Well, all I know is that I was on a flight from Albany to Cleveland, on my way to Houston, and it was one of those small cramped Continental's they fly to the hubs...and this lady was sitting next to me...smelled like a lobster the whole way...a washed up on the beach week old lobster.
Wish they had an itty bitty parachute so she could jump out over Lake Ontario and maybe find her way back to the rocky coast of Maine.

Ok, that is disgusting. :eek:

Love lobster.

Love people that smell like lobster? Nope.

So far you win, DTS,

The head of my department at work was on a flight with a wee seat kicker behind him. The kid finally peaks when he pours a glass of soda down our department head's seat. Dep't Head starts yelling, the flight attendants rush up to see what the problem is... and the end result is that the KID and the kid's parent are moved to first class!

First of all, what? Second of all, I'm sure the first class passengers really appreciated that...

The parents... see this is just the type of thing I cant stand about parenting. Do not take your family difficulties and give them to all the other paying passengers.

Personally I would have left the airplane with kid in tow and apologized for the scene visited upon others. So selfish... rights my arse. Think about others once in a while, not your own trip with your own kid in your own little world.

I would be terribly embarassed if my name came out in the paper associated with this incident. These parents are already on TV. Slap em up side the head. They are reveling in the noteriety. Unbelievable gall.

The part that really explains it all is the quote from the mother " we didn't have a chance to console her" GTF out, come on I would of said " we didnt really have a chance to beat her ass"

I was reading a follow-up article that said when the family took a flight out the next day they doped the kid up on Benedryl. May I ask, why didn't they do that the first time? They admitted they know the kid can be a handful.

And, to try to be a little kind to the kid-- those trips up and down can be very, very painful on the ears. Give the kid Benedryl and let her sleep through it all!

Heck, if Benedryl knocked me out like that I'd pop it the second I got to my seat.

Me too, Nicole. I wish that benadryl did that to my kid... NOPE, he's just as hyper as ever. LOL

As a 3 year old I knew the rules, my mom must have told me them in the womb, because I NEVER EVER acted up , not once did I ever yell or scream or become unruly in public or at home in the house. My mom made it very clear when we went anywhere ," you behave and you can ride the horsey go round when we come out , you act up and Im going to take you in the bathroom and beat yer ass" . I understood that getting out of line was not good for me so i didnt. To be honest it never even occurred to me to be loud and unruly as a child, and I think if more parents were more liberal with ass whippins and less " let me hug the child into behaving" the whole world would be better.

my oldest sister threw a tantrum once. ONCE! and apparently the rest of us learned the lesson from that example.

you have to teach your kids to behave at home-take them out to teach them there as well-but if you let your kid act like a hellion at home, well guess what he's going to act like everywhere else!
we took, and still take, our kids everywhere. of course they're teens now-but i never had a problem with them. they sat at the restaurant--no running laps. and for crying out loud, no blankies!

but when you take a youngster to dinner, you have to be ready to go when they're done eating. if you want to sit and chat over cocktails for an hour after, call a sitter.

My Dad was a Police Officer....we didn't have tantrums;)

Ok I had a blanky but I only took it out of the house to go to Grams or when we went on vacation( 3 weeks is a longtime without one's blanky ).
I can remember as a child seeing other kids throwing fits when we were out at the store or whatever and I remember thinking " what is wrong with these children" and why do their parents let them do that .
My parents raised 3 boys and then I came along and I will say my brothers were hellions but they never were out of line in a public setting while we were with my parents. We went to resturants and the movies( which I hated as a kid because all the other children talked while the movie was playing) and zoo's and museums and we all behaived like we were supposed to.
I see alot of children today that are way to spolied , watching as much tv as they want , getting name brand shoes( i got my first pair of ponys when I was 12 I saved my allowance all summer so I could get them) and clothes without ever knowing what working for something is.
I will admit , I dont have children , but if I did my child would know right from wrong and how to act and if they got out of line they would know that there was going to be some punishment involved. When I do have kids there will be not much tv and almost no computer use , they will act like they have some manners or they wont leave the house , and by god when say do something they better jump and not give me any lip or their ass is going to be sore .

lol about the blankies. kids have blankies, but friends of my parents let their kids take them everywhere. i am not exaggerating. everywhere. those things looked like rags after a while.

i like kids. good ones. nothing sets my teeth on edge more than a bad behaved kid--and it's their parents fault! kids will learn whatever you teach them, good routine or bad--just like i can't stand racist or bigoted kids. it's all learned. way to go mom and dad if you raise them that way! and whiners drive me mad....

Pediatricians say to be sure to do a test run before trying the Benedryl trick on a kid on a plane because it does make a small number of them more hyper! Could you imagine trying it on a plane for the first time and having that happen?

is that even possible for that to happen?

i just took a be...........................................