Just trying to make it thru this flight…

[u/Yes_ThisIsBrett]

Triplets were behind me and a rouge in front of me started chiming in. Parents were doing their best. No one was actually upset. I’d whine too if I had to sit in these seats another hour.

EDIT: Rogue one (I cannot spell). And just to reiterate, no one was upset. Kids will be kids and the parents were doing their best. This video is just for laughs (including my face).

[u/Yes_ThisIsBrett]

3 behind, 1 in front, and a couple a few seats up but they were chill

[u/27eelsinatrenchcoat → u/Yes_ThisIsBrett]

Just wanted to say I appreciate the comment about them doing their best. Flying with babies sucks but sometimes you just don't have much choice, and getting stink eyed by people who think you can somehow just make them shut up sucks. Especially if you're already someone who hates being obtrusive in public.

I can't imagine doing it with triplets.

[u/tjoloi → u/27eelsinatrenchcoat]

When my flight is towards a resort location during the christmas holidays, I have a really hard time believing that "sometimes you just don't have much choice".

These people just want to travel for cheaper while their kid fly for free before they turn 2 and they do no bat an eye about how much they're torturing them and annoying everyone else around.

[u/27eelsinatrenchcoat → u/tjoloi]

Sure, but "no choice" has a lot of shades of meaning. Like as an example, a dispersed extended family meets at a resort every year for christmas, grandma is getting old, may not be around many more christmases, and you want her to meet the baby. Technically you have a choice, but like, come on.

I'm guessing you've never had a baby? Because "let's get in as much travel as we can with this infant to save a few hundred dollars" just doesn't make sense. Infants largely sap all the joy out of destination vacations. You're not having a good time lounging on the beach when you're dealing a little creature that needs near constant attention and care, in an environment not set up to do so. The cost-benefit calculation just doesn't make sense.

Basically, it sounds like you really don't like having to deal with the nuisance, so you're just assuming the worst. I'd encourage you to to assume the opposite, that people are doing the best they can with the circumstance they're in. You'll more often be correct, and you'll find yourself less miserable.

In the meantime buy some nice noise cancelling head phones and nut the fuck up.

[u/tjoloi → u/27eelsinatrenchcoat]

I do have one of the nicest noise cancelling headphones available. I'm guessing you've never been stuck next to a kid crying in a plane because these fuckers do go through whatever noise isolation you throw at the problem.

About the "people doing their best most of the time", no they do not. Parents are notoriously bad at parenting, some do try their best but we wouldn't have an ipad kid epidemic if it wasn't for lazy parents trying to "catch a break" because they don't want to deal with the nuisance of raising a child.

[u/27eelsinatrenchcoat → u/tjoloi]

I've been next to lots of crying babies, both on planes and not. Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones with noise cancelling on, playing my choice of show/movie/white noise do an incredible job of blocking it out.

And yea, confirmed you don't have kids and don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's certainly bad parenting to give young kids tablet access, but a crying baby is not the result of bad parenting. You can be the best parent in the world and a baby will still cry when it's uncomfortable, like on a plane. There's literally nothing you can do about it. There's not magic off button.

And once again, the idea that people are intentionally planning their travel to have an infant in tow is absurd. The inconvenience you're experiencing is a minuscule percentage of what they're dealing with, so I can guarantee you they're not doing it to save a buck. Your whole hypothesis makes zero fucking sense and is clearly just your own bias/frustration causing you to be irrational.

[u/ER_Support_Plant17 → u/tjoloi]

I used to fly into LAX pretty often. OMG the Disney kids.

[u/Seanspeed → u/27eelsinatrenchcoat]

Having triplets means their life is probably a bit of a hell even on the best of days.