WWYD? Observations of a hot mess family on airplane

[Anonymous]

I also don't think this is an unembellished story but we have become such an unfeeling and disconnected, heartless society. I recently heard a story about parents flying to a "celebration of life" with their children. BOTH parents had terminal diagnoses and they wanted to celebrate their lives with their extended families before they passed. It was a celebration of life for THEM. The kids had just been told their parents were not going to be alive much longer. One child was three, another was four. Now, if they misbehaved on that flight and you knew none of this, you'd sit in judgment, maybe, or ignore, or maybe consider offering a hand, who knows. But if you knew both parents were in the final months of their lives and the kids were about to be orphaned? I'm guessing you'd not only tolerate some Skittles being thrown at your head, you'd feel deep compassion. We never know what someone else is going through. Let's walk through our lives defaulting to kindness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ughh....some of this sounds like me. I just flew out with my four kids to visit my sister and see my niece get baptized. On the was back, I started giving my 5 year old a starburst for every page of hidden pictures he could find. I let him just throw the wrappers on the floor thinking we would get them later. Then all five of us fell asleep. We woke up when the plane landed at 1am. My second grader woke up wet. Here, she had peed while she was sleeping. She started crying because she was tired and wanted to clean herself up, but couldn’t get up while the plane was taxiing. Finally, the plane stops, and she runs back to the bathroom to change. While she is gone, my fourth grader, who I hadn’t noticed was looking kind of green, pukes everywhere. Meanwhile, my 5 year old won’t wake up all of the way and keeps laying on me. When my second grader got back and saw all of the vomit, she kind of lost it and started sobbing loudly.

So, my fifth grader picked up everyone’s books and threw them in his own backpack and took her off the plane. I helped my fourth grader get a little cleaned up, grabbed my little one who refused to walk, and left. I apologized profusely to the flight attendants on our way out. What we left behind was seriously disgusting.

I don’t know why I am telling this story here. Big families on planes? But it was about the worst ten minutes of my life.

Ack! That is truly a hellish trip. Sorry that happened to your family.

Mom seems pretty unconcerned, I think she is looking for sympathy, not apologizing for her family’s negative impact on the world. SHE is the problem with the world, procreating without responsibility, then asking everyone else to “literally” clean up the mess she makes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last night we flew back to DC. Family in front of us had 5 kids (1 was a lap child), mom & nanny.
Lap child was never in a lap. Was bouncing around the sears during take off/landing. We hit bad turbulence during landing & kid bounced up & hit her hear on ceiling.
Kids were throwing skittles at passengers in front. Also lots of screaming. At one point older kiddo (maybe 3rd grade) was dumping soda on younger (maybe 1st grade) brother. Same 1st grade brother definitely peed on the seat. Not on accident. Like stood up- unzipped pants & peed.
Mom moved away from kids midway and sat further up- leaving nanny with 5 kids.

That’s the fact pattern- what would you have done?

Troll level: novice. Implausible, not particularly amusing, and unlikely to provoke any strong response as a result.

This. Never happened.

Agree. There is no flight from Orlando that had enough extra seats for mom to just get up and move, and they don’t allow that in 2020 anyway.

I'm not OP, but yes there are.

I was on a Southwest flight from Orlando to DCA last week that had a few extra seats.

[Anonymous]

I would say something about the peeing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Last night we flew back to DC. Family in front of us had 5 kids (1 was a lap child), mom & nanny.
Lap child was never in a lap. Was bouncing around the sears during take off/landing. We hit bad turbulence during landing & kid bounced up & hit her hear on ceiling.
Kids were throwing skittles at passengers in front. Also lots of screaming. At one point older kiddo (maybe 3rd grade) was dumping soda on younger (maybe 1st grade) brother. Same 1st grade brother definitely peed on the seat. Not on accident. Like stood up- unzipped pants & peed.
Mom moved away from kids midway and sat further up- leaving nanny with 5 kids.

That’s the fact pattern- what would you have done?

Troll level: novice. Implausible, not particularly amusing, and unlikely to provoke any strong response as a result.

This. Never happened.

Agree. There is no flight from Orlando that had enough extra seats for mom to just get up and move, and they don’t allow that in 2020 anyway.

I'm not OP, but yes there are.

I was on a Southwest flight from Orlando to DCA last week that had a few extra seats.

Same. The person who was sitting in front of me left his seat and went to an empty row to lay down. Rare these days, but it does happen. He was extra considerate and left his seat reclined while he went to lay down.

[Anonymous]

I’d have offered to help with the lap kid. I’d have told the older kids one of two things: either 1) I’m going to call Santa and have you put on the naughty list or 2) I’m going to open the emergency door and toss you out if you don’t knock it off.

I’m a nanny and I have zero issue with telling other people’s kids to stop being assholes. I also have zero problem with lying to them about potential outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Because of a unexpected death in the family, I had to fly alone with our then-4, 2 and 8 month olds on an extremely long, two pronged, international flight. It was so miserable that I cannot so it adequate justice. It was, without question, the hardest 30ish hours of my life. My kids are actually normally pretty well behaved and they weren’t intentionally bad on the flights. But, 30 hours (with a 6 hour delay during the layover because of course there was)... is just a lot. 2 of them were in diapers. Only the 4 year old could remotely be left alone to change one of them. I am literally recoiling just thinking about it. I must have looked like I was trying my best (I was), because the other passengers were unexpectedly lovely. It actually gave me renewed faith in humanity. And they didn’t even know we were headed to a funeral (and because I was needed to help out), though I did explain it was an unexpected emergency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It happened. sW airlines. Coming back from Orlando. Family was flying from San Juan.

Ah. Racist troll post. Nice try, Vlad.

[Anonymous]

I think you should feel smug and superior and then go post about them on a social media web site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d have offered to help with the lap kid. I’d have told the older kids one of two things: either 1) I’m going to call Santa and have you put on the naughty list or 2) I’m going to open the emergency door and toss you out if you don’t knock it off.

I’m a nanny and I have zero issue with telling other people’s kids to stop being assholes. I also have zero problem with lying to them about potential outcomes.

1. Completely empty threat. Not all families do Santa. And even if this family does, it's February. No one is worried about Santa in February, you have to wait until AT LEAST October for that to be significant.

2. Good way to get the Pilot to make an emergency landing due to a threat and have YOU arrested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It happened. sW airlines. Coming back from Orlando. Family was flying from San Juan.

LOL, you fly Southwest Airlines, especially from Orlando, and you get what you deserve! And it sounds like that’s exactly what happened, OP! Hope you learned your lesson. You lie down with dogs, ya get fleas!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It happened. sW airlines. Coming back from Orlando. Family was flying from San Juan.

LOL, you fly Southwest Airlines, especially from Orlando, and you get what you deserve! And it sounds like that’s exactly what happened, OP! Hope you learned your lesson. You lie down with dogs, ya get fleas!

I'm a pp who flew to/from Orlando on Southwest last week. I had NO problems on that flight. Actually I fly to Orlando (typically on Southwest or American) 2-3 times a year, and have never experienced a problem.

I'm also the same PP that talked about the horrible family where that Dan got drunk and the mom put a dirty diaper on her tray and the toddler was out of control. That was a flight from London to Ottawa. i guess either Ottawa or London is full of dogs and fleas?

[Anonymous]

I would have secretly enjoyed the shi$show.

[Anonymous]

All of them should have been strapped into parachutes and pushed out door. Nanny is a fool for working for these people. However, I am inclined to doubt this story as most planes are full and changing seats isn't ban option.

[Anonymous]

Op u obviously hate large families and are painting a picture that seems rather improbable.