Ask Butternutsquatch. She seems to have that down to a science.

“I am being 100% sincere in my inquiry so, I believe your hostility is misplaced”

You read hostility into something that from my eyes doesn’t seem to be there. Global Beet took the time to answer your question, the courteous reply would be to thank them.

Step 1: Don’t make it about you or how you are perceived. Step 2 should follow pretty naturally.

Yep, yep, yep. Different situation, but when Minoukatze Junior was a baby, we had gone to England to visit the in-laws. For the journey back, we reasearched what baby food containers would be admissible on the flight. My husband even called the airport to check that what we had would be okay.

I don’t like kids on planes any more than the next person, but Jesus fucking Christ people are terrible to families on planes. Kids need to get places too. So do smelly people, drunk people, close talkers, arm rest hoggers, snorers, and droolers. The difference is kids can’t help being assholes and adults can. Stop…

Strollers can help keep toddlers contained and in one space - if they weren’t in a stroller, they’d likely be trying to run all over the place, which is extra dangerous on public transportation. Don’t blame the caregivers - blame our social world for being set up with the expectation that women and people with babies…

The woman was travelling with 2 babies. I hardly think needing a stroller is being a dick.

Pretty sure that if I had 2 kids I would just be crying unconsolably 24 hours a day.

I think probably the stress of having two babies on a plane alone is enough to make someone cry out of frustration in those circumstances.

I can’t even count the number of times I’ve accidentally hit someone in the face with my carryon while walking down a plane’s aisle.

How weird that after an incident, the person most directly affected by the incident is the only one showing emotion (and doubly weird that children react emotionally in unpredictable ways).

When someone confronts you out of concern over a sobbing woman, and you get aggressively defensive, it speaks volumes.

All I take from this comment is that if I ever have to share a flight with you I will absolutely storm the cockpit and fly that plane directly into the fucking ground.

For someone who’s not trying to defend the airline it sounds an awful lot like you’re trying to defend the airline.

How fucked up is it that a lot of commentators here think it’s their duty to just sit down, shut up, and never question what they’re seeing and hearing, even when they know what they’re witnessing is indisputably repugnant?

“Blah blah blah blah I’m looking for any excuse to blame the woman blah blah blah.”

“He should have just stayed sitting down and shut up.”

She does but traveling with two young kids makes me give her a pass for something that to your average Joe seems a bit irrational. Dealing with airports and airlines with kids is not easy.

No matter what happened before. An American Airline employee should not talk to a passenger like that. I can’t at all understand how you Americans can tolerate something like this and say “we don’t know what happened”. It’s absolutely insane. You guys are getting good almost as bad as Russians. Greetings from a German…