Hey subby - I didn't see fat, sweaty and asthmatic anywhere on that list either.

Leaning into your space.
F*ck U! Buy 2 tickets.

Don't crowd the gate out of turn

That shiat always pisses me off. Just sit the fark down until they call your zone, ffs.

Three Crooked Squirrels: 2wolves: #9

Made me use hunter orange tape on my bags when I traveled a third of the month. Easy to see if someone was trying to steal them also.

I once got to the baggage carousel and the luggage was already on the conveyor. Waited awhile and here comes my bag. Checked the tag. Nope, someone else's bag that looked the same. Put it back on the conveyor and waited and waited and waited. Until the only bag left was the one that looked like mine but wasn't. Went to the baggage claim people and told them what had probably happened. They took my name and whatnot and I went home.

Not long after I got home, I got a call from the jackass that took my bag home. I told him his bag was at the airport, and if he could drop my bag off at the airport when he went to get his, the airport would deliver mine to me. He was PISSED. He yelled at me for not taking his bag home so that we could just meet somewhere and exchange bags.

fark you, asshole. Check the farking bag tag next time. Don't get mad at me because you're a farking idiot.

Why did you have to bring this up?
My luggage was lost twice in a week on 2 coast to flights.
I showed up after a call that they found it, to luggage that wasn't mine and wearing the ex's clothes. There is a reason those counters are so high.

coco ebert: Bratty kids are one thing, but what should people with babies do- not travel?

Just raise them correctly. And don't pretend this just applies to air travel.

coco ebert: Bratty kids are one thing, but what should people with babies do- not travel?

Correct! At least not until they are old enough to be quiet.

If the overhead storage above your seat is full, don't stuff your massive purse, coat and over-sized carry-on into the storage above my seat.

dstanley: Stay off my goddam airplane.

Avoiding 45 minute rectum-clearing monopoly of the restroom was strangely missing from the list.

/did that often as unaccompanied minor child :-)

Is this the thread where everyone who travels for business gets to biatch about horrible kids on planes. Because I hate dealing with bratty aholes, smelly fat people and morons that don't know how to pack. Flying used to be fun - now its a tremendous pain in the @ss. The only way it's palatable is having status with an airline. Hang out in the lounge, board first & fly business when possible.

coco ebert: What's with all the hatred for children? America is the only society where I've seen this.

You can't hit American children.

give me doughnuts: coco ebert: Bratty kids are one thing, but what should people with babies do- not travel?

Exactly. Stay home. Raise courteous children. Travel with them when they are old enough to tell you if they are hungry, or in pain, or need to go to the bathroom rather than screeching and squalling and leaving you to figure out what is bothering them.

If Nanna and Poppy need to see their precious grandbabies, then they can come to you.

Unless they are too sick to fly..

//Taking my 15 month old to see Nanna and Poppy this Christmas, I guess I should just stay home, or drive 16 hours down the eastern seaboard..

///On second thought, deal with it you miserable/bitter farks...

Small children don't know how to compensate for cabin pressure changes at takeoff and landing, nor articulate the great amount of pain they are experiencing other than to caterwaul loud enough to be heard throughout the plane.

If they're old enough, chewing gum can fix the problem. They may even have it on the plane, it's an old pilot's trick to bring some just for that.

This was greenlit? seriously? What's next, another tipping thread?

Hey self-important frequent flyer... you annoy people too!

give me doughnuts: Exactly. Stay home. Raise courteous children. Travel with them when they are old enough to tell you if they are hungry, or in pain, or need to go to the bathroom rather than screeching and squalling and leaving you to figure out what is bothering them.

this

When my sister and I were too young to travel without being a pain in the ass, we were taken to our grandparents, or my godparents would come visit for a week and watch us, or getting ditched at our aunt and uncles farm.... the only exception I can remember is one trip to Disney World.

And we usually had a blast in that week without the parents. At the very least we learned something having to adapt to someone elses rules and expectations. In fact, some of my best memories as a child were those weeks in the summer when the rents would take off and leave us with someone cool we otherwise only got to see one in a great while.

Taking a 0-9 year old brat on a flight to Grand Canyon/Hawaii/Europe/Mediterranean/wherever does no service to anyone. The child, the parents, the people that have to put up with the brat.

And neither you or they get much out of the vacation. They are too young to get it, and you spend more time keeping them in line than enjoying your vacation.

Wait and take them when they are older and they will get more out of it. Outside of that, stick to the little trips to amusement parks or zoos until they know how to behave.

Both society, and your children, will thank you later.

Can we add fat, smelly, old guy who won't shut the fark up? I got stuck next to this guy on a flight home from Vegas. What part of me being clearly hungover, wearing earbuds, and blankly staring screams "please tell me about your grandkids!"?

Plant Rights Activist: coco ebert: What's with all the hatred for children? America is the only society where I've seen this.

You can't hit American children.

And that is a shameful change from when I was an American child. If I acted out, my ass got swatted. Resultantly, I didn't act out so much.

fark all you "spare the rod, spoil the child" people.

give me doughnuts: coco ebert: Bratty kids are one thing, but what should people with babies do- not travel?

Exactly. Stay home. Raise courteous children. Travel with them when they are old enough to tell you if they are hungry, or in pain, or need to go to the bathroom rather than screeching and squalling and leaving you to figure out what is bothering them.

If Nanna and Poppy need to see their precious grandbabies, then they can come to you.

Your pretentiousness is far more annoying than a crying baby.

I recently got stuck on a 17 hour, trans-Atlantic flight sandwiched between two men with dueling aftershaves. Please leave the Old Spice at home.

This is why I load up on Oxy before every flight.

If your carry-on is big enough to need wheels then farking check it asshole. People with this shiat should board and deboard last. fark you asswipes up the ass with a rusty meathook.

GAT_00: If I have to get in a flying tin can, like I will at the end of February to go to a conference in NYC, I'm already going to be annoyed. Going through security, getting my connecting flight, keeping track of my luggage, tiny seats with no leg room, the whole thing. If I have to deal with a parent that can't keep their crotchfruit from bugging other people or from kicking the seat, or if they have the brilliant idea of taking a toddler on a plane, then fark you. Everyone else has all these worries already. Children are simply making things worse.

I don't understand how so many people freak out over air travel. It isn't that big of a deal. Be an adult and deal with it.

GAT_00: coco ebert: What's with all the hatred for children? America is the only society where I've seen this.

If I have to get in a flying tin can, like I will at the end of February to go to a conference in NYC, I'm already going to be annoyed. Going through security, getting my connecting flight, keeping track of my luggage, tiny seats with no leg room, the whole thing. If I have to deal with a parent that can't keep their crotchfruit from bugging other people or from kicking the seat, or if they have the brilliant idea of taking a toddler on a plane, then fark you. Everyone else has all these worries already. Children are simply making things worse.

Children should not be allowed free reign to be total assholes. It's the job of parents to prevent that, and if the child is too young to know, they shouldn't be flying.

I know man, you're so effing persecuted. I get that it's a pain in the arse dealing with other people's rotten spoiled crotch fruit who feel like they are some how entitled to the world behaving and treating them in a certain fashion, yet for some reason I still have the patience to not block you.