To all those rolling their eyes: Ease up on the Xanax, OK?
Hmm…so seven :rolleyes: equals one ;j . How many ;j 's equal one :mad: , and how many :mad: 's equal one 
? I can see it now…
SDMB Math question #1:
Divide :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: ;j ;j :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: by :mad: :mad: ;j ;j ;j ;j :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: . What is the answer, not counting fractions of a :rolleyes: ?
Back when I was a flight attendant, we just used Kahlua.
Negatory on Mozilla.
:rolleyes:
Geez, I can understand the impulse, but this is just so unacceptable it’s on a different playing field.
If it is true that the attendant spiked the drink, I hope he gets taken for everything. You do not add anything to anybody’s food or drink without their (or their guardian’s) consent.
It’ll be interesting to see how the ten-day delay harms the case, and what reasons are put forward for it, though.
As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven :rolleyes:,
every :rolleyes: had seven ;j
and every ;j had seven :eek:
and every :eek: had seven :mad:
:mad:, :eek:, ;j, :rolleyes:, how many were going to St. Ives?
[sub]answer: 0. I was so hopped up on Xanax I just drempt the whole trip[/sub]
Of course… no one’s considered the other side of it, that for some reason this woman has a bone to pick with said flight attendant… maybe he didn’t give her that extra bag of peanuts she wanted, or she forgot to order her vegetarian dinner before flight time and couldn’t eat the normal ones.
Ten days to report it? Self-submission to a lab for testing? That’s a lot of time for her to have adulterated that juice sample herself.
I’m not even familiar with airlines giving people drink containers suitable for saving for past the flight in any case, and they go and pick up all the ones that are loose before landing.
Maybe she’s legit… the flight attendant definitely doesn’t seem to be an angel, predicated on his past offenses. I just have a real problem with taking one side of it at face value.
Well Cortana, I’d give the benefit of the doubt to the mom on the initial look, seeing as how the flight attendant got busted for smuggling Xanax into the country. Certainly sounds like means, motive, and opportunity all were there for him.
But I’m willing to listen to evidence.
On a personal level, i tend to agree. But, as you’re no doubt aware, the law gives the benefit of the doubt to the accused.
It seems to me that, even if the guy did do it, his lawyer’s isn’t going to have too much trouble establishing reasonable doubt. The ten day wait, the fact that the juice was apparently in the mother’s possession the whole time, etc., etc, makes it pretty easy to argue that plenty of other people had an opportunity to adulterate the juice.
:dubious:
Good for the FA for spiking the drink of an unruly, crying, screaming, miserable little brat who was making a long-haul flight miserable for the other passengers!
As a frequent trans-Pacific and trans-Asian flier I have had to ensure many, many flights where my sleeping, eating, reading, working, etc. was constantly interrupted by the shreiks, howls, and screams of “Mommy’s little angel.” Mumbai to New York is bad enough; it is worse when you have to endure sphincter-tightening, bone-wrenching screams of some over-privileged yuppy, puppy baby.
Parents: Don’t take your friggin kids on the plane. Your little 19 month old diaper soiler is not going to appreciate the Parthenon, the Great Wall of China, the Eiffel Tower, the Hermitage, etc. Leave the kid with grandmom and granddad. If you want to go with the poop-factory, then take it to friggin’ Teletubby Land or Branson, MO. If you have to, take the kid on a long-haul flight then shoot them full of baby barbituates and leave the rest of us alone!
Airlines: take a hint from the high-end Asian carriers (e.g. Malaysia Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific) and put all the rug rats in the back of the plane. Borrow a page from Lufthansa - some of their Frankfurt - Berlin shuttle flights are Childfree. My favorite German-langage sign: ‘Deise Flug is Kinderfrei’
And let the pile-on begin…
Mr. Bond:
You may think your opinions are iconoclastic and edgy. You would be wrong. We’ve been through this many, many times and have come to the following conclusions:
- Yep, kids can be loud and obnoxious sometimes.
- Yep, their behavior can ruin a flight, or movie, or store trip.
- Yep, parents who let that behavior continue through the movie, flight or store trip are buttheads.
- Sadly, you are also a butthead. Shut up.
Well said, Gundy 
Damn. My mother shoulda done that with me and my brother more often.
Instead of hauling us cross-Pacific to go to Japan annually, she should have just left us with “grandmom and granddad.”
Except for the minor detail of paternal grandparents being all six feet under, and maternal grandparents being…in Japan.
You’re making an (idiotic) assumption that people still live in the same conurbation as their parents. If my husband and I want to leave our (nonexistent) children with their grandparents, we either have to make an eight hour, roundtrip drive south…or make a plane flight to another state. :rolleyes:
Sure, I agree about squalling brats spoiling trips, sleep, etc, but really. Maybe the kid is having a fit for another reason, other than just to piss you off.
This is simply not worth my time, but, as a mother of a toddler, I feel I must defend my child’s honor.
smacks Mr. Bond with a smelly, well used Huggie
You, sir, are a cad!
What’s worse, is having your child hurting/unhappy for no apparant reason that you can readily ascertain, having none of the usual comforts or toys because your carry-ons are limited, and instantly knowing that, should any self-centered assholes be on the plane, they are instantly hating your child, and wishing someone would drug them or otherwise endanger their health.
I don’t know about that. I have a fairly intellectual little family. I’m certain all three of my boys have a little more class, taste, and good breeding than some I could name. :rolleyes:
Finally! Some small grain of reason! I’d be perfectly happy to be excluded from a child free flight. Hell, I’m perfectly happy to stay out of any place that doesn’t want my family, but if they do offer these posh, luxurious child-free flights, why didn’t you take one of those? Or do they also have a sign that reads: ‘Dieser Flug ist Arschloch frei’
Jeezus Bond, if cranky kids tick you off that much, then buy a pair of earplugs. I’ll refrain from mentioning where I think you should stick them.
My comments are hardly “iconoclastic and edgy.” I am quite sure that travellers have been complaining about being confined with badly behaved children since the beginning of transportation.
I fully agree that parents should take responsibility for controlling their children’s behaviour on the plane. If the parent can do so and if the children are well-behaved, then there is no problem. I also see no problem with taking the brat to the back of the plane when it acts up. The problem is when Mommy can not or will not control her little precious. What then? Here is a tongue-in-cheek proposition: Either drug the kid or make the parents of the screaming brat pay each other person in the cabin a small “annoyance” fee.
Yes, flying is diffuclt for children. They are locked in a strange, noisy room with all kinds of scary things. Their ears pop, their head feels strange, up and down seem strange, etc. Parents should be prepared for this and act accordingly.
As for the posters who make comment about my manners, taste, class, etc. : What is ruder - Being the annoying, uncontrollable person who annoyis a large number of people otherwise trying to get through a unpleasant experience or sitting quieting, minding one’s business while some person screams, cries, yells, and runs around without any discipline?
Let’s flip the situation around. How would the parents feel if some drunken, adult lout was running up and down the aisles of the plaining, yelling, screaming, throwing things, kicking your seat, and making it impossible for you to relax, work, sleep, eat, etc.? I am sure you would complain to the flight attendant who would try his or her best to calm down the drunken lout. If this kept up the passenger could be fined, arrested, or in some other way punished by the appropriate regulators.
I am by no means singling out small children. I have been on flights with well-behaved children and children who have been complete monsters. I have also been on flights where adults have been complete monsters. They annoy me two. The difference is the adults who misbehave find themselves banned from commercial airliners.
So do I get an “annoyance fee” from you, Bond?
Sure, Bond, take the “brat” to the back of the plane where the people there will bitch too.
And how often do you find yourself in the back of the plane?
Your analogy sucks, by the by. A drunken adult is far, far, far different than an unhappy babe. Starting with the fact that the adult chose to drink him/herself to the limits - an infant can hardly guzzle that Jack Daniels, ya know.
Children get bored very easily. It’s going to be tiring for them, already, to have to be at the airport two hours prior to departure time. Add the flight time in there, and you will have yourself an especially unhappy small person.
Especially when the child needs to run around and burn off some of the boredom, but the parents are trying to contain their child’s energy for the benefit of ungracious people like you.