Transportation: Today, a woman strapped her 8-year-old son into the seat next...

By Sigh - 19/02/2013 17:13 - United Kingdom - Waltham Abbey

Today, a woman strapped her 8-year-old son into the seat next to me on a transatlantic flight. Thinking they'd been unable to book seats together, I offered to swap seats with her. She said she'd booked it this way intentionally, because he's a "fucking brat" on flights. She was right. FML

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By northernlass - 01/10/2010 14:32 - United States

Today, I boarded a trans-Atlantic flight by myself, and struck up a nice conversation with the passenger across the aisle. Before we even took off, the man in front of me unbuckled, stood to face me, and asked me to please shut the hell up. "It's a 9 hour flight, and you're VERY loud!" FML

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By Anonymous - 11/08/2023 06:00

Today, my daughter found out there was a vacant seat left in first class on our flight and damn if she didn’t pounce on the opportunity to get bumped up into it so fast, because she, “like, deserved a break.” She left me in economy class for a 10-hour flight with her 3 year old and 1 year-old with teething pain. FML

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By Ashleigh - 22/04/2011 18:43 - United States

Today, I was on a three hour flight to Los Angeles for a corporate meeting. The woman next to me instantly fell asleep and snored louder than a freight train, while the kid behind me made a hobby of thashing my seat from behind. When I peered over and asked him to stop, he spat in my face. FML

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By MLeguillon - 01/09/2014 04:34 - United States - Imperial

Today, after years of wonderful flying experiences, I boarded a flight and took my seat only to find a baby sitting in front of me, behind me, and to the right of me, and across the aisle from me. All of whom decided to cry in unison. It was a 9-hour flight. FML

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By myles bevan - 09/09/2010 10:01 - United Kingdom

Today, whilst sat next to a old lady on a flight back to the UK, I exclaimed how I wished somebody would gag the crying baby a few rows behind us. Her reply was, "That's my grandson." FML

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By Anonymous - 04/07/2023 17:00

Today, I was sat next to a screaming baby on a 9-hour flight. Now before anyone has a go at me, I am in no way blaming the baby, I’m blaming the mother with her makeup hair and nails done perfectly, with her AirPods on, staring at her phone, and ignoring her screaming child the full 9 hours. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/01/2024 08:00

Today, on a plane, a little kid was kicking the back of my son's chair. When the kid's mom went to the toilet, my son told this little kid, "If you kick my chair one more time, I’m going to kill your mom and you’ll never see her again." He stopped kicking but damn, what kind of son did I raise? FML

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By Anonymous - 23/11/2015 05:44 - United States

Today, my one-year-old son threw up on the man sitting next to us on a plane. I felt bad and apologized profusely. When I tried to give him money for dry cleaning, he slapped me. FML

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By use condoms bro - 26/11/2022 10:00 - Argentina

Today, at 17 years-old, I discovered how embarrassing it is to have your kid scream on a flight and how hard it is to calm them down. FML

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By ugly me - 24/10/2010 00:50 - United States

Today, I was sitting on a plane waiting for everyone to get on. A cute guy around my age had the option of sitting next to me or an old guy. He gave me a horrified look and immediately sat next to the old man. I got to sit next to his mother. She evil eyed me the whole time. FML

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BingleBop 18

Tuesday 19 February 2013 22:41

Seems like she is a "******* brat" BEFORE flights. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh?

TotallyAradical 14

Tuesday 19 February 2013 22:40

Oh hell no.

Comments

bryan788 29

Wednesday 20 February 2013 2:51

wow mother of the year there!!!

TheyCallMeDamien 17

Wednesday 20 February 2013 3:19

She's a sorry parent.

ColbyGB 13

Wednesday 20 February 2013 3:24

This is why you pull out

marcranger 28

Wednesday 20 February 2013 3:41

I would have offered her the option of either switching seats or paying me a 1000 dollar/pound/euro/what have you per hour babysitting fee upfront, in cold, hard cash. Hope you were able to cadge lots of free alcohol from the flight attendants.

Vanillanougat 14

Wednesday 20 February 2013 3:46

When the stewardess came around with drinks you should have ordered the kid a beer and then blamed it on the mother. She obviously doesn't care about her child, so ik sure she wouldn't mind...

Lunasis 14

Wednesday 20 February 2013 3:49

slap that child and her >.

vbmg152 18

Wednesday 20 February 2013 3:55

What a selfish lazy B! She should've taken care of her kid, maybe he's afraid of flying or something! Not that she'd know cause she never bothered to find out. There's usually a reason kids act out. Could be fear or maybe he needs some attention from Mom (I'm using that term loosely here)! Anyway, you don't foist your problems on some poor unsuspecting traveler just so you don't have to deal with him! Definitely FML