Dad ditches kid in coach to sit in Polaris leaving me to entertain him
Jul 21, 2018, 8:14 pm
#121
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"I tell you, kids nowadays are not as independent and well-behaved as kids in my day."
Said by a large number of adults since forever.
"When I was six years old, we would wander outside the cave and battle mountain lions all day, and we never bothered any adults, and we liked it. Nowadays, kids stay in the cave, near a warm fire, drawing stupid things on the cave wall, and they feel entitled to one meal a day. This new generation is the worst generation."
Said by a large number of adults since forever.
"When I was six years old, we would wander outside the cave and battle mountain lions all day, and we never bothered any adults, and we liked it. Nowadays, kids stay in the cave, near a warm fire, drawing stupid things on the cave wall, and they feel entitled to one meal a day. This new generation is the worst generation."
Jul 21, 2018, 8:35 pm
#122
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Jul 21, 2018, 11:32 pm
#123
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If the kid really is not allowed to be sitting in a different cabin than his father, report it immediately to the FA and make her take cae if it.
Last edited by chavala; Jul 22, 2018 at 1:07 am
Jul 23, 2018, 1:54 am
#124
Join Date: Oct 2003
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THIS is what baffles me. Who is forcing anyone to make conversation with their seat mate? I’ll ignore a kid the same way I’d ignore a talkative businessman. I put on my headphones and don’t make eye contact. If the kid has a question about how something works, I’ll show him where the call button is, or I’ll press it myself.
If the kid really is not allowed to be sitting in a different cabin than his father, report it immediately to the FA and make her take cae if it.
At age 12 I went to Israel as a UM. I never bothered a fellow passenger on any flight unless we struck up a mutual conversation but I knew when to stop yakking!
I was a rare kid calling up TWA and Delta's FLIFO system around 1996 and playing around with Easy Sabre and WinRez for hotel reservations setying up a mock hotel at my house. At age 11 I signed up for AOL with the free disk you got at a computer store.
So yea when AVOD came around it was cool. I still remember the old UA IFE on a loop on a 772 back in May 2007!
Jul 23, 2018, 4:23 am
#125
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Jul 23, 2018, 10:47 pm
#126
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And this kid could have had this seatmate instead: https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/woman-...ion-complaint/
