School’s out, summer is here and it’s only just begun…
It’s that time of year again… SUMMER! The time for once in a lifetime vacations and trips to see grandma. Everyone and their screaming kids seem to come out of the woodwork to fly on airplanes. Here are some of my favorites from my hall of shame.
Getting ready to go to Columbus, OH, I was walking up the isle closing overheadbins, and in the first overhead bin there was someone’s bag stuffed right in front of some of my emergency equipment. I pulled it out, and asked the frat boys, who were sitting in the front of the airplane, whose it was. They claimed the bag, so I asked them to PLEASE move it, because it was blocking emergency equipment.
When I go to walk away, they yell, “Thanks for being so friendly!!” I stopped dead in my tracks, and turned around and went back to were they were sitting.
I turned to them, and in my best bimbo, valley girl, voice I said, “Like OMIGOD, I am like SOOOOOOO sorry! It’s like my job to be here for you SAFETY, not like to pamper your preadolescent ego, like OKAY?”
They just stared at me, with mouths wide open, speechless. Mind you I had been in Cleveland a total of nine hours the night before, and I wasn’t about to take crap from some nineteen year old.
Coming back from Columbus, I had this mother and her two young children, both under the age of two traveling alone. She was really overwhelmed and had requested assistance when she got to Chicago. Another passenger had volunteered to help her on and off the plane with her, her kids and her car seat, but she needed help to her next flight which was with another airline.
Come to find out, when we got to Chicago, the only assistance available is wheelchair assistance. There was no one available to help her carry her car seat to her next gate for her. Upon learning this from the gate agents, she screams, “WELL… THANKS FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP I’M NEVER FLYING THIS AIRLINE AGAIN!!!!!” She then throws the car seat on top of her stroller, almost hitting her child in the head, and takes off, all the while refusing the offer of help from the other passenger who offered to help her.
What I want to know is, if she can’t handle a simple task, like getting fromone gate to another with her children, how does she get day to day things done, like grocery shopping, ect? Maybe some of you mothers might like to enlighten me on this?
3 comments:
I have those thoughts every time I see a family with children fall apart on the airplane because things aren't exactly the way they want it.
yea I hear you... I feel like saying, "Is THAT the kind of example that you want to show your children??"
Enjoyed your stories on the traveling public. I have probably witnessed what you described before as I have been flying at least once a week for the last two years.
I have a question for you: Do you know why airports and airplanes bring out the idiot in some people? It seems that all of a sudden, people can't follow directions, read signs, lose strength to lift their bags into the overhead compartment, and the worst-cover their nose and mouth while hacking on the back of your head.
And I have to put up with this for only a few hours...your exposure is day long.
After witnessing this and more, I have much respect for Flight Attendants.
PMJ
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