Originally Posted by LondonElite

Well, maybe not quite what the title promises, but...

On a recent AC flight from YYZ-MIA with MrsLE and our four children (3 to 9), we were seated across one entire row on an A320. MrsLE and I took the middle seats and had a child on each side of us. In the aisle seat with me was my nine-year-old daughter. Now, our kids are pretty well-travelled. They have all held or continue to hold some kind of status with either AC or BA, and are certainly exposed to an above-average amount of short-haul and long-haul travel. On board they occupy themselves with reading, colouring, Nintendo DS, movies, etc. They know all about kicking seats and being noisy, etc. As frequent traveller parents to four kids, we understand how parents should behave (get drunk and pass out, ha ha).

On this flight, my daughter could not get the video screen to work, and probably pushed the screen once or twice, rather than tapping it. I tried it for her and it did seem slow to respond. At this point the woman seated ahead of her, who was probably in her mid-late 30s, turned around and started a mini-lecture about how she expected her to be on her best behaviour and that she would not have much tolerance for seat-kicking or screen-pushing, or headrest-grabbing. My wife and I looked at each other a bit stunned, and then I said to her that we were going to be ok.

Throughout the flight, the woman kept doing the 'reacharound', whereby her right hand would reach around to grab the my daughter's right ankle, as a pre-emptive strike to avoid a seat kick, which, incidentally, never took place. After about an hour of this, my daughter said "Daddy, this lady in front of me keeps touching my leg," so I put my hand where my daughter's ankle was and, when her hand came around, let myself be 'grabbed'. I asked her to please keep her hands to herself and to stop touching my daughter.

That was pretty much the end of that. What a weirdo!