Air Tran gives 3 year old the boot

[Lear70]

Hey Capt Megadeath, this is a bit of a shot in the dark, but, you didn't used to (perhaps still do) teach the panel on the 727 at FedEx did you?

-Blucher

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.

 

[learflyer]

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!

I just shot beer out my nose!:laugh:

 

[Archie Bunker]

Airtran is now my favorite new airline. Kudos to the crew!

Idiot parents....if you can't control your little screaming ankle biter(s), do the other 150 passengers onboard a favor....get the he!! off the plane. Thank you for your cooperation.

 

[Blucher]

No, why? Is there another woman out there that doesn't just want to be a baby machine? Teee heee

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.)

-Blucher

 

[svcta]

Hmmm. Cite an example of something more womanly than being a mother. I can't believe I just asked that question on FI...

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.

 

[TWA]

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?

 

[freightdogfred]

Does yer mom know what a potty mouth ya got?

 

[capt. megadeth]

Does yer mom know what a potty mouth ya got?

Dude! Where the he!! do you think I learned it? Potty mouth too but the best mom in the world. I wouldn't be a pilot if it wasn't for her.

 

[kf4amu]

We are long past the time when people HAD to have kids to keep the farm running. There is NO reason to have kids nowadays other than personal reasons. Some may even say selfish reasons.

I seriously cant think of one reason someone NEEDS to have children.

Therefore, no one has a right to inconvenience others in any way shape or form by their CHOICE to have children. Just like I may want to have a 4000 watt stereo in my car, but playing it loudly in certain areas is illegal. You need a 4000 watt stereo just as much as you NEED children.

 

[CA1900]

This seems very appropriate right now:

Doug Stanhope on Children

 

[Dan Roman]

Megadeath, Hat's off to you if you know being a Mom is not for you. There are plenty of parents out there that shouldn't be. That said, I hope your not saying that being an "airline pilot" is somehow a higher calling or better in some way than being a Mom.
As far as this string goes, I just read Newsweek and they had an interview with Leonard DiCaprio saying he got thrown off the set of Romper Room at the age of 3 because he was grabbing the camera and yelling "look at me!"
The point is 3 year olds can be a handful, it doesn't mean they are evil. I heard a quote once that said the "mover's and shakers of the world" were the "movers and shakers of the house" when they were young. None of us were there, so it's a little weak to think we know what's right. That said, you anal guys that think your so wonderful because you were spanked "and kids need more discipline today" in reality may not be as wonderful as you think you are. Most of the people I've met with that attitude are a little warped.

 

[Phaedrus]

We are long past the time when people HAD to have kids to keep the farm running. There is NO reason to have kids nowadays other than personal reasons. Some may even say selfish reasons.

I seriously cant think of one reason someone NEEDS to have children.

Think harder. Seriously.

 

[kf4amu]

Think harder. Seriously.

Why dont you help me out.

 

[AC560]

Why dont you help me out.

Well I think it has something to do with people dying and needing new people to replace them. Some call that selfish, others call that self preservation.

 

[kf4amu]

Well I think it has something to do with people dying and needing new people to replace them. Some call that selfish, others call that self preservation.

With 7 billion people in the world, I'm hardly worried about self preservation.

 

[Phaedrus]

Oh, right I forgot. We're overpopulated! If you allotted 1250 square feet to each person, all the people in the world would fit into the state of Texas. Try the math yourself: 7,438,152,268,800 square feet in Texas, divided by the world population of 5,860,000,000, equals 1269 square feet per person. The population density of this giant city would be about 21,000 — somewhat more than San Francisco and less than the Bronx. (Envoy, 1998)
Granted I wouldn't want to live in San Fran or the Bronx, but it is, at the very least, an eye opening snippet of the vast space that is available. Of course we all know that there is more than space needed to support a population.

 

[AC560]

With 7 billion people in the world, I'm hardly worried about self preservation.

You probably would in a couple of years if there weren't any additions to that number.

 

[capt. megadeth]

Megadeath, Hat's off to you if you know being a Mom is not for you. There are plenty of parents out there that shouldn't be. That said, I hope your not saying that being an "airline pilot" is somehow a higher calling or better in some way than being a Mom.

Whoa! I didn't say being a mom is not for me. I want to have kids someday. I said that there is more to life than "just being a mom"....ie. you can be a mom and do other things such as having a career. I am not trying to start a stay-at-home mom vs. working mom argument.

No, I don't think being an airline pilot is better than being a mom. I do think that a person (man or woman) who just gets out of h.s., say, stays at home and starts having kids is not very bright, IMO, especially in this day and age. It's not 1950 anymore. This situation just sets you up to rely solely on someone else and that is not too smart. What if your husband dies or something? Now, you are screwed. (And, no, life insurance is not a good enough back up plan) If you set yourself up with some kind of back up plan (be it college degree or trade), now you can take care of yourself and your kids. There is nothing that pi$$es me off more than a person that is looking for someone to take care of them.

 

[Lear70]

With 7 billion people in the world, I'm hardly worried about self preservation.

You should be. Or at least worried about preserving your own way of life for your own offspring.

Out of that 7 Billion you mention, you have about 60 million IN THIS COUNTRY ALONE on some type of government aid / welfare.

I'm not saying to go out and have 20 kids, but I believe being an intelligent, college-educated professional I should at least try to bring another of the same into the world to offset the millions who reproduce large numbers of fairly useless, marginally-intelligent, and altogether non-productive members of society.

 

[Phaedrus]

Lear70: Did you just watch Idiocracy?