing. Tell them its okay, you picked something up in Istanbul and you won't be sleeping either. As a general rule I wouldn't tell people to cough on babies, but as long as you're faking it and covering your mouth, cough on the baby until they move.
Looking at my phone? Start showing them vacation pictures. Refuse all hints that the person would like you to stop talking now. Ignore the concept of personal space, really lean in there and show them your fucking pictures. If you managed to take a picture of any women at the beach, crank the creepiness level up to impossible levels by stroking the screen and panting a little.
Next up? Flirt with the wife. Ask if she visited the beach, or if their hotel had a pool. Ask what kind of bathing suit she wore. Do not let her skip any details, demand to know the color, fabric, pattern. Ask if the suit is in her carry-on luggage, and if you can see it. Tell her that you find post-pregnancy weight to be a little sexy.
Their little mind games are chicken shit, you're playing 'scorched earth' tactics now. If the husband tries to interrupt, wave him away and say "Honey, adults are talking now." When you're ready for a few hours of silence from the wife ask if you can smell her hair. Fuck, this will probably work on the husband too. Lean in, get a good sniff, and tell him he smells nice too.
Where to go from here? Pick your nose and touch the armrests. Just touch everything you can. When you use the bathroom (Which you'll be doing constantly), make sure you get a good handful of his headrest with your filthy fucking fingers you disgusting slob. While picking your nose, press all the little buttons on both armrests (if you can), to figure out which one is 'yours'. Touch all the overhead buttons, and the air vents.
In their plan, they wanted to imply you won't get any sleep because of a well rested <2 year old? Guarantee they won't get any sleep. If either of them seem in danger of falling asleep, order a drink, use the bathroom, bump their arm off the armrest (Opps, "Sorry"), play with the overhead lights, or start a conversation with the one that's awake. You don't have kids, I guarantee you're more well rested then them right now, and their breaking point will be a lot closer than yours.
Most modern airlines will have some type of video entertainment in the seats. The last time I was on a 777 we had access to over 50 movies on demand. Pick a comedy (there's rarely anything like Saw on the airplane), and laugh out loud. Repeat all the jokes immediately after they're delivered on screen. Periodically lean over to either member of the family and repeat the punchline with tears in your eyes. Stare at them until you get a reaction.
Now lets talk about your bathroom trips. Make sure you wash your hands every time you go to the bathroom, you're not a filthy animal. However, never dry your hands. Your goal is to arrive back at your seat with hands so fucking wet that you get water all over the husband's headrest, the armrest, the husband's seat, and if you're lucky the husband. There is nothing more unnerving then having to rest your head on something moist that came from a guy that just got out of the bathroom. If you get any looks, raise your eyebrows and say, "Sorry, they were out of towels.". If offered a napkin, make sure to saturate it with liquid and give it back.
Next lets cover rookie mistakes. Do NOT fuck around with the barf bag. Some people are really sensitive to the idea of vomiting, and if you induce one of them to vomit you lose. Game over. There's a 50% chance you'll get some splatter on you, and now you're on a 12 hour plane flight without a change of clothes or a shower. You've got a wide arsenal of tools to work with, you're better than that (filmmakers, please write this one down). Also, avoid looking at porn on your device. You don't want half a dozen people to point you out as a pervert on the flight because they saw your screen when using the bathroom. You will immediately lose all sympathy, and you may be removed from the airplane in a random airport in Turkey. If you insist on aiming for sexual discomfort make sure you're grunting at pictures of Yarn and not attractive women. It'll be easier to claim you've got something stuck in your throat, and you can always attribute your 20 bathroom trips to diabetes.
Remember, you're not stuck in there with them. They're stuck in there with you.
dverb · 1372 points · Posted at 01:55:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got a little bit uncomfortable just reading this. You win.
So one of my grandmas is crazy. Like hide mean note throughout your house when she visits so you have shit surprises all year long crazy. She is also an old Soviet super anti-religious atheist. One day when she was flying over to the US from Russia, she happened to get a seat next to one of Russia's higher up priests. She started off okay, having a normal conversation about religion with him, asking him questions about Russian orthodoxy and everything was fine until suddenly, she flipped her crazy switch and started accusing him of worshiping a fake deity, manipulating the public, spreading deciet, and a lot more. After a few minutes of that insanity he asked to be moved and she got an extra seat to stretch out on for an 8 hour flight. Funny thing is, my dad is a journalist, so he knows that priest, and a few months later heard that same terror story told by the priest at some function (my grandma had shared most of the details with us as well, she was proud of kicking the priest or of his seat).
c0nduit · 56 points · Posted at 14:38:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think she's crazy for saying he worships a fake deity, manipulates the public and spreads deceit, sounds about right for any priest to me.
Sure, everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, bombarding someone assigned to sit next to you for 8 hours on a plane with your personal opinions on how terrible they are is inappropriate and crazy.
It's 1:30am and I am just getting my pre-bed Reddit in, and I just did that thing with your mouth where you're like "but what why no you what" as you try to make five sentences at once.
A good fallback is choose a weapon that is being studied emp, rail gun etc, that either china or Russia is using. Make up all the other details locations, date, and be sure to imply the state of the world is heading toward a large war.
Mention the child when talking about the size of the war and how he'll be conscripted.
I read the post above yours and liked the idea but I genuinely couldn't even think of a way to execute it. Then you fire bomb the hell out of it. Well played.
If I'm unfortunate enough to get a middle seat, and I see I'm between a couple I'll ask them if they want to switch. I'm large, and they'll both be uncomfortable with me in the middle. I've only had one couple refuse and then talk across me. But they weren't being assholes elsewhere so I let it go.
Porn's tricky. Porn can get you kicked off a flight.
I'd suggest learning to masturbate to heavy pieces of machinery. Shifting constantly in your seat and making soft grunts while you surf /r/MachinePorn/ can't get you in legal trouble as long as you're not fondling your berries. You're just a creepy motherfucker who shouldn't be in public.
Pilate · 46 points · Posted at 06:23:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just start googling for things that involve them... "how to tell someone to wear deodorant", "can you give herpes from arm rests", "making babies sleep forever"
I fucking despise aisle seats for the following reasons:
1.) There is an over abundance of fucktards on airplanes who can't walk down the aisle without bumping into people. If I had a dollar for every time someone has bumped into me, I'd be on the forbes 400 richest people in the world list.
2.) The flight attendants more often than not bump into me moving their cart, if the cart itself does not bump into me.
3.) I've got to get up for the middle/window seat people when they want to use the bathroom.
I prefer window seats, but I'd take middle over aisle any day of the week. Fuck aisle seats forever.
And if those idiots shuffling up and down the aisle don't bump into your shoulder, they'll grab your damn headrest and give it a shake.
I'm the same size. Isn't flying fun?
Zanki · 5 points · Posted at 17:24:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was once on a flight and ended up with the isle. I couldn't get my legs in the seat. The guy who was stupidly tall got two seats to himself, because I'm a 5'11 female with all the length in my legs I got told to suck it up. It was too painful to shove my legs in so I sat sideways. When I got yelled at to move by cabin crew I somehow got my legs in, it hurt, then the guy in front put his seat back. I was completely trapped and in a lot of pain. Dude would not put his seat back up and he got pissed at me because I had to push on his seat to free myself so I could get my legs back into the isle.
I've had people fall into me on flights when I have the isle. I had one trip were the guy in front grabbed my stuff from under his seat, where I was supposed to put my stuff and just throw it into the isle, calling it trash and put his own stuff there, taking up my floor space (I had my feet on his stuff most of the flight). He was in an exit row and had already filled the overhead space with a massive suitcase, leaving me with nowhere to store my backpack. Luckily the people next to me were cool and cleared a little space on their end so I could keep my backpack by my feet while calling the dude in front some very nasty names. Cabin crew refused to deal with the man.
On a flight recently I was traveling with my friend who is stupidly tall. He easily towers over me and we got to our seats. When we sat down I complained there wasn't much leg room, he started to say he had less when he looked at my legs. We used up the same amount of leg room and both only had a couple of cm clearance sitting up straight.
Ugh, the I feel you on the deceiving leg length.. I'm only 5'9 but more than 36" of that is leg. Most airplane seats fit my legs with just a few cm of clearance, and while my torso makes me look quite short when sitting, most taller men I sit near are surprised to find my legs crunched up just the same as theirs or even more-so. I loathe air travel..
The seat space, I feel your pain. I'm lucky in that I have status with my airline so I get the premium cabin seats that have just enough extra legroom to make it comfortable. This is for when I'm flying internationally for business though. I live in South America for work and on the local flights I take I'm stuck with the normal seats, which are uncomfortable as hell for us tall people.
I once had a dude try to put his bag underneath his seat where my foot space was, I had to tell him "Hey, you can't put your bag there", he complied without issue. Though it doesn't help that I'm a big guy, I imagine with you being a woman assholes push the limits a bit more not expecting you to say/do anything about it.
I'm 5'5" with stupidly long legs (torsoless wondertwin powers activate.) Often I'll walk into a flight with some dude well over 6' tall, who has to fold himself into a seat, sit next to him, and realize I have less leg clearance than he does, because he's got short legs and a long torso, haha.
My knees usually hit the stupid fold-out trays. WHO ARE THOSE SEATS MADE FOR? My legs are not THAT long, I only have like a 34" inseam? I mean, yeah, I need long or extra long pants, but really, I AM ONLY 5'5", even with my stupid build, I can't be that torsoless, can I??
On a flight from El Salvador one of the lavatories was broken, so people were queuing in the isles. A man's belly hit me in the face 5 fucking times. I regretted my aisle preference that day....
I had a flight where it seemed like everyone was bumping into me. I got FUCKING PISSED after the billionth time and was ready to hit the call button and tell a flight attendant "If one more person bumps into me I'm going to lose my fucking shit!" .
Of course I calmed the fuck down realizing that any threat of "losing my fucking shit" on an airplane was not going to end well for me.
People are picky when it comes to aisle and window seats. Aisle seats mean easy, unimpeded access to the bathroom. Window seats mean a headrest and a chance to look at clouds and shit. Middle seat gets nothing.
gotr3kt · 4 points · Posted at 10:34:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Until he recognises your game immediately and doubles down and you play a game of gay chicken. Next thing you know, you'll be bent over that little lavatory toilet wondering if you're going to end up with hemmorhoids when he's finished.
harcole · 5 points · Posted at 18:59:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't matter. If she claims it's sexual harassment and it's on an airplane, chances are good you'll get kicked off. The truth doesn't matter--what she says matters.
You don't have kids, I guarantee you're more well rested then them right now, and their breaking point will be a lot closer than yours will.
Whole post was great, but this piece is just brilliant.
6chan · 21 points · Posted at 12:15:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also, ask if the mother breastfeeds the child and if she plans to do it on the plane. Tell her that you are totally comfortable with her doing this here.
I think it's hilarious that you and others think that what you're suggesting here is anything other than absolute amateur hour.
You're sitting next to parents of a small child. They've been barfed on, shat on, pissed on, spat upon, and snot upon. And not just a little bit of barf, shit, piss, spit and snot -- enough of it that it isn't even a big deal to them.
You think you're violating social norms? Sitting in their laps is a person who isn't even aware what social norms even are. And by playing the escalation game, you've just removed all incentive they have to restrain that little animal.
13-hour flight, eh? Do you know how many diaper changes that is? Do you know happens during a diaper change? And you're sitting between the diaper-changers?
if you induce one of them to vomit you lose. Game over
Remember, we're talking about an under-2-year-old here. They don't even need the motion or claustrophobia of an economy-class seat to barf. They don't even need to be sick. They'll barf because they're constipated. (Do the math: If the shit doesn't go out, where does the food go?)
Flirting with the wife? Puh-leeze. Nothing like a child deciding to hit 137.9 decibels with a tenth octave D-flat to encourage the sexy mood, is there?
And you've got to survive thirteen hours of this. Thirteen hours of barfing, shitting, screaming, snotting, with two parents who have you surrounded and -- for them -- this is just what they're used to. They've been dealing with this every day for the past year or so.
Like I said, everything you say here is just... amateur hour. The real expert, the absolute bar-none badass, is sitting on the parent's lap.
Would you like to hold the baby for a bit while I get a fresh diaper? Oh shit, it looks like it's leaking out... be careful!
Gaary · 15 points · Posted at 12:12:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was thinking something similar when I saw this post but I think you go a bit too far. Not too far as in I disapprove of what you'd do, but I think it could backfire a bit more and there's a lot of hidden value in fucking with people to the point that they're just not sure if you're fucking with them or not. Grunts, sighs, coughs, giggles, etc are all great, don't do it at anything sexual though. People on a plane are nosey, you get one person that sticks up for the couple and you're gone. A passenger behind or in front of you telling the flight attendant "he was asking her to show him her bathing suit, moaning and sniffing her hair" and then you're fucked.
Constant bathroom breaks, spillage over the arm rests, messy eating, coughing, etc are all great. Fucking with the kid would be good also. Yea it's not really all that moral, they didn't choose to be a part of this, but war has casualties. Play some stuff on your ipad/phone/etc but anytime they get interested in it turn it away. If the parents act like that then I'd guarantee that the kid is one of those that goes mental when tv or something is taken away. Just be careful not to appear too upset because if the flight attendant gets called over and you seem displeased with your seat, they'll insist on helping you find a seat. You're totally right with the kid sleeping though, no fucking way a 2 year old isn't sleeping on that flight.
I'd also suggest mumbling along to songs too if the parents don't have headsets, the weirder the song the better.
When laughing, laugh with your mouth open but teeth closed, shaking back and forth, and froth at the mouth a bit; pop a few pimples; keep itching, constantly itching; gag a few times and reach for the barf bag; cry and vent to them about your last breakup; develop a tic; after you cry, leave that snot hanging from your nose for a while and talk to them before wiping it on a seat handle; gag some more; pick at your toes, bonus points for using a pencil's sharp point to get the gunk out from under the toe nail - smell it; drool a bit while taking to them; laugh quietly to yourself while shivering; talk like gollum; smell your earwax; pick at a scar :)
More: If they give you packets of ketchup or mayo with your meal, save them for later. After they collect the trays, put one foot on the seat so that your knee is at face level. Put the ketchup on your knee and lick it off while making soft moaning noses.
If they give you crackers or white cookies with your meal, take a few to the bathroom, break them up into almost dust and massage them into your hair. When you get back to your seat, frantically scratch your hair and let the "lice" fall all over your new friends. If a particularly large one falls on someone's pant leg, frantically apologize, pick it up, and eat it.
Leave large chewed up chunks of food in your teeth and talk to them. Tell them one of those long winded stories that ends with nothing important. Then, pick some of the food from your mouth.
I had to bail over Gus Fring from Breaking Bad in the back of coach to make it to the toilet while puking every where on take off. He was a gentleman. Fortunately I made it to the can. No change from the flight crew except when we landed and the pilot and co-pilot came out to take selfies with him.
It's funny reading it but also makes me think...you REALLY want that middle seat between two parents and their kids? That badly? Seems most people would want to not be in that situation but I guess trolls are gonna troll.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 21:50:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The idea that you think any of that competes with a crying baby is hilarious. Anybody would switch seats to sit next to you in a second if it meant they didn't have to listen to a crying baby. Oh, your hands are wet? Listen to this crying baby. Oh, you laughed loudly at a stupid joke? Listen to this crying baby.
If some parents with a crying baby want me to move, all they have to do is tell me that there is a different seat I can move into.
Also, avoid looking at porn on your device. You don't want half a dozen people to point you out as a pervert on the flight because they saw your screen when using the bathroom.
Watch airline crash and disaster videos, instead. Chuckle often with the occasional, "Oh, that's good" muttered under your breath.
I fucking hate parents with their little spawn. Small children seldom can handle a flight well so if possible, just don't fly. Anyway a child won't have any clue about being anywhere else besides out of town.
Then the next step that can get me raving, I'm a rather tall guy so if I book I will try to get the front row. If I manage to pick those seats online and you didn't, tough luck. You got a child, well that sucks for you.
And if it's a long flight don't be an utter cunt and don't book for your child. Sure thing it's not obligated but do yourself as well the rest a favour and spend that money.
To be fair you can't book a seat for an under 2 even if you try. Rules are they have to be on a lap with a belt extender for safety. This is the case in the EU at least.
...Also people travelling with kids may be going to see other family, whether or not the kid will remember the experience isn't always the motivating factor.
Are you sure about this? Mind you I don't have kids though I've been traveling with a couple last time and their kid is below 2 years old and they always book a seat for her including Europe.
I have tried and failed to get a seat for an under-2 year old on British Airways - not even an option on the booking form and if you call them up they tell you they have to be on your lap.
To be honest I just assumed this was a legal thing (haven't flown with any other airlines to test) but some googling tells me that BA would allow me to book them a seat if I get a special air-car-seat thing.
This said they always clock that you're a family with a toddler and try to get you a row of three whenever possible so the kid has somewhere to sit during the flight but they have to be on your lap during take-off and landing.
The whole thing is of course arbitrary, if safety was the concern they'd probably do it based on weight/height of the child rather than deeming them suddenly safe when they turn 2.
As someone who flies a lot solo I always dread small kids too - though to be honest I think ages 2-6 are worse because then they're more prone to kicking my seat, spilling shit and being a noisy jerk that can't be as easily settled by shoving a bottle or boob in their mouth
Maybe give next time another airline a try. Now mind you I don't live in Europe anymore so I seldom fly within Europe. Last time I had a couple flights in Germany with German Wings, all they require is my name and e-mail. Not even a passport number.
Mustaka · 2 points · Posted at 06:38:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
BattlePlaneSeats. By far one of the best games on /r/irldownloads.
MrMeier · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not everyone has the ability to do something like this.
donutnz · 2 points · Posted at 09:25:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just reading that my skin is crawling and I'm trying to suruptitiously call the stewardess to get one of us moved and I'm not even on a plane. I feel so dirty I might go have another shower.
aab0908 · 2 points · Posted at 09:35:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I applaud you sir, that is some nice trolling. I however am of the belief that you can more than accomplish your goal by being less complicated. Maybe I'm just too lazy to do everything in your plan, doing one thing and doing it well should get the job done. I would think that staring at the baby extremely intently while licking your fingers like you just ate the Colonels chicken while not breaking eye contact would suffice. I'll liken it to when I would get annoyed by men constantly checking out my now ex wife, anybody can get mad or give dirty looks. I chose to stare at their crotch and biting my lower lip and make sure that they saw me, maybe even follow them a bit.
TBH if it's a small child you're just better off switching seats. When my brother and I were little we'd have issues with the airline fucking up changing our seats last minute, meaning that we wound up sitting next to a complete stranger rather for a long flight despite the fact my parents had reserved seats right next to each other on the plane.
Luckily we were pretty well behaved kids but it probably helped that we were old enough to keep it together when the airline "lost" our reservations and we had to get new seats, but not everyone is so lucky
beebish · 2 points · Posted at 16:18:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:09:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We flew with lap children all the time. Yes, id love the extra seat for free, yes we've probably bitched a few times amongst ourselves when someone won't give it up, but man, if you want the extra seat, buy one. Lap child is not free open seat child.
I mean, the parents' goal was to get a row to themselves and a free seat for their kids. Regardless of their methods, the goal makes sense, winning has a reward.
That's just mean. They're not hurting anybody. They're not even stealing, and they're definitely not playing a game. They're trying to have a comfortable flight with a 2 year old. Why anybody would spitefully refuse to move away from a 2 year old on a long flight is beyond me.
Even if you win, you lose. Loser.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:32:29 on January 19, 2017 · (Permalink)
Trying to get something for free by using a child is playing a game. Those parents are the losers and I feel sorry for the child. I would prolly satiate the child and ensure I become the hero to all of the passengers while shaming the parents for not doing so while ensuring everyone knew why I had to satiate the child, because the parents refused to buy their child a seat.
chizzus · 2 points · Posted at 03:52:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would just ask if one wanted to switch seats so they could be together. You'll look like the nice guy accommodating the family. It's far easier and then I get an aisle or window.
As a general rule I wouldn't tell people to cough on babies, but as long as you're faking it and covering your mouth, cough on the baby until they move.
Yea...maybe just cough straight ahead. Covering your mouth isn't exactly an effective method to keep germs off stuff in front of you.
It isn't the shoes off thing that bothers people, its the shoes off when you've just spent 12 hours walking around a sweltering city at 90 degrees without showering or changing that becomes horrifying.
I was taught that you just don't take your shoes off in public unless you're at a beach or something, or at someone's house who insists on it. Certainly not when the people around you have no choice but to be right next to you for a long period of time, in an enclosed space, with recycled air.
When I was much younger, just turned (18) was travelling to europe by myself to meet up with my dad.
Get on the plane which isn't too busy, sit down in the middle row. It was a while ago but I believe 4 seats in the middle. So X is me, 0 is empty and V is the other guy.
x0v0
He immediately without even saying hi starts with the whole "I am extremely tired. I plan on sleeping a lot. I can only sleep laying down. I wanted this entire row for myself to lie down. The plane is not busy I am sure you can sit elsewhere. The stewardesses will not care" Like right off the bat, one after the other.
I sit down, smile politely and go to put my headphones on.
He reaches across and touches my arm to stop me putting the earbud in "You don't want my feet on you. That lady won't care if you sit next to her. You should move now, it is a long flight"
I put the earbuds in. He fumes, gets up, slams his stuff around, glares at me. Walks off to another row and puts his stuff there.
Couple walks up, sits in row. He gets up and moves. More people enter plane. Some sit in that row.
I hadn't noticed by this time, but the stewardesses must have been paying attention. He also must have raged at a few other people. Cause when he came back to his original seat, in my row. After the other rows no longer suited him.
They came up and asked him to go back to his assigned seat.
I was confused, but then they showed him to one of the side 3 seater rows. Asshole = v. empty = 0, others = s.
svs
He was never even supposed to sit in my row, I ended up with the entire row. He got jammed between two other people.
No one asked to sit in my row, I wouldn't have had a problem.
Hell I probably wouldn't have had a problem moving, other then I was nervous as hell on a plane by myself for the first time, with people still arriving to sit down,and didn't know if I was allowed to.
Entitlement. Kicking people out of their own row, so you can have it all. When its not even your row.
york100 · 62 points · Posted at 02:19:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ha! I had this shit happen to me once because some jerk claimed he needed to be next his GF and I moved and had to sit next to an extremely obnoxious women for an eight-hour flight who prodded me for my seat so she could sit by the aisle and me in the middle. I have never let anyone randomly move me again. And lately I've noticed the stewardesses are much less tolerant of this shit.
I have heard people ask stewardesses to switch seats before and they have always said no, unless it's an emergency exit row. They say they aren't allowed to because if the plane crashes the manifest is the best way to tell who may have lived or died. Or how many bodies to look for. Kind of dark but a freaking good point.
PLenty of stewardesses do the whole "oh can you give up your seat in the front row of economy that has plenty of leg room that you paid extra for so this lady with a baby can have it instead" crap with me.
OTOH I (6'4") have been moved to an emergency exit row because there was a woman with her baby in the seat originally and i don't the ink they were too happy with that
That sucks. It also puts you in a shitty position because she knew she had a kid, and you paid for your seat for that specific reason. It isn't really fair to make you look like an ass to the people around you for not giving up your seat. It's not like asking someone for a seat on the bus or anything.
When I studied abroad in Australia, I had 14.5 hour flight from LA to Sydney. The seats were a little larger than normal, and no one had the seat between me and this very nice, old lady. We had some nice chats when neither of us was dozing off, and it was as comfortable as long plane rides in coach could go.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 05:45:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get off this thread.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 02:12:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No people were walking in and sitting in the seats their tickets said.
A bunch of people entered as soon as the doors opened (including this guy, the people he was supposed to sit next to, and me near the end of the line. He must have been near the front of the line)
But then after the initial boarding, more people were trickling in over time.
He started in his own seat (before I made it on), realised he would sit next to people. Moved to my row (or maybe another row before that)
When I sat down, he had a go at me, then moved to another row (other people arrived for that row after that). So he moved to other empty row. Then more people arrived and had tickets for that row.
He wasn't leaving rows because they were full, just as soon as a single other person sat in that row. He would tell them to move and when they didnt, move himself to another empty row and try again.
After about 4 rows. As he was doing this as the plane was boarding. The stewardesses came and put him back in his assigned seat.
If he hadn't made such a big deal, been an asshole about it. I don't think the stewardesses would have cared at all that me moved seats.
i flew to Hongkong from Germany last year, when flying back home there were like only 30% seats occupied. So moving around and taking any seat you want wasn't really that much of a problem. It probably only gets one if you behave like an asshole while doing that.
I guess that's more or less normal for longer (expensive) flights.
You should have stared right at him and slowly laid down.
vanceco · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the 80's, when planes weren't always completely full, i had a red-eye flight from Honolulu to Chicago on an almost empty DC-10, and they had 5 seats in the middle section, most were empty and I (and several others) was able to have a complete row to myself, so I flipped up the armrests and stretched out for the flight. It was great, but i've never been on a plane that empty since then.
Put drinks precariously close to the edge of the drop down table so if and when they fall from a child's bump or grab, they get all over the parent and child.
Zelcron · 69 points · Posted at 00:04:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Drink too much in general. In part so you have to disturb them to pee as much as possible.
I've found that on average I've been cut off after 8 drinks
You can get one or two more drinks if you talk as little as possible so they can't hear you slur your words
I have yet to try switching between alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages, and I don't know if the lessened "alcoholic vibe" is countered by the extra drinks you may get
Aniform · 170 points · Posted at 21:30:44 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha, honestly, I would have never given up that easy. I'm ridiculously more patient than even the most patient people. That's my seat, I paid for it.
I might not be the most patient person in the world, or even the most stubborn, but goddamnit I'm almost assuredly the most obnoxious dickhead on any given flight.
Depends on the reason - if they're just being obnoxious they can fuck right off, but sometimes couples just want to sit together. I've been in that situation and I've also moved for people in that situation.
So long as they're polite and they don't try to bully me out of a seat they didn't pay for.
Kheyman · 56 points · Posted at 23:58:50 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Make scary faces at the kid when the parents aren't looking. Laugh when they struggle to calm the kid.
Ohhhh, the first guy was referencing Godfather and the second two were referencing the Jay Mohr movie Mafia! which parodied it, that's what was confusing me
I would gladly trade for the aisle, the middle seat sucks.
Whenever I'm stick in a middle seat, I aggressively try to move to an aisle seat. Before I sat down I'd have noted the rows with 2 empty seats and I'd be watching them like a hawk.
[deleted] · 82 points · Posted at 21:46:05 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a reserved seat on the Megabus and when I got on the bus there was an entire families luggage taking up my seat. When I moved the luggage the "Man" of the group threw a temper tantrum about how I wasn't allowed to touch his stuff and he had no where else to put it. His daughter explained to him that I had reserved the seat and he walked away with his luggage looking very embarrassed.
No because I didn't know who's it was and I had no intention of standing around like a jackass. It's not like I tossed the bloody thing off the seat like some kind of animal.
mxzf · 32 points · Posted at 05:31:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He shouldn't have to, but he should do that, rather than just moving it himself without saying anything. It's possible that they just thought it was a spare seat, no reason not to at least attempt to be polite in a situation, it's not like it costs you more than a couple seconds of time.
No but if I were him I would much prefer they move it than me.
Rolten · 5 points · Posted at 12:41:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes. People should be well aware of their stuff causing an inconvenience, but perhaps they weren't paying attention. Using an empty seat for some luggage storage seems rather rational (although if the entire bus was getting on at the same point then making that assumption is a dick move). I do it as well on the train by putting my bag next to me if the train is empty. Once it gets half-full I tend to put it beneath my legs, but I might be so engrossed in my movie that I won't notice. Wouldn't be happy about someone touching my personal belongings without asking.
Even if the family is a bunch of dicks, it always makes sense not to touch other people's stuff. First of all, that's not very nice (them being dicks doesn't mean you should lose any form of courtesy). Second, you might break something or anger someone so it tends to be the best choice.
Magus44 · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:06 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whenever an incredible new movie comes out that I have been waiting for years to see, i show up 2 hours early at the theater. I have a particular row that I like to sit in, and I like sitting with my wife in the exact center seats of that row. Best sight, best audio, etc. The theater begins to fill until it is nearly packed. My entire row is full except for one empty seat on my left, and one empty seat on my wife's right. The lights are dim, the previews begin and I settle in for 2 hours of awesomeness. Then, out of no where, this loud couple comes running into the theater, scrambling around, looking for two empty seats. They find two, in our row! But wait, the two empty seats are separated by a happily married couple. No problem, lets step on everyone's toes, dropping popcorn and bits of fizz as we pass.
"can you two move over so we can get two seats together"
"no thank you."
"'scuse me?"
"I said, NO THANK YOU. I showed up two fucking hours ago to get prime seats. You fart your way into the theater ten minutes after it starts and expect to get prime seats next to each other? i think the fuck not"
Can you not reserve the seats? In germany you can reserve the seats online for free, get a number via E-Mail and show the number when you buy the ticket. Your reservation expires 30min before the movie starts. 30min is not that much to wait and you always have your favourite seat if you bother to reserve it like a day earlier.
I sympathize with you so much, I am the guy that drags my people out to big movies AT LEAST 45 minutes early, usually more depending on the release, to get my favorite seats, the seats right in the front of the main section, where the bars tend to run along so I can prop my feet up comfortably. It's perfectly centered, and JUST close enough to the front to have a perfect view of the big screen without having to turn your head to see everything...I would rather get kicked out of the fucking theater than give those seats up once I claim them.
Selfishness doesn't lie in refusing to move 40cm to the side?
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 11:21:34 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
Selfishness lies in getting late and then expecting another couple who arrived early/in time to move from their very carefully chosen places instead of just sit down and enjoy the movie without annoying somebody else even the slightest bit.
Then you're equally as selfish as them, IN MY OPINION.
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:47 on January 18, 2017 · (Permalink)
How coincidental. In my opinion you are the selfish and very self entitled one, thinking you would be in the right expecting the early couple to abandon their carefully chosen seats just because you get late to the movie.
The unselfish attitude, in my opinion, would be to just sit down in any place you find, enjoy the movie, and then keep on together after the movie is finished.
What the fuck do you do for two hours waiting for the movie to start? I just show up 30 minutes early and that's plenty of time. At that point there is usually only like four people max in the theatre already and they never choose good seats for some reason. Always one of them sitting in one of the front most rows and the rest are scattered around the outside seats in the back
Oh man, had something similar happen on a megabus trip from New Orleans.
My bf and I had reserved seats in the front row, hoping for a bit of extra legroom (he's 6'6"; any additional room is a blessing). We got on the bus and saw and elderly black couple sitting in our seats.
My BF and I look white. I should mention at this time I was ferociously hungover and my brain was not running on all cylinders -- or any cylinders, really.
I told BF I'd ask the couple to move, so both of us didn't have to hulk up the aisle and find a place to stand awkwardly while the couple moved. So I walk up to them and explain that they're in our seats.
They were apparently not familiar with how megabus does their seating, and were under the assumption that any seats are free. I explained that no, these numbered seats in the front of the bus required an additional payment, and those seats in the back of the bus (and I pointed, y'all. I pointed. God, I still cringe) were the regular price ones.
Holy hell, they were pissed, and kept saying they had every right to sit where they wanted, they paid for their seats just like everyone else.
Then their granddaughter gets involved, and explained that no, they hadn't paid for these seats and they really did need to move.
So they finally did -- one row back. To the seats paid for by another white couple.
I thought the bus driver's head was going to explode when she got up to the top of the bus. And I'm pretty sure the people on the bus, and that couple especially, think I'm some asshole racist for kicking them out of their seats and sending them to the seats further back in the bus.
Ha, I was on the megabus, and someone had booked 2 seats so they could have one free, but arrived late. They tried to convince people with a spare seat to swap, no chance sucker. They cried to the bus driver, no chance sucker.
Where were you taking the Megabus to/from? I've taken it from SF to LA multiple times and unless I booked it last minute I always had the option to reserve a seat for a few extra dollars.
I feel kind of bad for them on that one. They weren't trying to game the system; they were paying for the extra space they wanted, and they weren't able to use it. Someone else effectively got it instead. (I don't know if they arrived late due to poor planning or circumstances beyond their control, but if it's the former, I don't feel as bad.)
Reserved as in you book seats 22A and 22B, instead of just two first-come, first-serve spaces? If they'd done that, then why wouldn't the person in their second seat move?
"This cunt next to me thinks I won't notice her spying on our conversation". Let it sit in the text box for a good 20 seconds, angle your phone towards her then delete the entire thing.
Lolol this one's my favorite. I like the idea of being super obvious about it. Like, after angling it toward the mom, but before deleting it, he should show it to the baby for a sec.
Lol, i didnt even catch that. when Men act like a Narci, no backbone idiot like this, i just laugh at their sad life being chained to an overwieght bitch wife. its usually why they act like this, their wifes a cunt. its learned behavior. and i could give a shit about downvotes, but im a chick, with a lot of Narc woman in my family, with backboneless husbands, so im have a lot of experience with this shit.
<Night-hen-gayle> I gotta go. There's a dude next to me and he's watching me type, which is sort of starting to creep me out. Yes dude next to me, I mean you.
Or just creepily stare at the kid and mention you're not usually allowed around children so today is a special treat.
Keiji12 · 1 points · Posted at 08:30:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Happens a lot when traveling by bus to me, I have veil view now, but before I'd write something like "A guy next to me is trying to read what I'm texting you" adding a little comment about person and then look at them.
My brother-in-law took my 2 year old niece on a flight. He bragged to us that she was throwing a fit and kicking the back of the seat in front of her. The guy in it stood up and told BIL to make her cut it out. He made a smart remark back and let her keep kicking the seat. I don't understand this attitude. It's your kid, get them under control. Why try and make other people miserable? It was infuriating hearing him brag about this exchange like he'd won some kind of fight when in reality, he's just a selfish dick.
I don't get it. It's really not hard to teach your kid to be appropriate. I doubt my kid would ever do that but even so, she would listen to me when I tell her to cut it out. I just always explain how her actions effect other people and she gets it. She only four and it's honestly not difficult if you set these boundaries and expectations early on as am ongoing expectation rather then just dismissing that they're just a kid and don't know better. No, you need to teach them to be better.
Since the rise of "you go girl", "parent power", "#fierce" et cetera. There are whole industries of media that exist only to massage the inflated egos of mums and dads. I read something recently where a stay-at-home-mum "calculated" that she is a CEO of the household and should be paid millions and millions of dollars a year. Never mind the fact that a CEO is nearly always just the scapegoat in case something goes wrong, and that the cult of persona around Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, et al. is relatively recent; in the world of mummy-bloggers, logic is but a complication to be dispensed with in favour of self-righteous hashtags.
LGBecca · 5 points · Posted at 12:14:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why try and make other people miserable?
Some parents can't stand to see other people happy and want everyone to be miserable like they are.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:32:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He can't accept his own shortcomings. It's more of a psychological problem at that point. You can't controll your kid, so now play the "I like the shit my little shit is doing"-game.
I think what he is saying is that they won't book the seat, then when their baby is killed because they don't take the proper safety precautions, they'll sue the airline.
Tjman99 · 37 points · Posted at 01:00:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We were required to hold our baby during take-off/landing. She was not allowed to be in a seat(edit: without a restraining device). Not that we would sue for anything. Also, we offered to buy people's drinks/food who were seated in the 3rd seat beside us. We also took the middle/aisle so we could get up and down as much as we needed to without bothering the other person. We even ere "given" an entire row on one flight that wasn't full.
I've flown like ten times with my toddler and baby and always bought them their own seats and brought their car seats in board. I've never had to unbuckle them from their car seats/paid seat during take off or landing. That's stupid and super unsafe. The FAA themselves highly encourages children under 40 lbs ride in their car seat.
their car seats/paid seat during take off or landing
No, they weren't asking that, just that the baby was held a certain way. We didn't fly with a car seat as we had one waiting on the other side. We were very broke (relatively speaking, the flights were paid for through air miles/credit card points) at the time and happy to save the $900 seat fare. P.S. Flying in Canada is stupid expensive.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is $900 really worth your kid's life though? I'm not willing to take that risk so if I can't afford a ticket for all of us to fly I drive or don't go. I now have 3 kids and I can't fly alone with all 3 since I couldn't sit next to all 3 so I drive. And $900 sounds insane. For me and my two oldest it was less than $600 at Christmas time to fly to my parents.
Flying here is brutal. I can fly to England for the same price as flying to Toronto. Our airlines are insane and have us held hostage.
Edit; I looked up the dangers and there have been very few deaths on planes and even fewer were from turbulence. I'd say risking her life is very strong language considering the odds. Plus: "The Federal Aviation Administration has refused to require car seats for infants on board flights on the assumption that some families, if forced to purchase a ticket for an infant, would choose instead to drive, which is statistically a more dangerous mode of transportation"
Jesus. I have a Canadian friend who always flies first class with her family and I thought it was expensive but now I'm realizing it's probably a lot more expensive than I originally thought. But you've got free healthcare so you've got that going for you which is nice. A 15 minute surgery for my then 3.5 yo cost about $4k. Thankfully after insurance it was only $1k for us and the bill came right before our tax return.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 09:28:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bullshit. It's about as safe as you flying and not wearing your seatbelt and think you can stop yourself flying about the cabin. A bit of common sense is required and people seem to think it's ok to take the chance with their most important family members. I can't understand why anyone who loves their kids would take the risk.
I think they mean statistically safer. As in, the odds of you ever flopping about the cabin are much slimmer than being plowed into by someone texting.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:17:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's why they say to leave your seatbelt fastened unless you're moving about the cabin?
Well the main reason you have to use a seatbelt is because you will become "weighless" when the plane is falling faster then gravity. The likelihood of being thrown out of the seat at any other occasion is practically zero, except for extrem turbulence, maybe.
In most real crashes the belt will not make any difference, since it doesn't even hold your upper body. Either you will die anyways or the pilot is the one to save lifes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:45 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes and turbulence is very common in flight. Most accidents are survivable, seat belts do make a massive difference it's not a live/die, black and white situation. If you've never experienced a late RTO you wouldn't know the forces just in braking. In this situation a kid in your lap can be crushed, in a runway overshoot the kid will definitely be crushed to death.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 11:19:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Obviously their kids lives arent worth the price of a seat to some of these idiots. Bet they buckle up though.
I saw those in an article they showed. We are going to get one for our next flight. They don't let you use them during takeoff or landing though.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 07:23:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pay for a restraint and a seat for your kid. You cannot hold them and you can squash them if they're on your lap even in something as mundane as a rejected take off.
Because the risk is miniscule. Like the research says, driving a car is way more risky to do with your baby than flying without a car seat.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:02:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Miniscule? Why are you bringing cars into this? NVM.
Next time you fly don't wear your belt and whether you consider it a risk or not, it is and you are putting your kid in danger. Enjoy. You use the logic of an antivaxxer.
I brought cars into this because of what the research says. I will copy my other post here.
"The Federal Aviation Administration has refused to require car seats for infants on board flights on the assumption that some families, if forced to purchase a ticket for an infant, would choose instead to drive, which is statistically a more dangerous mode of transportation"
I get that there is some risk but I personally don't consider it "risking her life". Because if you consider that risking their lives then every time you drive with them you are risking their lives.
So there it is, driving is more dangerous than flying without a car seat. So if you are driving with a child you are taking a bigger risk than I am flying with mine.
Oh haha you misread, he was just saying these are the kind of real weirdos that will sue the airline and pilot when the baby gets a little bit of his fucking skull and brain matter smashed onto to floor via turbulence.
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 21:46:14 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think they meant "a snickel." Not "an s nickel." Big difference in value. Not gonna get as much for a snickel as you would for an s nickel, unless it's from 1953. They only made ten that year because R. P. Snickel died early February, and no one knew where he hid the recipe for his snickeling brine.
I never understand how people strap their kids into car seats in a car, but will just hold a kid in their lap for a flight. Have they never heard of turbulence? Have they seen the videos of crash test dummies with kids in their laps during car crashes?
It's incredibly irresponsible parenting, to save a few bucks. If you can't afford a ticket for your kid, don't fly.
I don't know what's worse - the entitled assholes who thinks they own a seat they decided not to pay for, and then making the one who did own it leave by making them feel uncomfortable, or all the assholes affirming that sort of behavior by congratulating them on being awful people.
"Parent power" my ass. People like this are why I don't think there's anything wrong with child-free cafes/restaurants/communities/etc. Thinking having reproduced gives them some sort of privilege, and then beating anyone who disagrees about the head with their kid till they get their way - "I know you paid for the seat, but really - I have a child. Don't you think I deserve it more?"
[deleted] · 47 points · Posted at 08:59:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple tried this with me once on a United flight to Oahu, but I ignored them. When they realized I was not going to offer them my seat, they became desperate and flagged down a flight attendant. One of them asked her to ask me to trade seats with the mother.
The flight attendant over heard them trying to (loudly) imply inconveniences (indirectly) to get me to move--she was on to them.
So, she asked me (kindly) to give up my seat for the mom. Having no beef with the attendant, I agreed. However, had the parents asked me themselves to switch my seat instead of pulling their bullshit to try make me move, I would have said yes.
I grabbed my carry-on bag and went to my new seat, but before I could plant myself the flight attendent took my bag from me and asked if I wanted to sit in First-Class.
"Yes"! :D
As we walked up to my new seat assignment, I could hear the father asking another attendant why I was moved to first class. When the wife noticed other empty seats in first class she asked why I was moved there instead of them. They had a kid, afterall!
"We reward kindness and you two got the seat you wanted."
This was the only time I was truly happy with United Airlines.
me and my girlfriend will do this occasionally, I'm really tall, so I like the extra leg room, and she likes the window for obvious reasons, but we do so with the full knowledge that we WILL be separated by another person and don't act like asses about it.
If you're ever in "seat B's" position, the trick is to maintain glaring eye-contact with the parent holding the kid while you loudly push out a massive crap into your pants. Once the smell hits them (and you'll know when the smell hits them), lean in close without breaking that eye contact, bare your teeth, and mutter "mommy's baby hungry" repeatedly until your lungs run out of air
Checkmate
Vhett · 103 points · Posted at 00:54:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My favorite thing in this thread is how until this comment, every other one had replies. Your comment had none. That's when you know you made it.
ganof · 127 points · Posted at 01:02:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now I can't stop picturing my baby niece squinting and grunting, her face turning red, intensely staring into my eyes as she squeezed out her solid brown prize.
Now I can't stop picturing my baby niece squinting and grunting, her face turning red, intensely staring into my eyes as she squeezed out her solid brown prize.
If you're ever in seat B's position, the trick is to get the hell out of the damn middle seat, hopefully somewhere better but it's not going to get worse.
Dysfu · -7 points · Posted at 01:29:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guarantee no one is ever going to do this. Most likely scenario is that they will just look at the person in disbelief for a second and then avoid confrontation and find a new seat 99% of the time.
[deleted] · 134 points · Posted at 21:19:31 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 32 points · Posted at 22:37:25 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
One can hope. Hopefully they meet someone that doesn't like to be fucked with.
The writer had the baby on their lap where baby immediately started screaming for her mother. Unless it's a lesbian couple I think it's safe to assume it was written by a man.
This is exactly how I was with my sister when she had her son. No joke, I nicknamed the kid "lunch" for the first couple of years. Once he was getting old enough to understand what I might mean, I put that to bed.
I was on a flight from Spain back to the US and some Moroccan woman booked three random seats for her and her 2 children who were probably both under the age of 5. She speaks almost no English and 14 year old me had no idea how to handle it besides just asking her to move and her responding I have kids in broken English. I talk the the flight attendant and she says normally they would offer me a drink but I'm 14 so I end up in the middle seat on a 10+ hour flight with zero compensation
It just occurred to me that a couple tried this on me once and I didn't realize it. The wife kept apologizing profusely and offering to find me another seat. She let the baby crawl onto me a couple of times, and blew her nose many times despite not sounding stuffed up or making a sound when she did it like she actually had anything in there to clear. At the time I had fun playing with the baby despite her objections (peek-a-boo and attempt-to-throw-or-eat-napkins) and thought she was annoyingly polite but didn't peg her for a faker or for somebody trying to be mean or get away with something. Turned toward the window several times while burping the kid, and I panicked and bothered her until she moved so he wasn't facing me every time since he burped up some stuff early into the trip on her tray table.
Don't trust the tray tables.
Carako · 3 points · Posted at 05:50:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dunno, but she was patting its back while it lay on her shoulder and turned to look out the window repeatedly which pointed the baby's vomit hole right at my face. I told her I didn't want to get puked on and she said something like it's only a dribble. In any case, on the whole the experience makes more sense as she was trying to get a seat for her kid.
swohio · 26 points · Posted at 03:31:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man, cunts really do stick together. I mean it's not surprising people like this couple exist, but the fact that so many people are cheering them on for doing it. Fucking people, they're the worst.
That's a risky play. I try to be a nice guy, but a large part of me is very stubborn, petty, and spiteful. If I had been the guy in the middle seat, I'd have stayed put and deliberately been as obnoxious as possible throughout the entire flight.
[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 02:04:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you imagine how fucking pleased I would be to not have to hold my farts in on the damn plane? I'd be letting those motherfuckers go like it was my job. Yes, lady. Be spiteful. Be petty, You'll move before I do.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:05:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Shit my earbuds stopped working.. ah well you'll love this one."
My parents pulled a similar move when I was a kid, although less douchness.
Ordered A and C seats for my sister and I, hoping no one would order seat B. But had us sit in B and C, so if someone did buy B they could have the aisle seat instead (while if they insisted on middle, we suck it up and let him have it, or possibly let them have the window instead). Guy took the aisle seat without a word.
KatalDT · 3 points · Posted at 14:51:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah honestly nobody wants a middle seat when flying solo. That worked out for him just fine.
I would just start drinking a lot of alcohol. Constant peeing and beer farts. Then I'd be so drunk I wouldn't give a shit about a baby and pass out.
[deleted] · 32 points · Posted at 01:45:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get some good noise cancelling headphones and you won't hear a thing. Not a chance in hell I would have moved. I would have gladly offered a middle for aisle seat swap with mom though.
noise cancelling headphones don't cancel out everything. They basically cancel out white noise like from the engine. You can still hear people talking as clear as any other headphones.
I'd offer to seat-swap for the window only. I have short legs, so aisle seats just mean getting touched/bumped into when people go by. If not that, well, I grew up with 3 siblings who were at least 10 years younger than me and each only a year apart. One baby ain't shit. I can ignore a whole houseful at once!
One time this British couple told me I could either sit next to their sick kid or take the crappy middle seat or another row that the dad didn't want. Had this couple asked me, it would have been one thing. The dude just told me "that's just how it is" as he was holding his child like a human shield in case I was the type of guy that would clock someone like him.
I protested at first but then realized I was in a no win situation there. The people on the row where I ended up sitting empathized with me and said how much it sucked. The flight attendants brought me free drinks. Everyone else on the plane got it and was nice.
I would have at least pretended to have coughed on the baby, saying something like "I picked it up in Turkey" or some other equally as mysterious and as equally "scary" Middle Eastern or African country.
I actually saw this on a flight once. Across the aisle from me, a youngish guy, his mother, and his young child were together in a three seat row. Girl walks up and is like, "Hey, that window seat is my assigned seat." Grandmother and father proceed to throw a fucking fit and say that they promised the kid he could sit next to the window and he was so excited and blah blah blah. They said they didn't have to buy a seat for him, because he was so young. They didn't seem to understand that it meant he would have to sit on a lap and neither of them had booked the window seat.
Flight attendant was like, "GTFO" and the girl got her seat. Then the small kid started screaming like a banshee. Just that absolutely ear drum piercing high pitched scream that kids do. And I'm not exaggerating when I say he proceeded to scream and cry for almost the entire flight from Chicago and Washington. The ONLY time he stopped was when a sympathetic mother in another row offered the kid a toy car to play with (she had her own kids on the plane). The little boy was happy and quiet for awhile, but then the grandmother inexplicably gave the toy back and refused to let him play with anything. They straight up didn't bring anything for the kid to eat or play with for the entire flight. They were clearly trying to "prove a point" or some shit and be as obnoxious as possible.
The poor girl who was in the window seat was crushed up against the window, with her hood up over her head, trying to avoid murdering everyone I assume.
My dad is an old man and he slept through the whole thing. He said the kid's scream was so high pitched that he couldn't even hear it.
The worst are the parents who get on planes and allow their kids, in an effort to shut them up, to play video games and watch movies WITHOUT FUCKING EAR PHONES ON. This is something an adult would never get away with doing, but because they're kids the parents expect the entire plane to be subjected to whatever drivel they happen to be watching.
Then tell her "Either you mute it or wear earphones, or no iPad," and stick to it.
I was picking up food one night and while I was waiting, I realized the restaurant must've gotten a TV, because it was blaring some kids' show. I looked around for it but couldn't find it.
There was no TV. It was a kid with a tablet. Those things get loud.
And kid shows seem to primarily be 25-minutes of mindless screaming, as far as I can tell. At least, those are the ones my partner's son liked best; having already survived through my 10+ years-younger siblings, I had practice overriding that stuff and no great love for it. He might've thought I was being a bitch about it, but by my observation, he was a mental hostage to the constant irritation. When I would successfully mitigate it for a little while, he was visibly more relaxed.
What the fuck? I'm even more incredulous at the people who think this is okay/funny. You just said the ticket was $1000, so you're trying to screw someone out of that money by being an entitled asshole? Unbelievable.
The child was young enough that they didn't have to pay for a ticket. Even if the guy didn't move, the flight still had open seats available. Both parents and the kid were all going to be able to be seated for the price of two tickets regardless of the seating arrangement.
The airline was not getting that $1,000 no matter what. No one screwed them over.
Why would he buy that seat if he didn't want it? He moved because they were being aggressively obnoxious and intrusive, not because he just felt like it.
You honestly think he deliberately chose a specific middle-seat? You don't think he may have just booked a flight and took what seat he got? If he wanted that seat so bad he would have talked with the parents or a flight attendant to make accommodations. Instead, he willingly moved, indicating it wasn't that important.
Either way, the point I was making was that absolutely no one screwed the airline out of $1,000. Regardless of where this guy and the kid ended up sitting, the parents weren't going to buy a ticket for the kid. It doesn't matter that the "free seat" is between them or if it's all the way in the back: there wasn't enough demand to fill the plane. No one swindled the airline out of any money.
The point is the parents didn't pay $1000 to secure the middle seat. Instead, they "secured" it by being rude gits to the person who did pay the money.
As a parent this kind of attitude sickens me. I actually had to do a 12 hour flight with my two year old by myself, who basically screamed and cried the whole way, on a completely full flight.
It was awful for me for sure but the worst part was feeling like you are making everyone elses journey more difficult. Anyone who uses kids in this way and inconveniences others is such an asshole.
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c4ldy · 73 points · Posted at 02:08:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think there should be a section of the plane that is dedicated to families and babies. It would preferably be at the back with a divider to keep all the noise/smells contained.
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KatalDT · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never been in there, but I'd like to imagine it's like the lower decks of the Titanic where they have Irish dancing or something. Do they have inflatable life rafts up there?
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KatalDT · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well that's just fine.
[deleted] · 19 points · Posted at 02:43:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What would be the cut-off point though? There are some really obnoxious 11-year-olds and some really sapient ones too. I don't know if 11-year-old me would have enjoyed sitting amongst the 5-year-olds and babies. I feel like after 13-years-old, unless they're in groups, teens are as quiet and as "normal" as adults.
I fly pretty often and there's always at least one person with a screaming kid. How often do babies need to fly? My parents didn't take me on a plane until I was old enough to behave myself. They should have dedicated child free flights, I'd pay more for that.
socsa · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup, same here. "You can go to Disney when you can behave yourself on the airplane."
My only sister lives in Idaho and I live in Virginia, I didn't have my baby until I was forty and our moms died when we were both in our early thirties so our relationship is quite important to us. She came out with her family to visit when my baby was born but I certainly couldn't make her fly every time so I flew with my baby when she was ten months old. That somehow makes me a selfish person? Especially considering the fact that my baby behaved just fine?
My opinion is that you give up certain things by choosing to have a kid, and one of those things should be flying for a few years unless it's a necessity. Asking your sister to fly out for a few years or driving instead is not a big deal. Babies/toddlers are extremely unpredictable and it's not fair to force the other 100+ people on the plane to listen to your baby cry for hours with no escape. If an adult acted that way on a plane they'd be kicked out because it negatively affects everyone who paid a lot of money for that flight.
Yes, I am sure kicking an adult out of a flight if they started crying after takeoff would not be an inconvenience at all. /s
As for babies/toddlers being unpredictable... I also had pain medication for my baby, in case she experienced pain (and cold medication, and teething devices and nasal spray just in case). That would have meant in the worst case scenario that people would have had to hear her cry for half an hour on the first flight. Now that she is a toddler maybe she would get mad at not being able to run around but if I let her play with apps and watch Wallykazam she would be fine.
What you are mad at is bad parents. There are plenty of bad parents and/or bad people (like the ones in the OP) but you don't get to punish everyone for that. People were bothered on one of my flights by the idiot who was watching videos on his phone with the sound up and no headphones. Should we ban all phones because of him perhaps? I mean, not everybody watching videos on their phones does that but apparently some people do so I guess ban it is!
People in this convo seem to be of the idea that having kids is selfish (which maybe it is, but so is literally everything else) and if they see your kid that's a huge inconvenience to be reminded that they exist.
If it makes you feel better, I fly on planes all the time for work and it doesn't bother me all that much if a kid cries through the whole flight. It's part of living, nbd.
Counterpoint: parents have just as many rights as businessfolk, sometimes they take vacations and want to bring their children, and if your meeting is that important I'm pretty sure you can afford noise-canceling headphones.
[deleted] · 51 points · Posted at 03:09:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
To be fair, you also have the right to bring a screaming baby. You just don't have access to one, or choose not to. I don't care for screaming kids on planes either, but I expect to experience that when I travel. I think anybody who flies should manage their expectations. With that said, if you have a business meeting that requires a certain amount of sleep, you should know that sleep on a plane isn't a certainty.
Why is a baby an extra right? It's a person, it has a right to be there. Besides, it's a part of their family. I agree that babies can be annoying but to be fair it's not that hard to deal with. Instead of paying for part of everyone's ticket why not buy them all earplugs? I don't think you should be flying all the time if you have a baby but that shouldn't stop you either
Why is a baby an extra right? It's a person, it has a right to be there.
People only have rights to seats on a plane if they have tickets for their seats. This includes babies.
I agree that babies can be annoying but to be fair it's not that hard to deal with.
That depends entirely on the temperament of the baby, the quality of the parent and the sensitivities of the other passengers seated nearby. You might as well say "Vomiting is annoying but it's not that hard to deal with."
asshair · 4 points · Posted at 04:35:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The right to fly a human being in your care vs. Your right to not be exposed to some extra noise on an already loud airplane.
Which is more important? 100 bucks it's the right that happens to benefit you. That's ego centrism. This has nothing to do with rights it has to do with you being an narcissistic dick. I don't have children but I do have empathy.
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asshair · 9 points · Posted at 05:28:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your reasoning is basically no one has the right to do anything on a plane that makes someone else uncomfortable. And because you don't do anything on a plane that makes people uncomfortable you think that's reasonable. However where you lack empathy is not realizing that not everyone is in the exact same situation as you, in this case that means childless, and therefore may do things that end up making people feel more uncomfortable than you make people feel. It's ego-centric. You can't ban babies from airplanes because that would debilitate the flight plans of millions of families in the US. And it's unfair. So is a baby screaming in your ear for the duration of a flight... but that's less unfair than banning children all together.
I'm talking about being self-less and having enough empathy to hold people to different standards depending on their circumstance.
If you pay for a ticket for the baby then feel free to make others uncomfortable. This is regarding people that aren't buying tickets for their babies.
If you pay for a ticket for the baby then feel free to make others uncomfortable.
This is how I know you're full of BS. They would absolutely kick you off if you made others too uncomfortable. The whole argument here by you and /u/bredmor is predicated on what you guys believe you are entitled to when travelling on a plane, and what you guys believe are the customs on a plane. As much as I agree that the parents from OPs post are dicks that are feeling entitled, you guys are doing similar.
The plane is private property that they allow you to be on, it's their rules, what they say goes. What you believe is fair is irrelevant, and I guarantee you that paying for a ticket does not allow you to "feel free to make others uncomfortable", everything is up to their reasoning and discretion. You cry and make as much noise as a baby, they'd probably kick you off.
asshair · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:16 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well said you should join Debate.
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 04:27:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
what's the point of bringing a baby on vacation? They don't remember shit and it just creates a burden for you. Now your vacation is spent babysitting your baby instead of having fun.
asshair · 3 points · Posted at 04:35:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Spoken like a true adolescent.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 04:40:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What does that even mean? lol.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 06:23:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Counterpoint: parents have just as many rights as businessfolk, sometimes they take vacations and want to bring their children
Are you comparing the desire to bring one's little poop-dumpling on vacation to a business person's make-or-break meeting which may end in his/her unemployment?
Both choices are equally legal. Obviously. No one is contesting anyone's "rights." That doesn't make the choices equally important. Surely you must understand this.
I have taken about 100 flights in my life, and on probably 98 of them if was the other adults that made it miserable. I'd take a screaming child over half the fuckwits that typically fly.
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You know what happens on every bus or train I've ever been on with babies or children that wont stop screaming? They and their guardian are asked to leave.
I've only seen it happen once, on a Greyhound, but the bus driver did tell the mother that if she couldn't quiet her crying toddler, she'd have to get off at the next stop. This was at night, when people were trying to sleep. Don't know if the same would have applied in the day time.
My baby flew just fine - no problems with the pressure whatsoever and I don't think she is a magical baby with a unique ability to deal with it. I also held her in my lap and she was perfectly happy the entire time (except when she got sleepy but I nursed her to sleep easily). Not a single person was annoyed or made uncomfortable.
Dang dude relax. I'm pretty sure the parent isn't taking their kid on an airplane FOR FUN. And I'm positive it's more stressful for the parent than for your poor soul who has to listen to the baby cry.
Yes it's absolutely annoying when a baby cries on an airplane but for Pete's sake go get some anger classes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oops. My bad (honestly). I didn't see the subreddit. Carry on then!!
cencal · 12 points · Posted at 04:01:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people have kids. Act like an adult.
And you have no idea why the kid is crying.
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cencal · 13 points · Posted at 04:26:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get what you're saying for sure. A lot of parents and kids can be inconsiderate. But you're not owed an inconvenience-free existence. It's more about respect for other people, kids or no kids.
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 04:27:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
But that's part of life in general. Animals reproduce and humans are a part of that.
IDGAF if a parent or a baby is on my plane and I do fly frequently for work. It seems like you really hate kids, which is fine, but that hatred may be shaping how you view children as an inconvenience when they are around.
It is selfish to have kids, but that's true for everything you do. Wanting no children around you is also selfish. The majority of parents don't expect special treatment, and if one of them needed a hand they typically would ask for your help, not just assume it.
You sound like such a lovely person! No wonder you haven't reproduced since no one probably wants to put up with that type of insane babble you just posted.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 03:34:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You sound very important. Perhaps you should invest a few dollars into some noise canceling headphones rather than expecting the whole world to revolve around you.
LGBecca · 10 points · Posted at 12:22:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
rather than expecting the whole world to revolve around you.
You mean, how the parents of those shrieking kids act?
Kids are not going to be the only noisy thing on a plane and not every kid is noisy. Expecting to be able to sleep on every flight when you fly a lot without ear plugs, noise cancelling headphones etc is much more self centered than parents taking a child on a flight, sorry, it just is.
Doesn't work that way. My employer simply will not pay for a hotel room for an extra night, and also requires me to put in a full day the day before anyway back in the home city.
My mom used to work for a major international nonprofit and they used to routinely fly her 15 hrs around the workd and expect her to be ready for all-day work sessions that started the very next morning at 7am (and despite some 12h of jetlag, too). She was prohibited from flying earlier - they insisted the whole team fly all together on the day before.
All that said, professionals who travel learn to always carry earplugs (if not sound-canceling headphones), plus sleep mask, travel pillow, and I always bring sleep meds too. Once I've got my Cocoon Of Silence on, I can sleep through anything.
This. Unless you live on the other side of the planet from relatives, just fucking drive to your destinations. From south florida to Maine takes 2 days max (with hotel), from San Diego to New York it can be done in 3 days. Thats worst case scenarios. Most people live 6-8 hours away from relatives, thats not bad at all and you should always opt to do that first.
My ten month old did just fine flying, thank you. When she started to get a little fussy I discretely breastfed her and she went to sleep. Not every baby is a monster. I also made sure I had snacks, toys, books, kindle for games and a layover about halfway between so that each flight wasn't too long and I could change her comfortably. Ya know, responsible parenting.
ekando · 4 points · Posted at 03:56:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Imagine being separated from your husband your entire pregnancy because your embassy won't issue him a nonimmigrant visa, which means he doesn't get to be with you for the birth of your first child. Then you have to get on an 18 hour flight by yourself with a 6 week old so you can start your life as a family.
I understand there are some circumstances where people don't manage time well between arriving at a destination and doing important things like meeting with clients after overnight flights, but travelling on an airplane is NOT about comfort, it is about getting from point A to point B only. Any comforts afforded to you during that process are circumstantial, but not guaranteed, and nobody, save for the airline and its body of government, has the right to proclaim that toddlers and infants, and their parents, should not be on a plane.
Everybody's life sucks. Get over yourself.
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ekando · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The point of the story is that you have no idea what anyone on any flight is going through. They may be traveling with their children to attend or return from a funeral, or a move, or any other extenuating and stressful circumstance. But you cannot tell that just by looking. We're all humans all going through tough shit. Your shit isn't any tougher than anyone else's, and you have no place dictating the travels of others because of it. Fuck your narcissism.
That is ridiculous. I was moving to another country on the other side of the world. What else am I supposed to do? Of course it can be annoying for people but it's part of traveling. If you think you're not going to run into annoyances when traveling internationally you should either buy a first class seat or not go at all.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I understand there are some circumstances that would require you to absolutely have to be on that flight
Why does parental narcissism come with selective reading disorder?
it depends on what you consider a good reason I guess. Other people have said I shouldn't have been flying with a toddler unless it was a life or death situation basically haha.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, I'm angry at people who bring their kids everywhere for no goddamn reason. Like - who brings a 1 year old on vacation or to a sports event? It's not going to remember anything and if you can afford to fly to the Bahamas or have seasons tickets to some baseball team you can afford a sitter.
Who brings a 1 year old on vacation?! People who don't put 18 years of their life on hold because they had a kid!
What did your parents do wrong with too?! My goodness! Reading some of your responses and I have to only hope you're going in trying to be as big a dick as possible just for fun and that no one really thinks the way you do
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why would you bring a 1 year old on vacation instead of leaving it with a sitter or family? A 1 year old has no ability to enjoy or appreciate a vacation - it's literally nothing but a nuisance.
bbibber · 0 points · Posted at 19:32:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Imagine being someone who has to meet with a client that their job depends on a few hours after that flight
If it's that important, book business.
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bbibber · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're flying short haul then you don't need to sleep.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Of course having something screaming at 90db the entire flight is just fine if you're not sleeping.
Uhm, well for people like that there is a class, coinsidently named "buisness". Also, earplugs.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:09 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uhm, well, if you've ever flown business class you'd know that the only thing separating it from economy in nearly every case is either a thin sheet of fabric or nothing. I routinely take first class and still have to listen to shrieking children.
And earplugs are painful for people with narrow ear canals.
That usually is the case on shorter flies, but not when it comes to intercontinenal flights. Which are the ones most people would desperatly try to sleep on.
Earplugs aren't the only option, simply the cheapest.
What I am saying is simply, if you can't sleep on a plane it's usually not someone elses fault. If you are going to fly you know that you are on a confined space with many people. Don't take a bet when you NEED to do something.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 03:39:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Earplugs, you can buy hundreds for pretty cheap.. Bring them with you, offer people around you.
I actually had to do a 12 hour flight with my two year old by myself
You had to? You HAD to. Why? Because you HAD to take a vacation to Rome? Or because you HAD to visit that one relative that your toddler doesn't care about? Unless your kid was the carrier of the cure to some disease and you had to get him to the only lab in the world that could handle such a thing, you didn't HAVE to take a 2 year old on a 12 hour flight. You did it to yourself, and you deserve to feel bad for ruining 12 hours of 200 other people's lives.
I had to because I had family issues that needed to be resolved in my home country which I won't go into. We were moving, not just going on a holiday for the fun of it. Also I didn't ruin 12 hours of 200 peoples lives, I spent the majority of the flight trying to keep him quiet and away from other passengers as much as possible. I probably walked for miles on that flight. If anything the people around me could have experienced annoyance and I felt really bad about that, much worse than I did for myself. But you're making it sound worse than it was haha.
I apologised to numerous people around me, and at the end of the flight they told me not to worry, they know its hard, keep my chin up. Like I mentioned earlier, they had headphones on and music playing etc.
We were moving back from the U.S to my home country New Zealand. We didn't really have any other way to do it and we needed to get back.
To be honest everyone around was very gracious and understanding. Like I said, everyone had headphones on and when the lights got turned off I spent time walking the aisle with him which calmed him enough to where he wasn't keeping people awake, or I stood with him in the galley away from the passengers.
It was mostly Kiwis around me which helped because they are pretty nice people in those situations.
We actually just drove ten hours with both my kids for the christmas break solely because we didn't want to bother passengers on a flight. I always avoid flying with little ones if I can do it any other way.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 02:50:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Believe it or not, you can't drive to New Zealand from the states. And when you move to a different country, you typically take your kids with you.
Edit: And just to add, pretty much everyone on the plane was wearing headphones and watching their screens before the flight even took off. I spent much of it walking the aisle to calm my kid and standing in the galley, away from the passengers, or in the bathroom. I did everything i possibly could to make it easier for everyone else.
I'm not rich or anything but I'm doing OK. I would have stayed in that middle seat and drank the airplane out of booze.
[deleted] · 61 points · Posted at 22:11:39 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it was assigned seating how did he just go find another seat? This doesn't quite pass the sniff test.
That being said if there were enough seats for everyone the other guy just got saved from having to spend a 13 hour flight next to a lap kid. I sure wouldn't want to sit next to a person with a small child on their lap for a long flight.
So the way the story is worded makes the poster seem like a prick but big picture nothing about this story makes me rage.
[deleted] · 42 points · Posted at 00:33:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sometimes if it's assigned seating but the flight isn't full then they'll let you switch when everyone's on.
woohoo · 37 points · Posted at 01:06:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
In which case they could have simply asked the guy to move instead of being a twat
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york100 · 8 points · Posted at 02:25:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've noticed attendants are much less tolerant of switching seats, particularly before take-off, than they used to be. Might have something to do with the tiers of paid coach seats now.
Yeah I was on a Spirit flight last summer that was about a quarter full, and the flight attendant said we could spread out once the pilot turned off the seatbelt sign...except to the exit rows. Nobody was allowed to move to the exit rows.
That is a safety precaution. People seated in exit rows must go through the preflight safety procedures in case of an emergency and assist in the opening of the emergency doors. Only people who are abled bodied are allowed to sit there too.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 23:02:27 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
On my flight from New York to Dubai last summer I had a middle seat. I was between a wife and a husband, the husband asked me very politely to switch with his wife because we booked around the same time and we obviously got seats we didn't prefer. I had no problem switching. They got to sit together and my 6'2" frame got to enjoy stretching out in the aisle. Communication goes a long way so I really hate seeing shit like this. Just talk to each other, most people would prefer not causing a fuss.
This happened to me recently. I went to sit down in my seat a lady a man and they'd baby were sitting in my seat and said "we were hoping you would sit back there". Well fuck I guess since you already unpacked all over my paid for seat. Bunch of entitled assholes
ANGR1ST · 21 points · Posted at 01:35:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the kid doesn't have a seat, they need to be in the overhead bin just like any other piece of luggage.
I go to the restaurant but don't order food for my kids. I stare at other people's food until they are so uncomfortable that they leave. My kids eat for free, as they should.
First of all, why would you book two seats with a seat between them? And what made you think no one would sit in it? Fucking assholes. I wouldn't move. I'd just be extremely rude and awkward to turn them off.
Whenever an incredible new movie comes out that I have been waiting for years to see, i show up 2 hours early at the theater. I have a particular row that I like to sit in, and I like sitting with my wife in the exact center seats of that row. Best sight, best audio, etc. The theater begins to fill until it is nearly packed. My entire row is full except for one empty seat on my left, and one empty seat on my wife's right. The lights are dim, the previews begin and I settle in for 2 hours of awesomeness. Then, out of no where, this loud couple comes running into the theater, scrambling around, looking for two empty seats. They find two, in our row! But wait, the two empty seats are separated by a happily married couple. No problem, lets step on everyone's toes, dropping popcorn and bits of fizz as we pass.
"can you you two move over so we can get two seats together"
"no thank you."
"'scuse me?"
"I said, NO THANK YOU. I showed up two fucking hours ago to get prime seats. You fart your way into the theater ten minutes after it starts and expect to get prime seats next to each other? i think the fuck not"
gwhart · 11 points · Posted at 05:06:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
THIS. Ok - similar story. Navy guy here. I was coming home from Bahrain (funky little country off of the coast of Saudi Arabia) for my brother's wedding. I planned way ahead and shelled out the cost of a commercial ticket because the military flights get delayed and I did not want to miss the wedding. I booked an aisle seat because I am tall and I hate flying...
I am settling down in my seat and this dad and his like three year old daughter come down the aisle with a flight attendant. The flight attendant politely asks me if I could hop across to the MIDDLE seat so that the dad and daughter could sit together in my seat and the middle seat next to me. This is an 8 hour flight to London connection.
Obviously I complied and was polite, because what kind if dick would make a little kid sit alone on a flight.
BUT - was I wrong to be annoyed that clearly this dad had not taken the time to simply choose a seat for him and his child at purchase... and banked on the fact that a normal person would inconvenience themself for them? I was annoyed and cramped the whole flight and irked that I paid money and chose my seat to have it undermined by a ill-prepared parent.
Its mandatory on some airlines for all kids under 12 to have assigned seats so when flying last year I booked a row for me and the family, all together.
The airline messed up and spread us out according to the boarding cards, on pointing this out at the gate they corrected it and accommodated us up front and could not have been nicer or apologetic. When we got onto the plane, we found other people with kids in our seats, the air hostess told them to move, they actually objected saying they had no seats together anywhere else on the plane (despite it being half empty as small children board first). Fearing that they had made another mistake the hostess went to get a manifest and then informed them of their seats numbers and that they had not booked seats apart from for the kids and so they unfortunately would have to move and be separated for the flight. They started angrily talking to each other in French before the hostess (who was Irish) started snapping back at them in French using that polite but through gritted teeth tone some people can perfect. They glared at us and said a few things, I openly laughed which seemed to annoy them even more. We got free drinks and snacks for the flight.
It would have cost them about €25 to book their seats together since they had to pay for the kids, as a result they ended up separated for the flight. All seats are assigned so I'm not sure what they though they would achieve.
If you want to have seat B...BUY THE FUCKING TICKET INSTEAD OF BEING A FUCKING ASSHOLE AND TROLLING SOMEONE FROM THEIR SEAT!!!
I seriously hope that kid puked all over the shitty parents and had a diaper blowout.
Aaronp6 · 6 points · Posted at 13:37:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck this guy, I've been the dude sitting in between two parents on a long flight with 2 screaming kids and every seat was filled. They actually passed up on my idea of switching seats with me because "I like the window seat, ya know? And he likes the aisle."
Yeah, I dont get this "be overly nice to parents crap", for example parents getting priority etc, yeah, I can see carrying a child can be hard work, but on most occassions the parent I come across on the train is not a Burmese peaseant farmer carrying their child on their back escaping war and terror, its a suburban person who is well fed and has been into the center of the city to do some nice shopping with their big wallet, so Daddy/Mummy, I think you can standup on this train journey.
This is the product of surrounding yourself with "yes men". As you can see, all of his/her friends build them up with kudos. They don't have any down to earth friends who will say "that's fucked up".
I mean if the plane had a ton of extra seats then sure they could politely ask the man if he would consider moving but to act like that just shows how childish they are.
EtsuRah · 6 points · Posted at 16:17:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know reddit hates pettiness but nobody is above it 100% of their life. I'd be petty as fuck to that couple.
I'd try to muster the most sickly sounding coughs I could muster. Sniffles and all. Hog up the arm rests since I am middle seat and that's the rule of the plane anyway. Let him see my texts as I text my friends about how hideous the baby is. I always bring headphones on a plane, that baby can cry all it wants.
Nukl13 · 5 points · Posted at 06:58:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I'm ever in that situation I just hope I brought ear plugs and sleeping pills. Like many here, nothing would be more satisfying than annoying the people who think they can game the system by being shitty.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 07:19:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember seeing this posted before and everytime I see this it pisses me off. Can't believe so many people liked it too
Some parents, when it comes to their kids, are really shitty, entitled fucktrumpets.
Edit: Also, because planes are usually pre assigned seating, and the guy "found another seat," this story sounds like some praise-baiting bullshit, straight from shitthatneverhappenedland.
I've had assigned seat flights before and I've moved when there are multiple open rows...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:29:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's not so unusual for flights to not be sold out. Depends the time of year. Assuming this post was from the past couple days, I can't imagine mid-January to be peak tourist season in Istanbul.
I already have a smokers cough. To make it even more pronounced and add to the fact of such a long flight, I would have so much fun with this. The only thing that keeps me from sleeping is silence, so the threats of noise would make me happy
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 10:33:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have stayed in my seat and had a lot to drink. If this sort of situation arises and I judge the people involved to be worthy of my gift of moving, I will politely move.
If I smell a rat and feel forced or ganged up on I will immediately enter cunt mode and it would be extremely difficult for airline staff to bring me back round. Enjoy your flight with the screaming baby.
"I'll have three large double gin and tonics please."
What a bunch of utter cunts. The parents and all the people congratulating them for the post.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:19:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a frequent flyer as part of my occupation and this has happened to me twice in the last 8 or so years I've been travelling.
If you have headphones, the easiest move is to say "No problem, I have headphones" put them in and pull your cap down like you're going to easily ignore them the whole flight. One instance, I got dad to switch me the middle for the aisle, and on the other occasion the couple moved to the back row of the plane, which was open, and I had our entire row to myself.
Everything in life is a game to people with these personalities, and must be won at all cost. There is no finishing second, or playing by the normal conventions; a life hack must be done for everything, bystanders and people in teh way be damned.
This happened to me on a flight from NYC to Florida a while ago. I specifically reserved a window seat for me and the seat next to it for my sister. As we're boarding we get to our section, lo and behold, a whole family was in that section of seats. Before I got upset, I looked at my tickets to match the numbers a million times because I've been so wrong before but nope this time I wasn't! The family was a mom a dad and three kids probably ranging about 9-13. They probably planned on guilt-tripping me and my sister because they're like "Oh are these your seats? My kids were originally sitting further down and we wanna keep an eye on them!" Bullshit. They were two rows down and sitting all together. I started arguing with him that I got the window seat specifically because I don't like aisle seats and I don't wanna be separated from my sister either. They were like a deer in headlights. After another minute of arguing, and the line behind me of people boarding getting longer and more impatient they resigned and moved back to their seats. I fucking hate when people use their kids to make people feel bad and bend to their will!
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:02 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
You did well by not moving an inch from your right to have your seats.
As a parent, we used to try and game the system. We would take seats A and C, and hope somebody didn't take B. However, IF some poor soul did get seat B, do you know what we did? "I'm sorry, we were hoping nobody would sit here, would you like the window or the aisle seat so my wife and I can sit next to each other ?"
It's not all out baby hatred. It's more about the parents...doing exactly what these dumbasses are doing. Using their crotchfruit to obtain special privileges and just violating the unwritten social laws we have to function as a society because babies.
My perception of the issue has nothing to do with the outcome.. I'm starting to see why you're having trouble with simple logic.
the kid WILL BE a problem.
The kid might be.. plenty of people escape petty selfish households without being petty and selfish themselves. Did you learn to judge an infant by their parents' behaviour from your parents, or is that one all you?
mtg2 · 3 points · Posted at 03:54:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
as a parent, i will train my kids to murder these people
I love it when people stare at my phone. Thats when I look up shit that will leave mental scars for the rest of your life. This is literally the only reason I bought a Note 7.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This pisses me off so badly. We fly with our kids and we sometimes end up with seats where all of us are in the middle seats in different rows. We don't "work it" to change seats and if someone is nice enough to offer to change with us or something, we buy them a drink and only do it to save them from our chatty 7-year-old. As a parent, I feel like bringing my kids on the plane is me burdening others. I should treat the situation as such. We have worked hard to ensure our kids are respectful flyers, but they are still kids. Kids are a pain in the ass.
The very first thing I would have said to these parents when I sat down was, "The doctors said that there's like a 90% chance that what I have isn't contagious, but you might want to move to another seat with the baby, just to be safe."
What a shit person. People like them make the rest of flying parents look bad. I didn't buy my baby a ticket but I wasn't a twat either. I just asked the flight attendant at the gate if there were any open seats they could put me next to. I'm cheap and I can be an asshole but I'm not a cheap asshole.
Maybe its different in instanbul, but every plane I've gotten on to had an assigned seat on my ticket, its not like I can just sit somewhere else because you're being an obnoxious puke.
If there are free seats you can generally get up and move to another seat within you booking class. Hell, I've been offered to move seats because there were open ones so that myself and the others next to me could have our own row or an empty seat between us.
I would have stayed in the seat just to spite them.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And that's why I have top of the line noise cancelling headsets, they go on and I go to sleep. Let them be inconvenienced because it doesn't bother me a bit.
The most this bitch would have got is I would have offered to change with the other guy so they could be together. But if this cow tried any of this shit on me, I would go mad. Inconsiderate twat.
I can't believe those parents rudely bullied a guy out of his seat and their friends were all "good for you".
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:01:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
But then you throw flawed logic in and say "I'm statistically in a safer mode of transport than that one, so my kid doesn't need a belt and will be fine unrestrained on my lap!"
Your "research" and broken logic are putting your kid in harms way.
I wasn't complaining. I just figured if this is a post that this community likes, there might be people here that don't know about r/childfree.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:25:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have remained in that seat. And made them miserable, if their kid was making me miserable. Give me something to eat and I can fart some of Beethoven's finest work.
OmenQtx · 4 points · Posted at 03:52:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's kind of what I was thinking too. Pop in my ear buds, crank up some tunes, and fart along to the music.
Working in the airline industry, I wish more people thought that way. I really do. But no, many do try to pick the aisle and window and then get upset when someone is in the middle. But guess what! It's a sold out goddamn flight bitch SUCK IT UP
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 02:39:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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cencal · 2 points · Posted at 04:05:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you. That's what I do. The middle seat is almost universally undesirable. You are on a basically full flight and decided you needed to take that flight even if you sit in a middle seat. My wife and I say "hey, it kinda sucks that you picked a seat next to a baby, but if you want you can choose aisle or window whichever you want." Or you can keep your seat. We'll try our best not to disturb you.
Most people yes but then there's assholes like the ones in OPs post that feel they're entitled to the seat on behalf of their poor planning. It goes about 60 good/40 bad.
In the hope that no one picked B and then they'd have a spare seat for their sproglet.
I will say, until about 5 years ago you could change your seats at a kiosk at the last minute, and probably find yourself a row where the middle seat was empty. I'd say I had a 75% success rate at this before 2010 or so.
The past 5 years? I don't think I've been on a flight that wasn't almost completely full. I don't remember the last time I had a center seat open.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:17:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well now you have to pay extra to pick your seat too, and if you don't, then you just get assigned to the middle.
Why couldn't they just book B and C though? If A is free they can still use it and even in the worst case they are sat next to each other.
glitchn · 8 points · Posted at 01:03:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because they are hoping having someone sit in B which is a middle seat will make the person want to move. Giving someone an isle or window seat wont make them want to give up their seat. They are playing the system to try to make someone move, not just hoping someone doesn't take the seat.
Sorry, I guess what I meant is why they thought baby would get B if they booked A and C? It's weird they thought someone else wouldn't book (or be assigned) B.
Besides, on most flights a 2 year old can't sit in their own seat without the use of a car seat. Flight attendants would have asked the parents to hold the child even if the seat was empty.
Ignoring the fact that it almost certainly didn't happen...
In the context of this person's fake story, it did work. They were hoping the flight wouldn't be so full that someone would have to book that seat, or if they did, that there'd be room on the plane for them to move.
Have you never flown before? Serious question; don't mean to condescend.
Yes, I fly several times a year domestically and internationally. Nearly every flight I fly is booked. I don't remember the last time I saw an available seat. That is my experience.
What is more likely to have happened (since we are pretending /r/thathappened) is the parents and the guy in the middle would have switched seats so the parents were together.
Or maybe the guy in the middle was bumped to first class because he was between two first class assholes.
I have also flown with children who were under 2 (in lap) and over 2 (car seat). I never would have booked an empty seat between me and my partner because that's how you end up with a stranger in the middle.
What is more likely to have happened (since we are pretending /r/thathappened) is the parents and the guy in the middle would have switched seats so the parents were together.
Even though /r/nothingeverhappens, if this happened to me I'd smell their attempt at a ruse and tell them to fuck right off. Headphones go in, family goes ignored.
Or maybe the guy in the middle was bumped to first class because he was between two first class assholes.
In a perfect world.
I have also flown with children who were under 2 (in lap) and over 2 (car seat). I never would have booked an empty seat between me and my partner because that's how you end up with a stranger in the middle.
I have the patience of a rock. I would've stayed in my seat, bearing every annoying thing they throw at me, hoping they go far enough to annoy others around us so they are forced by airline staff to move. Jackpot, whole row to myself.
hopopo · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
O, I would sit in that seat and do my damn hardest to fart as much as humanly possible. Also every 45min or so I would go to bathroom.
ressik · 1 points · Posted at 07:23:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This just pisses me off! I'm a father of 4 and have taken treats for people sitting next to us on the plane just in case my youngest (1 yr) gets too loud. That's the opposite of just hoping nobody will sit by you.
If that happened to me I'd open up some porn on my laptop or phone and make moaning noises. See how quickly they get their shit together lol.
Solenka · 1 points · Posted at 08:33:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have destroyed such behavior. Technically most people would have easy time putting such people in their place, guess guy just didn't want to get the flu.
Would just be texting my pals about some crazy bitch sitting next to me and have my headphones on full blast
_mach · 1 points · Posted at 11:05:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What if this kind of attitude is generally the reason why so many people hate flying?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:36:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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fuzbat · 2 points · Posted at 22:01:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably because there isn't a carseat made today that is rated for a 10-20G deceleration from close to the speed of sound to zero. The seatbelt is mostly to keep you from flying around & the lap infant belts do that pretty well. Once the kiddlets are in their own seats the standard lap belts seem to work as well on them as they do on adults (which isn't all that well - but enough to do the job)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:54:49 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
10-20G deceleration from close to the speed of sound to zero
That's ridiculous. There are child seats that are FAA approved.
the lap infant belts do that pretty well
These often end up with the parent crushing the child and are very dangerous.
standard lap belts seem to work as well on them
This is not at all true. The kids submarine under them and get garroted or smashed into the back of the seat in front.
fuzbat · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:03 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
10-20G deceleration from close to the speed of sound to zero
That's ridiculous. There are child seats that are FAA approved.
As are the lap seatbelts, neither does much for survivability in a significant crash scenario.
the lap infant belts do that pretty well
These often end up with the parent crushing the child and are very dangerous.
For a Parent to crush a child wearing one of these the parent has already travelled through their seatbelt. While there is possibly an increased risk of injury to an infant compared to having them in their own (better designed?) seatbelt, this ignores the reality that an infant is likely to spend a significant portion of a flight not in their seat but sitting with a parent. If we accept this reality any seatbelt that is able to be practically used will perform significantly better then one that cannot. I've spent way too long flying in my life, and although I've been involved in more than my fair share of declared emergencies I've never ended up in a crash situation - I however fairly regularly end up in turbulence where not wearing a seatbelt is likely/has resulted in injury, a situation where either the infant extensions or a child in a lap belt appear to provide sufficient protection.
standard lap belts seem to work as well on them (at stopping someone flying around the cabin during 'normal' flight)
This is not at all true. The kids submarine under them and get garroted or smashed into the back of the seat in front.
I'm not sure where you get these statistics from, from my (albeit casual) reading of crash analysis documentation there does not seem to be wildly significant rates of death for different age groups in major crash events. Likewise there does not appear to be significant rates of infant and young children suffering major injury or death in non-major crash events.
At a bottom line air travel is amazingly safe, and while a properly designed, and installed child restraint system will make it safer for a number of scenarios, so would the addition of sash belts, or 4/5 point harnesses for all passengers. Which we don't do as the economics of doing so isn't worth the additional cost & loss of comfort.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:53 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the transport of the lap-held infant secured with a loop belt, the infant acts as an
”energy absorption element” for the adult. The loop belt does not provide any safety
to the infant.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:50:58 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
It all comes down to money. One reason among many is if the airlines make people buy a seat and properly restrain their child then they won't fly. Another is that they will have to provide seats that will accomodate car seats. There's a myriad of excuses they use to whinge about this issue. But basically it costs. Much like those bomb proof aircraft containers that were recommended by the NTSB after pan am 103.
The airlines have been fighting it years and most parents are too lazy and cheap to think about their kids safety.
im glad when I go long haul, Im usually wearing my stinky junky clothes and I take off my shoes, then the shoe is on the other foot if you know what I mean?
Everyone seems to be having a pissing contest about how they'd of "handled that guy" so my contribution would be to keep typing and start making a bunch of inappropriate comments about the wife, that'd probably get under his skin.
For some reason I hoped the FB comments would be people telling her she's a horrible person. I believed they would.
Well, the first comment might've been an oddball. The rest will tell her-- This one too? And this? No, there's going to be someone who will say this is unacceptable.
"Excuse me sir, would you mind moving, as there are other empty seats and our family could use the extra space and my wife needs the privacy to nurse our child."
"nursing you say?"
"well, luckily I'm here with a ringside seat"
Byxit · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, this person doesn't even realize how much of a jerk he is, he's out on social media bragging about taking advantage of a stranger to get a free airplane seat.
I would have just looked up some Japanese tentacle porn and let the cunt keep staring at my screen if she wanted. Perhaps show her husband as well. Fucking cuck
Surely most airlines wouldn't allow a party of 2 to book seats with a gap between them, to stop this situation. My local cinema can do it so sure airline's would as well.
Did everyone start clapping and the flight attendant handed the dad $100 for his quick thinking?
If the guy is american then i am 100% sure that they all clapped but the 100$ usually go towards the flight attendants or pilots as tip for save landing.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 08:33:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't understand a lot of the responses here. Obviously the parents acted like pricks, but is everyone in this thread saying they'd honestly prefer to sit in the middle of these parents just to stick it to them? And why wouldn't the parents just asked if the person in B would switch with the person in A/C?
Shasky1 · -1 points · Posted at 07:53:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We travel from west to east coast every year, I have four kids. $650 each. 3 under 6 years old. I pay for 5 tickets(2&under free), plus my mother in law and her sister so that is Seven total. did they put us together? No that is an extra fee, to put your minor kid next to you is extra? So I am out $3200+ baggage. I have two strollers and a booster plus 4 carry on I am dragging, none of my kids ever need to use the bathroom simultaneously. It is a six hour flight with one stop, I don't live in one stop town, two and a half hour drive, or two stops. So the 6 hour just became 12 hour flight. When I arrive and my destination I have to grab my two car seats and drive another two hours to get to my in laws house. That is if I can get all my crap in a rental car, sorry van. Which is $120 a day. So next time you see a family coming at your seat get up and make like a human being and remember we paid also. Maybe pay it forward a little. We still bring treats for the crew and are usually the last ones off the plane because we feel bad for holding anyone up. Whole day is usually 16-18 hours of travel time and my kids are pros! No crying past 1 1/2 for sure!
As far as mad dogging that guy? Did you ask him to move. We only had one time when someone would move. Do be entitled. You are not. Only good thing is we book so early we usually have at least one premium seat to barter with. If they do trade I give them a small gift like a candied nuts or dried fruit. Because they didn't have to. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Self entitled little shit stain.
Lulalynn · -11 points · Posted at 01:01:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You suck
g_m171 · -6 points · Posted at 04:30:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is actually kind of impressive
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 09:32:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The sacrifice of parenting doesn't include still trying to do everything you want to and guilting others into letting you do it WITH your kid at no extra cost.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:41:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your Post: I am an entitled person who thinks everyone else has to pay for my life choices.
And, we recognize how expensive and hard it is. We just don't care because YOU CHOSE TO HAVE THEM.
You see, once you CHOOSE to have kids, you're CHOOSING all the good AND the bad. Trying to opt out of the responsibility YOU CHOSE to create for yourself is childish. Trying to make other people feel sorry for your CHOICE is borderline sociopath.
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Corky_Butcher · 2180 points · Posted at 21:28:28 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish I would have been that guy. I don't have an upper limit when it comes to making a situation awkward.
[deleted] · 439 points · Posted at 04:31:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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supersheeep · 144 points · Posted at 08:34:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Moan every time the baby cries
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 15:03:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"No need to cover my boner with a pillow on this flight!"
CervixAssassin · 3 points · Posted at 11:06:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Moan like that?
RamblyJambly · 2 points · Posted at 15:01:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Alternatively, stare at the child as if they were a favorite dish that you haven't had in months and say "your child looks wonderful, I could just Eat. Them. Up."
decimalsanddollars · 1 points · Posted at 13:49:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Sir did you just lick my babies lips?"
20000Fish · 1 points · Posted at 15:32:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Start frantically Googling on your phone, in full view of the parents, "How to cook a baby"
Bareassman · -16 points · Posted at 12:06:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck this joke. Go to hell r/childfree.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 12:12:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What
Bareassman · -7 points · Posted at 12:19:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Enough's been said.
ThatClanGuy · 2 points · Posted at 18:22:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like somebody didn't want a kid.
Thorbinator · 1254 points · Posted at 00:20:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Unbroken eye contact. Licking lips constantly. Manspread like your life depends on it. Grab both armrests. 13 hours. Go.
AppleAtrocity · 532 points · Posted at 00:48:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't forget to fart loudly and without shame as often as you possibly can.
iflythewafflecopter · 372 points · Posted at 02:57:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cabin pressure mixed with my protein-rich diet? Yeah enjoy your slow death.
abnerjames · 72 points · Posted at 04:50:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Modern airplanes are going to implement the "personal air bubble" technology developed not too long ago to help reduce the spread of germs. You will breath 95% of the air around your seat, and 5% of the air around the seat next to you.
Bro did you just hand grenade yourself in the future?
Scthrowaway97 · 80 points · Posted at 05:56:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Everyone likes their own brand
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 07:16:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not true. Not true at all.
BeaverPirate · 1 points · Posted at 16:26:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Smell with your special nose. My brand!
DanknugzBlazeit420 · 3 points · Posted at 06:03:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Never heard of this technology.
Serinus · 3 points · Posted at 06:31:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man, not getting sick on every third flight would be awesome.
ScrufffyJoe · 1 points · Posted at 09:59:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Easy, just put your arse in their bubble and let her rip. They won't be able to get away from it.
NoMomo · 3 points · Posted at 05:18:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not like this
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:21:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You mean last night's pre-flight beers and this morning's eggs?
Chyeah buddy, get ready to wish you could only smell your crotch-spawns diaper you amateurs.
BehavioralSink · 2 points · Posted at 07:43:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I say go toe to toe with that toddler. If he shits his pants, you shit yours in retaliation.
17Hongo · 1 points · Posted at 11:35:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll raise you. High-protein diet, and a preference for pickled fish.
You've got a barrel bomb, I've got a nuke.
Statik81 · 8 points · Posted at 04:06:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also, don't forget to scratch yer sweaty balls and yer itchy ass and wave yer hands near them so they smell the cheese.
MikeyMike01 · 3 points · Posted at 05:40:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/nocontext
The_Ketum_Man · 8 points · Posted at 05:24:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Then she'll claim rape.
https://thewaterpipe.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/can-a-fart-be-misogynist/
spacelemon · 10 points · Posted at 07:05:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I should've voted for giant meteor last year.
OmicronPersei8 · 7 points · Posted at 06:07:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
FartRape
football_rpg · 4 points · Posted at 08:43:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"This is clear victim blaming and government should pass laws to make male farts above a certain decibel illegal to make human flatulence equal and not discriminate against women."
I have no words to adequately describe the WTF moment I had here.
The_Ketum_Man · 3 points · Posted at 11:55:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ditto man
17Hongo · 3 points · Posted at 11:50:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why do I get the feeling that the women discussing this were all laughing as they did, and someone in the press section just didn't get the joke?
Please tell me that's what happened.
The_Ketum_Man · 2 points · Posted at 11:55:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope
17Hongo · 2 points · Posted at 11:34:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I do that anyway.
My doctor thinks I may be slightly lactose intolerant.
I think that yogurt is fucking awesome.
merton1111 · 2 points · Posted at 11:40:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Porn.
PmMeJokes · 1 points · Posted at 12:21:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And blame the baby each time!
miraoister · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
...apologise for farting, it makes it much better.
pm_me_ur_zoids · 262 points · Posted at 01:47:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Middle seat always gets both armrests, its the unwritten rule of cattle class.
IBetThisIsTakenToo · 49 points · Posted at 03:54:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We're not fucking animals! We live in a society!
DixonCyderBox · 4 points · Posted at 06:56:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He was gay as the day is long.
dblmjr_loser · 68 points · Posted at 03:46:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
People always seem to rest their arms further up the rest than I like so I almost always have room too. Two people can use one armrest without touching.
Army88strong · 42 points · Posted at 03:51:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Before a movie starts, I was mention to whoever I am with that I am a back of the armrest sort of person. Makes things easier. Territorial elbows
ButcherPetesMeats · 115 points · Posted at 04:45:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You take the back, you take the whole fucking thing. No one gives a fuck about the front of the armrest.
PM_ME_IASIP_QUOTES · 12 points · Posted at 09:20:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Oh that's actually perfect because my elbows are each 5 feet from my shoulders so that should be very comfortable!"
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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stationhollow · 18 points · Posted at 07:37:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Come on. You booked A and C on purpose and only gave in after you realised it wasn't going to work. I would have been unimpressed too.
BrokelynNYC · 1 points · Posted at 07:19:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not true because the port to plug head phone and to adjust tv is on there
YouAndMeToo · 2 points · Posted at 03:05:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Meh unless window has no arm rest
howdareyou · 48 points · Posted at 03:17:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No no hun. Window seat gets a window. Aisle seat gets the aisle. Middle seat gets two armrests.
NickDangerrr · 6 points · Posted at 05:05:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Window seat gets a window AND a wall to lean on to sleep easier. Big deal right there.
AAonthebutton · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Game changer
stationhollow · 1 points · Posted at 07:37:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Aisle seat gets an aisle where they get hit by every person walking past and the damn trolley every 10 minutes.
TooHappyFappy · 2 points · Posted at 03:16:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Still has a wall to lean on. The wall plus a pillow beats out an armrest all day.
But if I have the window you better not bitch about me getting up to use the bathroom/stretch if the flight is longer than 3 hours.
YouAndMeToo · 1 points · Posted at 12:45:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
yeah, I hear that pillow thing. I totally forgot that portion. I normally end up in the aisle anyways.
pm_me_ur_zoids · -1 points · Posted at 10:07:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
3-6 hours, fine. But if we're in a long-haul 13 hour flight you better at least go to the bathroom before we take off because if you disrupt my sleep you bet your ass im going to bitch.
TooHappyFappy · 1 points · Posted at 11:49:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No way. My knees can't handle that long in such a cramped position. I try to get aisle seats for long hauls like that for exactly that reason. But if I don't get one, I'll definitely be waking you up once I've been in pain for 2-3 hours and can't stand it anymore.
Bearmodulate · 1 points · Posted at 13:03:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sitting for 13 hours? Enjoy your dvt I guess
ryand_811 · 3 points · Posted at 06:03:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh no the horrible man spreading, save yourself before it's to late!
GODDAMNFOOL · 2 points · Posted at 08:49:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://youtu.be/JbepN4dKLbU
youtubefactsbot · 2 points · Posted at 08:50:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
bot info
dainternets · 1 points · Posted at 05:00:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fully recline and extend legs, headphones in, eye mask on, don't move for 5 hours.
NoMomo · 1 points · Posted at 05:18:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Headphones hanging on the neck, blasting Lightning Bolt on full volume.
SIacktivist · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Manspreading is when
BoringPersonAMA · 1 points · Posted at 07:39:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Middle seat usually gets both arm rests though right? Isn't that just plane etiquette?
Thorbinator · 1 points · Posted at 09:01:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do not merely get them. Stake your claim, demand obedience, and give no quarter.
Jukebox_Villain · 1 points · Posted at 11:48:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You gotta lick em slowly while softly moaning in satisfaction.
karrachr000 · 1 points · Posted at 12:43:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As the person in the center seat, both arm rests are yours by right.
philmtl · 1 points · Posted at 12:53:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pulls out 3 screen laptop from ces 2017, plays porn on all screens
ThatGuyWhoEngineers · 1 points · Posted at 14:35:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As the middle seat, both armrests are rightfully yours anyway, but if you want to invade territory on either side, this would be the time.
Chickenmangoboom · 165 points · Posted at 06:11:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time I booked a window seat on a flight to Japan. A couple come in and take their seats one in my row and the other on the row behind me. Her row was full and we were lucky to not have a third person in ours. When she noticed that they locked the door and the seat is going to be open she walks over and asks me if I wanted to switch my window seat for her aisle seat in a full row so she could sit with her boyfriend but you know it was totally up me. I told her that I booked a window seat because I love to look out the window (I am a very nervous flyer and for some reason being able to see how far I will drop to my death makes it easier on me).
She said it was fine but then proceeded to hang out in the aisle while we waited to taxi talking to her boyfriend while staring me down. I made eye contact smiled and turned to look out the window for the next twelve hours. Her boyfriend didn't say a word throughout the whole exchange.
Jeraldo · 95 points · Posted at 07:18:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't understand this. She still could've sat next to her boyfriend? She just wanted the window and the extra space in a row not assigned to her.
Chickenmangoboom · 93 points · Posted at 07:58:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
She definitely wanted to be in the same row as her boyfriend plus the extra room from the open seat. I think I may have even paid a little extra to get that window seat so fuck giving it up.
CorruptPeanut · 25 points · Posted at 12:41:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dont ever give someone something you want for yourself if there is no reason to.
funkyloki · 2 points · Posted at 16:08:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you did, you should have said, "I paid extra to sit here, you wanna pay me the difference?"
nocigs-noporno · 1 points · Posted at 05:49:33 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good for you. I know some people that would get intimidated and move. Fuck. that. cunt.
stationhollow · 21 points · Posted at 07:38:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why didn't she just sit in the empty seat?
Chickenmangoboom · 21 points · Posted at 07:55:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
She wanted to sit with her boyfriend while having an extra space.
Spikex8 · 1 points · Posted at 03:35:10 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
She wanted to blow her BF.
Lkiss · 3 points · Posted at 07:12:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thankful silence.
FirstForFun44 · 3 points · Posted at 11:47:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had this happen to me. Some douchenozzle behind me asked me not to put my seat back because he was too tall. Being nice I asked if he'd like to switch with me so we would both be happy. "No, I'm sitting next to my fiance." He then puts in earplugs and ignores her the entire flight. I shoulda told him he has another 50 years to listen to her shit so he doesn't need to sit next to her now.
jaredjeya · 1 points · Posted at 01:39:52 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Once, I was on a flight as part of a school trip, and this lady asked if she could swap seats with me to sit with her daughter (who I assumed was fairly young). We weren't really sitting close together and I was going to spend the whole flight doing past papers anyway as exams were next term, so I happily agreed to swap.
When I got to her seat, it was one of the rows right behind a bulkhead, with tiny and flimsy tray tables built into the armrest. Obviously a massively worse seat, and I couldn't do my work in that seat. Plus, the daughter looked like she was 16 or 17, so could probably cope with being by herself for a few hours. So I had to awkwardly go and ask to swap back to my original seat (thankfully she obliged).
skjall · 104 points · Posted at 04:06:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd probably start browsing progressively friskier subs. Celebs, gentlemanboners, GW... Fuck people like that who think they're entitled to shit.
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 08:39:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It says "Subreddit not found" because it's quarantined (I assume)
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Edibleplague · 3 points · Posted at 14:59:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you trying to create more content to for the sub?
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13speed · 2 points · Posted at 11:04:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sorry, that e-mail address is already in use. Please try another.
SixGun_Surge · 1 points · Posted at 09:19:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn, as a latecomer to Reddit who doesn't have a verified email, how would one go about being allowed to view that sub? Or am I shit outta luck?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 09:20:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Muffinmurdurer · 1 points · Posted at 16:14:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Good fucking God is there no end to the stupidity on this earth?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:50:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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miraoister · 1 points · Posted at 16:56:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
DAYUM!
ButcherPetesMeats · 51 points · Posted at 04:55:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Oh that's ok. I find the sound of babies screaming actually quite enjoyable."
Stares intently at child
DizzyedUpGirl · 34 points · Posted at 03:30:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Start farting constantly. Pick your nose and flick it everywhere. Take out your compact mirror and pop some blackheads. Cry back at the baby if it cries. Cry at the adults even if the baby doesn't cry. Tell them it's to acclimate everyone. Give the baby candy.
GuttersnipeTV · 7 points · Posted at 07:30:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why flick your boogers when you can eat them right in front of the kid while the kid watches and soaks in that information that picking ur nose and eating ur boogers is perfectly acceptable if this grown man is doing it in public.
If I was a parent that would infuriate me.
DizzyedUpGirl · 2 points · Posted at 09:18:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flick the booger onto the kid. By "accident" of course. But if you do go the eating route, act like it's a 3 course meal from a 5 star restaurant.
bewm_bewm · 25 points · Posted at 04:58:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
But why would you want to sit next to someone with a kid if there were other seats open? And for 13 hours? Just to make everyone uncomfortable, including yourself?
Corky_Butcher · 69 points · Posted at 06:40:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Secretly I wouldn't. But sometimes you've got to play people at their own game, it's a
principalprinciple thing.Edit: A word
KToff · 6 points · Posted at 07:22:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The word you're looking for is principle. Principal means most important as an adjective or can also refer to the head of a school when used as a noun. A principle on the other hand is a guiding belief or a way things work.
Corky_Butcher · 2 points · Posted at 07:36:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you, edited the comment.
bewm_bewm · 0 points · Posted at 15:58:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a pretty shitty game if the objective is to make everyone in a cramped metal tube as unhappy as humanly possible, and the prize is misery for everyone.
Etilla · 52 points · Posted at 05:40:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/pettyrevenge and because they are doucebags expecting to be accomodated thanks to their 'master plan'
Andrew985 · -5 points · Posted at 08:13:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is it revenge?
At the very worst, they only get to use the seats they paid for. Ooooooh you sure got them...
lightnsfw · 3 points · Posted at 15:20:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because it's better to beat them at their own game than to be comfortable. Competition is good for the soul.
bewm_bewm · 0 points · Posted at 15:52:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What do you win when you prove yourself the bigger pile of shit and make yourself and everyone around you miserable?
lightnsfw · 2 points · Posted at 18:23:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're not entitled you to changing seats and they don't need you to change seats it's just something they want. If you're happy where you are wanting to stay there doesn't make you a piece of shit. Them being cunts to try to force you to do what they want makes them a piece of shit. Let them keep gradually escalating things and make themselves look worse and worse. Maybe they'll eventually learn that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and won't do it again. That's the ultimate benefit of this but it's probably unrealistic that to expect people like this to have the self awareness to learn anything from these experiences. So you have to content yourself with making their life as bad for a little while as they make everyone else's.
bewm_bewm · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's a waste of my life to try to point out how ironic and self - centered that logic is. Have fun being miserable and trying to "teach" others with your terrible behavior :)
el_padlina · 2 points · Posted at 10:48:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If someone is just being obnoxious I don't give a fuck about them and sit at my assigned place. If they ask, no problem, if they behave like this - noise cancelling earphones, music set to loud, lock up elbows on armrests and sleep.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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bewm_bewm · 0 points · Posted at 15:19:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm responding to the guy who said he would opt to be an asshole to a family for 13 hours, rather than find another seat and make everyone (including himself) happy and comfortable.
FkIForgotMyPassword · 10 points · Posted at 05:12:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have dedicated the next 13 hours of my life to make hers miserable.
fallore · 3 points · Posted at 06:20:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
its not a chick
Whiskeygiggles · 1 points · Posted at 11:24:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus Christ. Even though the post states that it was the opposite parent to the mother that wrote it everyone is STILL assuming that it's a woman. It. Was. A. Guy.
bewm_bewm · 1 points · Posted at 14:55:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reddit hates women and children in general, and mothers specifically. Fathers are heroes and everything they do is cool.
VariantProton · 4 points · Posted at 06:21:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Uhh, don't worry about breastfeeding, -licks lips-, I don't mind at all." All while mouth breathing.
iwazaruu · 3 points · Posted at 06:10:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You da real mvp
generic-user-1 · 2 points · Posted at 07:31:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
But you have a lower limit. What is that?
jb2386 · 2 points · Posted at 10:04:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd just put on my noise cancelling headphones and go to sleep. I can sleep easily on planes for some reason. Oh and I snore. Loudly.
Fiishbait · 2 points · Posted at 14:27:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Stewardess: "Would you like your meal sir?"
Me: "I'm okay thanks, I have mine already, just some Favre beans & a nice Chianti would go nice with it though."
turns & looks at baby, winks at parents
darktask · 1 points · Posted at 14:46:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha, it's actually fava beans (unless you're like a huge fan of Brett). Funny enough, Lecter does wind up in cattle class at one point, next to a child, his mother and a screaming baby - his wine gets confiscated :(
Fiishbait · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Perhaps that's round two. Telling the other passengers how much you like Brett Favre's "beans" ;)
Not seen the series, but the films/books are great.
darktask · 1 points · Posted at 15:58:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you like Hannibal Rising? I think of the tv show as a similar character but not the same - one more appealing to modern sensibilities.
Fiishbait · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, it was okay. Book & film were so different though from what I recall.
HelentheAkita · 1 points · Posted at 07:01:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
watch hentai and loli and shota on phone while staring at baby...
myrpou · 1 points · Posted at 10:13:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I've got AIDS!, the vaginal kind"
Drewbox · 1 points · Posted at 12:26:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As an airline employee, I'm the master of the middle seat! Nothing can bother me anymore. I just put in my headphones, pull my hoodie over my eyes and enjoy the free flight.
CorruptPeanut · 1 points · Posted at 12:36:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Same here. I would hold the baby if they tried passing it fromnone to the other. Then I would look straight at him aswell. Fuck those peeple
FreeRangeAlien · 351 points · Posted at 23:12:30 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Complete douche move. Not surprised that all of their FB friends are total D-bags too
Hingl_McCringleberry · 141 points · Posted at 23:55:14 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's pretty rage inducing that only one of the comments says something rational, the rest are all "you go girl!" bs and "life of a parent" rationalization of douche behavior. Well, at least the douches congregate together and we hopefully only have to encounter them on the occasional flight
SeriesOfAdjectives · 57 points · Posted at 00:36:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
But remember: these douches are raising more tiny little douches ;)
duffbeers · 4520 points · Posted at 21:25:20 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is bullshit. I have kids and the attitude that some parents have that having a child entitles you to some sort of preferential treatment everywhere you go is terrible.
Someone tell this fucking moron to book seats A, B, and C next time so they can have a dedicated seat for their child. If not they have no right to complain or ostracize someone who paid for a seat.
Finally, this entire story seems a bit /r/thathappened - like the dude just gets up pre-flight and goes and finds another open seat. Did everyone start clapping and the flight attendant handed the dad $100 for his quick thinking?
arnorath · 907 points · Posted at 01:10:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Agreed, but it's still rage-inducing that she'd make up a story like this for approval. "Hey, I was a massive jerk to a total stranger. Give me likes!"
[deleted] · 231 points · Posted at 01:59:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Says more about the people she surrounds herself with, than herself, if this is what she does to pander for likes.
harborwolf · 81 points · Posted at 02:53:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They must be a joy to deal with in a retail setting...
TreS-2b · 3 points · Posted at 16:15:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I need to speak to your manager.
t2i_shooter · 2 points · Posted at 17:36:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wonder what kind of haircut she has...
HostileHosta · 2 points · Posted at 17:38:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://i.imgur.com/M92Hthn.png
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:13:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol don't worry they probably work in one
(Not that there's anything wrong with it, I used to work retail. But if they gotta deal with people like them then that's gr8)
13speed · 1 points · Posted at 11:07:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I need to speak to your manager" haircut.
no_talent_ass_clown · 1 points · Posted at 12:23:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was a guy.
13speed · 3 points · Posted at 12:50:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Skinny jeans, even skinnier arms, wears large-frame glasses, has a three-day beard that he thinks makes him look manly, but is really a passive-aggressive douche canoe whose only direct physical confrontation in his life was back in seventh grade when Simone Kellums kicked his ass.
no_talent_ass_clown · 4 points · Posted at 12:23:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was a guy.
Butthole__Pleasures · 1 points · Posted at 06:33:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, it says plenty about her.
Waytoo_Fonkey · 1 points · Posted at 14:44:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude? It's _______! You know _____ she's always doing crazy stuff like that! Remember when told that snooty waiter to stick his tip where the sun don't shine? Remember when _______ was at the soccer game and those punk kids were playing that God Awful boogie gangster music? Well you know _______ doesn't play that! She went and dumped her Coors light on their radio when they were out playing frisbee. Serves em right! Start acting up, getting to big for your own good, we'll go ahead and try it. No sir-e-bob good ol _________ will be teaching them the way things work around here!
Spider-Ian · 1 points · Posted at 15:48:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you saying assholes surround themselves with other assholes, like a giant farting echo chamber?
jorickcz · 70 points · Posted at 03:00:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't really matter but I think it was a guy since the kid was screaming for it's mother in their hands
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 04:35:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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arnorath · 60 points · Posted at 07:19:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because I'm a massively misogynistic douchebag who automatically assumes the villain in every story is female
Silverlight42 · 3 points · Posted at 08:37:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
why do you keep drinking stale coffee?
Whiskeygiggles · 6 points · Posted at 11:16:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was written by the dad, unless the kid has two moms.
arnorath · -1 points · Posted at 11:47:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your reading comprehension is good enough to catch that detail in the OP, but not good enough to notice that three people have already pointed that out to me, or that I don't care.
no_talent_ass_clown · 4 points · Posted at 12:25:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And I just pointed it out for the fourth time because you didn't bother editing your comment before I saw it.
GuttersnipeTV · 2 points · Posted at 07:32:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Likes, karma, lets go, you know the drill.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 04:28:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Isn't that the whole premise of Facebook/Instagram/the interwebs?
clamsmasher · 1 points · Posted at 07:03:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
At least half of the r/thathappened stories the OP is an unaware jerk.
6chan · 1 points · Posted at 12:10:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
There was a thread on Quora which actually suggests doing this
no_talent_ass_clown · 1 points · Posted at 12:23:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was a guy.
bigmike83 · 1 points · Posted at 15:06:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish someone would have commented in that post with just: Cunt
AquaTriHungerForce · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It is incredibly easy to make fake Facebook post images. No account or person required.
phedre · 174 points · Posted at 02:56:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is legit a "travel tip" given out by and to parents.
Examples:
http://hintmama.com/2014/09/01/todays-hint-the-seats-to-book-when-youre-flying-with-a-lap-baby/
http://threadtripping.boardingarea.com/2015/01/resolved-couples-reserve-aisle-window-seats-selfish-sods/
http://www.parents.com/fun/vacation/planning/flying-with-baby/
I don't have the energy to dig through FlyerTalk right now, but if you hit that website you're sure to find stories.
eternalexodus · 208 points · Posted at 04:50:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
no it fucking isn't. buy a seat for each person that is flying. that includes your snot-nosed little brat. if it was person before it was born, it most certainly is a person when it's sitting on a plane.
AkemiDawn · 137 points · Posted at 06:13:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seriously, I flew with my son once without buying him a seat because it was only an hour flight and I thought, hey, if we're lucky the plane won't be completely booked and he'll get a seat anyway. Worst case scenario, he sits on my lap for an hour - no big deal. Well, the plane was at capacity and that hour with him on my lap was one of the worst hours of my life. He wants a drink? Well, I've got to try to get my bag out from under the seat while balancing twenty pounds of squirming drool monster on my lap while penned in by a stranger whose phone my kid is desperately trying to grab. It was total misery. I felt like a complete asshole. Always buy a seat.
vagijn · 18 points · Posted at 06:53:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
LOL. I remember that phase vividly.
bigmike83 · 6 points · Posted at 15:08:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are a good parent!
himit · 2 points · Posted at 17:31:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Having gone international with a lap baby several times... Ring in advance and make sure you get a seat with a bassinet. That's what they're there for.
As for the bags, prepare. A small one with the essentials that you can squish beside you. A bigger one with entertainment that you grab and put by your feet once the flight's mid-air. That bassinet can also double as handy storage and the little bit of extra legroom as play area, so kid isn't always sitting down. And expect to go on lots of walks around the cabin.
I've only done one flight 27th a lap baby and no bassinet, and that was because we had a cat too and had to sit at the back of the plane. By this time we were travelling pros but still... 0/10, would not recommend. Was awful in every way. And both the cat and baby behaved.
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aaaaaaaarrrrrgh · 18 points · Posted at 12:56:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can probably book a seat for a musical instrument under your name.
If they claim your kid isn't a musical instrument, I'm sure your kid will be happy to prove them wrong.
FastFishLooseFish · 2 points · Posted at 13:47:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What country? Which airline?
We flew on UA with our kid several times before he was 2 and always bought a seat for him. Way more comfortable for us and far safer for him, since he got to sit in his car seat.
phedre · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the airline and country, and even sometimes the agent. Check here for advice:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-children-221/
eternalexodus · 0 points · Posted at 14:34:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
then you get to stay home until it's 2.
himit · 1 points · Posted at 17:26:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've flown with a lap baby heaps of times. Just fucking ask for the seat with the bassinet... That's what it's there for!
melbat0ast · 75 points · Posted at 04:21:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The second link gives basically the right answer to this scenario- go ahead and book A and C, but if someone wants B, you're SOL, live with it
bearsinthesea · 129 points · Posted at 04:41:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The tip should be, if someone books B, then offer them the window or aisle, they'll probably take one of them.
melbat0ast · 45 points · Posted at 04:46:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah that's basically what the link says, with the caveat that if they don't want it, you have to live with what you booked
BiggC · 8 points · Posted at 07:09:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't imagine wanting a middle seat, or being spiteful enough to keep a middle seat when offered and aisle or window.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 11:49:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd instantly be in the aisle if offered.
SuperSocrates · 1 points · Posted at 20:13:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah why would any solo traveler ever want the middle seat? When you pick seats while buying a ticket the middle seats are always the last to go.
BleachedWhale · 2 points · Posted at 11:00:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
..what, like an adult?
miraoister · 1 points · Posted at 16:53:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"if they don't want it, a crazy fucker is now between you and your spouse and child."
megablast · 1 points · Posted at 05:55:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll take both thanks!
miraoister · 2 points · Posted at 16:52:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"luckly I enjoy watching women give breast milk to children... yes, thats right dear, you carry on, nice and slow yes."
"mind if I take a selfie?"
ThatGuyWhoEngineers · 2 points · Posted at 14:42:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I mean, this is a perfectly fine way to go about this. If the seat in the middle ends up being empty, have at it.
But don't be a dick to the guy like me who travels alone for work and buys that seat.
If you want to guarantee a free seat, buy one.
phedre · 1 points · Posted at 14:50:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You travel for work and you'd take a middle seat? Oh HELL nah. I did the work travel thing for years and if they tried to stick me in a middle seat I would have raised holy hell.
But I flew enough that I had "my" seat based on aircraft type so I could maximize my sleep potential.
TaylorSwiftIsJesus · 2 points · Posted at 15:29:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here's a hint, mama. When you carried a pregnancy to term and decided to raise the result, you forfeited the right to air travel for the next 3 years.
SuperSocrates · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Says who?
TaylorSwiftIsJesus · 1 points · Posted at 20:21:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Common decency towards the general public.
SuperSocrates · 1 points · Posted at 20:48:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, you're not wrong there lol. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do though. Never been in this situation myself though.
myrpou · 1 points · Posted at 10:09:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Have they just accepted that they're society's scum?
Gasaraki · 1 points · Posted at 15:41:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
How is that even safe and legal? They don't even have restraints on a lap.
phedre · 1 points · Posted at 15:50:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think it is. In an emergency situation like heavy turbulence or a crash landing, a lap child is basically a 20+lb projectile.
Renent · 298 points · Posted at 22:53:01 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't know Albert Einstein was a flight attendant.
van-nostrand-md · 81 points · Posted at 22:55:07 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
And that flight attendant's name was Albert Einstein.
I_am_the_LION · 75 points · Posted at 23:47:04 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
And that flight albert's name was Attendant Einstein.
Hingl_McCringleberry · 44 points · Posted at 23:51:23 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wasn't he also a firefighter on 9/11?
albert0kn0x · 14 points · Posted at 00:58:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you just assume their gender????????????????
Knife_Operator · 2 points · Posted at 15:23:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus reddit, learn when a joke is over.
AnalogDogg · 0 points · Posted at 02:58:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Something something attack helicopters
JamesBCrazy · 0 points · Posted at 05:29:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
also he was Batman
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 01:35:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Appetite4destruction · 0 points · Posted at 01:35:19 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
He also has a tunnel from his house to the brewery.
r_walker · 7 points · Posted at 02:23:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Attendbert Flynstein
harborwolf · -2 points · Posted at 02:51:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Context...
wibbitywobbitywoo · 1 points · Posted at 01:28:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've seen people get stuck between fatties and ask to switch seats, being stuck between douchebags might work too.
IncredibleBenefits · 73 points · Posted at 03:23:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I traveled for work 2 years straight, ~200 flights a year. I was on maybe 20 flights where I had open seats next to me. The idea of a flight having enough open seats to be able to pick your seat is unlikely...
[deleted] · 22 points · Posted at 03:59:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't seen an open seat on a plan in the last three four years.
keyprops · 3 points · Posted at 05:13:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had pretty good luck with open seats, both transcontinental and regional. What kind of routes are you taking?
MBoTechno · 1 points · Posted at 05:24:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time I had a window seat and I had both seats next to me empty for the whole flight. It was great.
eLKosmonaut · 2 points · Posted at 06:37:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just think if you could have folded those shitty armrests down and slept like a champ!
Valderan_CA · 1 points · Posted at 15:40:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've definitely done that before... had all three seats to myself in a YWG -> YUL early AM flight, pulled those armrests up and treated myself to a reasonably sized bed for the flight (reasonable given I was on an airplane).
anapolis43 · 1 points · Posted at 05:57:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got really lucky and an entire row to myself from Vancouver to Toronto. So much luxurious room to spread out I didn't know what to do other than take my shoes off and sleep across.
eLKosmonaut · 2 points · Posted at 06:38:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never been on a plane where you could fold the armrests down or up so as to be able to lay across seats. Just unlucky?
Valderan_CA · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Air Canada planes on major routes almost all have that ability - They also all (on major routes) have the personal in flight entertainment system as well.
vmont · 1 points · Posted at 06:58:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flew once last year and there were entire empty rows.
wendyclear86 · 1 points · Posted at 20:58:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The only flights that had empty seats were the delayed ones where people had rebooked flights. Or it was carry over from other delayed flights. Mostly weather stuff, and in the US.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:01:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I flew yesterday to denmark with open seats and I flew roundtrip to Phoenix last week and both ways had open seats.
IncredibleBenefits · 1 points · Posted at 05:31:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Out of curiosity, what airline(s)?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:48:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Norwegian, American, and Soutwest
jt3611 · 1 points · Posted at 16:03:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Southwest, Delta, AeroMexico. I fly to Mexico a lot from the North East US and prob 2 out 10 planes is full capacity. Even the planes to Mex City or Cancun are not 100% capacity, thankfully.
ExaltedAlmighty · 1 points · Posted at 05:45:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, I've flown from Nebraska and seen empty seats on a plane. Believe it or not, I was on a flight out of Lincoln that had maybe a dozen passengers. Way more seats than people.
Andrew985 · 1 points · Posted at 08:21:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Odd. I've only been on 7 flights and 2 of them had open seats next to us. Doesn't seem like it should be that rare.
Jonne · 1 points · Posted at 10:43:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had flights where i had entire rows for myself, but airlines are pretty good at filling seats these days, especially on the popular routes. I definitely never expect to have a free seat.
futurespice · 1 points · Posted at 12:41:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but chances are you were taking the early morning / late evening commuter flights. the 7am flights to major business locations are always packed, the 2pm ones I guess less so.
Gig4t3ch · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It depends on where you're flying to and at what time of the day / week / year you're flying. If you're flying for business, then most likely you're flying very popular routes that a lot of businessmen fly and your flights will generally always be full. If you fly routes like Boston to Copenhagen in November on a Tuesday, your flight will probably be relatively empty.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Results may vary I guess. I don't travel that much but depending on time and location, I sometimes have an open seat. One flight I was on had many empty rows! Luck of the draw.
MangoBitch · 1 points · Posted at 18:43:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I used to fly regularly (although a lot less than you) because of a long distance relationship. I would fly on the weird Tuesday morning flights that were cheap because few people wanted them. There were plenty of open seats.
If someone else (e.g. a business) is paying for your flights or if you have to have a specific schedule (that likely resembles other people's specific schedules), then, no, you'll never find a seat.
bbibber · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You fly 200 times a year and don't have enough status to be automatically upgraded to business, which on short haul means an open seat next to you???
IncredibleBenefits · 1 points · Posted at 20:20:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We had to choose the cheapest flight which meant that my status was spread across Delta, United, and American but I still had plenty of status. I got upgraded to premier seating pretty much every flight... they're still full on Mondays and Fridays. Though as many have pointed out, other week days are a lot less busy.
And I didn't fly much short haul except from a hub to destination. I lived in Washington at the time so I mostly flew across the country.
Rarus · 333 points · Posted at 00:15:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
First class Bangkok to JFK last weekend. Family of 4 on the right 1 kid is like 8, 1 baby. Dad brought everyone in the section a pimped out goodie bag.
Ear plugs, noise canceling Bose over ear, bunch of mini alcohol bottles. Kid slept in the late flat like 7 hours straight till our layover.
Was next to me again heading to JFK. Baby was absolutely silent almost 10 of the 14 hours. Dad also let the older one had a little wine and he was out.
Snitsie · 300 points · Posted at 00:37:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That guy must've been making bank to be able to just give out noise canceling Bose headphones like candy.
iCantSpelWerdsGud · 450 points · Posted at 00:40:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
With a family of 4? Yeah that guy is making bank.
JimmyJam444 · 3 points · Posted at 07:11:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's there to do in Bangkok?
axelG97 · 16 points · Posted at 07:43:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bang cock
iCantSpelWerdsGud · 2 points · Posted at 15:47:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Idk, it's just a very long (and therefore expensive) flight.
miraoister · 1 points · Posted at 14:25:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
all the billionaire daughters I have met were thai.
Rarus · 194 points · Posted at 00:44:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Each seat was about 12k. I didn't pay but it seemed like he was doing OK.
macgyverrda · 167 points · Posted at 04:04:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Poor guys just getting by. Good for him.
NoMomo · 78 points · Posted at 05:24:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just a struggling family on their way to buy a pet tiger.
Littlewigum · 5 points · Posted at 12:57:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He had to travel to Bangkok to get a discount tiger. Of course they're struggling.
patchgrabber · 3 points · Posted at 12:40:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fun fact: There are more tigers kept as pets in Texas than there are tigers in the wild.
13speed · 1 points · Posted at 11:16:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
CognitivelyDecent · 1 points · Posted at 17:21:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
somehow the headphones gave it away and not the 4 first classes tickets to bangkok
kashmirGoat · 11 points · Posted at 04:22:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just checked, even flying Emirates it's barely over 6k each. And, while it's hard to say, but I'd bet that if you're taking kiddies along the trip probably involved using some miles.
Guys who fly a lot for work, rack up some serious miles, and then get to spend them on nice holidays for the fam. Of course, he could be just damn rich too. ya never know. The only reason I say, is that I use my miles for first class intercontinental flights. Depending on when the flight was, it might have been for a song too. There are some serious deals if you know how to work the system.
Rarus · 1 points · Posted at 05:52:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I use my Amex or capital one venture to book then my company pays. I do this route at least once a month. Then I do BKK/FRA with EU offshoots 2-3 times a month then usually 2 BKK/SNG.
Do kinda a work binge now till April then not much. Til then between flights, hotels, expenses, and stipends, the miles are amazing.
kashmirGoat · 1 points · Posted at 01:57:14 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ifly4free · 7 points · Posted at 05:25:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
A 1-way trip New York-Bangkok in a private jet is a six-figure affair. Not even the same ballpark.
Rarus · 1 points · Posted at 05:56:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Cause its crazy stupid wasteful expensive. Did it once with the owners of my company. But cost it kinda made sense. 8 people and the plane needed to be in Asia.
The people who are flying private all the time are either crazy rich or their status basically requires it logistics wise.
CervixAssassin · 1 points · Posted at 11:17:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
fuckin' a, it hurts to fly economy next to a kid, I cannot imagine how much worse it would be to fly first class, pay 12 grand and still end up next to a screaming drool monster (c).
Elmorean · 30 points · Posted at 02:41:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
First class fliers don't even need the "goodie bags" they give out.
ManInABlueShirt · 1 points · Posted at 20:00:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah we do, at least as much as an economy flyer needs the toothpaste anyway. They're just socks, eyeshade, lotion, a comb/brush, maybe a cloth, some aftershave and mouthwash.... plus headphones that work with the airline's two-pin systems so they don't get stolen.
__yhs__ · 6 points · Posted at 07:01:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Noise canceling bose headphones are given for free during flight when in first class.
Source: flew first class.
dirtymoney · 1 points · Posted at 11:40:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
cheap chinese counterfeit ones.
ManInABlueShirt · 1 points · Posted at 19:58:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They come with the seat, not from the passenger. Plus there are no non-stops JFK-BKK. Of course he could have been changing somewhere that involved a really long flight.
[deleted] · 39 points · Posted at 02:05:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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slaaitch · 80 points · Posted at 02:23:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you can afford to drop US$4k+ on a single seat, you probably already own good headphones. If you care to, that is.
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Balforg · 16 points · Posted at 02:31:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you kidding? Do you know how much first class JFK to Bangkok is? If it's not 4k then it's going to be higher.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 02:45:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Balforg · 0 points · Posted at 07:52:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well you don't have to be sour.
DerangedDesperado · 6 points · Posted at 03:05:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
OP says those seats were 12k each.
slaaitch · 8 points · Posted at 02:34:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Priceline. I did a quick check for the cost of a one way first class ticket from Bangkok to New York about 6 weeks in the future. Cheapest result was just over US$4300.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:33:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
OP said the seats were actually 12K each.
Rarus · 44 points · Posted at 02:28:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
First is usually 10-16 seats. Each headset was probably $200. Considering he dropped 35k+ for 4 seats, not so insane.
Littlewigum · 1 points · Posted at 12:59:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've only traveled first class six times internationally. Internationally that sounds about right.
ManInABlueShirt · 1 points · Posted at 20:02:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You get them for the duration of the flight just by virtue of being there in the cabin. That, plus the route doesn't exist, means you're no worse off than the OP.
dog_cow · 2 points · Posted at 06:31:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you don't do this, you're a complete prick!
TELL_ME_YOUR_FEARS · 1 points · Posted at 13:02:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Makes you wonder what he gave the baby
miraoister · 1 points · Posted at 14:25:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
are you sure the baby wasnt a dummy used for smuggling drugs?
IamaLlamaAma · -7 points · Posted at 00:40:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like /r/thathappened to me.
Which airline doesn't give out noise cancelling headphones in first class as a standard? You get them in business already in many airlines. Also the alcohol you get in first class is better than some mini bottles from duty free...
Rarus · 43 points · Posted at 00:41:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Korean air. I get free booze and likely anything he can get to me I can buy. It's a nice gesture. Chill bud. Please tell me what flight you are being handed noise canceling headphones to keep.
IamaLlamaAma · -6 points · Posted at 00:47:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Never said you get to keep them. You get them for the duration of the flight.
Rarus · 38 points · Posted at 00:53:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This guy didn't hand me the bag then whisper in my ear "I need this shit back yo".
ImGoinDisWaaaay · 2 points · Posted at 02:44:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're not passing around used headphones.
IamaLlamaAma · 0 points · Posted at 02:49:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
In every decent airlines business class you get noise cancelling headphones in business class and above. Whether or not they are new or just cleaned I don't know and it also isn't relevant to this topic.
StrangelyBrown · 5 points · Posted at 01:56:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That part doesn't sound strange but.....how do you get 'a bunch' of mini drinks per person (so, dozens in total) through security? I know you can take about 10, but more than that...
rocklobster3 · 2 points · Posted at 05:55:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can buy liquor bottles in any international airport.
StrangelyBrown · 0 points · Posted at 05:57:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Generally not miniatures.
justmerriwether · 1 points · Posted at 18:11:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty much always minis. That's mostly all I buy in airports so I can slam five shots before my twelve hour flight and only spend five bucks.
StrangelyBrown · 1 points · Posted at 18:34:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where? You're not talking about the duty free shops right?
koick · 0 points · Posted at 03:48:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
For the record, consuming any of that alcohol could get you in trouble.
megablast · -1 points · Posted at 05:54:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure, but you know he has little control over the baby.
And did you ever think he was people smuggling those kids anyway? Sheeeet.
[deleted] · 154 points · Posted at 00:34:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You must not fly much. I've moved seats plenty of times.
From his end the story is basically "This fucking lady and her screaming baby wouldn't stop bugging me so I just took an open seat."
giritrobbins · 61 points · Posted at 00:46:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's getting more difficult with the the multiple types of coach now.
44problems · 35 points · Posted at 03:33:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sorry sir, you're in Economy Standard, our only seats are in Economy Plus and Economy Extra.
Sptsjunkie · 9 points · Posted at 06:07:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
International is not nearly as bad as domestic. And the flight attendants might have just given him a free upgrade to avoid these entitled jerks.
Call_me_Kelly · 3 points · Posted at 07:37:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
More like it's getting difficult with more airlines purposefully overbooking.
giritrobbins · 1 points · Posted at 13:00:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Except it costs them hundreds of dollars when they overbook. I fly quite and only a small fraction of my trips are over booked.
duffbeers · 46 points · Posted at 01:32:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I admittedly do not fly much, and most of the flights I have been on in the past were full or overbooked, so I am probably mistaken with how easy it is to switch seats.
1stLtObvious · 27 points · Posted at 03:16:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I fly to NC and back at least twice a year and it's always booked full. It seems really unlikely to me.
foreveracubone · 13 points · Posted at 04:38:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My flight from Beijing to NYC I had a whole aisle to myself. My flight from JFK to Beijing was 12hrs of being a sardine. It can go both ways, especially when you're flying international.
stationhollow · 2 points · Posted at 07:44:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That sounds like good old american over selling of tickets.
semperlol · 12 points · Posted at 04:32:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As someone who flies more than you, no it is not unlikely at all.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:26:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flying domestic is a bit different. The first time I flew overseas there were quite a lot of free seats. I had the entire row to myself both ways.
giguf · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty anecdotal evidence. Loads of planes have plenty of free seats, both short and long haul. Unless you are flying to a popular destination in high demand months, there is gonna be at least 1 seat you can move to if you are only one person.
merv243 · 1 points · Posted at 17:53:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
MSP to Philly for a few months for work. 7 of the 10 normal flights (not counting the ones that got all fucked up due to weather) I either had, or moved to, an empty row. And these were at pretty prime business travel times - Monday morning, Thursday evening. Just depends on the flight.
ManInABlueShirt · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rare to have zero open seats. 80%+ full, sure, and if you only fly on holidays then I can see why you'd think that but I doubt even a third of flights are completely full.
1stLtObvious · 1 points · Posted at 20:22:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I rarely fly on holidays. Usually in June and October. Not exactly big holiday months.
Temp237 · 3 points · Posted at 03:56:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
US allows airlines to overbook. Other countries can have laws forbidding the practice of selling product (seats) that are not available. So if people don't show up, it's not a full flight.
Vigilante17 · 1 points · Posted at 03:56:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you fly often enough you'll eventually be on a flight where it's less than half full. Most single passsengers have their own row. Not frequent, but it's awesome when it happens. And the crew loves it too so you get even better service if you know how to play your cards right.
WonTwoThree · 17 points · Posted at 01:56:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It completely depends on the route. Some are always full, some usually have room.
Vigilante17 · 1 points · Posted at 03:59:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure. Southwest between Oakland or SMF to or from LA/BUR is usually crowded during commuter hours, but I've flown the same routes at the odd hours and been on flights practically empty in some cases.
CrippledSage54 · 2 points · Posted at 04:18:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah but I feel like the seat between two people with a baby would be like the absolute last seat taken. Who would sit their with other options open?
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 04:34:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because that's not what happened.
Parents Book A and C and left B open, hoping no one took B (they said the baby didn't need to reserve a seat). Unfortunately, some guy ended up picking seat B (probably registered online and there wasn't much left), so he came over and that was the seat he bought and paid for.
The parents are 100% in the wrong on this. If you want to make sure your child has a seat you buy them a goddamn seat. Besides, what if the plane was fully booked? What if he didn't have anywhere else he could go? The fuck was he supposed to do, sit on the floor?
IMO if we're going to make obese people buy a seat, a parent with a child should have to do the same.
Super_Tikiguy · 2 points · Posted at 06:06:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the mother politely asked the guy to see if he could find another seat the guy probably would gladly do so.
She got the same result by being an annoying cunt and she seems proud of herself.
Whiskeygiggles · 7 points · Posted at 11:22:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He. Not she. It was the father who wrote this.
Super_Tikiguy · 1 points · Posted at 11:27:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read it again and you are right it was the dad. Correction he was being an annoying cunt.
My bad.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 06:15:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Exactly. I would totally move if asked in that situation. Wouldn't even hesitate.
Whiskeygiggles · 2 points · Posted at 11:21:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"This fucking lady" - It was the dad though. It is literally stipulated that it was the father who wrote this and everyone still keeps saying it's a woman.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:21:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Transatlantic flights are usually booked solid.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:28:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That just makes it even worse for the parents. What happens if there's no other seats available? Is she gonna be a bitch to him for 13 hours? Is he supposed to sit on the floor?
Fuck entitled parents. I'm with George Carlin. If you're bringing a kid on the plane, you sit in the back in your own section with all the other kids, and you get on and off last.
I don't even mind kids. Kids are fine. Parents make me want to throw them out the window.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 15:35:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
TBH I hate flying because of that and more
17954699 · 35 points · Posted at 01:31:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It probably wasn't a full flight. Honestly he did the best thing. Even if he switched seats with one of them so he wasn't stuck in the middle, it would have been a miserable flight. You can be sure the kid cried more than once.
Wentthruurhistory · 62 points · Posted at 02:51:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
With parents like these, I'd bet they would pinch the kid on purpose to make it cry.
NotTheRightAnswer · 8 points · Posted at 05:04:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My dad did that with me when I was small so he could get out of church early.
1stLtObvious · 1 points · Posted at 03:17:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it were me I would obstinately sit in the middle seat with my best angry face on and do my best to be even more obnoxious back.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 03:53:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd whip out four of those fiber granola bars and eat them all. Two hours later I'd start ripping major ass and it'd last for like four or five hours.
They can smell and listen to my farts while I watch a movie on my phone.
Tim_Brady12 · 1 points · Posted at 05:41:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If he really needed the seat he would have probably just agreed to trade the middle for one of the end seats.
fkaginstrom · 6 points · Posted at 03:52:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I always booked an extra seat for my kid, even when he was just a few months old. The extra space is invaluable (this was before diaper changing tables in airplane lavatories were a thing).
One time a standby guy barged onto the plane to make sure there were really no seats available (this was pre-9/11). He spies my seat and tries to bully me into giving it up. He probably thought I was pulling what that guy was pulling, but I whipped out the boarding pass and he got to go back to the waiting area.
It was only a 30 minute connecting flight, so if he wasn't an asshole I probably would have given him the seat.
stationhollow · 2 points · Posted at 07:46:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Seriously? Airport security let him go on to the plane without a proper boarding pass? That type of shit gets you arrested these days.
AlmightyApkallu · 7 points · Posted at 04:06:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have been waiting so long to get this off my chest...
I particularly hate when parents will go to restaurants or public venues and let their kids run around and scream. They do nothing to actually "parent" the child or teach them "hey, you behave here!" Instead, they let the kid go on whatever chaotic rampage they want because they think it's funny, then- BEST PART, the kid runs up to your table and stands there / stares at you / touches your shit. The parents look at you and smile hoping to get a positive reaction "Isn't my baby thing AWESOME?" I usually shock them with a look like this.
Bpdbs · 5 points · Posted at 03:42:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As someone who worked in a supermarket I can honestly say some parents have the most inflated sense of entitlement. No your baby is not a little angel, he is a snot nosed little brat who needs to stop damaging all my stock and playing with my displays
Anresponsableadult · 2 points · Posted at 02:51:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like to be level headed all the time, but at work serving yesterday there were so many families (summer holidays).
Tourists with child running between our legs while they looked at their phones.
Muffin crumbs everywhere.
Screeching for minutes at a time, parents just ignoring it.
This isnt even a family cafe, some parents these days just seem overly entitled and expect parenting to be a part time job. Kudos to those of you who control and educate your children on manners from a young age.
Vigilante17 · 2 points · Posted at 02:58:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flight attendant hands him a parachute. Dude puts it on and opens the door mid flight. Adios Amigos! And he grabs the baby and jumps!!!
BadBetting · 2 points · Posted at 04:20:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Had a parent do something similar and I talked to an attendant and there were no empty seats. The mom kept bitching at me. 200$ soundproof headphones are worth.
KingMango · 2 points · Posted at 04:44:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
$100 seems a bit cheap. You probably meant $100%. That's much more.
WooperSlim · 2 points · Posted at 05:27:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I used to fly for business a lot, there were never any empty seats. If there were, there was also a wait list of people to fill them.
But then again, everyone else on the plane was also flying for business-- it could be likely that couples with children fly at less demanding times.
StrawRedditor · 2 points · Posted at 05:32:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think the worst part, isn't even that they didn't book a seat for their child....
It's that they intentionally booked seats with a space inbetween.
Like, book AB and if C happens to be open, then you can move to it and put your kid in the middle... but at least you actually had the foresight to realize that if the seat isn't open, you can sit next to your partner and have your child right next to either of you on your laps.
But these idiots didn't do that.
Andrew985 · 2 points · Posted at 08:27:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like how many people in this thread are calling these people "idiots" when their plan worked exactly as intended.
StrawRedditor · 1 points · Posted at 21:02:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Taking advantage of other people and having it work doesn't make you not an idiot.
Someone who is that unaware of social etiquette is still an idiot.
staticsnake · 9 points · Posted at 22:17:44 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not all parents are like this however, and the same is true that some non-parents have insane entitled attitudes partly due to the fact that they aren't parents.
MarkovManiac · 71 points · Posted at 22:41:16 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Really it comes down to the fact that some people are just shitty humans.
harborwolf · 1 points · Posted at 02:53:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Something we can all get behind...
Aviator573 · 33 points · Posted at 22:42:04 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
We get it.
kyzfrintin · 11 points · Posted at 01:36:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who said all parents were like this?
In other news, water is wet.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:20:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What utility did this post have in any way?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The things we must do!
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:29:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
On my few flights i had to take to go to and from the UK to Philly there were many empty seats that were up for grabs if you wanted to move, and many people did, so it's not that far-fetched. This goes for every flight i had (4).
IWugYouWugHeSheMeWug · 1 points · Posted at 03:53:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's actually not that unrealistic. In my experience, planes are either full or they have a bunch of open seats spread around. If this is recent, considering the events in Turkey in the past year, I wouldn't be surprised if travel to Turkey has dipped a decent amount in the past year, but not enough to warrant completely redoing the flight schedules. If that's the case, there would probably be a dozen or so seats open on each flight.
Unless you're in somebody else's seat, nobody is going to be checking to see if you're actually assigned to that seat, as long as you are in Economy. I've changed seats on a few flights when the plane was fairly empty and I wanted a better view or whatever.
megablast · 1 points · Posted at 05:53:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If there is a spare 2 seater, even if they aren't annoying, I will find it and sit here.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 06:22:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Shitty play no doubt. I would just suggest I take the aisle or the window so they could sit together- knowing them though, they would decline the offer just to try and make me move even more. I would sit there with a full on man-spread just to be a dick.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:43:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Liza Minnelli appeared on the wing of the airplane and did a tap dance while singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow."
hulkster69 · 1 points · Posted at 10:55:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
To me it's the shitty way she went about it. $1000 is a lot of money and many can't afford that. Clearly the plane wasn't fully booked but she could have mentioned her needs to a flight attendant or asked him directly like a goddamn grownup.
MionelLessi10 · 1 points · Posted at 11:19:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He didn't
patdoody · 1 points · Posted at 11:42:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah this doesn't quite add up. You pretty much have to sit in your allocated seat before take off, only afterwards can you move around the cabin.
Also in my experience the airline & attendants will go out of their way to give parents a spare seat if the flight isn't full.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:12:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
There is usually an empty seat somewhere on most flights and its not big hassle to switch.
The problem is you have to wait till after take-off because some late comer could come for his seat before the plane pushes out.
It all depends on when you fly both time of day and time of year. Sometimes you are just flat out boned.
Krankite · 1 points · Posted at 12:40:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'll always checkin in person, if the flight has spare seats they can lock out the middle seat otherwise they just seat you together.
thenewyorkgod · 1 points · Posted at 13:35:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
yup. right after the parents handed out treat bags to everyone on the flight with a note apologizing for their cranky baby.
Dracekidjr · 1 points · Posted at 14:19:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dunno if people like that would be on each side of me, I would totally stay there just because I won't give them what they want. Fuckers aren't privileged to anything and I won't give it to them, even if it means dealing with a yelling child.
Paratwa · 1 points · Posted at 15:16:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That attitude is one of the few things that annoys me about my wife.
"But they ( or we! ) have kids... !" She wails
Yeah uh so do most people it's rather common that's like saying you have a mom or dad
"But the kiiiiids"
Yeah but everyone else shouldn't have to put up with extra bullshit cause of that.
Then she scowls at me and won't talk cause she knows it makes no sense.
djheart · 1 points · Posted at 16:09:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you are two parents and one child under 2 I think it is a legitimate strategy to book A and C and hope that no one books B. That said, when I have done it and it didn't work out I have always offered the window seat and they are usually quite happy to take it...
entropylaser · 1 points · Posted at 16:15:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was once booked on an international flight between an overweight married couple in their 50s. They had the same attitude, like I was inconveniencing them by sitting in my assigned seat. I just assumed they preferred the aisle and window seats and booked them, hadn't considered until now that they perhaps did this to discourage anyone from sitting there.
MrTerrificPants · 1 points · Posted at 16:35:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What you detected as annoyance might have been mortification that they knew they were spilling over into your seat with their excess body weight.
Heavyset people often comment on this.
They might have been annoyed that the airplane's seats were so small, too.
qwimjim · 1 points · Posted at 16:38:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm dumbfounded people like this exist. I've flown a LOT with my kids. They're 1 and 3 and the oldest probably has about 20 flights under her belt with the longest being 16 hours. These people have the polar opposite attitude to me when I fly with my kids, I do everything I can to not make life miserable for everyone and these guys think the world revolves around them and try to make life miserable for their neighbor to force him to leave. Incredible.
It's one thing to book A and C and hope no one shows up in B and if they do you just give them the window seat. But to expect the guy to move and leave you an empty seat? And basically fuck with him until he does? That's fucking greasy
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol. I commute on planes for work all the time and switch seats. It's not a big deal.
destroyapathy · 1 points · Posted at 03:03:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh mr fancy pants.
13foxhole · 0 points · Posted at 03:50:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Trump voters I bet
Man-Bear-Sloth · -19 points · Posted at 00:43:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jeez I don't see what the big deal is, they saved some $ and the dude found another seat. A mild inconvenience, but shit if I had a kid I may try and use this trick.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 01:45:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd be fucking pissed if I was the middle guy and somebody pulled this shit. Be careful you don't your ass kicked on an airplane in front of your baby.
Man-Bear-Sloth · -10 points · Posted at 01:48:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha Maaaacho man over here
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 02:24:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Man-Bear-Sloth · 1 points · Posted at 08:11:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the kid is young enough to not have to buy another plane ticket, I'm not gonna buy it.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 08:54:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Man-Bear-Sloth · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, I mean with this intention I suppose it's a bit shifty, but if I got on a plane in the passengers situation and the parents were talking about how they made a mistake letting their kid sleep earlier, I would not really consider that being rude, just poor planning, and try and find a different seat. Airlines are in no way guaranteed to be comfortable
RashaGirl · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the parents genuinely needed to save money, but had to take a flight, I would save two seats next to each other, and then, one parent get up and find an empty seat and let the kid sit in the parents assigned seat. Or nicely ask the person to move, not be disrespectful and make someone uncomfortable.
YourDreamsWillTell · 1379 points · Posted at 21:11:18 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Weak will. If I had been in that seat, you best believe they'd regret messing with a truer troll.
AlwaysLupus · 5172 points · Posted at 01:16:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your opening move is to take off your shoes. This immediately bothers some people, and is universally effective if you've been walking around outside all day doing touristy things.
Start coughing. Tell them its okay, you picked something up in Istanbul and you won't be sleeping either. As a general rule I wouldn't tell people to cough on babies, but as long as you're faking it and covering your mouth, cough on the baby until they move.
Looking at my phone? Start showing them vacation pictures. Refuse all hints that the person would like you to stop talking now. Ignore the concept of personal space, really lean in there and show them your fucking pictures. If you managed to take a picture of any women at the beach, crank the creepiness level up to impossible levels by stroking the screen and panting a little.
Next up? Flirt with the wife. Ask if she visited the beach, or if their hotel had a pool. Ask what kind of bathing suit she wore. Do not let her skip any details, demand to know the color, fabric, pattern. Ask if the suit is in her carry-on luggage, and if you can see it. Tell her that you find post-pregnancy weight to be a little sexy. Their little mind games are chicken shit, you're playing 'scorched earth' tactics now. If the husband tries to interrupt, wave him away and say "Honey, adults are talking now." When you're ready for a few hours of silence from the wife ask if you can smell her hair. Fuck, this will probably work on the husband too. Lean in, get a good sniff, and tell him he smells nice too.
Where to go from here? Pick your nose and touch the armrests. Just touch everything you can. When you use the bathroom (Which you'll be doing constantly), make sure you get a good handful of his headrest with your filthy fucking fingers you disgusting slob. While picking your nose, press all the little buttons on both armrests (if you can), to figure out which one is 'yours'. Touch all the overhead buttons, and the air vents.
In their plan, they wanted to imply you won't get any sleep because of a well rested <2 year old? Guarantee they won't get any sleep. If either of them seem in danger of falling asleep, order a drink, use the bathroom, bump their arm off the armrest (Opps, "Sorry"), play with the overhead lights, or start a conversation with the one that's awake. You don't have kids, I guarantee you're more well rested then them right now, and their breaking point will be a lot closer than yours.
Most modern airlines will have some type of video entertainment in the seats. The last time I was on a 777 we had access to over 50 movies on demand. Pick a comedy (there's rarely anything like Saw on the airplane), and laugh out loud. Repeat all the jokes immediately after they're delivered on screen. Periodically lean over to either member of the family and repeat the punchline with tears in your eyes. Stare at them until you get a reaction.
Now lets talk about your bathroom trips. Make sure you wash your hands every time you go to the bathroom, you're not a filthy animal. However, never dry your hands. Your goal is to arrive back at your seat with hands so fucking wet that you get water all over the husband's headrest, the armrest, the husband's seat, and if you're lucky the husband. There is nothing more unnerving then having to rest your head on something moist that came from a guy that just got out of the bathroom. If you get any looks, raise your eyebrows and say, "Sorry, they were out of towels.". If offered a napkin, make sure to saturate it with liquid and give it back.
Next lets cover rookie mistakes. Do NOT fuck around with the barf bag. Some people are really sensitive to the idea of vomiting, and if you induce one of them to vomit you lose. Game over. There's a 50% chance you'll get some splatter on you, and now you're on a 12 hour plane flight without a change of clothes or a shower. You've got a wide arsenal of tools to work with, you're better than that (filmmakers, please write this one down). Also, avoid looking at porn on your device. You don't want half a dozen people to point you out as a pervert on the flight because they saw your screen when using the bathroom. You will immediately lose all sympathy, and you may be removed from the airplane in a random airport in Turkey. If you insist on aiming for sexual discomfort make sure you're grunting at pictures of Yarn and not attractive women. It'll be easier to claim you've got something stuck in your throat, and you can always attribute your 20 bathroom trips to diabetes.
Remember, you're not stuck in there with them. They're stuck in there with you.
dverb · 1372 points · Posted at 01:55:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I got a little bit uncomfortable just reading this. You win.
danish_hole · 512 points · Posted at 03:08:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
gosh that would be uncomfortable. He really is a professional
[deleted] · 178 points · Posted at 04:02:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
ButcherPetesMeats · 49 points · Posted at 05:04:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That wouldn't be long enough.
Fiishbait · 16 points · Posted at 14:39:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You can get tablets for that.
Shaper_pmp · 12 points · Posted at 18:31:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're being too hard on yourself. Even a little one would be disconcerting.
Yogadork · 1 points · Posted at 20:14:17 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
ayyy lmao
ffelenex · 2 points · Posted at 19:13:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This had me laughing. Thanks.
Eatsnow89 · 1 points · Posted at 20:25:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's what all the pretty girls say
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 05:23:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
So can I just not look at them to begin with?
poopitydoopityboop · 25 points · Posted at 16:13:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Although his ideas are that of a true master, we must remember that this is theoretical. Bill Burr is the true professional of dealing with plane trolls.
wOlfLisK · 375 points · Posted at 02:29:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Make sure to look a little worried and ask if the kid has been vaccinated.
Pro1150c · 316 points · Posted at 05:27:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And after that say "because God knows I was not"
bunsonh · 35 points · Posted at 10:56:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Too bad your kid will grow up autistic. I don't believe in poison like vaccines."
[deleted] · 307 points · Posted at 01:50:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love you.
gentlemanidiot · 73 points · Posted at 03:41:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Username checks out.
HarryB1313 · 18 points · Posted at 11:26:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Username checks out?
yesofcouseitdid · 17 points · Posted at 13:03:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dunston checks in!
PhorTheKids · 9 points · Posted at 13:44:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ernest goes to jail!
MaineNicklas · 5 points · Posted at 15:57:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Debbie does Dallas!
Alundil · 3 points · Posted at 16:35:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Debbi does Earnest in a jail in Dallas while Dunston checks in on them.
readonlyuser · 2 points · Posted at 19:58:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The Aristocrats!
MaineNicklas · 1 points · Posted at 16:44:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd watch that!
pkiff · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Again!
1stLtObvious · 275 points · Posted at 03:20:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Might actually make them more uncomfortable if you start flirting with the husband.
spanks_mcgee · 337 points · Posted at 05:08:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bonus points for dropping a real sarcastic "Sorry, sweetheart, men are talking" if she tries to interject.
LimJayhey · 66 points · Posted at 08:43:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh man that would be sublime
Tokugawa · 4 points · Posted at 00:42:05 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flirt with the baby?
1stLtObvious · 1 points · Posted at 08:42:37 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Priest: "Nice."
Livingontherock · 265 points · Posted at 02:16:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am almost with you. Your troll beats mine. After vacation photos I usually use astrology but since I know fuck all, I go into bible conspiracies.
RashaGirl · 121 points · Posted at 03:28:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
So one of my grandmas is crazy. Like hide mean note throughout your house when she visits so you have shit surprises all year long crazy. She is also an old Soviet super anti-religious atheist. One day when she was flying over to the US from Russia, she happened to get a seat next to one of Russia's higher up priests. She started off okay, having a normal conversation about religion with him, asking him questions about Russian orthodoxy and everything was fine until suddenly, she flipped her crazy switch and started accusing him of worshiping a fake deity, manipulating the public, spreading deciet, and a lot more. After a few minutes of that insanity he asked to be moved and she got an extra seat to stretch out on for an 8 hour flight. Funny thing is, my dad is a journalist, so he knows that priest, and a few months later heard that same terror story told by the priest at some function (my grandma had shared most of the details with us as well, she was proud of kicking the priest or of his seat).
c0nduit · 56 points · Posted at 14:38:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think she's crazy for saying he worships a fake deity, manipulates the public and spreads deceit, sounds about right for any priest to me.
RashaGirl · 46 points · Posted at 18:30:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure, everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, bombarding someone assigned to sit next to you for 8 hours on a plane with your personal opinions on how terrible they are is inappropriate and crazy.
crashtestgenius · 95 points · Posted at 14:57:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
2edgy4me 2: the edgening
rokimaru · 1 points · Posted at 19:28:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Educate yourself.
Haephestus · 0 points · Posted at 05:35:01 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should take a break from Reddit and go outside.
bumlove · 7 points · Posted at 18:27:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh god that is brilliant lol.
AlwaysLupus · 110 points · Posted at 02:20:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Secondary escalation would be showing them memes off reddit. If you've still got a few minutes of internet, load as many as you can.
oath2order · 98 points · Posted at 02:45:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just read them everything off /r/jokes and they'll beg for a new seat
kippy3267 · 10 points · Posted at 07:09:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Please for the love of god I'll lie down in the landing gear just get me a new seat"
pharzon · 1 points · Posted at 00:11:27 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's also /r/Dadjokes (sp?)
alienschnitzler · 4 points · Posted at 08:36:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
A few minutes of /r/imgoingtohellforthis should do it
pharzon · 1 points · Posted at 00:10:51 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/me_irl
photenth · 4 points · Posted at 10:06:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hell, go all the way and mention pizza gate and they should be careful because 2 year olds are in demand.
j3utton · 8 points · Posted at 03:40:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
... what kinda bible conspiracies?
bumblebritches57 · 47 points · Posted at 04:38:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The greastest of all time.
The the biggest trick Satan ever pulled was convincing the world he was Jesus.
MechanismZero · 10 points · Posted at 12:28:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's seven something in the morning, I'm dead tired. And this comment just fucking broke me.
PinchieMcPinch · 7 points · Posted at 14:28:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's 1:30am and I am just getting my pre-bed Reddit in, and I just did that thing with your mouth where you're like "but what why no you what" as you try to make five sentences at once.
MechanismZero · 8 points · Posted at 14:29:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
YES. I was just stunned.
This is getting used. I'm not sure when, I'm not sure why, but this will be in my arsenal for some scorched earth use.
emfolkerts · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What are bible conspiracy theories?
BadgerUltimatum · 1 points · Posted at 00:01:07 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
A good fallback is choose a weapon that is being studied emp, rail gun etc, that either china or Russia is using. Make up all the other details locations, date, and be sure to imply the state of the world is heading toward a large war.
Mention the child when talking about the size of the war and how he'll be conscripted.
RegalKillager · 66 points · Posted at 03:09:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is what I'm on reddit for.
swohio · 58 points · Posted at 03:21:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus christ, Satan. Remind me not to fuck with you.
Scarletfapper · 12 points · Posted at 13:24:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well which one is it, Jesus Christ or Satan?
youvgottabefuckingme · 5 points · Posted at 18:37:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think this should explain it.
Scarletfapper · 1 points · Posted at 18:42:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well that escalated quickly...
idontcarejustletme · 39 points · Posted at 03:15:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I read the post above yours and liked the idea but I genuinely couldn't even think of a way to execute it. Then you fire bomb the hell out of it. Well played.
Rockets9388 · 33 points · Posted at 03:25:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can honestly say it has been a long time since I belly laughed this hard.
Time and again I had to look away because the next sentence was so funny.
Thank you.
DaBozz88 · 52 points · Posted at 03:15:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Start watching porn.
Agree with everything else.
If I'm unfortunate enough to get a middle seat, and I see I'm between a couple I'll ask them if they want to switch. I'm large, and they'll both be uncomfortable with me in the middle. I've only had one couple refuse and then talk across me. But they weren't being assholes elsewhere so I let it go.
AlwaysLupus · 123 points · Posted at 03:33:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Porn's tricky. Porn can get you kicked off a flight.
I'd suggest learning to masturbate to heavy pieces of machinery. Shifting constantly in your seat and making soft grunts while you surf /r/MachinePorn/ can't get you in legal trouble as long as you're not fondling your berries. You're just a creepy motherfucker who shouldn't be in public.
Pilate · 46 points · Posted at 06:23:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just start googling for things that involve them... "how to tell someone to wear deodorant", "can you give herpes from arm rests", "making babies sleep forever"
AlwaysLupus · 40 points · Posted at 06:26:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Can babies get scabies?"
"Pickup lines for sex offenders."
"How to hide an erection on an airplane."
"How to discretely masturbate on an airplane."
[deleted] · 11 points · Posted at 05:29:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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baltuin · 7 points · Posted at 11:15:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Land the plane on the next airport send you the bill.
dalore · 1 points · Posted at 20:08:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nothing in the ticket terms and conditions says anything about it.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 03:25:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait why would they refuse?
DaBozz88 · 15 points · Posted at 03:33:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Idk why they did, but they did.
Matt50 · 21 points · Posted at 04:16:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pretty simple: One wanted the window, the other wanted the aisle. I'd gladly take a better view or extra leg room over having both armrests.
mirrth · 14 points · Posted at 06:07:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get the impression this couple would observe the unwritten seating rules.
gotr3kt · 22 points · Posted at 10:32:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Window gets a wall and an armrest.
Middle gets two armrests.
Aisle gets an armrest and a little bit of extra leg.
We're not fucking animals, we live in a society!
massivewang · 8 points · Posted at 11:30:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I fucking despise aisle seats for the following reasons:
1.) There is an over abundance of fucktards on airplanes who can't walk down the aisle without bumping into people. If I had a dollar for every time someone has bumped into me, I'd be on the forbes 400 richest people in the world list.
2.) The flight attendants more often than not bump into me moving their cart, if the cart itself does not bump into me.
3.) I've got to get up for the middle/window seat people when they want to use the bathroom.
I prefer window seats, but I'd take middle over aisle any day of the week. Fuck aisle seats forever.
Note: Not obese, 6'2" and 200 lbs.
namegoeswhere · 6 points · Posted at 12:52:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And if those idiots shuffling up and down the aisle don't bump into your shoulder, they'll grab your damn headrest and give it a shake.
I'm the same size. Isn't flying fun?
Zanki · 5 points · Posted at 17:24:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was once on a flight and ended up with the isle. I couldn't get my legs in the seat. The guy who was stupidly tall got two seats to himself, because I'm a 5'11 female with all the length in my legs I got told to suck it up. It was too painful to shove my legs in so I sat sideways. When I got yelled at to move by cabin crew I somehow got my legs in, it hurt, then the guy in front put his seat back. I was completely trapped and in a lot of pain. Dude would not put his seat back up and he got pissed at me because I had to push on his seat to free myself so I could get my legs back into the isle.
I've had people fall into me on flights when I have the isle. I had one trip were the guy in front grabbed my stuff from under his seat, where I was supposed to put my stuff and just throw it into the isle, calling it trash and put his own stuff there, taking up my floor space (I had my feet on his stuff most of the flight). He was in an exit row and had already filled the overhead space with a massive suitcase, leaving me with nowhere to store my backpack. Luckily the people next to me were cool and cleared a little space on their end so I could keep my backpack by my feet while calling the dude in front some very nasty names. Cabin crew refused to deal with the man.
On a flight recently I was traveling with my friend who is stupidly tall. He easily towers over me and we got to our seats. When we sat down I complained there wasn't much leg room, he started to say he had less when he looked at my legs. We used up the same amount of leg room and both only had a couple of cm clearance sitting up straight.
iicepick11 · 3 points · Posted at 19:04:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ugh, the I feel you on the deceiving leg length.. I'm only 5'9 but more than 36" of that is leg. Most airplane seats fit my legs with just a few cm of clearance, and while my torso makes me look quite short when sitting, most taller men I sit near are surprised to find my legs crunched up just the same as theirs or even more-so. I loathe air travel..
queendweeb · 1 points · Posted at 20:12:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude, I thought I had it bad at 5'5" and 34" inseam and change.
massivewang · 2 points · Posted at 17:46:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The seat space, I feel your pain. I'm lucky in that I have status with my airline so I get the premium cabin seats that have just enough extra legroom to make it comfortable. This is for when I'm flying internationally for business though. I live in South America for work and on the local flights I take I'm stuck with the normal seats, which are uncomfortable as hell for us tall people.
I once had a dude try to put his bag underneath his seat where my foot space was, I had to tell him "Hey, you can't put your bag there", he complied without issue. Though it doesn't help that I'm a big guy, I imagine with you being a woman assholes push the limits a bit more not expecting you to say/do anything about it.
queendweeb · 1 points · Posted at 20:11:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 5'5" with stupidly long legs (torsoless wondertwin powers activate.) Often I'll walk into a flight with some dude well over 6' tall, who has to fold himself into a seat, sit next to him, and realize I have less leg clearance than he does, because he's got short legs and a long torso, haha.
My knees usually hit the stupid fold-out trays. WHO ARE THOSE SEATS MADE FOR? My legs are not THAT long, I only have like a 34" inseam? I mean, yeah, I need long or extra long pants, but really, I AM ONLY 5'5", even with my stupid build, I can't be that torsoless, can I??
Jdoggcrash · 2 points · Posted at 18:09:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
6'2" 200lbs could still be pretty fat if none of your weight is muscle. We're gonna need more info here.
massivewang · 3 points · Posted at 18:14:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I lift, not fat.
Jdoggcrash · 3 points · Posted at 18:16:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh I didn't think you were. I figured you were either buff or all the extra weight was in your massivewang
SenatorCrabHat · 1 points · Posted at 14:15:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
On a flight from El Salvador one of the lavatories was broken, so people were queuing in the isles. A man's belly hit me in the face 5 fucking times. I regretted my aisle preference that day....
massivewang · 3 points · Posted at 14:20:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a flight where it seemed like everyone was bumping into me. I got FUCKING PISSED after the billionth time and was ready to hit the call button and tell a flight attendant "If one more person bumps into me I'm going to lose my fucking shit!" .
Of course I calmed the fuck down realizing that any threat of "losing my fucking shit" on an airplane was not going to end well for me.
SenatorCrabHat · 1 points · Posted at 23:25:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, thats a good way to be under a pile of 3 sky marshals......
dalore · 2 points · Posted at 20:09:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That works until you have a seat of 4. Who gets the middle armrests when there are 2 middles.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:08:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I too like Kyle.
casualassassin · 8 points · Posted at 05:11:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
People are picky when it comes to aisle and window seats. Aisle seats mean easy, unimpeded access to the bathroom. Window seats mean a headrest and a chance to look at clouds and shit. Middle seat gets nothing.
gotr3kt · 4 points · Posted at 10:34:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Middle seat gets two armrests.
stationhollow · 1 points · Posted at 07:52:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They probably thought he would somehow find another seat entirely and they would have a spare.
eternalexodus · 25 points · Posted at 04:52:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would avoid the flirting thing. she's likely to grab a flight attendant and say you're sexually harassing her.
harcole · 25 points · Posted at 05:23:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Should flirt with the husband
FridayNiteGoatParade · 9 points · Posted at 18:43:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Until he recognises your game immediately and doubles down and you play a game of gay chicken. Next thing you know, you'll be bent over that little lavatory toilet wondering if you're going to end up with hemmorhoids when he's finished.
harcole · 5 points · Posted at 18:59:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
win-win situation
JayCroghan · 4 points · Posted at 14:35:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
There's a big difference between flirting and sexual harassment...
eternalexodus · 9 points · Posted at 16:49:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't matter. If she claims it's sexual harassment and it's on an airplane, chances are good you'll get kicked off. The truth doesn't matter--what she says matters.
nestorishere · 1 points · Posted at 20:32:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do it when the plane takes flight
eternalexodus · 2 points · Posted at 20:59:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rather not be detained by an air Marshall either.
Bangledesh · 5 points · Posted at 16:57:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
While I agree with you, regarding actual, mature, adults.
Not in a world where safe spaces exist because someone's participation trophy wasn't big and special enough.
Soltheron · 6 points · Posted at 17:56:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ah this is one of those shit subs, isn't it.
Soltheron · 1 points · Posted at 17:57:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
In what universe is it "flirting" when the couple is sitting right there?
Wallcrawler62 · 2 points · Posted at 18:17:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hugh Mungus what?
eternalexodus · 1 points · Posted at 20:59:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That guy LITERALLY raped her
SpiderStratagem · 24 points · Posted at 07:22:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whole post was great, but this piece is just brilliant.
6chan · 21 points · Posted at 12:15:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also, ask if the mother breastfeeds the child and if she plans to do it on the plane. Tell her that you are totally comfortable with her doing this here.
Aubear11885 · 8 points · Posted at 15:24:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Also comment on the baby's head shape and ask "natural or C?"
AnastasiaBeaverhosen · 23 points · Posted at 03:19:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
god i hope i never piss you off on a plane
EmphaticGreyMage · 20 points · Posted at 02:55:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you for this blessing.
Rimbosity · 17 points · Posted at 17:45:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think it's hilarious that you and others think that what you're suggesting here is anything other than absolute amateur hour.
You're sitting next to parents of a small child. They've been barfed on, shat on, pissed on, spat upon, and snot upon. And not just a little bit of barf, shit, piss, spit and snot -- enough of it that it isn't even a big deal to them.
You think you're violating social norms? Sitting in their laps is a person who isn't even aware what social norms even are. And by playing the escalation game, you've just removed all incentive they have to restrain that little animal.
13-hour flight, eh? Do you know how many diaper changes that is? Do you know happens during a diaper change? And you're sitting between the diaper-changers?
Remember, we're talking about an under-2-year-old here. They don't even need the motion or claustrophobia of an economy-class seat to barf. They don't even need to be sick. They'll barf because they're constipated. (Do the math: If the shit doesn't go out, where does the food go?)
Flirting with the wife? Puh-leeze. Nothing like a child deciding to hit 137.9 decibels with a tenth octave D-flat to encourage the sexy mood, is there?
And you've got to survive thirteen hours of this. Thirteen hours of barfing, shitting, screaming, snotting, with two parents who have you surrounded and -- for them -- this is just what they're used to. They've been dealing with this every day for the past year or so.
Like I said, everything you say here is just... amateur hour. The real expert, the absolute bar-none badass, is sitting on the parent's lap.
Would you like to hold the baby for a bit while I get a fresh diaper? Oh shit, it looks like it's leaking out... be careful!
Globalscree · 14 points · Posted at 19:04:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't mom-splain at me
RashaGirl · 17 points · Posted at 03:15:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are amazing! Thank you for this!
Gaary · 15 points · Posted at 12:12:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was thinking something similar when I saw this post but I think you go a bit too far. Not too far as in I disapprove of what you'd do, but I think it could backfire a bit more and there's a lot of hidden value in fucking with people to the point that they're just not sure if you're fucking with them or not. Grunts, sighs, coughs, giggles, etc are all great, don't do it at anything sexual though. People on a plane are nosey, you get one person that sticks up for the couple and you're gone. A passenger behind or in front of you telling the flight attendant "he was asking her to show him her bathing suit, moaning and sniffing her hair" and then you're fucked.
Constant bathroom breaks, spillage over the arm rests, messy eating, coughing, etc are all great. Fucking with the kid would be good also. Yea it's not really all that moral, they didn't choose to be a part of this, but war has casualties. Play some stuff on your ipad/phone/etc but anytime they get interested in it turn it away. If the parents act like that then I'd guarantee that the kid is one of those that goes mental when tv or something is taken away. Just be careful not to appear too upset because if the flight attendant gets called over and you seem displeased with your seat, they'll insist on helping you find a seat. You're totally right with the kid sleeping though, no fucking way a 2 year old isn't sleeping on that flight.
I'd also suggest mumbling along to songs too if the parents don't have headsets, the weirder the song the better.
TortureSteak · 2 points · Posted at 20:54:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
banana noises
RashaGirl · 18 points · Posted at 03:48:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
When laughing, laugh with your mouth open but teeth closed, shaking back and forth, and froth at the mouth a bit; pop a few pimples; keep itching, constantly itching; gag a few times and reach for the barf bag; cry and vent to them about your last breakup; develop a tic; after you cry, leave that snot hanging from your nose for a while and talk to them before wiping it on a seat handle; gag some more; pick at your toes, bonus points for using a pencil's sharp point to get the gunk out from under the toe nail - smell it; drool a bit while taking to them; laugh quietly to yourself while shivering; talk like gollum; smell your earwax; pick at a scar :)
More: If they give you packets of ketchup or mayo with your meal, save them for later. After they collect the trays, put one foot on the seat so that your knee is at face level. Put the ketchup on your knee and lick it off while making soft moaning noses.
If they give you crackers or white cookies with your meal, take a few to the bathroom, break them up into almost dust and massage them into your hair. When you get back to your seat, frantically scratch your hair and let the "lice" fall all over your new friends. If a particularly large one falls on someone's pant leg, frantically apologize, pick it up, and eat it.
Leave large chewed up chunks of food in your teeth and talk to them. Tell them one of those long winded stories that ends with nothing important. Then, pick some of the food from your mouth.
BoltorPrime · 5 points · Posted at 07:26:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
holy shit i gagged multiple times
grant622 · 10 points · Posted at 04:06:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That you George Costanza?
iamafucktard · 5 points · Posted at 05:27:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/bestof
EWSTW · 5 points · Posted at 04:23:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love you <3
sailor_usagii · 3 points · Posted at 04:38:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can I hire you to troll people for me?
rexlibris · 4 points · Posted at 05:22:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had to bail over Gus Fring from Breaking Bad in the back of coach to make it to the toilet while puking every where on take off. He was a gentleman. Fortunately I made it to the can. No change from the flight crew except when we landed and the pilot and co-pilot came out to take selfies with him.
LeYanYan · 3 points · Posted at 09:04:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Satan, is that you?
PrivilegeCheckmate · 5 points · Posted at 10:43:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love the idea of applying Rorschach to pettiness.
tooktheplunge · 4 points · Posted at 17:52:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's funny reading it but also makes me think...you REALLY want that middle seat between two parents and their kids? That badly? Seems most people would want to not be in that situation but I guess trolls are gonna troll.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 21:50:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The idea that you think any of that competes with a crying baby is hilarious. Anybody would switch seats to sit next to you in a second if it meant they didn't have to listen to a crying baby. Oh, your hands are wet? Listen to this crying baby. Oh, you laughed loudly at a stupid joke? Listen to this crying baby.
If some parents with a crying baby want me to move, all they have to do is tell me that there is a different seat I can move into.
nspectre · 4 points · Posted at 22:15:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Watch airline crash and disaster videos, instead. Chuckle often with the occasional, "Oh, that's good" muttered under your breath.
The_Last_Y · 6 points · Posted at 03:53:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
http://i.imgur.com/qdckEcg.gifv
Statik81 · 3 points · Posted at 04:12:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Holy shit.
asosa23 · 3 points · Posted at 04:14:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You win
the_offended · 3 points · Posted at 04:20:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You sir, are a true genius.
bumblebritches57 · 3 points · Posted at 04:34:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
instant gold
kousi · 3 points · Posted at 04:43:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Brilliant
Sasquatch-d · 3 points · Posted at 05:55:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus you're a monster. Never stop doing what you're doing.
OU812A · 3 points · Posted at 11:36:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Any tips for dealing with a crazy (BPD) spouse that made my life living hell?
equalnotevi1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:20:49 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Therapy? Divorce?
CorpseeaterVZ · 3 points · Posted at 12:22:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whenever we meet, please remind me not to fuck with you
MickeyG42 · 3 points · Posted at 15:25:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're a damn liar. It's never lupus.
Seen_Unseen · 4 points · Posted at 15:24:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I fucking hate parents with their little spawn. Small children seldom can handle a flight well so if possible, just don't fly. Anyway a child won't have any clue about being anywhere else besides out of town.
Then the next step that can get me raving, I'm a rather tall guy so if I book I will try to get the front row. If I manage to pick those seats online and you didn't, tough luck. You got a child, well that sucks for you.
And if it's a long flight don't be an utter cunt and don't book for your child. Sure thing it's not obligated but do yourself as well the rest a favour and spend that money.
MagicBez · 1 points · Posted at 17:49:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
To be fair you can't book a seat for an under 2 even if you try. Rules are they have to be on a lap with a belt extender for safety. This is the case in the EU at least.
...Also people travelling with kids may be going to see other family, whether or not the kid will remember the experience isn't always the motivating factor.
Seen_Unseen · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:57 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you sure about this? Mind you I don't have kids though I've been traveling with a couple last time and their kid is below 2 years old and they always book a seat for her including Europe.
MagicBez · 1 points · Posted at 10:54:06 on January 19, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have tried and failed to get a seat for an under-2 year old on British Airways - not even an option on the booking form and if you call them up they tell you they have to be on your lap.
To be honest I just assumed this was a legal thing (haven't flown with any other airlines to test) but some googling tells me that BA would allow me to book them a seat if I get a special air-car-seat thing.
This said they always clock that you're a family with a toddler and try to get you a row of three whenever possible so the kid has somewhere to sit during the flight but they have to be on your lap during take-off and landing.
The whole thing is of course arbitrary, if safety was the concern they'd probably do it based on weight/height of the child rather than deeming them suddenly safe when they turn 2.
As someone who flies a lot solo I always dread small kids too - though to be honest I think ages 2-6 are worse because then they're more prone to kicking my seat, spilling shit and being a noisy jerk that can't be as easily settled by shoving a bottle or boob in their mouth
Seen_Unseen · 1 points · Posted at 11:18:59 on January 19, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe give next time another airline a try. Now mind you I don't live in Europe anymore so I seldom fly within Europe. Last time I had a couple flights in Germany with German Wings, all they require is my name and e-mail. Not even a passport number.
MagicBez · 1 points · Posted at 12:08:17 on January 19, 2017 · (Permalink)
Eh, it's a moot point now as the kid is older, besides BA are marginally nicer than budget and have some decent lounges.
buddhasupe · 2 points · Posted at 05:49:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is poetry
DownVotingCats · 2 points · Posted at 05:51:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh man, cough on the baby until the move! Bahaha dead
skywreckdemon · 2 points · Posted at 05:59:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're a genius.
Mustaka · 2 points · Posted at 06:38:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
BattlePlaneSeats. By far one of the best games on /r/irldownloads.
MrMeier · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not everyone has the ability to do something like this.
donutnz · 2 points · Posted at 09:25:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just reading that my skin is crawling and I'm trying to suruptitiously call the stewardess to get one of us moved and I'm not even on a plane. I feel so dirty I might go have another shower.
aab0908 · 2 points · Posted at 09:35:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wanna grow up to be petty like you. 😍
llowlife · 2 points · Posted at 10:36:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This works really well on trains as well.
bottomofleith · 2 points · Posted at 10:46:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Honey, adults are talking now."
Love it!
Double0dude · 2 points · Posted at 11:15:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I applaud you sir, that is some nice trolling. I however am of the belief that you can more than accomplish your goal by being less complicated. Maybe I'm just too lazy to do everything in your plan, doing one thing and doing it well should get the job done. I would think that staring at the baby extremely intently while licking your fingers like you just ate the Colonels chicken while not breaking eye contact would suffice. I'll liken it to when I would get annoyed by men constantly checking out my now ex wife, anybody can get mad or give dirty looks. I chose to stare at their crotch and biting my lower lip and make sure that they saw me, maybe even follow them a bit.
FridayNiteGoatParade · 1 points · Posted at 18:40:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a great way to catch an accusation of being a pedophile while on a plane full of people who won't find your shit even mildly amusing.
Society_in_decline · 2 points · Posted at 11:39:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Until I pick up the hint and double down the same efforts against you. Lets see how you like it when I do it to you.
Thanks for the tips; see you on the tarmac.
RedheadBanshee · 2 points · Posted at 13:59:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm having a rough time of it lately, and honestly this is the first time I have laughed out loud all week. Thank you for that.
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:34 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wish you the best, and lots of reasons to laugh and smile.
goran_788 · 2 points · Posted at 14:23:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I need to save this post to my phone in case I ever get into that situation. Thank you.
reverend234 · 2 points · Posted at 14:29:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck your shit. Lady and family are cunts.
theotherghostgirl · 2 points · Posted at 15:40:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
TBH if it's a small child you're just better off switching seats. When my brother and I were little we'd have issues with the airline fucking up changing our seats last minute, meaning that we wound up sitting next to a complete stranger rather for a long flight despite the fact my parents had reserved seats right next to each other on the plane.
Luckily we were pretty well behaved kids but it probably helped that we were old enough to keep it together when the airline "lost" our reservations and we had to get new seats, but not everyone is so lucky
beebish · 2 points · Posted at 16:18:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Savage. Let that be a lesson to them
Neon_Parrott · 2 points · Posted at 16:23:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This needs to be a standup routine.
MangledPumpkin · 2 points · Posted at 16:31:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are a real hero.
Lord_Redav · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You forgot to offer to watch the kid halfway through.
All_Under_Heaven · 2 points · Posted at 16:34:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in 2008 I used the phrase "fifty different kinds of Evil" to describe one of my classmates. Now I used it again in 2017 to describe this post.
MagicSPA · 2 points · Posted at 17:11:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're a natural.
Somasong · 2 points · Posted at 17:30:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My hero
SlobBarker · 2 points · Posted at 17:50:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pshaw. A real troll would have flirted with the husband.
dick_long_wigwam · 2 points · Posted at 18:03:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It sounds like you're ruining your own flight.
like, /r/parenting came up with a tactic for ruining a flight with /u/FroggierSnow7 on it: bring the baby
StuartMThomas · 2 points · Posted at 18:39:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's like Jackass meets Up In The Air.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 20:09:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We flew with lap children all the time. Yes, id love the extra seat for free, yes we've probably bitched a few times amongst ourselves when someone won't give it up, but man, if you want the extra seat, buy one. Lap child is not free open seat child.
romacafe1 · 2 points · Posted at 21:50:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
But what is your goal?
I mean, the parents' goal was to get a row to themselves and a free seat for their kids. Regardless of their methods, the goal makes sense, winning has a reward.
What is your goal in this situation?
Spellbinder1981 · 5 points · Posted at 00:26:59 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Punishing them for playing their shitty game, that's what.
romacafe1 · 0 points · Posted at 04:10:21 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's just mean. They're not hurting anybody. They're not even stealing, and they're definitely not playing a game. They're trying to have a comfortable flight with a 2 year old. Why anybody would spitefully refuse to move away from a 2 year old on a long flight is beyond me.
Even if you win, you lose. Loser.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 09:32:29 on January 19, 2017 · (Permalink)
Trying to get something for free by using a child is playing a game. Those parents are the losers and I feel sorry for the child. I would prolly satiate the child and ensure I become the hero to all of the passengers while shaming the parents for not doing so while ensuring everyone knew why I had to satiate the child, because the parents refused to buy their child a seat.
chizzus · 2 points · Posted at 03:52:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you for making my day
modestlyawesome1000 · 2 points · Posted at 03:54:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're like Del Griffith's evil twin
PurpleNinja63 · 1 points · Posted at 09:52:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Take No Prisoners
Hetspookjee · 1 points · Posted at 09:55:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lsJmwNO40
youtubefactsbot · 1 points · Posted at 09:55:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
bot info
redditscanuck · 1 points · Posted at 11:17:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Funny story, but it's probably gonna stay that way because irl you'll just fold and move over.
Aubear11885 · 1 points · Posted at 15:27:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would just ask if one wanted to switch seats so they could be together. You'll look like the nice guy accommodating the family. It's far easier and then I get an aisle or window.
RJWalker · 1 points · Posted at 11:57:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn son, I simply would have taken both arm rests and considered it a win.
yurmahm · 1 points · Posted at 12:59:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wasn't expecting a guide....but hey, good work!
Chrismercy · 1 points · Posted at 13:26:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
u/DopeShifty
Vozzler · 1 points · Posted at 14:24:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I imagined all of these actions performed by Randy from My Name is Earl.
haidruh · 1 points · Posted at 14:48:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like planes trains and automobiles to me
kendrickshalamar · 1 points · Posted at 18:53:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or the runs.
Best_Pants · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yea...maybe just cough straight ahead. Covering your mouth isn't exactly an effective method to keep germs off stuff in front of you.
M8asonmiller · 1 points · Posted at 20:29:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Anyone else read that in Rich Evans' voice
2oonhed · 1 points · Posted at 21:14:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
OH YISSSSS.
But wait, what if your seat mate has also read this post?......
Can we promise not to shoot nose boogers at each other?
Gamerstud · 1 points · Posted at 21:29:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow...I got wildly uncomfortable just reading that.
Shodan_ · 1 points · Posted at 21:33:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Travelling with small kids is terrible and any out you get is great. Moving in this case is going to be more comfortable for anyone...
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 18:12:42 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like you.
Gridorr · 1 points · Posted at 20:03:20 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your a dick Hahahahhaha this is amazing!
FoxMcWeezer · 1 points · Posted at 04:08:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
All of these are shower comebacks. You wouldn't shit in person.
AlwaysLupus · 2 points · Posted at 07:23:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its a 12 hour flight and the post is only 10 hours old right now. You've got time for plenty of these suggestions.
roadhammer86 · 1 points · Posted at 03:36:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You are my hero.
NBegovich · 1 points · Posted at 03:39:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Alan Moore is the greatest writer of all time
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 05:40:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Taking off shoes bothers people? Must be an American thing.
VortexMagus · 6 points · Posted at 11:55:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It isn't the shoes off thing that bothers people, its the shoes off when you've just spent 12 hours walking around a sweltering city at 90 degrees without showering or changing that becomes horrifying.
apholmes · 3 points · Posted at 15:42:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was taught that you just don't take your shoes off in public unless you're at a beach or something, or at someone's house who insists on it. Certainly not when the people around you have no choice but to be right next to you for a long period of time, in an enclosed space, with recycled air.
matterhorn1 · 1 points · Posted at 17:50:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think Americans sleep in their shoes
sarinonline · 268 points · Posted at 01:24:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I was much younger, just turned (18) was travelling to europe by myself to meet up with my dad.
Get on the plane which isn't too busy, sit down in the middle row. It was a while ago but I believe 4 seats in the middle. So X is me, 0 is empty and V is the other guy.
x0v0
He immediately without even saying hi starts with the whole "I am extremely tired. I plan on sleeping a lot. I can only sleep laying down. I wanted this entire row for myself to lie down. The plane is not busy I am sure you can sit elsewhere. The stewardesses will not care" Like right off the bat, one after the other.
I sit down, smile politely and go to put my headphones on.
He reaches across and touches my arm to stop me putting the earbud in "You don't want my feet on you. That lady won't care if you sit next to her. You should move now, it is a long flight"
I put the earbuds in. He fumes, gets up, slams his stuff around, glares at me. Walks off to another row and puts his stuff there.
Couple walks up, sits in row. He gets up and moves. More people enter plane. Some sit in that row.
I hadn't noticed by this time, but the stewardesses must have been paying attention. He also must have raged at a few other people. Cause when he came back to his original seat, in my row. After the other rows no longer suited him.
They came up and asked him to go back to his assigned seat.
I was confused, but then they showed him to one of the side 3 seater rows. Asshole = v. empty = 0, others = s.
svs
He was never even supposed to sit in my row, I ended up with the entire row. He got jammed between two other people.
No one asked to sit in my row, I wouldn't have had a problem.
Hell I probably wouldn't have had a problem moving, other then I was nervous as hell on a plane by myself for the first time, with people still arriving to sit down,and didn't know if I was allowed to.
Entitlement. Kicking people out of their own row, so you can have it all. When its not even your row.
york100 · 62 points · Posted at 02:19:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ha! I had this shit happen to me once because some jerk claimed he needed to be next his GF and I moved and had to sit next to an extremely obnoxious women for an eight-hour flight who prodded me for my seat so she could sit by the aisle and me in the middle. I have never let anyone randomly move me again. And lately I've noticed the stewardesses are much less tolerant of this shit.
Kordiana · 9 points · Posted at 07:07:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have heard people ask stewardesses to switch seats before and they have always said no, unless it's an emergency exit row. They say they aren't allowed to because if the plane crashes the manifest is the best way to tell who may have lived or died. Or how many bodies to look for. Kind of dark but a freaking good point.
stationhollow · 8 points · Posted at 07:56:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
PLenty of stewardesses do the whole "oh can you give up your seat in the front row of economy that has plenty of leg room that you paid extra for so this lady with a baby can have it instead" crap with me.
sioux612 · 2 points · Posted at 14:32:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
OTOH I (6'4") have been moved to an emergency exit row because there was a woman with her baby in the seat originally and i don't the ink they were too happy with that
Kordiana · 1 points · Posted at 19:44:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That sucks. It also puts you in a shitty position because she knew she had a kid, and you paid for your seat for that specific reason. It isn't really fair to make you look like an ass to the people around you for not giving up your seat. It's not like asking someone for a seat on the bus or anything.
NotThatIdiot · 1 points · Posted at 08:04:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They should try that. Im 1,98 and i need that space or end up having the worst flight ever.
1stLtObvious · 29 points · Posted at 03:26:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
When I studied abroad in Australia, I had 14.5 hour flight from LA to Sydney. The seats were a little larger than normal, and no one had the seat between me and this very nice, old lady. We had some nice chats when neither of us was dozing off, and it was as comfortable as long plane rides in coach could go.
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 05:45:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get off this thread.
[deleted] · 12 points · Posted at 02:12:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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sarinonline · 34 points · Posted at 02:17:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No people were walking in and sitting in the seats their tickets said.
A bunch of people entered as soon as the doors opened (including this guy, the people he was supposed to sit next to, and me near the end of the line. He must have been near the front of the line)
But then after the initial boarding, more people were trickling in over time.
He started in his own seat (before I made it on), realised he would sit next to people. Moved to my row (or maybe another row before that)
When I sat down, he had a go at me, then moved to another row (other people arrived for that row after that). So he moved to other empty row. Then more people arrived and had tickets for that row.
He wasn't leaving rows because they were full, just as soon as a single other person sat in that row. He would tell them to move and when they didnt, move himself to another empty row and try again.
After about 4 rows. As he was doing this as the plane was boarding. The stewardesses came and put him back in his assigned seat.
If he hadn't made such a big deal, been an asshole about it. I don't think the stewardesses would have cared at all that me moved seats.
Setacics · -3 points · Posted at 04:18:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Just like /u/Cyanr said. Or... wait... Are you forgetting commas on purpose or are you just bad at grammar?
ThisOneTimeOnReadit · 8 points · Posted at 05:36:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I, think, you, are, retarded.
getgudbro · 3 points · Posted at 11:41:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
i flew to Hongkong from Germany last year, when flying back home there were like only 30% seats occupied. So moving around and taking any seat you want wasn't really that much of a problem. It probably only gets one if you behave like an asshole while doing that.
I guess that's more or less normal for longer (expensive) flights.
Popopopper123 · 4 points · Posted at 04:25:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You should have stared right at him and slowly laid down.
vanceco · 1 points · Posted at 18:47:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Back in the 80's, when planes weren't always completely full, i had a red-eye flight from Honolulu to Chicago on an almost empty DC-10, and they had 5 seats in the middle section, most were empty and I (and several others) was able to have a complete row to myself, so I flipped up the armrests and stretched out for the flight. It was great, but i've never been on a plane that empty since then.
PIGamer86 · 68 points · Posted at 23:50:49 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Put drinks precariously close to the edge of the drop down table so if and when they fall from a child's bump or grab, they get all over the parent and child.
Zelcron · 69 points · Posted at 00:04:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Drink too much in general. In part so you have to disturb them to pee as much as possible.
Detective_Hacc · 24 points · Posted at 01:27:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm type 2 diabetic. You don't want me to be in a middle seat and have water.
Timbooo · 7 points · Posted at 02:19:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you vent your excessive water/sugar through your facial follicles?
Detective_Hacc · 1 points · Posted at 15:49:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah.
When your blood sugar is uncontrolled, your body attempts to get rid of it by pushing it through as urine.
That's just if you're uncontrolled, though. I haven't had that happen in a good few years.
sioux612 · 1 points · Posted at 14:37:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've found that on average I've been cut off after 8 drinks
You can get one or two more drinks if you talk as little as possible so they can't hear you slur your words
I have yet to try switching between alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages, and I don't know if the lessened "alcoholic vibe" is countered by the extra drinks you may get
Aniform · 170 points · Posted at 21:30:44 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Haha, honestly, I would have never given up that easy. I'm ridiculously more patient than even the most patient people. That's my seat, I paid for it.
1stLtObvious · 35 points · Posted at 03:28:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I might not always be the most patient person in the world, but I sure am one of the most stubborn. My butt is staying in that seat.
ArtoriasBIG · 15 points · Posted at 04:22:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I might not be the most patient person in the world, or even the most stubborn, but goddamnit I'm almost assuredly the most obnoxious dickhead on any given flight.
dblmjr_loser · 1 points · Posted at 03:44:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I smoke mad cigarettes and can summon a horrible cough on demand, that baby would be getting loogied on like a motherfucker.
On the other hand I disagree with OP and think this is brilliant manipulation, I'm in it for number one baby!
Scarletfapper · 1 points · Posted at 13:31:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Depends on the reason - if they're just being obnoxious they can fuck right off, but sometimes couples just want to sit together. I've been in that situation and I've also moved for people in that situation. So long as they're polite and they don't try to bully me out of a seat they didn't pay for.
Kheyman · 56 points · Posted at 23:58:50 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Make scary faces at the kid when the parents aren't looking. Laugh when they struggle to calm the kid.
YourDreamsWillTell · 49 points · Posted at 00:02:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Put an orange between my gums in a Tuscan garden and die of a heart attack?
metastasis_d · 9 points · Posted at 00:21:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No; bugspray
BirchBlack · 5 points · Posted at 00:45:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't heard or seen a reference to this movie in a really really long time.
metastasis_d · 2 points · Posted at 00:50:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't seen it since I was WAY too young to understand anything besides the physical humor.
BirchBlack · 1 points · Posted at 01:19:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whatever happened to that actor? Jay Mohr?
metastasis_d · 1 points · Posted at 01:20:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Murdered and replaced by the Dude You're Gettin' A Dell guy.
BirchBlack · 1 points · Posted at 01:24:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mystery solved. Good work boys.
thescrewtapemixtapes · 1 points · Posted at 02:24:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What movie is it?
mobileoctobus · 0 points · Posted at 03:32:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Godfather
thescrewtapemixtapes · 0 points · Posted at 04:29:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ohhhh, the first guy was referencing Godfather and the second two were referencing the Jay Mohr movie Mafia! which parodied it, that's what was confusing me
potentpotables · 26 points · Posted at 00:38:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would gladly trade for the aisle, the middle seat sucks.
Bearence · 62 points · Posted at 01:01:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm going to guess that people who act like these people wouldn't see that as an option. They didn't want to sit together, they wanted a free seat.
AlwaysLupus · 5 points · Posted at 01:17:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whenever I'm stick in a middle seat, I aggressively try to move to an aisle seat. Before I sat down I'd have noted the rows with 2 empty seats and I'd be watching them like a hawk.
[deleted] · 82 points · Posted at 21:46:05 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
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unlimitedzen · 6 points · Posted at 02:11:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The low air pressure does that.
Qwertizzy · 13 points · Posted at 02:49:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
TIL Taco Bell is made with low air pressure
unlimitedzen · 1 points · Posted at 18:01:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, what airline do you fly that serves taco bell on the flight?
1stLtObvious · 2 points · Posted at 03:30:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I should make sure to store some Taco Bell in my backpack for just such situations.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 00:58:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn straight. And the first thing I'd establish is that both arm rests are mine. Mwahahahaa!
ANGLVD3TH · 3 points · Posted at 02:22:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Time to blast some death metal from your phone, put in some earplugs and take a nap.
youngestOG · 600 points · Posted at 21:33:43 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had a reserved seat on the Megabus and when I got on the bus there was an entire families luggage taking up my seat. When I moved the luggage the "Man" of the group threw a temper tantrum about how I wasn't allowed to touch his stuff and he had no where else to put it. His daughter explained to him that I had reserved the seat and he walked away with his luggage looking very embarrassed.
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 253 points · Posted at 21:38:42 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't luggage go under the bus?
youngestOG · 286 points · Posted at 21:41:57 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your main luggage goes under the bus and then you can carry on one smaller bag, all of the families smaller bags were piled up on my seat
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 82 points · Posted at 22:03:19 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn that's even worse.
SampritB · 34 points · Posted at 02:51:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did you ask them to move it before you started moving it?
youngestOG · 7 points · Posted at 16:02:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No because I didn't know who's it was and I had no intention of standing around like a jackass. It's not like I tossed the bloody thing off the seat like some kind of animal.
dorkwingduck · 45 points · Posted at 04:28:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Should he have to?
quiteCryptic · 79 points · Posted at 05:02:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you want to be a normal person you should...
Danni293 · 1 points · Posted at 08:11:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What's normal?
blackfogg · 1 points · Posted at 12:24:16 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
I am.
mxzf · 32 points · Posted at 05:31:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He shouldn't have to, but he should do that, rather than just moving it himself without saying anything. It's possible that they just thought it was a spare seat, no reason not to at least attempt to be polite in a situation, it's not like it costs you more than a couple seconds of time.
ButcherPetesMeats · 28 points · Posted at 05:01:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No but if I were him I would much prefer they move it than me.
Rolten · 5 points · Posted at 12:41:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes. People should be well aware of their stuff causing an inconvenience, but perhaps they weren't paying attention. Using an empty seat for some luggage storage seems rather rational (although if the entire bus was getting on at the same point then making that assumption is a dick move). I do it as well on the train by putting my bag next to me if the train is empty. Once it gets half-full I tend to put it beneath my legs, but I might be so engrossed in my movie that I won't notice. Wouldn't be happy about someone touching my personal belongings without asking.
Even if the family is a bunch of dicks, it always makes sense not to touch other people's stuff. First of all, that's not very nice (them being dicks doesn't mean you should lose any form of courtesy). Second, you might break something or anger someone so it tends to be the best choice.
Magus44 · 1 points · Posted at 01:21:06 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck that, their bags are your cushion now.
bastardbones · 112 points · Posted at 01:48:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The father in this story should know, seeing as that's where the daughter threw him.
LordSquid1 · 7 points · Posted at 02:54:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I laughed
anika3387 · 3 points · Posted at 02:19:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's Megabus we are talking about
1stLtObvious · 4 points · Posted at 03:33:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wonder how long the journey was since he had to beat Cutbus, Elecbus, Icebus, Firebus, Bombbus, and Gutsbus on the way?
thenewyorkgod · 10 points · Posted at 13:40:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whenever an incredible new movie comes out that I have been waiting for years to see, i show up 2 hours early at the theater. I have a particular row that I like to sit in, and I like sitting with my wife in the exact center seats of that row. Best sight, best audio, etc. The theater begins to fill until it is nearly packed. My entire row is full except for one empty seat on my left, and one empty seat on my wife's right. The lights are dim, the previews begin and I settle in for 2 hours of awesomeness. Then, out of no where, this loud couple comes running into the theater, scrambling around, looking for two empty seats. They find two, in our row! But wait, the two empty seats are separated by a happily married couple. No problem, lets step on everyone's toes, dropping popcorn and bits of fizz as we pass.
"can you two move over so we can get two seats together"
"no thank you."
"'scuse me?"
"I said, NO THANK YOU. I showed up two fucking hours ago to get prime seats. You fart your way into the theater ten minutes after it starts and expect to get prime seats next to each other? i think the fuck not"
nickkon1 · 2 points · Posted at 19:03:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you not reserve the seats? In germany you can reserve the seats online for free, get a number via E-Mail and show the number when you buy the ticket. Your reservation expires 30min before the movie starts. 30min is not that much to wait and you always have your favourite seat if you bother to reserve it like a day earlier.
pitabread58 · 3 points · Posted at 19:59:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They've started to do that recently, if you order online.
blackfogg · 2 points · Posted at 12:26:20 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
The one time we Germans are more modern!
meoctzrle · 2 points · Posted at 04:11:31 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
I sympathize with you so much, I am the guy that drags my people out to big movies AT LEAST 45 minutes early, usually more depending on the release, to get my favorite seats, the seats right in the front of the main section, where the bars tend to run along so I can prop my feet up comfortably. It's perfectly centered, and JUST close enough to the front to have a perfect view of the big screen without having to turn your head to see everything...I would rather get kicked out of the fucking theater than give those seats up once I claim them.
carltoncarlton · 1 points · Posted at 21:08:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're still a bit of a dick.
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 19:56:26 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why? He wanted those seats because they're his preferred ones, and he got in time to get them. Why should he and his SO accept being inconvenienced?
carltoncarlton · 1 points · Posted at 20:45:56 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
By moving 40cm to the left?
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 05:25:36 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep. Even so.
carltoncarlton · 0 points · Posted at 08:58:09 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
I suppose there are a lot of selfish people in this world.
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 11:33:26 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yep. The ones who got late to the movie theatre, for example. Or the ones who side with them.
carltoncarlton · 1 points · Posted at 12:13:44 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Selfishness doesn't lie in refusing to move 40cm to the side?
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 11:21:34 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
Selfishness lies in getting late and then expecting another couple who arrived early/in time to move from their very carefully chosen places instead of just sit down and enjoy the movie without annoying somebody else even the slightest bit.
In my opinion, of course.
carltoncarlton · 1 points · Posted at 16:00:38 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
And refusing to move a little way isn't selfish?
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 21:40:32 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
It depends on the case and context. This time the ones not moving have good reasons.
So in this case my answer would be no.
carltoncarlton · 1 points · Posted at 23:11:38 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
Then you're equally as selfish as them, IN MY OPINION.
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 00:05:47 on January 18, 2017 · (Permalink)
How coincidental. In my opinion you are the selfish and very self entitled one, thinking you would be in the right expecting the early couple to abandon their carefully chosen seats just because you get late to the movie.
The unselfish attitude, in my opinion, would be to just sit down in any place you find, enjoy the movie, and then keep on together after the movie is finished.
Jdoggcrash · 0 points · Posted at 18:19:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What the fuck do you do for two hours waiting for the movie to start? I just show up 30 minutes early and that's plenty of time. At that point there is usually only like four people max in the theatre already and they never choose good seats for some reason. Always one of them sitting in one of the front most rows and the rest are scattered around the outside seats in the back
soleoblues · 3 points · Posted at 19:34:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh man, had something similar happen on a megabus trip from New Orleans.
My bf and I had reserved seats in the front row, hoping for a bit of extra legroom (he's 6'6"; any additional room is a blessing). We got on the bus and saw and elderly black couple sitting in our seats.
My BF and I look white. I should mention at this time I was ferociously hungover and my brain was not running on all cylinders -- or any cylinders, really.
I told BF I'd ask the couple to move, so both of us didn't have to hulk up the aisle and find a place to stand awkwardly while the couple moved. So I walk up to them and explain that they're in our seats.
They were apparently not familiar with how megabus does their seating, and were under the assumption that any seats are free. I explained that no, these numbered seats in the front of the bus required an additional payment, and those seats in the back of the bus (and I pointed, y'all. I pointed. God, I still cringe) were the regular price ones.
Holy hell, they were pissed, and kept saying they had every right to sit where they wanted, they paid for their seats just like everyone else.
Then their granddaughter gets involved, and explained that no, they hadn't paid for these seats and they really did need to move.
So they finally did -- one row back. To the seats paid for by another white couple.
I thought the bus driver's head was going to explode when she got up to the top of the bus. And I'm pretty sure the people on the bus, and that couple especially, think I'm some asshole racist for kicking them out of their seats and sending them to the seats further back in the bus.
Goddamn, that ride sucked.
megablast · 0 points · Posted at 06:53:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ha, I was on the megabus, and someone had booked 2 seats so they could have one free, but arrived late. They tried to convince people with a spare seat to swap, no chance sucker. They cried to the bus driver, no chance sucker.
youngestOG · 1 points · Posted at 16:04:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did they book two general admission bus tickets or two reserved seats next to eachother?
megablast · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
there are no reserved tickets
youngestOG · 1 points · Posted at 16:05:13 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you saying there are no reserved seats on Megabus? Because there definitely are
megablast · 1 points · Posted at 21:17:11 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh really? Not on mine.
youngestOG · 1 points · Posted at 21:59:48 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
Where were you taking the Megabus to/from? I've taken it from SF to LA multiple times and unless I booked it last minute I always had the option to reserve a seat for a few extra dollars.
megablast · 1 points · Posted at 23:44:12 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
London to anywhere in the UK.
youngestOG · 1 points · Posted at 15:57:45 on January 18, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe it's different in the UK, I've only Megabussed in the US
VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 18:05:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel kind of bad for them on that one. They weren't trying to game the system; they were paying for the extra space they wanted, and they weren't able to use it. Someone else effectively got it instead. (I don't know if they arrived late due to poor planning or circumstances beyond their control, but if it's the former, I don't feel as bad.)
megablast · 1 points · Posted at 21:35:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
megasbus seats are not* reserved.
VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 22:32:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reserved as in you book seats 22A and 22B, instead of just two first-come, first-serve spaces? If they'd done that, then why wouldn't the person in their second seat move?
megablast · 1 points · Posted at 05:38:53 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sorry, meant to say NOT reserved.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 07:16:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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youngestOG · 1 points · Posted at 16:06:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I felt like putting "Man" in quotes cause the guy was a jerkoff
mrmatthunt · 419 points · Posted at 21:22:06 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have sent a text to my friend talking shit about her if she wants to be a nosy bitch
TimThomasIsMyGod · 738 points · Posted at 21:26:51 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol this stupid bitch right next to me has the ugliest baby I've ever seen
pm_me_ur_zoids · 168 points · Posted at 01:56:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Mombie: "um excuse me sir I would appreciate you not writing such awful things about my baby."
Guy: "Yeah and I'd appreciate you not looking at my private conversations but life's shit isn't it."
TenF · 33 points · Posted at 05:04:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Guy: Well that sucks. Sounds like a personal problem you've got. Hopefully it won't keep you up for 13 hours. Smiles
Whiskeygiggles · 2 points · Posted at 11:25:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was a guy. What's the dad version of mombie?
[deleted] · 316 points · Posted at 00:22:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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HerroimKevin · 93 points · Posted at 00:56:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The level of pettiness is amazing. I love every bit of it
VanillaTortilla · 31 points · Posted at 01:35:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's some office-level passive aggressiveness there.
saysthingsbackwards · -1 points · Posted at 02:42:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
with a bit of assault, nice.
Flomo420 · 7 points · Posted at 03:07:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
GONE SEXUAL
VanillaTortilla · 6 points · Posted at 04:13:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
IT'S MOMMY MAKEOUT DAY TODAY
S0k0 · 76 points · Posted at 02:13:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
hey man, quick question, it's urgent they accidentally seated me next to a family. How contagious is my HIV?
[deleted] · 38 points · Posted at 02:33:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Hahnsolo11 · 33 points · Posted at 03:03:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
People know about HIV though, gotta ask about something more contagious and believable like tuberculosis or something
Calvincoolidg · 9 points · Posted at 03:47:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Meningitis.
weirdbiointerests · 9 points · Posted at 06:13:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Casually WebMD meningitis symptoms.
Feel forehead for fever. Try moving neck - wince, because muscle soreness.
o0i81u8120o · 6 points · Posted at 05:47:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
On my second leg from Africa. Lol didn't know they were still quarantining people for ebola?
Hahnsolo11 · 1 points · Posted at 06:13:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
TBH I don't know shit about Ebola, I don't even know how it's transmitted
Scarletfapper · 2 points · Posted at 13:41:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Hey Honey, Can you tell me when my last vaccination was? Was it 2004 or 2005?
disposable_account01 · 2 points · Posted at 04:35:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
To specific. Specific isn't scary, it just seems made up.
Instead, "How contagious is that weird skin rash thing?" would work better.
nickkon1 · 1 points · Posted at 19:06:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Scratches balls and sniffs "Uh, that smells nasty. Here try the smell. Do I have an illness?" Holds hand in front of the mother/baby
slingerg · 1 points · Posted at 01:01:25 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
My doctor says I have giardia but I think he's full of shit.
wOlfLisK · 43 points · Posted at 02:35:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"This cunt next to me thinks I won't notice her spying on our conversation". Let it sit in the text box for a good 20 seconds, angle your phone towards her then delete the entire thing.
TimThomasIsMyGod · 40 points · Posted at 02:50:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lolol this one's my favorite. I like the idea of being super obvious about it. Like, after angling it toward the mom, but before deleting it, he should show it to the baby for a sec.
harborwolf · 2 points · Posted at 03:01:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Subtle.
Tovora · 32 points · Posted at 02:37:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"And you know how hard I get around ugly babies."
TenF · 5 points · Posted at 05:04:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
its uncontrollable
baestation2 · 6 points · Posted at 01:51:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
lmao
CapShep · 3 points · Posted at 03:27:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
you gotta say it out loud as you type it, not in a super obvious way though, just sorta passive like to really seal the deal
GuttersnipeTV · 3 points · Posted at 07:43:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Did I mention she's a stupid bitch? Dude she looks like she prolly has downs since her baby has downs.
sioux612 · 2 points · Posted at 14:39:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The baby's so cute, it must have an extra chromosome
therealCicada · 114 points · Posted at 02:24:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Everyone is assuming that this is a woman, but this line makes it sound like it was the dad posting this:
Just a reminder Reddit that dad's can be shithead parents too,
[deleted] · 15 points · Posted at 02:36:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Naw they stole the baby.
Qwertizzy · 5 points · Posted at 02:43:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flying Arizona
Honeyglow93 · -4 points · Posted at 02:46:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol, i didnt even catch that. when Men act like a Narci, no backbone idiot like this, i just laugh at their sad life being chained to an overwieght bitch wife. its usually why they act like this, their wifes a cunt. its learned behavior. and i could give a shit about downvotes, but im a chick, with a lot of Narc woman in my family, with backboneless husbands, so im have a lot of experience with this shit.
portablebagel · 9 points · Posted at 03:10:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you complain about getting down votes, you're probably being a dick in some way. Not trying to be rude here, just saying.
Whiskeygiggles · 3 points · Posted at 11:27:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah. If a guys a dick it must be a woman's fault. Yawn.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 02:13:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was the dad looking at the phone.
modestlyawesome1000 · 1 points · Posted at 03:58:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dude that bitch who gave me a bj in the bathroom in Istanbul is sitting next to me on my flight!
unlimitedzen · 2 points · Posted at 02:19:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why text when you can call them about it!
caninerosie · 2 points · Posted at 04:06:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Reminds me of this bash.org quote
tsilihin666 · 1 points · Posted at 03:38:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or just creepily stare at the kid and mention you're not usually allowed around children so today is a special treat.
Keiji12 · 1 points · Posted at 08:30:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Happens a lot when traveling by bus to me, I have veil view now, but before I'd write something like "A guy next to me is trying to read what I'm texting you" adding a little comment about person and then look at them.
_thats_unfortunate_ · 122 points · Posted at 01:55:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My brother-in-law took my 2 year old niece on a flight. He bragged to us that she was throwing a fit and kicking the back of the seat in front of her. The guy in it stood up and told BIL to make her cut it out. He made a smart remark back and let her keep kicking the seat. I don't understand this attitude. It's your kid, get them under control. Why try and make other people miserable? It was infuriating hearing him brag about this exchange like he'd won some kind of fight when in reality, he's just a selfish dick.
appleandwatermelonn · 45 points · Posted at 03:10:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had this happen to me and my response is just to violently throw my body backwards into the seat and recline if I can. Those seats have some give
TheGiantTurd · -1 points · Posted at 14:26:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol no you don't.
ArchangBelle · 2 points · Posted at 23:00:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/nothingeverhappens
appleandwatermelonn · 1 points · Posted at 01:05:20 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
This isn't even unrealistic, it's not like I claimed to hit them in the face with the chair after detaching it with a screwdriver
TheGiantTurd · 1 points · Posted at 04:00:03 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
i cant picture a grown adult just shaking their body back extremely fast to try and shin split a kids leg with their parent right next to them.
blackfogg · 1 points · Posted at 13:01:22 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think the idea is to leave them with the least space possible, not hurting the 2 yo.
wackwithpoobrain · 6 points · Posted at 08:26:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't get it. It's really not hard to teach your kid to be appropriate. I doubt my kid would ever do that but even so, she would listen to me when I tell her to cut it out. I just always explain how her actions effect other people and she gets it. She only four and it's honestly not difficult if you set these boundaries and expectations early on as am ongoing expectation rather then just dismissing that they're just a kid and don't know better. No, you need to teach them to be better.
mismanaged · 5 points · Posted at 09:44:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The solution to that is to "accidentally" throw water backwards over the seat, then say you have a twitch in your back.
KatalDT · 3 points · Posted at 14:48:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
http://imgur.com/gallery/LyWZifO
wheresthatcat · 4 points · Posted at 09:34:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Since when is a kid throwing a tantrum something to brag about?
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Since participation trophies.
ArchangBelle · 1 points · Posted at 23:05:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Since the rise of "you go girl", "parent power", "#fierce" et cetera. There are whole industries of media that exist only to massage the inflated egos of mums and dads. I read something recently where a stay-at-home-mum "calculated" that she is a CEO of the household and should be paid millions and millions of dollars a year. Never mind the fact that a CEO is nearly always just the scapegoat in case something goes wrong, and that the cult of persona around Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, et al. is relatively recent; in the world of mummy-bloggers, logic is but a complication to be dispensed with in favour of self-righteous hashtags.
LGBecca · 5 points · Posted at 12:14:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some parents can't stand to see other people happy and want everyone to be miserable like they are.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 13:32:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 16:58:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
All.
blackfogg · 1 points · Posted at 12:47:09 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
He can't accept his own shortcomings. It's more of a psychological problem at that point. You can't controll your kid, so now play the "I like the shit my little shit is doing"-game.
Jonathan_Rambo · 210 points · Posted at 22:14:17 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like someone missed a chance to catch up on browsing violent pornography
Stabbytehstabber · 103 points · Posted at 02:11:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I like that you have to catch up on it. As if you've fallen behind on your timetable to finish all 37 installments of the Backdoor Sluts series
[deleted] · 24 points · Posted at 03:36:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
9 is really where its at. As long you see that one youre good.
Stabbytehstabber · 2 points · Posted at 03:39:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Right? They kind of lost the artistic components after 11. Shame.
manaworkin · 1 points · Posted at 17:29:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel like I should watch 1-8 In order to fully understand the back door sluts plot line
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 05:02:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I haven't been able to join in on the office water cooler talk in weeks...
Scarletfapper · 1 points · Posted at 13:44:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He said "violent".
Rabanski · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fat, 40 and Freckled is a must-see
figgypie · 19 points · Posted at 03:21:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Choking chicks and sodomy.
DefenestratorOfSouls · 8 points · Posted at 04:13:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The kinda shit you get on your TV
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:17:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The kind of shit that's on your TV?
Scarletfapper · 2 points · Posted at 13:44:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's better.
wildlifeisbestlife · 6 points · Posted at 03:05:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't generally recommend this, but we've gone nuclear at this point. Scat porn.
myrpou · 2 points · Posted at 10:34:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Order in a load of beers and spill it everywhere at every slightest bit of turbulence.
ReflexEight · 0 points · Posted at 10:11:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, that'll go well when the dude tells the hostess people what you're doing.
no_beer_no_dad · 85 points · Posted at 00:37:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
save yourself the price of a flight ticket by stealing someone's seat! 27 parenthacks! buzzfeed.com
[deleted] · 8 points · Posted at 06:21:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Passengers hate him! Find out why!"
no_beer_no_dad · 4 points · Posted at 06:45:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can't imagine why!!!!!
looktowindward · 3 points · Posted at 02:08:50 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
I keep clicking, but where is the slideshow? Where?!
Scarletfapper · 2 points · Posted at 13:54:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No. 7 will #shock you!
GeneralMalaiseRB · 3 points · Posted at 15:36:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"How Being Scum of the Earth can Save You Like a Thousand Dollars!"
[deleted] · 436 points · Posted at 21:00:50 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
They're the type of fuckwits that sue the airline because their baby was killed by a little turbulence.
staticsnake · 166 points · Posted at 22:18:45 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
JUDGE: "You do realize they provided video of you shaking your child violently during the flight?"
Ominous_Smell · 168 points · Posted at 22:26:54 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Jesus Christ it's like she's trying to mix drinks using a miniature Drew Carey"
- Juror #5
kathartik · 26 points · Posted at 02:08:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
holy shit I love the comment section on this post
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 12:34:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
F, why am I only allowed to upvote once?! I'm crying with laughter. That was just ... poetry.
Tjman99 · 184 points · Posted at 22:18:04 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wait I'm sorry, what the fuck?
Artyom150 · 277 points · Posted at 22:51:00 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think what he is saying is that they won't book the seat, then when their baby is killed because they don't take the proper safety precautions, they'll sue the airline.
Tjman99 · 37 points · Posted at 01:00:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you lol
off_the_grid_dream · 3 points · Posted at 03:48:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We were required to hold our baby during take-off/landing. She was not allowed to be in a seat(edit: without a restraining device). Not that we would sue for anything. Also, we offered to buy people's drinks/food who were seated in the 3rd seat beside us. We also took the middle/aisle so we could get up and down as much as we needed to without bothering the other person. We even ere "given" an entire row on one flight that wasn't full.
mamaof2boys · 6 points · Posted at 04:15:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've flown like ten times with my toddler and baby and always bought them their own seats and brought their car seats in board. I've never had to unbuckle them from their car seats/paid seat during take off or landing. That's stupid and super unsafe. The FAA themselves highly encourages children under 40 lbs ride in their car seat.
https://www.faa.gov/passengers/fly_children/
off_the_grid_dream · 8 points · Posted at 04:45:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, they weren't asking that, just that the baby was held a certain way. We didn't fly with a car seat as we had one waiting on the other side. We were very broke (relatively speaking, the flights were paid for through air miles/credit card points) at the time and happy to save the $900 seat fare. P.S. Flying in Canada is stupid expensive.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 21:06:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What difference does the way you hold them make?
mamaof2boys · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is $900 really worth your kid's life though? I'm not willing to take that risk so if I can't afford a ticket for all of us to fly I drive or don't go. I now have 3 kids and I can't fly alone with all 3 since I couldn't sit next to all 3 so I drive. And $900 sounds insane. For me and my two oldest it was less than $600 at Christmas time to fly to my parents.
off_the_grid_dream · 9 points · Posted at 05:07:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Flying here is brutal. I can fly to England for the same price as flying to Toronto. Our airlines are insane and have us held hostage.
Edit; I looked up the dangers and there have been very few deaths on planes and even fewer were from turbulence. I'd say risking her life is very strong language considering the odds. Plus: "The Federal Aviation Administration has refused to require car seats for infants on board flights on the assumption that some families, if forced to purchase a ticket for an infant, would choose instead to drive, which is statistically a more dangerous mode of transportation"
I get that there is some risk but I personally don't consider it "risking her life". Because if you consider that risking their lives then every time you drive with them you are risking their lives. http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-study-focuses-on-in-flight-risk-to-infants-1408574702
mamaof2boys · -1 points · Posted at 05:11:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus. I have a Canadian friend who always flies first class with her family and I thought it was expensive but now I'm realizing it's probably a lot more expensive than I originally thought. But you've got free healthcare so you've got that going for you which is nice. A 15 minute surgery for my then 3.5 yo cost about $4k. Thankfully after insurance it was only $1k for us and the bill came right before our tax return.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 09:28:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bullshit. It's about as safe as you flying and not wearing your seatbelt and think you can stop yourself flying about the cabin. A bit of common sense is required and people seem to think it's ok to take the chance with their most important family members. I can't understand why anyone who loves their kids would take the risk.
off_the_grid_dream · 4 points · Posted at 11:59:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because the risk is miniscule. Like the research says, driving a car is way more risky to do with your baby than flying without a car seat.
Imissmyusername · 1 points · Posted at 10:45:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think they mean statistically safer. As in, the odds of you ever flopping about the cabin are much slimmer than being plowed into by someone texting.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:17:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's why they say to leave your seatbelt fastened unless you're moving about the cabin?
blackfogg · 1 points · Posted at 12:32:43 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Is that a serious question? Have you ever tried not having it on?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:49:57 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, I always have it on. It's what most airlines say.
blackfogg · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:31 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well the main reason you have to use a seatbelt is because you will become "weighless" when the plane is falling faster then gravity. The likelihood of being thrown out of the seat at any other occasion is practically zero, except for extrem turbulence, maybe.
In most real crashes the belt will not make any difference, since it doesn't even hold your upper body. Either you will die anyways or the pilot is the one to save lifes.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:03:45 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes and turbulence is very common in flight. Most accidents are survivable, seat belts do make a massive difference it's not a live/die, black and white situation. If you've never experienced a late RTO you wouldn't know the forces just in braking. In this situation a kid in your lap can be crushed, in a runway overshoot the kid will definitely be crushed to death.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 11:19:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Obviously their kids lives arent worth the price of a seat to some of these idiots. Bet they buckle up though.
blackfogg · 1 points · Posted at 12:33:56 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you really are that bad with maths..
stationhollow · 1 points · Posted at 08:00:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They didn't require you use a separate seat belt thingy for the baby while on your lap? I've seen those recently.
off_the_grid_dream · 1 points · Posted at 12:00:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I saw those in an article they showed. We are going to get one for our next flight. They don't let you use them during takeoff or landing though.
[deleted] · -1 points · Posted at 07:23:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Pay for a restraint and a seat for your kid. You cannot hold them and you can squash them if they're on your lap even in something as mundane as a rejected take off.
off_the_grid_dream · 2 points · Posted at 12:02:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because the risk is miniscule. Like the research says, driving a car is way more risky to do with your baby than flying without a car seat.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:02:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Miniscule? Why are you bringing cars into this? NVM.
Next time you fly don't wear your belt and whether you consider it a risk or not, it is and you are putting your kid in danger. Enjoy. You use the logic of an antivaxxer.
off_the_grid_dream · 2 points · Posted at 15:29:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I brought cars into this because of what the research says. I will copy my other post here.
"The Federal Aviation Administration has refused to require car seats for infants on board flights on the assumption that some families, if forced to purchase a ticket for an infant, would choose instead to drive, which is statistically a more dangerous mode of transportation"
I get that there is some risk but I personally don't consider it "risking her life". Because if you consider that risking their lives then every time you drive with them you are risking their lives.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-study-focuses-on-in-flight-risk-to-infants-1408574702
So there it is, driving is more dangerous than flying without a car seat. So if you are driving with a child you are taking a bigger risk than I am flying with mine.
fuckyou_dumbass · 0 points · Posted at 01:27:53 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're a fucking moron.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:13:57 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well done. Let me guess, you aren't well educated and are quite poor and will do what you're fucking well told by fox.
fuckyou_dumbass · 1 points · Posted at 19:22:16 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nope, I'm college educated, make almost 6 figures a year, and never watch cable news.
Want to try again?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:46:56 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol sure.
TheTributeThrowaway · 0 points · Posted at 04:55:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh haha you misread, he was just saying these are the kind of real weirdos that will sue the airline and pilot when the baby gets a little bit of his fucking skull and brain matter smashed onto to floor via turbulence.
[deleted] · 18 points · Posted at 21:46:14 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Urinalbuckshots · 27 points · Posted at 22:57:47 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have 2 s nickels. In excellent condition you can get up to 25 bucks a piece.
blonderecluse · 35 points · Posted at 23:28:27 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think they meant "a snickel." Not "an s nickel." Big difference in value. Not gonna get as much for a snickel as you would for an s nickel, unless it's from 1953. They only made ten that year because R. P. Snickel died early February, and no one knew where he hid the recipe for his snickeling brine.
wOlfLisK · 5 points · Posted at 02:34:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nono, he meant to type "a snicker" but autocorrect got involved. He's saying that if he had laughed it would have been bad for all involved.
Jb6464 · 3 points · Posted at 03:52:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're half right. He was referring to the candy bar. You're not you when you're hungry.
Scarletfapper · 0 points · Posted at 13:40:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I knew a S Nickel once. Royal fuckwit, he was.
bobbymin · 25 points · Posted at 21:39:16 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
... what?
MaxSupernova · 2 points · Posted at 16:03:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I never understand how people strap their kids into car seats in a car, but will just hold a kid in their lap for a flight. Have they never heard of turbulence? Have they seen the videos of crash test dummies with kids in their laps during car crashes?
It's incredibly irresponsible parenting, to save a few bucks. If you can't afford a ticket for your kid, don't fly.
crazymcfattypants · 115 points · Posted at 21:28:45 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I feel bad for that kid. Such shitty role models.
koh_kun · 28 points · Posted at 03:50:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah the real loser here is the kid.
Trucidar · 3 points · Posted at 06:19:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And the person in the middle.
koh_kun · 2 points · Posted at 07:20:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who?
GeneralMalaiseRB · 2 points · Posted at 15:36:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
THE PERSON IN THE MIDDLE
Dancing_Cthulhu · 53 points · Posted at 04:12:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know what's worse - the entitled assholes who thinks they own a seat they decided not to pay for, and then making the one who did own it leave by making them feel uncomfortable, or all the assholes affirming that sort of behavior by congratulating them on being awful people.
"Parent power" my ass. People like this are why I don't think there's anything wrong with child-free cafes/restaurants/communities/etc. Thinking having reproduced gives them some sort of privilege, and then beating anyone who disagrees about the head with their kid till they get their way - "I know you paid for the seat, but really - I have a child. Don't you think I deserve it more?"
Scarletfapper · 4 points · Posted at 13:59:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck people who do this. Sideways. With a rake.
[deleted] · 47 points · Posted at 08:59:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
A couple tried this with me once on a United flight to Oahu, but I ignored them. When they realized I was not going to offer them my seat, they became desperate and flagged down a flight attendant. One of them asked her to ask me to trade seats with the mother.
The flight attendant over heard them trying to (loudly) imply inconveniences (indirectly) to get me to move--she was on to them.
So, she asked me (kindly) to give up my seat for the mom. Having no beef with the attendant, I agreed. However, had the parents asked me themselves to switch my seat instead of pulling their bullshit to try make me move, I would have said yes.
I grabbed my carry-on bag and went to my new seat, but before I could plant myself the flight attendent took my bag from me and asked if I wanted to sit in First-Class.
"Yes"! :D
As we walked up to my new seat assignment, I could hear the father asking another attendant why I was moved to first class. When the wife noticed other empty seats in first class she asked why I was moved there instead of them. They had a kid, afterall!
"We reward kindness and you two got the seat you wanted."
This was the only time I was truly happy with United Airlines.
Leah0509 · 3 points · Posted at 19:07:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That flight attendant knows what's up!
[deleted] · 83 points · Posted at 23:46:40 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
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phedre · 10 points · Posted at 03:02:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Brit detected.
ablnx · 3 points · Posted at 05:42:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or thick southern accent
beauc2 · 3 points · Posted at 09:46:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
N-no... Re-calibrate.
Scarletfapper · 3 points · Posted at 13:54:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or google "How to make obnoxious cheapskates leave"
Vigilante17 · 41 points · Posted at 02:56:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck. This. Family.
gillyboatbruff · 37 points · Posted at 23:17:16 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I once had to sit between a husband and wife because she loved the window, and he loved the aisle. At least they were nice to me.
livingcode · 32 points · Posted at 23:27:18 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
me and my girlfriend will do this occasionally, I'm really tall, so I like the extra leg room, and she likes the window for obvious reasons, but we do so with the full knowledge that we WILL be separated by another person and don't act like asses about it.
Calamity_Jesus · 5 points · Posted at 03:50:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
How does the aisle seat get you extra leg room? Are you putting your feet in the aisle?
Ferovore · 11 points · Posted at 04:40:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes
livingcode · 3 points · Posted at 05:23:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, hugged up against the seat in front of me
sioux612 · 2 points · Posted at 14:43:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I also prefer the aisle because it allows me to lean my knees out into it for most of the time
ManicExpressive · 335 points · Posted at 21:38:26 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're ever in "seat B's" position, the trick is to maintain glaring eye-contact with the parent holding the kid while you loudly push out a massive crap into your pants. Once the smell hits them (and you'll know when the smell hits them), lean in close without breaking that eye contact, bare your teeth, and mutter "mommy's baby hungry" repeatedly until your lungs run out of air
Checkmate
Vhett · 103 points · Posted at 00:54:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My favorite thing in this thread is how until this comment, every other one had replies. Your comment had none. That's when you know you made it.
ganof · 127 points · Posted at 01:02:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You ruined it
Cynikal818 · 6 points · Posted at 03:40:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
In laughing so fucking hard at this mental image hahahaha
YayTheRedHead · 5 points · Posted at 06:06:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Up votes are not enough for you. I smiled at a couple of other comments, but actually busted out laughing at yours. Thanks man :)
RashaGirl · 5 points · Posted at 03:54:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is my favorite thread ever, I love you, random person, you're hilarious!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 14:36:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
start chatting MOMMY'S BABY HUNGRY progressively louder until you're yelling in the babies face
hardtoremember · 3 points · Posted at 16:02:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now I can't stop picturing my baby niece squinting and grunting, her face turning red, intensely staring into my eyes as she squeezed out her solid brown prize.
hardtoremember · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Now I can't stop picturing my baby niece squinting and grunting, her face turning red, intensely staring into my eyes as she squeezed out her solid brown prize.
ManInABlueShirt · 1 points · Posted at 20:07:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're ever in seat B's position, the trick is to get the hell out of the damn middle seat, hopefully somewhere better but it's not going to get worse.
Dysfu · -7 points · Posted at 01:29:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I guarantee no one is ever going to do this. Most likely scenario is that they will just look at the person in disbelief for a second and then avoid confrontation and find a new seat 99% of the time.
[deleted] · 134 points · Posted at 21:19:31 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 32 points · Posted at 22:37:25 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
One can hope. Hopefully they meet someone that doesn't like to be fucked with.
gunsnammo37 · 1 points · Posted at 16:43:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or they'll let them live in the White House.
[deleted] · -11 points · Posted at 23:32:51 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
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PurpleStix · 42 points · Posted at 00:10:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The writer had the baby on their lap where baby immediately started screaming for her mother. Unless it's a lesbian couple I think it's safe to assume it was written by a man.
prodical · 9 points · Posted at 00:13:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whoops I read that the other way. Derp!
Dark-scape · 2 points · Posted at 02:31:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Couldn't it be a grandma or aunt?
No_Eulogies_for_Bob · 2 points · Posted at 00:14:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
PIGamer86 · -9 points · Posted at 23:52:46 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Do you know who our president is?
MelJoKi11 · 10 points · Posted at 00:44:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The child in question?
Demon_Misstress · 63 points · Posted at 21:51:09 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would ask how old the baby was and then tell the parents she looks delicious, then maybe start looking up stew recipes.
"what a lovely baby, how old is she?" "..Um under 2" "Oh, how delightful, she looks absolutely delicious." "what?!" "what?"
Etherealnoob · 40 points · Posted at 03:21:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"I said she's so percious. She's gonna be great with gravy."
"WHAT!?"
"I SAID SHE'S GOING TO BE GREAT ONE DAY!"
CaligoAccedito · 3 points · Posted at 17:21:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is exactly how I was with my sister when she had her son. No joke, I nicknamed the kid "lunch" for the first couple of years. Once he was getting old enough to understand what I might mean, I put that to bed.
sioux612 · 3 points · Posted at 14:42:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"How heavy is she?"
Googles "how to cook a 20 Pound ham"
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 06:20:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"The Hansel and Gretel Cook Book"
MrGordonFreemanJr · 29 points · Posted at 00:33:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I was on a flight from Spain back to the US and some Moroccan woman booked three random seats for her and her 2 children who were probably both under the age of 5. She speaks almost no English and 14 year old me had no idea how to handle it besides just asking her to move and her responding I have kids in broken English. I talk the the flight attendant and she says normally they would offer me a drink but I'm 14 so I end up in the middle seat on a 10+ hour flight with zero compensation
dfinkelstein · 25 points · Posted at 03:03:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It just occurred to me that a couple tried this on me once and I didn't realize it. The wife kept apologizing profusely and offering to find me another seat. She let the baby crawl onto me a couple of times, and blew her nose many times despite not sounding stuffed up or making a sound when she did it like she actually had anything in there to clear. At the time I had fun playing with the baby despite her objections (peek-a-boo and attempt-to-throw-or-eat-napkins) and thought she was annoyingly polite but didn't peg her for a faker or for somebody trying to be mean or get away with something. Turned toward the window several times while burping the kid, and I panicked and bothered her until she moved so he wasn't facing me every time since he burped up some stuff early into the trip on her tray table.
Don't trust the tray tables.
Carako · 3 points · Posted at 05:50:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
She tried to get her kid to puke on you?
dfinkelstein · 10 points · Posted at 06:28:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dunno, but she was patting its back while it lay on her shoulder and turned to look out the window repeatedly which pointed the baby's vomit hole right at my face. I told her I didn't want to get puked on and she said something like it's only a dribble. In any case, on the whole the experience makes more sense as she was trying to get a seat for her kid.
swohio · 26 points · Posted at 03:31:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Man, cunts really do stick together. I mean it's not surprising people like this couple exist, but the fact that so many people are cheering them on for doing it. Fucking people, they're the worst.
r0botdevil · 74 points · Posted at 00:28:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's a risky play. I try to be a nice guy, but a large part of me is very stubborn, petty, and spiteful. If I had been the guy in the middle seat, I'd have stayed put and deliberately been as obnoxious as possible throughout the entire flight.
[deleted] · 29 points · Posted at 02:04:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you imagine how fucking pleased I would be to not have to hold my farts in on the damn plane? I'd be letting those motherfuckers go like it was my job. Yes, lady. Be spiteful. Be petty, You'll move before I do.
[deleted] · 6 points · Posted at 02:05:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:38:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Shit my earbuds stopped working.. ah well you'll love this one."
o0i81u8120o · 4 points · Posted at 05:54:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Deadpool
k9centipede · 2 points · Posted at 04:04:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My parents pulled a similar move when I was a kid, although less douchness.
Ordered A and C seats for my sister and I, hoping no one would order seat B. But had us sit in B and C, so if someone did buy B they could have the aisle seat instead (while if they insisted on middle, we suck it up and let him have it, or possibly let them have the window instead). Guy took the aisle seat without a word.
KatalDT · 3 points · Posted at 14:51:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah honestly nobody wants a middle seat when flying solo. That worked out for him just fine.
heyimrick · 2 points · Posted at 04:11:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would just start drinking a lot of alcohol. Constant peeing and beer farts. Then I'd be so drunk I wouldn't give a shit about a baby and pass out.
[deleted] · 32 points · Posted at 01:45:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Get some good noise cancelling headphones and you won't hear a thing. Not a chance in hell I would have moved. I would have gladly offered a middle for aisle seat swap with mom though.
tokie__wan_kenobi · 5 points · Posted at 04:17:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
noise cancelling headphones don't cancel out everything. They basically cancel out white noise like from the engine. You can still hear people talking as clear as any other headphones.
hookahshikari · 15 points · Posted at 02:42:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
How has no one else mentioned the seat-swap yet? Seems like the most obvious solution
giguf · 40 points · Posted at 04:01:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The parents don't want a solution, they want the guy to go away so that they can have a seat for the baby without paying for it.
CaligoAccedito · 1 points · Posted at 17:28:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'd offer to seat-swap for the window only. I have short legs, so aisle seats just mean getting touched/bumped into when people go by. If not that, well, I grew up with 3 siblings who were at least 10 years younger than me and each only a year apart. One baby ain't shit. I can ignore a whole houseful at once!
Mc_nibbler · 15 points · Posted at 07:16:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
One time this British couple told me I could either sit next to their sick kid or take the crappy middle seat or another row that the dad didn't want. Had this couple asked me, it would have been one thing. The dude just told me "that's just how it is" as he was holding his child like a human shield in case I was the type of guy that would clock someone like him.
I protested at first but then realized I was in a no win situation there. The people on the row where I ended up sitting empathized with me and said how much it sucked. The flight attendants brought me free drinks. Everyone else on the plane got it and was nice.
You see some of the worst people on airplanes.
ArchangBelle · 2 points · Posted at 23:13:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have at least pretended to have coughed on the baby, saying something like "I picked it up in Turkey" or some other equally as mysterious and as equally "scary" Middle Eastern or African country.
Willtheemulator · 16 points · Posted at 10:21:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I actually saw this on a flight once. Across the aisle from me, a youngish guy, his mother, and his young child were together in a three seat row. Girl walks up and is like, "Hey, that window seat is my assigned seat." Grandmother and father proceed to throw a fucking fit and say that they promised the kid he could sit next to the window and he was so excited and blah blah blah. They said they didn't have to buy a seat for him, because he was so young. They didn't seem to understand that it meant he would have to sit on a lap and neither of them had booked the window seat.
Flight attendant was like, "GTFO" and the girl got her seat. Then the small kid started screaming like a banshee. Just that absolutely ear drum piercing high pitched scream that kids do. And I'm not exaggerating when I say he proceeded to scream and cry for almost the entire flight from Chicago and Washington. The ONLY time he stopped was when a sympathetic mother in another row offered the kid a toy car to play with (she had her own kids on the plane). The little boy was happy and quiet for awhile, but then the grandmother inexplicably gave the toy back and refused to let him play with anything. They straight up didn't bring anything for the kid to eat or play with for the entire flight. They were clearly trying to "prove a point" or some shit and be as obnoxious as possible.
The poor girl who was in the window seat was crushed up against the window, with her hood up over her head, trying to avoid murdering everyone I assume.
My dad is an old man and he slept through the whole thing. He said the kid's scream was so high pitched that he couldn't even hear it.
simonowens · 17 points · Posted at 03:58:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The worst are the parents who get on planes and allow their kids, in an effort to shut them up, to play video games and watch movies WITHOUT FUCKING EAR PHONES ON. This is something an adult would never get away with doing, but because they're kids the parents expect the entire plane to be subjected to whatever drivel they happen to be watching.
VAPossum · 4 points · Posted at 16:54:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Oh, she hates earphones, she won't wear them!"
Then tell her "Either you mute it or wear earphones, or no iPad," and stick to it.
I was picking up food one night and while I was waiting, I realized the restaurant must've gotten a TV, because it was blaring some kids' show. I looked around for it but couldn't find it.
There was no TV. It was a kid with a tablet. Those things get loud.
CaligoAccedito · 2 points · Posted at 17:32:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And kid shows seem to primarily be 25-minutes of mindless screaming, as far as I can tell. At least, those are the ones my partner's son liked best; having already survived through my 10+ years-younger siblings, I had practice overriding that stuff and no great love for it. He might've thought I was being a bitch about it, but by my observation, he was a mental hostage to the constant irritation. When I would successfully mitigate it for a little while, he was visibly more relaxed.
dratthecookies · 15 points · Posted at 04:44:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What the fuck? I'm even more incredulous at the people who think this is okay/funny. You just said the ticket was $1000, so you're trying to screw someone out of that money by being an entitled asshole? Unbelievable.
Andrew985 · -3 points · Posted at 08:43:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The child was young enough that they didn't have to pay for a ticket. Even if the guy didn't move, the flight still had open seats available. Both parents and the kid were all going to be able to be seated for the price of two tickets regardless of the seating arrangement.
The airline was not getting that $1,000 no matter what. No one screwed them over.
dratthecookies · 10 points · Posted at 13:05:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
He paid for that seat. Not wherever else they stuck him because these people were too entitled to actually pay for the seat they wanted.
Andrew985 · -2 points · Posted at 15:21:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And he ultimately did not want that seat, he just wanted a seat.
dratthecookies · 5 points · Posted at 15:27:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why would he buy that seat if he didn't want it? He moved because they were being aggressively obnoxious and intrusive, not because he just felt like it.
Andrew985 · 3 points · Posted at 15:41:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You honestly think he deliberately chose a specific middle-seat? You don't think he may have just booked a flight and took what seat he got? If he wanted that seat so bad he would have talked with the parents or a flight attendant to make accommodations. Instead, he willingly moved, indicating it wasn't that important.
Either way, the point I was making was that absolutely no one screwed the airline out of $1,000. Regardless of where this guy and the kid ended up sitting, the parents weren't going to buy a ticket for the kid. It doesn't matter that the "free seat" is between them or if it's all the way in the back: there wasn't enough demand to fill the plane. No one swindled the airline out of any money.
VAPossum · 3 points · Posted at 16:57:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The point is the parents didn't pay $1000 to secure the middle seat. Instead, they "secured" it by being rude gits to the person who did pay the money.
Andrew985 · 1 points · Posted at 17:17:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, but they wouldn't have paid any money anyway. It doesn't matter where everyone ends up sitting.
No one "lost money" because of them.
dratthecookies · 2 points · Posted at 15:46:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I never said anyone screwed the airline out of anything. You're either arguing a point I didn't make or replying to the wrong person.
Andrew985 · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You literally said they're "trying to screw someone out of money" by not buying the middle seat.
dratthecookies · 2 points · Posted at 16:21:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You quoted what I actually said, then added in made up stuff that you said. Isn't that something.
Andrew985 · 1 points · Posted at 16:24:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol what? I didn't add anything.
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yes, you did. you're wrong, he's right. fin.
Andrew985 · 1 points · Posted at 17:19:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't add a single thing. You're delusional.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:23:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You did. Downvoted. Goodbye.
Andrew985 · 1 points · Posted at 17:30:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lmao. Learn to read.
ihavenoenemies · 103 points · Posted at 00:31:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a parent this kind of attitude sickens me. I actually had to do a 12 hour flight with my two year old by myself, who basically screamed and cried the whole way, on a completely full flight.
It was awful for me for sure but the worst part was feeling like you are making everyone elses journey more difficult. Anyone who uses kids in this way and inconveniences others is such an asshole.
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c4ldy · 73 points · Posted at 02:08:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I think there should be a section of the plane that is dedicated to families and babies. It would preferably be at the back with a divider to keep all the noise/smells contained.
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KatalDT · 1 points · Posted at 14:54:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've never been in there, but I'd like to imagine it's like the lower decks of the Titanic where they have Irish dancing or something. Do they have inflatable life rafts up there?
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KatalDT · 1 points · Posted at 15:01:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well that's just fine.
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nowforthetruthiness · 6 points · Posted at 03:54:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get my own special section? Yaaaaay!
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Gears_and_Beers · 6 points · Posted at 02:31:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The free booze helps though.
Qwertizzy · 17 points · Posted at 02:53:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah until the baby starts fights because it's drunk
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Flomo420 · 1 points · Posted at 03:12:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The money saved on the ticket could easily get you a couple drinks.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:13:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
True enough. I generally only drink after the meeting though.
GeneralMalaiseRB · 1 points · Posted at 15:47:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What about that pressurized section in the cargo hold where they put dogs in crates?
ArchangBelle · 1 points · Posted at 23:10:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What would be the cut-off point though? There are some really obnoxious 11-year-olds and some really sapient ones too. I don't know if 11-year-old me would have enjoyed sitting amongst the 5-year-olds and babies. I feel like after 13-years-old, unless they're in groups, teens are as quiet and as "normal" as adults.
mega_trex · 40 points · Posted at 02:32:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I fly pretty often and there's always at least one person with a screaming kid. How often do babies need to fly? My parents didn't take me on a plane until I was old enough to behave myself. They should have dedicated child free flights, I'd pay more for that.
socsa · 2 points · Posted at 04:45:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yup, same here. "You can go to Disney when you can behave yourself on the airplane."
cristytoo · 4 points · Posted at 09:46:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My only sister lives in Idaho and I live in Virginia, I didn't have my baby until I was forty and our moms died when we were both in our early thirties so our relationship is quite important to us. She came out with her family to visit when my baby was born but I certainly couldn't make her fly every time so I flew with my baby when she was ten months old. That somehow makes me a selfish person? Especially considering the fact that my baby behaved just fine?
mega_trex · 9 points · Posted at 13:40:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My opinion is that you give up certain things by choosing to have a kid, and one of those things should be flying for a few years unless it's a necessity. Asking your sister to fly out for a few years or driving instead is not a big deal. Babies/toddlers are extremely unpredictable and it's not fair to force the other 100+ people on the plane to listen to your baby cry for hours with no escape. If an adult acted that way on a plane they'd be kicked out because it negatively affects everyone who paid a lot of money for that flight.
cristytoo · 6 points · Posted at 14:18:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, I am sure kicking an adult out of a flight if they started crying after takeoff would not be an inconvenience at all. /s
As for babies/toddlers being unpredictable... I also had pain medication for my baby, in case she experienced pain (and cold medication, and teething devices and nasal spray just in case). That would have meant in the worst case scenario that people would have had to hear her cry for half an hour on the first flight. Now that she is a toddler maybe she would get mad at not being able to run around but if I let her play with apps and watch Wallykazam she would be fine.
What you are mad at is bad parents. There are plenty of bad parents and/or bad people (like the ones in the OP) but you don't get to punish everyone for that. People were bothered on one of my flights by the idiot who was watching videos on his phone with the sound up and no headphones. Should we ban all phones because of him perhaps? I mean, not everybody watching videos on their phones does that but apparently some people do so I guess ban it is!
inquisiturient · 3 points · Posted at 12:40:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
People in this convo seem to be of the idea that having kids is selfish (which maybe it is, but so is literally everything else) and if they see your kid that's a huge inconvenience to be reminded that they exist.
If it makes you feel better, I fly on planes all the time for work and it doesn't bother me all that much if a kid cries through the whole flight. It's part of living, nbd.
Parents in the OP are assholes, though.
ihavenoenemies · 1 points · Posted at 15:14:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I agree, I think that would be a great idea.
Jess_than_three · 51 points · Posted at 02:58:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Counterpoint: parents have just as many rights as businessfolk, sometimes they take vacations and want to bring their children, and if your meeting is that important I'm pretty sure you can afford noise-canceling headphones.
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IGuessIamYouThen · 7 points · Posted at 12:25:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
To be fair, you also have the right to bring a screaming baby. You just don't have access to one, or choose not to. I don't care for screaming kids on planes either, but I expect to experience that when I travel. I think anybody who flies should manage their expectations. With that said, if you have a business meeting that requires a certain amount of sleep, you should know that sleep on a plane isn't a certainty.
SoutheasternComfort · 15 points · Posted at 04:58:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why is a baby an extra right? It's a person, it has a right to be there. Besides, it's a part of their family. I agree that babies can be annoying but to be fair it's not that hard to deal with. Instead of paying for part of everyone's ticket why not buy them all earplugs? I don't think you should be flying all the time if you have a baby but that shouldn't stop you either
FoxForce5Iron · 4 points · Posted at 06:45:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
People only have rights to seats on a plane if they have tickets for their seats. This includes babies.
That depends entirely on the temperament of the baby, the quality of the parent and the sensitivities of the other passengers seated nearby. You might as well say "Vomiting is annoying but it's not that hard to deal with."
asshair · 4 points · Posted at 04:35:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The right to fly a human being in your care vs. Your right to not be exposed to some extra noise on an already loud airplane.
Which is more important? 100 bucks it's the right that happens to benefit you. That's ego centrism. This has nothing to do with rights it has to do with you being an narcissistic dick. I don't have children but I do have empathy.
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asshair · 9 points · Posted at 05:28:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your reasoning is basically no one has the right to do anything on a plane that makes someone else uncomfortable. And because you don't do anything on a plane that makes people uncomfortable you think that's reasonable. However where you lack empathy is not realizing that not everyone is in the exact same situation as you, in this case that means childless, and therefore may do things that end up making people feel more uncomfortable than you make people feel. It's ego-centric. You can't ban babies from airplanes because that would debilitate the flight plans of millions of families in the US. And it's unfair. So is a baby screaming in your ear for the duration of a flight... but that's less unfair than banning children all together.
I'm talking about being self-less and having enough empathy to hold people to different standards depending on their circumstance.
stationhollow · 5 points · Posted at 08:04:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you pay for a ticket for the baby then feel free to make others uncomfortable. This is regarding people that aren't buying tickets for their babies.
inquisiturient · 3 points · Posted at 12:36:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's not the parent's problem, though. That's the airlines who put that policy in place.
Jess_than_three · 3 points · Posted at 12:46:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is such a weird argument. You can take a baby on a plane, but only if you have the economic resources?
Terminator426 · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's how planes work for everyone else?
asshair · 1 points · Posted at 22:44:41 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
lol you're jealous of babies?
Terminator426 · 1 points · Posted at 05:37:48 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
No, I'm saying that because they are unintelligent little pieces of meat, they shouldn't be exempt from the rules.
semiquantifiable · 1 points · Posted at 19:29:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is how I know you're full of BS. They would absolutely kick you off if you made others too uncomfortable. The whole argument here by you and /u/bredmor is predicated on what you guys believe you are entitled to when travelling on a plane, and what you guys believe are the customs on a plane. As much as I agree that the parents from OPs post are dicks that are feeling entitled, you guys are doing similar.
The plane is private property that they allow you to be on, it's their rules, what they say goes. What you believe is fair is irrelevant, and I guarantee you that paying for a ticket does not allow you to "feel free to make others uncomfortable", everything is up to their reasoning and discretion. You cry and make as much noise as a baby, they'd probably kick you off.
asshair · 1 points · Posted at 22:45:16 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well said you should join Debate.
[deleted] · 37 points · Posted at 04:27:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
what's the point of bringing a baby on vacation? They don't remember shit and it just creates a burden for you. Now your vacation is spent babysitting your baby instead of having fun.
asshair · 3 points · Posted at 04:35:52 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Spoken like a true adolescent.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 04:40:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What does that even mean? lol.
[deleted] · 5 points · Posted at 06:23:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
u/asshair is a baby.
FoxForce5Iron · 9 points · Posted at 06:41:01 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 31, and I agree.
So, what am I speaking like? DO ME NEXT.
LGBecca · 6 points · Posted at 12:21:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm 40 and agree, as well. Can I get in on this action?
asshair · 7 points · Posted at 06:46:04 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're 31 and you have the mind of adolescent
FoxForce5Iron · 7 points · Posted at 06:51:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oooh, ooh, tell me why! Go into detail. Make it entertaining!
IGuessIamYouThen · 1 points · Posted at 12:12:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What else would you do with the baby?
socsa · 5 points · Posted at 04:45:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Noise cancellation headphones do jack shit for screaming kids. They aren't magic.
FoxForce5Iron · 3 points · Posted at 06:40:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Are you comparing the desire to bring one's little poop-dumpling on vacation to a business person's make-or-break meeting which may end in his/her unemployment?
Both choices are equally legal. Obviously. No one is contesting anyone's "rights." That doesn't make the choices equally important. Surely you must understand this.
ZeroAccess · 4 points · Posted at 10:37:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have taken about 100 flights in my life, and on probably 98 of them if was the other adults that made it miserable. I'd take a screaming child over half the fuckwits that typically fly.
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naproxyl · 12 points · Posted at 03:32:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
U sound like a goober lol
caseyfla · 19 points · Posted at 05:44:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I don't buy that at all.
deliciouscrab · 1 points · Posted at 14:31:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've only seen it happen once, on a Greyhound, but the bus driver did tell the mother that if she couldn't quiet her crying toddler, she'd have to get off at the next stop. This was at night, when people were trying to sleep. Don't know if the same would have applied in the day time.
mrsellicat · 5 points · Posted at 07:46:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You do have to buy a ticket for your baby though, they don't travel for free. It's about 20% of the cost of an adult ticket.
cristytoo · 3 points · Posted at 09:58:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My baby flew just fine - no problems with the pressure whatsoever and I don't think she is a magical baby with a unique ability to deal with it. I also held her in my lap and she was perfectly happy the entire time (except when she got sleepy but I nursed her to sleep easily). Not a single person was annoyed or made uncomfortable.
elsynkala · 3 points · Posted at 16:00:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Dang dude relax. I'm pretty sure the parent isn't taking their kid on an airplane FOR FUN. And I'm positive it's more stressful for the parent than for your poor soul who has to listen to the baby cry.
Yes it's absolutely annoying when a baby cries on an airplane but for Pete's sake go get some anger classes.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 17:13:56 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is /r/rage, perhaps you're looking for /r/casualconversation if you don't like anger?
elsynkala · 2 points · Posted at 17:19:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oops. My bad (honestly). I didn't see the subreddit. Carry on then!!
cencal · 12 points · Posted at 04:01:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people have kids. Act like an adult.
And you have no idea why the kid is crying.
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cencal · 13 points · Posted at 04:26:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I get what you're saying for sure. A lot of parents and kids can be inconsiderate. But you're not owed an inconvenience-free existence. It's more about respect for other people, kids or no kids.
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inquisiturient · 1 points · Posted at 12:47:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
But that's part of life in general. Animals reproduce and humans are a part of that.
IDGAF if a parent or a baby is on my plane and I do fly frequently for work. It seems like you really hate kids, which is fine, but that hatred may be shaping how you view children as an inconvenience when they are around.
It is selfish to have kids, but that's true for everything you do. Wanting no children around you is also selfish. The majority of parents don't expect special treatment, and if one of them needed a hand they typically would ask for your help, not just assume it.
anapolis43 · 2 points · Posted at 07:53:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fucking right man, fucking right....
pausingthekids · 9 points · Posted at 03:21:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You sound like such a lovely person! No wonder you haven't reproduced since no one probably wants to put up with that type of insane babble you just posted.
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pausingthekids · 18 points · Posted at 03:35:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Breeder? Holy cow you sound disgusting. So glad I don't know anyone like you in real life.
And just to be clear I think what those parents did was gross, but you, you are way more disgusting.
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gotovoatasshole · 16 points · Posted at 03:40:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wish your parents had the same philosophy
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ENHANCE
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 03:41:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe we should start making these parents leave the plane. ;)
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cristytoo · 8 points · Posted at 10:01:00 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You sound very important. Perhaps you should invest a few dollars into some noise canceling headphones rather than expecting the whole world to revolve around you.
LGBecca · 10 points · Posted at 12:22:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You mean, how the parents of those shrieking kids act?
cristytoo · 1 points · Posted at 19:42:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Kids are not going to be the only noisy thing on a plane and not every kid is noisy. Expecting to be able to sleep on every flight when you fly a lot without ear plugs, noise cancelling headphones etc is much more self centered than parents taking a child on a flight, sorry, it just is.
NorthernSparrow · 10 points · Posted at 03:56:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Doesn't work that way. My employer simply will not pay for a hotel room for an extra night, and also requires me to put in a full day the day before anyway back in the home city.
My mom used to work for a major international nonprofit and they used to routinely fly her 15 hrs around the workd and expect her to be ready for all-day work sessions that started the very next morning at 7am (and despite some 12h of jetlag, too). She was prohibited from flying earlier - they insisted the whole team fly all together on the day before.
All that said, professionals who travel learn to always carry earplugs (if not sound-canceling headphones), plus sleep mask, travel pillow, and I always bring sleep meds too. Once I've got my Cocoon Of Silence on, I can sleep through anything.
GuttersnipeTV · 2 points · Posted at 07:49:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This. Unless you live on the other side of the planet from relatives, just fucking drive to your destinations. From south florida to Maine takes 2 days max (with hotel), from San Diego to New York it can be done in 3 days. Thats worst case scenarios. Most people live 6-8 hours away from relatives, thats not bad at all and you should always opt to do that first.
cristytoo · 2 points · Posted at 09:38:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My ten month old did just fine flying, thank you. When she started to get a little fussy I discretely breastfed her and she went to sleep. Not every baby is a monster. I also made sure I had snacks, toys, books, kindle for games and a layover about halfway between so that each flight wasn't too long and I could change her comfortably. Ya know, responsible parenting.
ekando · 4 points · Posted at 03:56:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Imagine being separated from your husband your entire pregnancy because your embassy won't issue him a nonimmigrant visa, which means he doesn't get to be with you for the birth of your first child. Then you have to get on an 18 hour flight by yourself with a 6 week old so you can start your life as a family.
I understand there are some circumstances where people don't manage time well between arriving at a destination and doing important things like meeting with clients after overnight flights, but travelling on an airplane is NOT about comfort, it is about getting from point A to point B only. Any comforts afforded to you during that process are circumstantial, but not guaranteed, and nobody, save for the airline and its body of government, has the right to proclaim that toddlers and infants, and their parents, should not be on a plane.
Everybody's life sucks. Get over yourself.
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ekando · 1 points · Posted at 04:14:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The point of the story is that you have no idea what anyone on any flight is going through. They may be traveling with their children to attend or return from a funeral, or a move, or any other extenuating and stressful circumstance. But you cannot tell that just by looking. We're all humans all going through tough shit. Your shit isn't any tougher than anyone else's, and you have no place dictating the travels of others because of it. Fuck your narcissism.
looktowindward · 1 points · Posted at 02:11:51 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is how you excuse yourself for being a rude bastard. Your entitlement sucks.
asshair · 1 points · Posted at 04:31:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Lol you're insane.
ihavenoenemies · 0 points · Posted at 10:21:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is ridiculous. I was moving to another country on the other side of the world. What else am I supposed to do? Of course it can be annoying for people but it's part of traveling. If you think you're not going to run into annoyances when traveling internationally you should either buy a first class seat or not go at all.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 15:45:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why does parental narcissism come with selective reading disorder?
ihavenoenemies · 1 points · Posted at 15:52:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know why you think i'm a parental narcissist. I can't stand it when people use their kids to try and get special treatment. I don't do that.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:14:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It was the only reasonable guess I had for you not reading one of the only three sentences in my post.
ihavenoenemies · 1 points · Posted at 17:25:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
it depends on what you consider a good reason I guess. Other people have said I shouldn't have been flying with a toddler unless it was a life or death situation basically haha.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 17:56:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, I'm angry at people who bring their kids everywhere for no goddamn reason. Like - who brings a 1 year old on vacation or to a sports event? It's not going to remember anything and if you can afford to fly to the Bahamas or have seasons tickets to some baseball team you can afford a sitter.
ihavenoenemies · 2 points · Posted at 19:00:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I totally agree with you. I brought my kid with me, when I moved to another country, because I had to.
elsynkala · 1 points · Posted at 22:37:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Who brings a 1 year old on vacation?! People who don't put 18 years of their life on hold because they had a kid!
What did your parents do wrong with too?! My goodness! Reading some of your responses and I have to only hope you're going in trying to be as big a dick as possible just for fun and that no one really thinks the way you do
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 22:42:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why would you bring a 1 year old on vacation instead of leaving it with a sitter or family? A 1 year old has no ability to enjoy or appreciate a vacation - it's literally nothing but a nuisance.
bbibber · 0 points · Posted at 19:32:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it's that important, book business.
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bbibber · 1 points · Posted at 23:29:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you're flying short haul then you don't need to sleep.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 23:31:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Of course having something screaming at 90db the entire flight is just fine if you're not sleeping.
blackfogg · 0 points · Posted at 13:27:46 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uhm, well for people like that there is a class, coinsidently named "buisness". Also, earplugs.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:16:09 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
Uhm, well, if you've ever flown business class you'd know that the only thing separating it from economy in nearly every case is either a thin sheet of fabric or nothing. I routinely take first class and still have to listen to shrieking children.
And earplugs are painful for people with narrow ear canals.
blackfogg · 1 points · Posted at 01:46:54 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
That usually is the case on shorter flies, but not when it comes to intercontinenal flights. Which are the ones most people would desperatly try to sleep on.
Earplugs aren't the only option, simply the cheapest.
What I am saying is simply, if you can't sleep on a plane it's usually not someone elses fault. If you are going to fly you know that you are on a confined space with many people. Don't take a bet when you NEED to do something.
[deleted] · 9 points · Posted at 03:39:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Earplugs, you can buy hundreds for pretty cheap.. Bring them with you, offer people around you.
GeneralMalaiseRB · 3 points · Posted at 15:45:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You had to? You HAD to. Why? Because you HAD to take a vacation to Rome? Or because you HAD to visit that one relative that your toddler doesn't care about? Unless your kid was the carrier of the cure to some disease and you had to get him to the only lab in the world that could handle such a thing, you didn't HAVE to take a 2 year old on a 12 hour flight. You did it to yourself, and you deserve to feel bad for ruining 12 hours of 200 other people's lives.
ihavenoenemies · 2 points · Posted at 15:56:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I had to because I had family issues that needed to be resolved in my home country which I won't go into. We were moving, not just going on a holiday for the fun of it. Also I didn't ruin 12 hours of 200 peoples lives, I spent the majority of the flight trying to keep him quiet and away from other passengers as much as possible. I probably walked for miles on that flight. If anything the people around me could have experienced annoyance and I felt really bad about that, much worse than I did for myself. But you're making it sound worse than it was haha.
I apologised to numerous people around me, and at the end of the flight they told me not to worry, they know its hard, keep my chin up. Like I mentioned earlier, they had headphones on and music playing etc.
GeneralMalaiseRB · 2 points · Posted at 18:47:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The general public is pretty polite, even when they are legitimately disturbed.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 13:34:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ihavenoenemies · 1 points · Posted at 15:12:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We were moving back from the U.S to my home country New Zealand. We didn't really have any other way to do it and we needed to get back.
To be honest everyone around was very gracious and understanding. Like I said, everyone had headphones on and when the lights got turned off I spent time walking the aisle with him which calmed him enough to where he wasn't keeping people awake, or I stood with him in the galley away from the passengers.
It was mostly Kiwis around me which helped because they are pretty nice people in those situations.
We actually just drove ten hours with both my kids for the christmas break solely because we didn't want to bother passengers on a flight. I always avoid flying with little ones if I can do it any other way.
[deleted] · -3 points · Posted at 02:50:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ihavenoenemies · 5 points · Posted at 10:19:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Believe it or not, you can't drive to New Zealand from the states. And when you move to a different country, you typically take your kids with you.
Edit: And just to add, pretty much everyone on the plane was wearing headphones and watching their screens before the flight even took off. I spent much of it walking the aisle to calm my kid and standing in the galley, away from the passengers, or in the bathroom. I did everything i possibly could to make it easier for everyone else.
salty_john · 15 points · Posted at 01:37:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm not rich or anything but I'm doing OK. I would have stayed in that middle seat and drank the airplane out of booze.
[deleted] · 61 points · Posted at 22:11:39 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
If it was assigned seating how did he just go find another seat? This doesn't quite pass the sniff test.
That being said if there were enough seats for everyone the other guy just got saved from having to spend a 13 hour flight next to a lap kid. I sure wouldn't want to sit next to a person with a small child on their lap for a long flight.
So the way the story is worded makes the poster seem like a prick but big picture nothing about this story makes me rage.
[deleted] · 42 points · Posted at 00:33:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sometimes if it's assigned seating but the flight isn't full then they'll let you switch when everyone's on.
woohoo · 37 points · Posted at 01:06:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
In which case they could have simply asked the guy to move instead of being a twat
[deleted] · 21 points · Posted at 01:57:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well I guess that's why this is on /r/rage then.
york100 · 8 points · Posted at 02:25:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've noticed attendants are much less tolerant of switching seats, particularly before take-off, than they used to be. Might have something to do with the tiers of paid coach seats now.
hotsauce126 · 3 points · Posted at 02:47:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah I was on a Spirit flight last summer that was about a quarter full, and the flight attendant said we could spread out once the pilot turned off the seatbelt sign...except to the exit rows. Nobody was allowed to move to the exit rows.
devilbird99 · 3 points · Posted at 03:55:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My trick with assigned seats is to board near the end if not last. Then if I see a seat empty that's better than mine I plop myself down.
Never had a FA call me out on it.
stationhollow · 2 points · Posted at 08:07:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is a safety precaution. People seated in exit rows must go through the preflight safety procedures in case of an emergency and assist in the opening of the emergency doors. Only people who are abled bodied are allowed to sit there too.
[deleted] · 14 points · Posted at 23:02:27 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Thorbinator · 14 points · Posted at 00:21:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why in-ear and over-ear noise blockers are required.
JarredMack · 3 points · Posted at 06:40:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your mistake was asking. Just move.
sealclubber281 · 61 points · Posted at 22:26:34 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sounds like every stroller-pushing person I have ever encountered. They have a fucking baby and you better get out of their way.
[deleted] · 16 points · Posted at 00:07:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Plus they cross the street like they have all the time in the world.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 13:38:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Fisionate · 3 points · Posted at 20:47:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well, fuck trophies are just shitty participation trophies after all.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love the look on their faces when I don't move.
Markioperpe · 11 points · Posted at 01:23:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Disgusting
mirkwood11 · 9 points · Posted at 03:51:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Stop having children.
aloysiuslamb · 9 points · Posted at 10:28:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
On my flight from New York to Dubai last summer I had a middle seat. I was between a wife and a husband, the husband asked me very politely to switch with his wife because we booked around the same time and we obviously got seats we didn't prefer. I had no problem switching. They got to sit together and my 6'2" frame got to enjoy stretching out in the aisle. Communication goes a long way so I really hate seeing shit like this. Just talk to each other, most people would prefer not causing a fuss.
Nevermind04 · 16 points · Posted at 03:06:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bringing a baby on a plane is just about as close as you can get to terrorism without killing someone.
TheZiggurat614 · 8 points · Posted at 03:30:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
shitty people are friends with shitty people. it's why they don't think they're shitty.
Jim-Dread · 7 points · Posted at 03:40:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the kind of shit that makes people hate kids. I would not dream of pulling this with my baby.
phedre · 1 points · Posted at 15:29:14 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Nah, it's the shitty entitled father that's the problem. The kid didn't understand what was happening.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 16:54:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Sure, but in the future the kids will act just like the parents.
The kid is the problem.
VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 16:58:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not hate kids, just hate crappy, entitled parents.
Who will then take their cues from their parents and grow up be crappy and entitled adults.
Who then raise more crappy, entitled people. :(
crystaljae · 9 points · Posted at 08:07:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This happened to me recently. I went to sit down in my seat a lady a man and they'd baby were sitting in my seat and said "we were hoping you would sit back there". Well fuck I guess since you already unpacked all over my paid for seat. Bunch of entitled assholes
ANGR1ST · 21 points · Posted at 01:35:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the kid doesn't have a seat, they need to be in the overhead bin just like any other piece of luggage.
dyingiseasy · 1 points · Posted at 12:13:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, make this into a law
Leah0509 · 1 points · Posted at 21:54:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Or in the cargo hold with the large dogs that cant fit under a seat
misterbondpt · 12 points · Posted at 05:53:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I go to the restaurant but don't order food for my kids. I stare at other people's food until they are so uncomfortable that they leave. My kids eat for free, as they should.
CaligoAccedito · 1 points · Posted at 17:35:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is my design.
BlackBeltBeta · 5 points · Posted at 13:29:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
First of all, why would you book two seats with a seat between them? And what made you think no one would sit in it? Fucking assholes. I wouldn't move. I'd just be extremely rude and awkward to turn them off.
thenewyorkgod · 6 points · Posted at 13:40:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Whenever an incredible new movie comes out that I have been waiting for years to see, i show up 2 hours early at the theater. I have a particular row that I like to sit in, and I like sitting with my wife in the exact center seats of that row. Best sight, best audio, etc. The theater begins to fill until it is nearly packed. My entire row is full except for one empty seat on my left, and one empty seat on my wife's right. The lights are dim, the previews begin and I settle in for 2 hours of awesomeness. Then, out of no where, this loud couple comes running into the theater, scrambling around, looking for two empty seats. They find two, in our row! But wait, the two empty seats are separated by a happily married couple. No problem, lets step on everyone's toes, dropping popcorn and bits of fizz as we pass.
"can you you two move over so we can get two seats together"
"no thank you."
"'scuse me?"
"I said, NO THANK YOU. I showed up two fucking hours ago to get prime seats. You fart your way into the theater ten minutes after it starts and expect to get prime seats next to each other? i think the fuck not"
carltoncarlton · 0 points · Posted at 21:22:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're a bit of a dick.
gwhart · 11 points · Posted at 05:06:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
THIS. Ok - similar story. Navy guy here. I was coming home from Bahrain (funky little country off of the coast of Saudi Arabia) for my brother's wedding. I planned way ahead and shelled out the cost of a commercial ticket because the military flights get delayed and I did not want to miss the wedding. I booked an aisle seat because I am tall and I hate flying...
I am settling down in my seat and this dad and his like three year old daughter come down the aisle with a flight attendant. The flight attendant politely asks me if I could hop across to the MIDDLE seat so that the dad and daughter could sit together in my seat and the middle seat next to me. This is an 8 hour flight to London connection.
Obviously I complied and was polite, because what kind if dick would make a little kid sit alone on a flight.
BUT - was I wrong to be annoyed that clearly this dad had not taken the time to simply choose a seat for him and his child at purchase... and banked on the fact that a normal person would inconvenience themself for them? I was annoyed and cramped the whole flight and irked that I paid money and chose my seat to have it undermined by a ill-prepared parent.
looktowindward · 1 points · Posted at 01:53:56 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
You were not wrong.
Eruptflail · 11 points · Posted at 04:56:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't. Take. Your. Spawn. On. A. Plane.
You're a parent now, stay at home.
feighery · 6 points · Posted at 10:34:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Its mandatory on some airlines for all kids under 12 to have assigned seats so when flying last year I booked a row for me and the family, all together.
The airline messed up and spread us out according to the boarding cards, on pointing this out at the gate they corrected it and accommodated us up front and could not have been nicer or apologetic. When we got onto the plane, we found other people with kids in our seats, the air hostess told them to move, they actually objected saying they had no seats together anywhere else on the plane (despite it being half empty as small children board first). Fearing that they had made another mistake the hostess went to get a manifest and then informed them of their seats numbers and that they had not booked seats apart from for the kids and so they unfortunately would have to move and be separated for the flight. They started angrily talking to each other in French before the hostess (who was Irish) started snapping back at them in French using that polite but through gritted teeth tone some people can perfect. They glared at us and said a few things, I openly laughed which seemed to annoy them even more. We got free drinks and snacks for the flight.
It would have cost them about €25 to book their seats together since they had to pay for the kids, as a result they ended up separated for the flight. All seats are assigned so I'm not sure what they though they would achieve.
MedicGirl · 6 points · Posted at 12:37:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If you want to have seat B...BUY THE FUCKING TICKET INSTEAD OF BEING A FUCKING ASSHOLE AND TROLLING SOMEONE FROM THEIR SEAT!!!
I seriously hope that kid puked all over the shitty parents and had a diaper blowout.
Aaronp6 · 6 points · Posted at 13:37:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck this guy, I've been the dude sitting in between two parents on a long flight with 2 screaming kids and every seat was filled. They actually passed up on my idea of switching seats with me because "I like the window seat, ya know? And he likes the aisle."
miraoister · 6 points · Posted at 14:24:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yeah, I dont get this "be overly nice to parents crap", for example parents getting priority etc, yeah, I can see carrying a child can be hard work, but on most occassions the parent I come across on the train is not a Burmese peaseant farmer carrying their child on their back escaping war and terror, its a suburban person who is well fed and has been into the center of the city to do some nice shopping with their big wallet, so Daddy/Mummy, I think you can standup on this train journey.
JohnnyHopkins13 · 6 points · Posted at 15:04:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is the product of surrounding yourself with "yes men". As you can see, all of his/her friends build them up with kudos. They don't have any down to earth friends who will say "that's fucked up".
I mean if the plane had a ton of extra seats then sure they could politely ask the man if he would consider moving but to act like that just shows how childish they are.
EtsuRah · 6 points · Posted at 16:17:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I know reddit hates pettiness but nobody is above it 100% of their life. I'd be petty as fuck to that couple.
I'd try to muster the most sickly sounding coughs I could muster. Sniffles and all. Hog up the arm rests since I am middle seat and that's the rule of the plane anyway. Let him see my texts as I text my friends about how hideous the baby is. I always bring headphones on a plane, that baby can cry all it wants.
Sometimes petty just feels too good.
Leah0509 · 2 points · Posted at 22:10:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/pettyrevenge says otherwise
thegeneraldisarray · 10 points · Posted at 02:48:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have offered my center seat to Mom for her aisle seat. Problem solved.
(and by offered, I mean insisted. Call the flight attendant please, I am sure they would side with me being reasonable over your entitled asses.)
BITCRUSHERRRR · 3 points · Posted at 02:03:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Hope he went clubbing in Istanbul
ktsb · 5 points · Posted at 03:15:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I didn't have to go through this cause my plane was going to Constantinople
skywreckdemon · 5 points · Posted at 06:07:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wouldn't have moved. Like most people in this comment section, I would have loved to mess with them.
JuiceControlTheMedia · 3 points · Posted at 06:50:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
"Excuse me are there any meal options that include beans AND dairy?"
And then I would drop noxious fart bombs for 13 hours.
looktowindward · 2 points · Posted at 01:53:11 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Weaponized lactose intolerance.
Nukl13 · 5 points · Posted at 06:58:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I'm ever in that situation I just hope I brought ear plugs and sleeping pills. Like many here, nothing would be more satisfying than annoying the people who think they can game the system by being shitty.
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 07:19:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I remember seeing this posted before and everytime I see this it pisses me off. Can't believe so many people liked it too
GeekofFury · 20 points · Posted at 00:12:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some parents, when it comes to their kids, are really shitty, entitled fucktrumpets.
Edit: Also, because planes are usually pre assigned seating, and the guy "found another seat," this story sounds like some praise-baiting bullshit, straight from shitthatneverhappenedland.
jbonezzz · 11 points · Posted at 00:53:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I've had assigned seat flights before and I've moved when there are multiple open rows...
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 07:29:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's not so unusual for flights to not be sold out. Depends the time of year. Assuming this post was from the past couple days, I can't imagine mid-January to be peak tourist season in Istanbul.
blindythepirate · 4 points · Posted at 06:53:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I already have a smokers cough. To make it even more pronounced and add to the fact of such a long flight, I would have so much fun with this. The only thing that keeps me from sleeping is silence, so the threats of noise would make me happy
[deleted] · 4 points · Posted at 10:33:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have stayed in my seat and had a lot to drink. If this sort of situation arises and I judge the people involved to be worthy of my gift of moving, I will politely move.
If I smell a rat and feel forced or ganged up on I will immediately enter cunt mode and it would be extremely difficult for airline staff to bring me back round. Enjoy your flight with the screaming baby.
"I'll have three large double gin and tonics please."
ChronoChrazeObliveon · 3 points · Posted at 11:46:32 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a bunch of utter cunts. The parents and all the people congratulating them for the post.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 13:19:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm a frequent flyer as part of my occupation and this has happened to me twice in the last 8 or so years I've been travelling.
If you have headphones, the easiest move is to say "No problem, I have headphones" put them in and pull your cap down like you're going to easily ignore them the whole flight. One instance, I got dad to switch me the middle for the aisle, and on the other occasion the couple moved to the back row of the plane, which was open, and I had our entire row to myself.
ppcpilot · 4 points · Posted at 14:13:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Everything in life is a game to people with these personalities, and must be won at all cost. There is no finishing second, or playing by the normal conventions; a life hack must be done for everything, bystanders and people in teh way be damned.
Thedaark · 5 points · Posted at 16:52:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This happened to me on a flight from NYC to Florida a while ago. I specifically reserved a window seat for me and the seat next to it for my sister. As we're boarding we get to our section, lo and behold, a whole family was in that section of seats. Before I got upset, I looked at my tickets to match the numbers a million times because I've been so wrong before but nope this time I wasn't! The family was a mom a dad and three kids probably ranging about 9-13. They probably planned on guilt-tripping me and my sister because they're like "Oh are these your seats? My kids were originally sitting further down and we wanna keep an eye on them!" Bullshit. They were two rows down and sitting all together. I started arguing with him that I got the window seat specifically because I don't like aisle seats and I don't wanna be separated from my sister either. They were like a deer in headlights. After another minute of arguing, and the line behind me of people boarding getting longer and more impatient they resigned and moved back to their seats. I fucking hate when people use their kids to make people feel bad and bend to their will!
Senuf · 1 points · Posted at 03:07:02 on January 15, 2017 · (Permalink)
You did well by not moving an inch from your right to have your seats.
GuttersnipeTV · 7 points · Posted at 07:53:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Parent power?
Sorry but parents dont have power, at all. You had a kid, you sacrificed all your power to your kid. Dbz rules I didnt write it.
shnoogie · 6 points · Posted at 08:06:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a parent, we used to try and game the system. We would take seats A and C, and hope somebody didn't take B. However, IF some poor soul did get seat B, do you know what we did? "I'm sorry, we were hoping nobody would sit here, would you like the window or the aisle seat so my wife and I can sit next to each other ?"
VAPossum · 2 points · Posted at 16:59:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That is how you do it.
Leah0509 · 1 points · Posted at 22:07:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Courteous, plesant and everyone wins!
spearchuckin · 11 points · Posted at 02:29:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why I sub to /r/childfree
Calamity_Jesus · 17 points · Posted at 03:52:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The kid wasn't the problem. I guarantee these assholes were assholes before they had a kid.
spearchuckin · 5 points · Posted at 11:42:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
It's not all out baby hatred. It's more about the parents...doing exactly what these dumbasses are doing. Using their crotchfruit to obtain special privileges and just violating the unwritten social laws we have to function as a society because babies.
Ironshards · 12 points · Posted at 04:48:03 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We talk about bad parents there too.
FoxForce5Iron · 6 points · Posted at 06:49:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The kid is being used as a tool by the assholes. Perhaps it's best to call the baby an asshole-by-proxy? Plus, it has their genes...poor thing.
VAPossum · 2 points · Posted at 16:51:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Childfree is really more about bad/annoying/entitled parents and birth control than kids themselves.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 16:57:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The kid IS the problem. And if you still don't see it... the kid WILL BE a problem.
Calamity_Jesus · 3 points · Posted at 18:30:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I disagree.
My perception of the issue has nothing to do with the outcome.. I'm starting to see why you're having trouble with simple logic.
The kid might be.. plenty of people escape petty selfish households without being petty and selfish themselves. Did you learn to judge an infant by their parents' behaviour from your parents, or is that one all you?
mtg2 · 3 points · Posted at 03:54:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
as a parent, i will train my kids to murder these people
VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 17:08:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You're doing some god's work, friend.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 03:55:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wrong on so many levels I have a small child and I would pay for a seat. If they didn't pay they do so at their own risk
BigNastyMeat · 3 points · Posted at 04:40:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If somebody was trying to make me uncomfortable by looking at my phone, I would pull up the most heinous gore/porn I could.
ShewShewCocaine · 3 points · Posted at 04:48:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I work at an airport and the kids that come through there are horrific. Parents literally don't care! Just let them run around like banshees!
Speknawz · 3 points · Posted at 05:12:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I love it when people stare at my phone. Thats when I look up shit that will leave mental scars for the rest of your life. This is literally the only reason I bought a Note 7.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
oh fuck, these comments are fucking killin me
verydepressedwalnut · 3 points · Posted at 05:29:38 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Peoples entitled cuntery knows no bounds.
Texas03 · 3 points · Posted at 05:41:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would shit myself. That would show'em.
erixtyminutes · 3 points · Posted at 06:16:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow. Fuck all these people to death.
njj3400 · 3 points · Posted at 06:18:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Except red. Dudes cool in my book.
Yanmega · 3 points · Posted at 06:32:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Rude tactics aside,why take a two year old to Istanbul? Take her to the park she won't know the difference frankly
TheRealPantz · 3 points · Posted at 06:47:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have been quite vocal at them. Keep your damn kid away from me.
Thighbone · 3 points · Posted at 07:40:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a comment section full of complete assholes.
I hope that person gets slapped for being such a twat.
Crash15 · 3 points · Posted at 08:14:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
/r/rage
Hobbes_Novakoff · 3 points · Posted at 10:16:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, that is where you are
Jeferson9 · 3 points · Posted at 09:06:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a douche
karlkarlkarl21 · 3 points · Posted at 11:20:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a piece of garbage... I really wish this was a last communication from one of the planes that hit the towers.
lousymom · 3 points · Posted at 20:40:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This pisses me off so badly. We fly with our kids and we sometimes end up with seats where all of us are in the middle seats in different rows. We don't "work it" to change seats and if someone is nice enough to offer to change with us or something, we buy them a drink and only do it to save them from our chatty 7-year-old. As a parent, I feel like bringing my kids on the plane is me burdening others. I should treat the situation as such. We have worked hard to ensure our kids are respectful flyers, but they are still kids. Kids are a pain in the ass.
saysthingsbackwards · 11 points · Posted at 02:41:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
fuck parent privilege
eldergeekprime · 5 points · Posted at 06:57:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The very first thing I would have said to these parents when I sat down was, "The doctors said that there's like a 90% chance that what I have isn't contagious, but you might want to move to another seat with the baby, just to be safe."
Wesker405 · 5 points · Posted at 23:07:42 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Jesus christ, only one rational guy in a sea of idiots
WestyPesty · 2 points · Posted at 04:55:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a shit person. People like them make the rest of flying parents look bad. I didn't buy my baby a ticket but I wasn't a twat either. I just asked the flight attendant at the gate if there were any open seats they could put me next to. I'm cheap and I can be an asshole but I'm not a cheap asshole.
KillNyetheSilenceGuy · 2 points · Posted at 02:53:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Maybe its different in instanbul, but every plane I've gotten on to had an assigned seat on my ticket, its not like I can just sit somewhere else because you're being an obnoxious puke.
hobbit_joe · 1 points · Posted at 20:43:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If there are free seats you can generally get up and move to another seat within you booking class. Hell, I've been offered to move seats because there were open ones so that myself and the others next to me could have our own row or an empty seat between us.
KillNyetheSilenceGuy · 1 points · Posted at 02:41:02 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
But I'm not doing that as we're boarding for fear of sitting in someone elses seat and then ending up having to move back or without a place to sit.
NascentBehavior · 2 points · Posted at 03:24:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a complete sociopath. Fuck this planet. FUck
insanekid66 · 2 points · Posted at 03:46:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The world would be a better place if they didn't exist.
GreenSnowday · 2 points · Posted at 03:54:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/thathappened
GingerMan512 · 2 points · Posted at 04:10:09 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have stayed in the seat just to spite them.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 04:30:06 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
And that's why I have top of the line noise cancelling headsets, they go on and I go to sleep. Let them be inconvenienced because it doesn't bother me a bit.
PantsJackson · 2 points · Posted at 04:36:50 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
As a fellow parent...fuck that guy.
CallMeGroovy · 2 points · Posted at 05:17:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
pull out some noise canceling headphones and man spread like there is no tomorrow
asterios_polyp · 2 points · Posted at 07:13:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Fuck this guy.
supershitposting · 2 points · Posted at 09:07:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Was on a flight from China some years ago.
Young Chinese couple with a baby. I thought shit, I hope all the simpsons episodes and movies I brought are gonna drown out the sound if it cries.
Couple had booked all 3 seats next to window, set up one of the seats as a makeshift bed. Quiet the entire flight save for descent close to landing.
Take it from me, fly a bigger plane.
Aesidius · 2 points · Posted at 09:58:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Travel tip: always have a pair of noise cancelling headphones.
electrobombs · 2 points · Posted at 10:58:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Some people just cant stop playing games. Why couldnt she just have said, hey buddy my kids cranky lets swap seats.?
SeanHearnden · 2 points · Posted at 12:48:07 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The most this bitch would have got is I would have offered to change with the other guy so they could be together. But if this cow tried any of this shit on me, I would go mad. Inconsiderate twat.
deathfromthecrab · 2 points · Posted at 13:51:25 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Scum
njharman · 2 points · Posted at 18:35:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
More disgusted by the support and confirmation their glee club gave them. "The things we must do".
Yeah, try not having kids you self important breeder assholes.
Tacocatx2 · 2 points · Posted at 20:24:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I can't believe those parents rudely bullied a guy out of his seat and their friends were all "good for you".
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 21:01:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
But then you throw flawed logic in and say "I'm statistically in a safer mode of transport than that one, so my kid doesn't need a belt and will be fine unrestrained on my lap!"
Your "research" and broken logic are putting your kid in harms way.
carnageeleven · 3 points · Posted at 02:52:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I fucking hate Facebook. This is a perfect example of why.
Reddit_is_my_Home · 4 points · Posted at 01:36:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
r/childfree
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 02:04:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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Reddit_is_my_Home · 4 points · Posted at 02:57:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I wasn't complaining. I just figured if this is a post that this community likes, there might be people here that don't know about r/childfree.
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 03:25:35 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have remained in that seat. And made them miserable, if their kid was making me miserable. Give me something to eat and I can fart some of Beethoven's finest work.
OmenQtx · 4 points · Posted at 03:52:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's kind of what I was thinking too. Pop in my ear buds, crank up some tunes, and fart along to the music.
hitl3r_for_pr3sid3nt · 2 points · Posted at 21:28:40 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ok but what airline seats a parent and her baby separate?
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 57 points · Posted at 21:38:14 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
They didn't. The parents selected seats A and C. The child would be required to be in the lap of either parent in seats A or C.
I don't understand why they didn't pick A and B like normal people.
Neostigmine · 57 points · Posted at 22:03:23 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
In the hope that no one picked B and then they'd have a spare seat for their sproglet.
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 46 points · Posted at 22:08:47 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Normal people would assume someone else would pick B because flights are usually fully booked.
Normal people would think "It might be inconvenient if there was a stranger sitting between us"
toadspimp · 34 points · Posted at 23:03:29 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Working in the airline industry, I wish more people thought that way. I really do. But no, many do try to pick the aisle and window and then get upset when someone is in the middle. But guess what! It's a sold out goddamn flight bitch SUCK IT UP
[deleted] · 7 points · Posted at 02:39:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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cencal · 2 points · Posted at 04:05:31 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Thank you. That's what I do. The middle seat is almost universally undesirable. You are on a basically full flight and decided you needed to take that flight even if you sit in a middle seat. My wife and I say "hey, it kinda sucks that you picked a seat next to a baby, but if you want you can choose aisle or window whichever you want." Or you can keep your seat. We'll try our best not to disturb you.
stationhollow · 2 points · Posted at 08:10:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why are you booking A and C in the first place...
Stormflux · 1 points · Posted at 14:29:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
GOTO Context = 5
Infinite loop.
toadspimp · 1 points · Posted at 03:34:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Most people yes but then there's assholes like the ones in OPs post that feel they're entitled to the seat on behalf of their poor planning. It goes about 60 good/40 bad.
VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 17:04:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They were thinking that, which is why they purposely annoyed the guy into moving.
AlwaysLupus · 6 points · Posted at 01:22:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I will say, until about 5 years ago you could change your seats at a kiosk at the last minute, and probably find yourself a row where the middle seat was empty. I'd say I had a 75% success rate at this before 2010 or so.
The past 5 years? I don't think I've been on a flight that wasn't almost completely full. I don't remember the last time I had a center seat open.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 02:17:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well now you have to pay extra to pick your seat too, and if you don't, then you just get assigned to the middle.
cgimusic · 7 points · Posted at 00:13:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Why couldn't they just book B and C though? If A is free they can still use it and even in the worst case they are sat next to each other.
glitchn · 8 points · Posted at 01:03:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because they are hoping having someone sit in B which is a middle seat will make the person want to move. Giving someone an isle or window seat wont make them want to give up their seat. They are playing the system to try to make someone move, not just hoping someone doesn't take the seat.
Bearence · 8 points · Posted at 01:08:48 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because based upon how they behaved, they had no intention of ever letting someone sit in that middle seat.
IamaDoubleARon · 2 points · Posted at 07:22:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
B is less likely to get selected by someone actually selecting their seats.
VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 17:05:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because it's much easier to annoy/guilt someone into giving up their seat if you're on either side of them, than both on one side.
My_usrname_of_choice · 11 points · Posted at 22:09:02 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
They said why, so the baby can have B.
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 11 points · Posted at 22:36:58 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Baby needs to pay for B.
Sorry, I guess what I meant is why they thought baby would get B if they booked A and C? It's weird they thought someone else wouldn't book (or be assigned) B.
Besides, on most flights a 2 year old can't sit in their own seat without the use of a car seat. Flight attendants would have asked the parents to hold the child even if the seat was empty.
My_usrname_of_choice · 12 points · Posted at 22:45:01 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
You've just made a commentary on the whole point of this post.
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 2 points · Posted at 22:50:14 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
We did it reddit
kathartik · 2 points · Posted at 02:16:15 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
it's the boston bomber all over again!
metastasis_d · 3 points · Posted at 00:24:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Can you really not understand it? Because it seems like you understand it.
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 1 points · Posted at 00:49:30 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I'm still not understanding why they thought this would work.
metastasis_d · 3 points · Posted at 01:05:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Ignoring the fact that it almost certainly didn't happen...
In the context of this person's fake story, it did work. They were hoping the flight wouldn't be so full that someone would have to book that seat, or if they did, that there'd be room on the plane for them to move.
Have you never flown before? Serious question; don't mean to condescend.
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 1 points · Posted at 01:09:44 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Yes, I fly several times a year domestically and internationally. Nearly every flight I fly is booked. I don't remember the last time I saw an available seat. That is my experience.
What is more likely to have happened (since we are pretending /r/thathappened) is the parents and the guy in the middle would have switched seats so the parents were together.
Or maybe the guy in the middle was bumped to first class because he was between two first class assholes.
I have also flown with children who were under 2 (in lap) and over 2 (car seat). I never would have booked an empty seat between me and my partner because that's how you end up with a stranger in the middle.
metastasis_d · 2 points · Posted at 02:02:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Even though /r/nothingeverhappens, if this happened to me I'd smell their attempt at a ruse and tell them to fuck right off. Headphones go in, family goes ignored.
In a perfect world.
It sounds like you might not be an asshole.
UnsubstantiatedClaim · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't think anyone has ever said that to me. Thank you.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 02:51:59 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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stationhollow · 1 points · Posted at 08:13:18 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If I got the seat between you two I would just stay there because I'm a stubborn asshole.
hitl3r_for_pr3sid3nt · 2 points · Posted at 22:00:32 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Oh ok.
charlesml3 · 1 points · Posted at 22:57:31 on January 12, 2017 · (Permalink)
Well they didn't because this entire story is made-up nonsense.
ArgonGryphon · 2 points · Posted at 01:24:11 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
So fucking give the kid to mom, what's the fucking big deal?
trouble101ks · 1 points · Posted at 03:52:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a stupid cunt
17954699 · 1 points · Posted at 01:29:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Parents suffering from PTSD. It's a tough life.
TonySPhillips · 5 points · Posted at 04:27:54 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Parents Too Soon Disorder?
sewkie · 1 points · Posted at 03:09:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Give us their names.
boredATwirk · 1 points · Posted at 03:58:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We need a plaque
aptpupil79 · 1 points · Posted at 04:50:16 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Bitch
xRedPhoenix · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't know why the guy didn't just ask to switch seats so that they could be next to each other. But yes, asshole people.
VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 17:47:49 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Because they wanted the third seat for free.
a_shootin_star · 1 points · Posted at 04:56:57 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Orange is mommy-jacking
Learned this from /r/outoftheloop yesterday.
VAPossum · 1 points · Posted at 17:48:51 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Orange's comment is directly relevant to the OP; it'd have to be unrelated or barely related to be a true mommyjacking.
DoverBoys · 1 points · Posted at 05:10:20 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I have the patience of a rock. I would've stayed in my seat, bearing every annoying thing they throw at me, hoping they go far enough to annoy others around us so they are forced by airline staff to move. Jackpot, whole row to myself.
hopopo · 1 points · Posted at 05:13:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
O, I would sit in that seat and do my damn hardest to fart as much as humanly possible. Also every 45min or so I would go to bathroom.
ressik · 1 points · Posted at 07:23:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This just pisses me off! I'm a father of 4 and have taken treats for people sitting next to us on the plane just in case my youngest (1 yr) gets too loud. That's the opposite of just hoping nobody will sit by you.
wackwithpoobrain · 1 points · Posted at 08:12:43 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I dont get it. Why not just hand the kid to his mom? I'm assuming mom was there since they paid for 2 seats.
TrueAngryYeti · 1 points · Posted at 08:23:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If that happened to me I'd open up some porn on my laptop or phone and make moaning noises. See how quickly they get their shit together lol.
Solenka · 1 points · Posted at 08:33:23 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have destroyed such behavior. Technically most people would have easy time putting such people in their place, guess guy just didn't want to get the flu.
JulianUndso · 1 points · Posted at 09:17:55 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I just hope that /r/ThatHappened
Rab_Legend · 1 points · Posted at 09:36:33 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Would just be texting my pals about some crazy bitch sitting next to me and have my headphones on full blast
_mach · 1 points · Posted at 11:05:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What if this kind of attitude is generally the reason why so many people hate flying?
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 11:36:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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fuzbat · 2 points · Posted at 22:01:05 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Probably because there isn't a carseat made today that is rated for a 10-20G deceleration from close to the speed of sound to zero. The seatbelt is mostly to keep you from flying around & the lap infant belts do that pretty well. Once the kiddlets are in their own seats the standard lap belts seem to work as well on them as they do on adults (which isn't all that well - but enough to do the job)
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:54:49 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's ridiculous. There are child seats that are FAA approved.
These often end up with the parent crushing the child and are very dangerous.
This is not at all true. The kids submarine under them and get garroted or smashed into the back of the seat in front.
fuzbat · 1 points · Posted at 15:11:03 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
As are the lap seatbelts, neither does much for survivability in a significant crash scenario.
For a Parent to crush a child wearing one of these the parent has already travelled through their seatbelt. While there is possibly an increased risk of injury to an infant compared to having them in their own (better designed?) seatbelt, this ignores the reality that an infant is likely to spend a significant portion of a flight not in their seat but sitting with a parent. If we accept this reality any seatbelt that is able to be practically used will perform significantly better then one that cannot. I've spent way too long flying in my life, and although I've been involved in more than my fair share of declared emergencies I've never ended up in a crash situation - I however fairly regularly end up in turbulence where not wearing a seatbelt is likely/has resulted in injury, a situation where either the infant extensions or a child in a lap belt appear to provide sufficient protection.
I'm not sure where you get these statistics from, from my (albeit casual) reading of crash analysis documentation there does not seem to be wildly significant rates of death for different age groups in major crash events. Likewise there does not appear to be significant rates of infant and young children suffering major injury or death in non-major crash events.
At a bottom line air travel is amazingly safe, and while a properly designed, and installed child restraint system will make it safer for a number of scenarios, so would the addition of sash belts, or 4/5 point harnesses for all passengers. Which we don't do as the economics of doing so isn't worth the additional cost & loss of comfort.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 18:32:53 on January 17, 2017 · (Permalink)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcqwdxecXmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvsnv26xZ54
https://www.easa.europa.eu/system/files/dfu/Final%20Report%20EASA%202007.C.28.pdf
From the above report;
[deleted] · 2 points · Posted at 12:50:58 on January 16, 2017 · (Permalink)
It all comes down to money. One reason among many is if the airlines make people buy a seat and properly restrain their child then they won't fly. Another is that they will have to provide seats that will accomodate car seats. There's a myriad of excuses they use to whinge about this issue. But basically it costs. Much like those bomb proof aircraft containers that were recommended by the NTSB after pan am 103.
The airlines have been fighting it years and most parents are too lazy and cheap to think about their kids safety.
Here's a Canadian article
miraoister · 1 points · Posted at 14:27:47 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
im glad when I go long haul, Im usually wearing my stinky junky clothes and I take off my shoes, then the shoe is on the other foot if you know what I mean?
Yrrebbor · 1 points · Posted at 14:30:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
What a POS! Who does this when all flights are overbooked nowadays?
minionoftheminions · 1 points · Posted at 15:13:34 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
People with tablets playing their shitty movie on full volume and no headphones!
That's enraging!
Skunkman2011 · 1 points · Posted at 15:44:22 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damadawf · 1 points · Posted at 15:59:02 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Everyone seems to be having a pissing contest about how they'd of "handled that guy" so my contribution would be to keep typing and start making a bunch of inappropriate comments about the wife, that'd probably get under his skin.
aintnufincleverhere · 1 points · Posted at 16:42:45 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
at the expense of being creepy to a woman you've never met? Not worth it
sentenseifrel · 1 points · Posted at 16:01:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That's why I always bring earphones and hoodies to my flights.
Masked_Death · 1 points · Posted at 16:37:19 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
For some reason I hoped the FB comments would be people telling her she's a horrible person. I believed they would.
Well, the first comment might've been an oddball. The rest will tell her-- This one too? And this? No, there's going to be someone who will say this is unacceptable.
Anybody? Please?
miraoister · 1 points · Posted at 16:51:13 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Next time this happens to me...
"Excuse me sir, would you mind moving, as there are other empty seats and our family could use the extra space and my wife needs the privacy to nurse our child."
"nursing you say?"
"well, luckily I'm here with a ringside seat"
Byxit · 1 points · Posted at 17:22:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Here's some bonus moves.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4025420/Holding-blow-dolls-mile-high-groping-stripping-underwear-passenger-shaming-images-ll-leave-reaching-sick-bag.html
um_hi_there · 1 points · Posted at 18:04:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Wow, this person doesn't even realize how much of a jerk he is, he's out on social media bragging about taking advantage of a stranger to get a free airplane seat.
rainman90 · 1 points · Posted at 18:38:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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ComradeAri · 1 points · Posted at 21:39:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Damn that's smart.
markymarz · 1 points · Posted at 02:25:40 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
They were probably fat as well
Livingontherock · 2 points · Posted at 02:12:58 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Clearly not the US. Someone would have been duct taped in the back of the plane. Also fuck these people if this is real.
exasperated_dreams · 1 points · Posted at 03:24:37 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
those comments are just in bad taste
PhreakOfTime · 1 points · Posted at 03:46:53 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is why flying first class is worth every penny.
lol... plebs.
TravelingT · 1 points · Posted at 04:32:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I would have just looked up some Japanese tentacle porn and let the cunt keep staring at my screen if she wanted. Perhaps show her husband as well. Fucking cuck
their-theyre-there · 1 points · Posted at 05:35:46 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is like an always sunny in Philadelphia episode, where the joke is how much of ignorant assholes they all are, but these are real people.
TheKingOfTCGames · 1 points · Posted at 07:38:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
if there was other seats he probably should of just taken it. it was the best option for literally every part involved.
but shes an asshole.
lanster77 · 1 points · Posted at 07:21:29 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Boggles my mind that it was a man who posted this, I know it's sexist but I've genuinely never seen a post like this that wasn't from a woman
Dan_Biddle · 0 points · Posted at 12:48:27 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Surely most airlines wouldn't allow a party of 2 to book seats with a gap between them, to stop this situation. My local cinema can do it so sure airline's would as well.
Kaiser_Kat · -1 points · Posted at 12:18:24 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
That was actually a pretty smart move.
[deleted] · 1 points · Posted at 12:53:17 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Not decent, kind of rude. But smart.
Sounds like there were empty seats on the plane. Not a huge deal.
LuigiPunch · 0 points · Posted at 05:13:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The things we must do!
frisch85 · 0 points · Posted at 07:47:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
If the guy is american then i am 100% sure that they all clapped but the 100$ usually go towards the flight attendants or pilots as tip for save landing.
[deleted] · 0 points · Posted at 08:33:36 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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looktowindward · 2 points · Posted at 01:49:44 on January 14, 2017 · (Permalink)
Don't be a douche. Assholes are everywhere
Flyboy2057 · 0 points · Posted at 18:25:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
I don't understand a lot of the responses here. Obviously the parents acted like pricks, but is everyone in this thread saying they'd honestly prefer to sit in the middle of these parents just to stick it to them? And why wouldn't the parents just asked if the person in B would switch with the person in A/C?
Shasky1 · -1 points · Posted at 07:53:08 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
We travel from west to east coast every year, I have four kids. $650 each. 3 under 6 years old. I pay for 5 tickets(2&under free), plus my mother in law and her sister so that is Seven total. did they put us together? No that is an extra fee, to put your minor kid next to you is extra? So I am out $3200+ baggage. I have two strollers and a booster plus 4 carry on I am dragging, none of my kids ever need to use the bathroom simultaneously. It is a six hour flight with one stop, I don't live in one stop town, two and a half hour drive, or two stops. So the 6 hour just became 12 hour flight. When I arrive and my destination I have to grab my two car seats and drive another two hours to get to my in laws house. That is if I can get all my crap in a rental car, sorry van. Which is $120 a day. So next time you see a family coming at your seat get up and make like a human being and remember we paid also. Maybe pay it forward a little. We still bring treats for the crew and are usually the last ones off the plane because we feel bad for holding anyone up. Whole day is usually 16-18 hours of travel time and my kids are pros! No crying past 1 1/2 for sure! As far as mad dogging that guy? Did you ask him to move. We only had one time when someone would move. Do be entitled. You are not. Only good thing is we book so early we usually have at least one premium seat to barter with. If they do trade I give them a small gift like a candied nuts or dried fruit. Because they didn't have to. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem!
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:47:21 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Self entitled little shit stain.
Lulalynn · -11 points · Posted at 01:01:41 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
You suck
g_m171 · -6 points · Posted at 04:30:26 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
This is actually kind of impressive
[deleted] · -9 points · Posted at 09:32:28 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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UsaIvanDrago · 10 points · Posted at 12:45:42 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
The sacrifice of parenting doesn't include still trying to do everything you want to and guilting others into letting you do it WITH your kid at no extra cost.
[deleted] · 3 points · Posted at 16:41:10 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
Your Post: I am an entitled person who thinks everyone else has to pay for my life choices.
And, we recognize how expensive and hard it is. We just don't care because YOU CHOSE TO HAVE THEM.
You see, once you CHOOSE to have kids, you're CHOOSING all the good AND the bad. Trying to opt out of the responsibility YOU CHOSE to create for yourself is childish. Trying to make other people feel sorry for your CHOICE is borderline sociopath.
Please see a doctor as soon as possible.
stevethepirateuk · -2 points · Posted at 07:39:12 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
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rfa31 · -5 points · Posted at 08:15:39 on January 13, 2017 · (Permalink)
My wife and I are something else.
We flew (with our then 23 month old) daughter return Sydney to Warsaw & did this.
Every flight.
But we always selected the rearmost seats on the plane & spoke with the cabin crew regarding our plan - who were fine with it.