"Oh, Mr. DiCaprio, my mom really loved your movie Titanic! Can I get your autograph for her? She'll just die!"

You can't always trust people's word. Just because they said they've done it before doesn't make it so. The parents needed to do their research. This is a big fail on their part.

Yes, because luxury vacations should be comped because of special needs.

"these assclowns wouldn't have anything to get all viral-whiny about"

Bingo. This is Dentonesque behavior at its most debased.

I can talk backwards and forwards about situations just like this, as I also have a (now adult) daughter with cerebral palsy, and we used to travel often with her. We usually took her car seat with us, but once - with a paid ticket, no less! - our daughter was bumped for A CELLO. Would they have bumped an adult…

No.

Also not excusing the airline... but they can't be expected to smoothly deal with every possible scenario when it comes to accommodating special needs. They certainly should have handled this better, but it would have been a non-issue if the parents had brought their own safety seat.

What the fuck, that is not a victory for females or business travelers or anyone except for maybe derps who love playing purse roulette when it comes to dangerous projectiles slamming into someone's head when the plane drops.

Seriously, go get that purse and have someone throw it at your face as hard as they can, then…

You shouldn't have your purse on your lap.

Just curious as to why you think you should get to keep your purse in your lap? Why not just put it up like the rules require? Was there something in it you could not do without during landing?

they are. They bought the ticket for her, thinking they can whine their way into breaking the rules. They could have sent the husband in economy, brought their child's car seat and all would have been fine. But they didn't because they suck as people and as parents.

It's pretty telling how much spin was placed in such a short paragraph ... "returned to argue with us," "lecture us," "insisted on creating a scene," pleaded our case," "scoured the Flight Attendants' Handbook," "my husband pleaded with her," "sobbing," "zero compassion." Somehow, I get the feeling she's only telling…

I wish I could star this a hundred times

It's abuse. There's no reason to hit a child. If you can't parent without beating your children, then you're just a slavemaster.

I choose to interpret it as a sign of feminist alliance, miming a castration gesture in solidarity with rape survivors: a gesture that signals the importance of punishing offenders and standing up for victims. Or, they could just be happy as fuck that they beat the shit out FSU's felonious morons, thiefs & rapists.

It's true. Ever been to Sweden, Germany or any other European countries that have banned spanking (some for decades)? It's horrible. Parents there are completely powerless and have lost all control of the children- angry 7 year olds rule those nations. They roam the streets in adorable packs, striking fear in the…

My father spanked me a few times, and slapped me across the face once. Never feared him, but do still loathe him and have nothing to do with him. Is that what you want?

he's discovered my hate-reading duggar blog habit sooooo I think I'm out in the cold tonight.

good for you! I'm nc with my narc/bpd family; boundaries are hard to set with them. I wish you the best of luck!!