I would have turned my airpods up and put on my eyemask.

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.

What would I do? Thank my stars I was seated in first class.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry this isn't believable. There is no way a flight attendant didn't intervene. What a poor troll attempt

Did you see what happened recently when the woman whose seat was being pounded by the guy behind her summoned a flight attendant? The woman was blamed for reclining her seat.

There are a lot of sh!tty flight attendants out there.

Sure. But you really, honestly think that a baby hitting their head on the ceiling of the plane, throwing skittles at passengers, and kid peeing on the seat would not get the flight attendants more involved? Sorry you're so gullible.

You don’t know what’s going on with this family. Where was dad? Maybe they were all flying out to his funeral. Maybe three of the kids were actually nieces and nephews and mom had just agreed to take custody and was flying them home.
You seem to think that this was a family that was coming back from vacation, but that seems unlikely given that there was no dad and the kids were so unruly. Also, the woman with them almost certainly wasn’t the kids regular nanny, or she would have gotten it under control. Maybe it was an au pair, or maybe a family member.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Id I wasn't taking care of my own little ones at the moment, I'd try to help them like a decent human being.

Nope. I would absolutely not lend a hand. Not when the mom herself wasn't doing her part.

Same.

I would’ve moved to a different part of the plane, like the mom did.

I would have told the kids to knock it off and asked them what they were supposed to be doing. (No one gets on a flight with five kids without anything for them to do.)

Sometimes hearing it from a stranger is more effective than hearing it from your mom.

Anonymous wrote:I would have alerted a flight attendant about the kid peeing on the seat, and left out any opinion about if it was an accident or not. They need to know that seat needs to be cleaned/changed out etc.

Other than that, I would mind my own business.

+1

This is so cringy. How do you know of kid 1st grader isn’t special needs? My son has SN and does crazy shit on airplanes and I deal with it.

There’s no point to this post but to bash. Jerky post.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry this isn't believable. There is no way a flight attendant didn't intervene. What a poor troll attempt

+1 It's like a troll by someone who has only seen planes in movies. Baby flew up and hit its head on the CEILING during turbulence? Mom got up and moved away (where? Just standing in first class?) partway through the flight, so the nanny was alone?

LMAO

SW flights let you change seats whenever.

I would have bought the nanny some whiskey.

Anonymous wrote:Sorry this isn't believable. There is no way a flight attendant didn't intervene. What a poor troll attempt

+1 It's like a troll by someone who has only seen planes in movies. Baby flew up and hit its head on the CEILING during turbulence? Mom got up and moved away (where? Just standing in first class?) partway through the flight, so the nanny was alone?

LMAO

Anonymous wrote:Sorry this isn't believable. There is no way a flight attendant didn't intervene. What a poor troll attempt

Did you see what happened recently when the woman whose seat was being pounded by the guy behind her summoned a flight attendant? The woman was blamed for reclining her seat.

There are a lot of sh!tty flight attendants out there.

I would have glared and told the flight attendant about the peeing. I might have told the kids to knock it off.

I would have alerted a flight attendant about the kid peeing on the seat, and left out any opinion about if it was an accident or not. They need to know that seat needs to be cleaned/changed out etc.

Other than that, I would mind my own business.