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Sorry if this gets long.
So I'm deadheading on an originator one morning and this mom get on with 4 kids. 3 walking and one in a car seat, year and a half, maybe. It started out cutely enough until after we got going teh kids kicked it in to high gear. Let me back up for a second a describe mom. This was one of those people that once was a woman. You know, with thoughts and dreams maybe a little ambition even, but at some point here sole reason for existance became "moming". Mom-length khaki shorts, keds, you get the pitcure. She was completely oblivious to the world around her and probably on all kinds of anti-depressnants....I digress.
So it starts off with the predictable desire for the kids to move to an empty row and be independent, 2 of them did just that. No sweat.....until they realize that the tray table is there. What fun....why not use it like a drum set? I mean, it is just sitting there not making any appreciable noise. To the delight of the business traveller strapped to the seat attached to the table the little demons did just that. After repeated glares at the mominator he just gave up and went back to trying to read his Wall Street J. Forget trying to catch a pre-dawn nap. Well this went on for some time.
Meanwhile, one row behind MOMBOT 4002, the kid in the car seat, who had been quiet as a mouse to this point, obviously required some funning. So, to that noble end the MOMBOT started to do the "I got your leg" game that I sometimes do with my dog. The kid loved this. "Bwahahaha"ing wildly every time mom clutched it's leg from the seat in front of him. We'll quickly check in on the little charlie watts/buddy rich duo and they're doing swell. Pounding away.
After the car-seat monster had been sufficiently riled he realized that it was obviously "MARCO-POLO" time!!! Lucky us! So he blurted "MARCO!!" and can anyone guess what mom said? YES!!!! She aptly replied "polo" Joy of joys we got to listen to that and other pleasant exchanges all the way to wherever we were going. I was in uniform and in retrospect I should have said something, but I think I was afraid of getting mothered. I may have ended up on a teet if I had gotten too close.
So I'm deadheading on an originator one morning and this mom get on with 4 kids. 3 walking and one in a car seat, year and a half, maybe. It started out cutely enough until after we got going teh kids kicked it in to high gear. Let me back up for a second a describe mom. This was one of those people that once was a woman. You know, with thoughts and dreams maybe a little ambition even, but at some point here sole reason for existance became "moming". Mom-length khaki shorts, keds, you get the pitcure. She was completely oblivious to the world around her and probably on all kinds of anti-depressnants....I digress.
So it starts off with the predictable desire for the kids to move to an empty row and be independent, 2 of them did just that. No sweat.....until they realize that the tray table is there. What fun....why not use it like a drum set? I mean, it is just sitting there not making any appreciable noise. To the delight of the business traveller strapped to the seat attached to the table the little demons did just that. After repeated glares at the mominator he just gave up and went back to trying to read his Wall Street J. Forget trying to catch a pre-dawn nap. Well this went on for some time.
Meanwhile, one row behind MOMBOT 4002, the kid in the car seat, who had been quiet as a mouse to this point, obviously required some funning. So, to that noble end the MOMBOT started to do the "I got your leg" game that I sometimes do with my dog. The kid loved this. "Bwahahaha"ing wildly every time mom clutched it's leg from the seat in front of him. We'll quickly check in on the little charlie watts/buddy rich duo and they're doing swell. Pounding away.
After the car-seat monster had been sufficiently riled he realized that it was obviously "MARCO-POLO" time!!! Lucky us! So he blurted "MARCO!!" and can anyone guess what mom said? YES!!!! She aptly replied "polo" Joy of joys we got to listen to that and other pleasant exchanges all the way to wherever we were going. I was in uniform and in retrospect I should have said something, but I think I was afraid of getting mothered. I may have ended up on a teet if I had gotten too close.
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There's a reason that FAs can't be FFDOs. I could envision daily reports of unruly passengers being pistol whipped.
Come to think of it, maybe that would be a good idea........:smash:
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I agree with what da Tranny did.....you need to control your kids, HOWEVER I agree with this statement.
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We all know this is true!
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capt. megadeth
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LOL! That just makes me cringe. Why would anyone want to become that? It's kind of sad actually.
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Having ambitions, motivations, hopes and dreams beyond just "wanting to be a mom"....ugh....you know there is more to life than having kids.....A LOT more to life.
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Agreed :nuts:
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To each her own I suppose, but your arrogance is not a little annoying. You actually disrespect your own mother's choice(s) with your inability to have even the slightest understanding of what being a parent actually means.
Just being a Mom? Wow. Yes there is a lot more to life than having kids, but there isn't anything better in life than having and raising kids. My wife's ambitions, motivations, hopes, and dreams are not diminished by her sacrifice to choose motherhood. They are enlarged.
Send your Mom some flower's this May. Better yet, go see her and tell her how much you appreciate her sacrifice of all those "things" in life so she could raise you.
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Dude, my mom got pregnant with me on accident and she has mentioned more than once that she wonders what her life would have been like if she didn't have me. I know she loves me but I can sympathize with her. Her life would have probably been a lot easier. Just because I don't want to sacrifice my entire being for a bunch of whining crying wallet draining $hit machines (as my buddy affectionately calls them) and "just be a mom" doesn't mean I don't appreciate what my mom has done for me.....so don't sit here and lecture me about my own mother. My mom's the best and she knows I think so so STFU!
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capt. megadeth
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WTF is that supposed to mean?
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A few years ago I was standing by the gate in uniform at DFW waiting to deadhead. A little girl nearby ( 3 or 4 years old ) was misbehaving and being feisty towards her moms demands for her to behave. I thought "here we go again..."
After a second or third attempt to control her daughter and the girl saying "NO!!", the woman grabbed her daughters arm, bent her over her knee and spanked her right then and there.
I was shocked that there could be such discipline and common sense..and in public at that. I looked at the mother and nodded. Others around me looked at each other with relieved looks. It works and I seriously doubt that little girl will grow up having been "abused".
After a second or third attempt to control her daughter and the girl saying "NO!!", the woman grabbed her daughters arm, bent her over her knee and spanked her right then and there.
I was shocked that there could be such discipline and common sense..and in public at that. I looked at the mother and nodded. Others around me looked at each other with relieved looks. It works and I seriously doubt that little girl will grow up having been "abused".
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No, she flies for UPS, been there coming up a year now I think.
Most of the female pilots I know fit into this "niche". More interested in career and enjoying life than having kids.
However, I also have known several female pilots who have had kids and they wouldn't have it any other way. They bid day trips or CDO's and are home every night almost without fail. They make it happen.
Stressful? Yep. Difficult? Yeppers.
Worth it?
You bet your sweet little a*s.
No disrespect intended.
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No, she flies for UPS, been there coming up a year now I think.
Most of the female pilots I know fit into this "niche". More interested in career and enjoying life than having kids.
However, I also have known several female pilots who have had kids and they wouldn't have it any other way. They bid day trips or CDO's and are home every night almost without fail. They make it happen.
Stressful? Yep. Difficult? Yeppers.
Worth it?
You bet your sweet little a*s.
No disrespect intended.
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I'm fairly certain there are a few of those. I highly doubt they out number the number of my wife's and my female friends who are freaking out now that they are getting past the baby-range years and don't yet have one. (Our male friends don't really worry about that because there isn't the same biological-clock-thing happening. Pregnancy tends to be much more forgiving on the male body. Ain't fair, but I didn't make the rules.) They do have very nice homes and cars, but I get the distinct feeling there may be more to life than just aquiring more stuff (if not, I'm hosed). The reason I was asking was because your tone sounded exactly like someone I met a year or two ago through some friends. No malice intended, just curious, and if you were her I wanted to see how you were doing. Good luck with the baby thing. Which ever road you choose there will be critics (again, I didn't make the rules. Sucks, but it's true.)
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Now, there isn't a thing in the world with being a mom. I appreciate them all to hell, but when a woman ceases being a woman and becomes one of those people who disregards the world around them because "they are a mom, godammit"....well that was the point.
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I applaud the crew for making the little $hit and her family spend an extra night in sunny florida. Aside from the safety issue on the flight, it should once again be standard practice in America for kids to behave in public and expect discipline when they do not. What is wrong with taking your children home or away from others when they are acting inappropriatly? Also, why should an inability to control your little devils become the problem of 100 other people?
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capt. megadeth;1233161 Just because I don't want to sacrifice my entire being for a bunch of whining crying wallet draining $hit machines (as my buddy affectionately calls them) and "just be a mom" doesn't mean I don't appreciate what my mom has done for me.....so don't sit here and lecture me about my own mother. My mom's the best and she knows I think so so STFU
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