I know how Iron Mike Tyson handles disruptive kids /people on a plane, but how do you HOs handle them?
I always book 1A or 1B. I’m first on/off and I can keep my eye on the pilots and staff. I didn’t run into too many disruptions but kinda felt kids shouldn’t be up front. 🫤
I think we need pictures of the newly recovered chairs. I’m impressed - that stuff’s kind of hard to do!
Ok. But all I needed to do was restuff them. They have little zippers so I could remove the innards.
Oh I thought you were making new cushions! But you can still post a pic. Sounds like they worked out ok, then.
“and even though I was going to the liquor store next my mood was not great.”
That made me LOL.
I have no business being around a sewing machine. There are two here in the house somewhere. I hate needles and pins. They’re so intimidating.
I can answer this from both sides of the issue. I’ve flown with the DD’s since infancy, in fact DD1 was only 7 weeks when we went to Colorado for a visit. It was only me on the plane, but she was good, thankfully, that time. I started to realize when you board with a baby, most people will stare daggers at you, even if the kid hasn’t made a peep. Sooo, sometimes the kids were good, other times not. I can tell you this, for every second your kid cries seems like an eternity!! Then people will look at you, as if you’re supposed to leap off the plane for being disruptive. I never found a sure fire way to silence a baby or toddler from crying, it just happens.
Nowadays, I always pack earplugs, but I don’t ask to switch seats if in proximity. I would help the parents distract the kid, or offer to help in some way.
Not sure if your question was serious, but it brought back memories!
Great advice. I use noise cancelling Bose.
And I feel your pain with children in arms. People staring daggers…lol. I remember a Far Side comic about some guy sitting in a packed airplane surrounded by parents with babies. One mom asks another mom, “Are you going to the colicky baby convention too?” And the guy was like 
Something like that.
Here it’s either a man or a woman fake playing a violin (there is a speaker hidden nearby playing the music). When there are so many jobs available I have zero compassion. (Not that I really believe they are really in need.)
OMG - that’s too funny. Just loved Gary Larson’s Far Side. He lived up here on a not too populated island IIRC.
You forgot one. Families passing through with car troubles. Don’t forget that one.
Larson was the best. Loved his stuff and Scott Adams.
That’s a new one. Sad.
We’re mostly car trouble/out of gas here in mountain paradise.
Last town before the pass and nothing but big peaks for 35 miles so we’ve got folks on every corner at the south exit and environs.
We have real musicians playing but they’re not the bums.
This post makes me want to run not walk back to my very diverse lidl fb forum. Lots of commenters from all walks of life. A lot of moms with young kids struggling to make ends meet with great advice given and taken.
Somehow the mods covered for me and I finally got to post about the manager at my lidl who is insane.
Anyhow I’ll play too. I am magic with children. It helps so much that i can remember being very short.
The kids I encounter are bored out of their minds. Being stuck in a long line with fussy midgets is by no means the torture of being trapped on a plane for hours with midgets and gnomes and I get that.
I start by waving if the child is old enough but then I find alternative ways to wave like putting both thumbs together. They stare and smile with delight. Oh my god this one little girl and I had a wave duel. So fast and creative. She won and we were so engaged we were sorry when the duel ended.
Not sure if this helps at all but it is fun
My inspiration was an article about how to deal with disruptive people on an airplane. I know how I’d handle it and just wondering how normal people do.
I love your way.
link plz?
Those lil darlings can be ticking time bombs. I have been taken advantage of by parents. Once the next table at the mennonite diner had a bored kid, pretty young. My food came before theirs so they started pointing at my plate and saying stuff like “baked potato” etc. I smiled at them. Big mistake because then I felt like eating my food without three sets of eyes staring.
Easy fix if I do say so myself because a cool look was not working.they just kept pointing and cooing I simply picked up my steak and started eating it with my bare hands. Was fun and worked like a charm. Parents found another way to distract their offspring that did not involve a stranger trying to eat in peace.
