children & babies

I was on a relatively short flight, sitting in coach behind a family with a father, mother, and a boy of perhaps seven. A few minutes into the flight, I feel a kick to the back of my seat. Kick. Kick. Kick. “All right,” I think to myself. “There’s no sense being unpleasant. Surely one […]

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My 18 month old son and I arrived at the San Francisco Airport at 10PM. The flight was from SFO to ORD. We then picked up another flight from ORD to BUF. It was my first time going home since my divorce and I was already half dreading/half looking forward to the visit. The first […]

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About 12 years ago, when I was 12, I was excited to venture off on my own, and fly to the wondrous, cold world of Minneapolis, MN. Now, we’re not talking long flights, or complicated flights… BWI to Chicago to Minneapolis. Easy enough! But apparently not easy enough for everyone. My mom booked the flight, […]

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I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t think children under the age of 10 should be allowed on planes. They simply can’t sit still or be quiet. I was travelling from DC to OK City. Naturally, I got a Mom and her boy behind me. I kid you not….he kicked the back of […]

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I had been on a whirl wind tour of the USA on work related business. I was gone for almost a month. Living out of a suitcase for that long gets old fast. Anyway, I had arrived in Chicago from Salt Lake earlier in the day. There was to be a connecting flight from Chicago […]

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My wife and I were on a trip to New Orleans (pre-Katrina) and were returning to Nashville on Southwest. The particular flight was booked solid and as we boarded two of the only seats that were available were at the very front, facing the other passengers. It was a short flight so we didn’t mind […]

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A couple of years ago, my wife and I were returning from a vacation celebrating our first year anniversary. We were flying Southwest and sitting next to each other on the aisle near the back of the plane. A young family gets on the plane late and the wife and young child have seats across […]

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I live between Denver and Orlando and had until the airline crisis always taken red eye flights into and out of Orlando. When most of the airlines cut the red eye flights, I had no choice but to fly with the ranks of the screaming kids. I have traveled a lot but not a single […]

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On a flight from Santo Domingo to Miami, my wife and three children are seated in two rows in the middle of the plane while I am seated a few rows behind them. About fifteen minutes after take off, a horrible fart odor fills the air around my wife and kids. My wife, not being […]

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I saw the Mr Poopypants reference on CNN.com and I have had that experience more than once! Recently on a flight from San Francisco to Denver it was apparent that someone had done this right in my vicinity and clearly did nothing about it. I looked around and there were some toddlers. WHO are these […]

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The Brat

April 24, 2009

in Baby & Kid Stories

My husband & I were coming back from Disneyland July, 2008. We were waiting to board when a family from India, Mom, Dad, 11 y.o. & 6 y.o. daughters were also waiting. The 6 y.o girl was acting up (very hyper, hitting her dad) till we boarded. They went on first, so they were sitting […]

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Last summer me and some friends went on an incredible vacation in Europe, though there is one leg of the journey I will never forget – when me and one of my friends took a crowded flight from Barcelona to Seville on a “budget airline.” We were both already extremely tired from the night before […]

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