Three words: “Get off plane!”
Toddler kicked off plane
Tho I seriously doubt it went like the mother says it did. We’ve all had the misfortune to be next to annoying kids and their do-nothing parents.
Penland thinks her 19-month-old son, Garren, has a bubbly personality. But Penland said when they were aboard a Continental Express plane, a flight attendant became annoyed by Garren’s personality when he kept saying three words.
“As we started taxiing, he started saying ‘Bye, bye plane,’ said Penland. “At the end of her speech, she leaned over the gentleman beside me and said, ‘It’s not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up.’
In disbelief, Penland asked the woman if she was kidding. It was then, Penland said, the flight attendant went too far.
“She then said, ‘You know, it’s called baby Benadryl. And I said, ‘Well, I’m not going to drug my child so you have a pleasant flight.’
Bubbly personality my ass! My three-year-old godson once repeated “pirate ship water park” nonstop for two hours on the way to Six Flags, causing me to start smoking again.
Check out the kid. You know he was driving them nuts! These comments from the Tulsa World’s site are brilliant:
2. 7/12/2007 2:12:41 PM, Shelly, Sacramento
I took the time to call Express Jet at 713-324-5000 to voice my words on behalf of the family “Why does this women still have job and I will never travel on your planes EVER” Vicky (who works for Express Jet) replied that many of passages who were on that flight called and said that the flight attendant did everything right and the child was out of hand. Who’s telling the truth?3. 7/12/2007 2:29:52 PM, Bertha Kidd, Broken Arrow
I say we treat parents with loud obnoxious booger eating germ monkeys the way we treat smokers. Put them in their own section or have “adult only sections” in restaurants, planes and ban children under 5 from all movies PG-13 and up. The last thing I want when I’m out for a nice dinner or movie, is to hear the annoying sounds of a spoiled brat because you are too poor/lazy to get a sitter. There are Chuck E Cheeses and cartoon movies for a reason. If they can’t behave, they shouldn’t be part of adult venues.4. 7/12/2007 2:41:09 PM, Lewis, Tulsa
They used to have “smoking” and “no smoking” sections of airplanes. Why can’t they have “children” and “no children” sections. Restaurants too. I’m sick of other people’s children screaming at, drooling on and staring at me.
Well, now I know what to whisper in your ear, DL…
I mercifully had jetblue earphones TV and XM radio to drown out a toddler’s tantrum & ear-piercing screams which culminated in her father telling her to “STOP SCREAMING or I will take (all the toys) away.” This seems to work — or maybe I just passed out (on my own benadryl) soon after the brat having the last word with her “BAD Daddy…DUMB Daddy!”
“Take off your pants!”?
Aye aye aye…that parent should be shot. I’ve got 3 of my own and they were pretty good as toddlers. Then again we kept them away from real restaurants and attended movies designated for kids at times only little kids would see them. Only once did we have a screamer on a flight from Phx to LAX…it was very short lived as we resorted to Baby benadryl at our pediatricians blessing and recommended dose. Parenting isn’t easy but you gotta consider those around you and keep your kidlet in line.
My kid is well-behaved. If somebody leaned over to me and said I needed to shut my baby up, they’d get a fist in their face and the DHS could sort out the details.
There is something about this story that is missing.
A kid saying “Bye Bye” doesn’t sound nearly obnoxious enough to cause a plane to turn around.
my point exactly. my mother would have beaten me with “the stick” for sure if i ever pulled a stunt like that! you know that mother is lying.