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jlb
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I'm not so excited about little kids/babies in public places where adults frequent. Call me a kid hater....but on airplanes when it's a long-haul flight? Seriously, who wants to listen to some baby whining and crying for 15 hours. No parent should bring their little kid of a flight that long unless they're super well-behaved.
Also: restaurants. Pizza Hut, whatever. But nice restaurants: leave the kids at home.
Weddings: same deal. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| jlb wrote: |
I'm not so excited about little kids/babies in public places where adults frequent. Call me a kid hater....but on airplanes when it's a long-haul flight? Seriously, who wants to listen to some baby whining and crying for 15 hours. No parent should bring their little kid of a flight that long unless they're super well-behaved.
Also: restaurants. Pizza Hut, whatever. But nice restaurants: leave the kids at home.
Weddings: same deal. |
I have been on flights with screaming children (a couple of times my own  ) and they always settle down eventually. Actually, taking off and landing is particularly rough on the tykes, because they don't know how to equalize the pressure in their ears.
I always fly with earplugs and eye-shades. It also helps to pack patience, and tranqs if necessary.
As for nice restaurants- I am with you all the way. Children don't enjoy it any more than the others guests do.
Flight is often necessary, children in a nice restaurants is not. No family or babysitter? Stay home and make your child, and everyone else, happy. |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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Sorry to revive a seemingly dead thread, but I thought this excerpt from a Matt Damon interview might be relevant to the topic.
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Like all proud fathers he's more than happy to discuss his children "We've had some tough flights. We recently returned from Paris and the studio flew us in first class. The plane had only four seats in that section so it was my wife with the baby, me and my stepdaughter.
And then there was this other woman.
"I looked at the ticket price. They were really expensive. This woman got on and she looked over and saw the baby. Well, my baby cried from the moment we took off to the moment we landed - the entire time.
"This woman read a book, ate her dinner, watched a movie, slept - unbelievable. And I was saying to my wife, Lucy, 'I think she's deaf. Maybe she's deaf?'
"So we went in the customs line and my curiosity got the best of me. I tapped her on the shoulder and said, 'Excuse me, we're the people who were sitting with you.' And she said, 'Yeah, I know who you are.'
"And I said, 'I just want to apologise if we disturbed your flight.' She looked at me and said, 'I have nine children.' She was about 60 years old and she said, 'I've spent 35 years raising kids. It was great'." |
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indytrucks
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Location: The Shelf
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| jlb wrote: |
No parent should bring their little kid of a flight that long unless they're super well-behaved.
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What would you say, then, to parents who want to take their kid to see their grandparents for the first time? Wait until he's/she's a teenager?
I agree with not taking the little ones to nice restaurants. But flights sometimes are a necessity, like another poster mentioned. Maybe the people who can't stand crying babies or smelly people or drunks or loud people yakking on cell phones, maybe they should be the ones to stay home, as that's the reality of air travel. Always has been. Shut up, buy some earplugs and deal with it, or be prepared to swim. |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| They have perfectly good overhead lockers on planes for keeping babies in. There is no need for them to be in the cabin crying when they can be safely stored overhead. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| They have perfectly good overhead lockers on planes for keeping babies in. There is no need for them to be in the cabin crying when they can be safely stored overhead. |
mrsquirrel... this is NOT COOL.  |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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Don't put your baby in the overhead locker
by Megan on Friday, August 3rd, 2007 at 02:14pm
This is a true story told to me by one of my hostie friends who was working on a flight to Apia, Samoa�
This was back in the day when KFC didn�t exist up there and people would take buckets of it home to family. (Airlines even gave KFC vouchers as incentives to book flights.) Anyhoo, they were preparing for take-off from Auckland when the stewardess noticed a couple with boxes of KFC on their laps. She told them they�d have to put it in the overhead locker for take-off and as she went to take it from them they said, �no, no. Our baby is up there!� |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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| jlb wrote: |
I'm not so excited about little kids/babies in public places where adults frequent. Call me a kid hater....but on airplanes when it's a long-haul flight? Seriously, who wants to listen to some baby whining and crying for 15 hours. No parent should bring their little kid of a flight that long unless they're super well-behaved.
Also: restaurants. Pizza Hut, whatever. But nice restaurants: leave the kids at home.
Weddings: same deal. |
So I just had kids...2 girls on Sunday. So how long should I wait to show my parents their grandchildren. My mother can not fly due to medical reasons. What should I do? Hire a lier jet? Wait 15 years?
I agree with the restaurant bit, but I totally disagree with the plane thing. It's called public transportation for a reason. If you don't like it...crank up your I-pod and you take some medication. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
| jlb wrote: |
I'm not so excited about little kids/babies in public places where adults frequent. Call me a kid hater....but on airplanes when it's a long-haul flight? Seriously, who wants to listen to some baby whining and crying for 15 hours. No parent should bring their little kid of a flight that long unless they're super well-behaved.
Also: restaurants. Pizza Hut, whatever. But nice restaurants: leave the kids at home.
Weddings: same deal. |
So I just had kids...2 girls on Sunday. So how long should I wait to show my parents their grandchildren. My mother can not fly due to medical reasons. What should I do? Hire a lier jet? Wait 15 years?
I agree with the restaurant bit, but I totally disagree with the plane thing. It's called public transportation for a reason. If you don't like it...crank up your I-pod and you take some medication. |
Congratulations! |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
So I just had kids...2 girls on Sunday. |
Congratulations!! Twins!! How exciting!!! |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
| So I just had kids...2 girls on Sunday. |
Good on you, bloke.
Time to start practising: "Now you listen to me, son. I want my daughter back here by midnight, and if you so much as lay a finger on her, I'm going to......"  |
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