Today, a woman strapped her 8-year-old son into the seat next to me on a transatlantic flight. Thinking they'd been unable to book seats together, I offered to swap seats with her. She said she'd booked it this way intentionally, because he's a "fucking brat" on flights. She was right. FML
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Today, I boarded a trans-Atlantic flight by myself, and struck up a nice conversation with the passenger across the aisle. Before we even took off, the man in front of me unbuckled, stood to face me, and asked me to please shut the hell up. "It's a 9 hour flight, and you're VERY loud!" FML
Today, my daughter found out there was a vacant seat left in first class on our flight and damn if she didn’t pounce on the opportunity to get bumped up into it so fast, because she, “like, deserved a break.” She left me in economy class for a 10-hour flight with her 3 year old and 1 year-old with teething pain. FML
Today, I'd booked the cheapest seat on a long flight and ended up between a couple who spent the entire trip arguing through me instead of talking to each other, even after I offered to switch seats. By the end of the flight I probably knew more about their marriage than some of their relatives do. FML
Today, I was on a three hour flight to Los Angeles for a corporate meeting. The woman next to me instantly fell asleep and snored louder than a freight train, while the kid behind me made a hobby of thashing my seat from behind. When I peered over and asked him to stop, he spat in my face. FML
Today, after years of wonderful flying experiences, I boarded a flight and took my seat only to find a baby sitting in front of me, behind me, and to the right of me, and across the aisle from me. All of whom decided to cry in unison. It was a 9-hour flight. FML
Today, whilst sat next to a old lady on a flight back to the UK, I exclaimed how I wished somebody would gag the crying baby a few rows behind us. Her reply was, "That's my grandson." FML
Today, I was sat next to a screaming baby on a 9-hour flight. Now before anyone has a go at me, I am in no way blaming the baby, I’m blaming the mother with her makeup hair and nails done perfectly, with her AirPods on, staring at her phone, and ignoring her screaming child the full 9 hours. FML
Today, on a plane, a little kid was kicking the back of my son's chair. When the kid's mom went to the toilet, my son told this little kid, "If you kick my chair one more time, I’m going to kill your mom and you’ll never see her again." He stopped kicking but damn, what kind of son did I raise? FML
Today, my one-year-old son threw up on the man sitting next to us on a plane. I felt bad and apologized profusely. When I tried to give him money for dry cleaning, he slapped me. FML
Today, at 17 years-old, I discovered how embarrassing it is to have your kid scream on a flight and how hard it is to calm them down. FML
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BingleBop 18
Seems like she is a "******* brat" BEFORE flights. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh?
TotallyAradical 14
Oh hell no.
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Comments (160)
bryan788 29
wow mother of the year there!!!
TheyCallMeDamien 18
She's a sorry parent.
ColbyGB 13
This is why you pull out
marcranger 29
I would have offered her the option of either switching seats or paying me a 1000 dollar/pound/euro/what have you per hour babysitting fee upfront, in cold, hard cash. Hope you were able to cadge lots of free alcohol from the flight attendants.
Vanillanougat 14
When the stewardess came around with drinks you should have ordered the kid a beer and then blamed it on the mother. She obviously doesn't care about her child, so ik sure she wouldn't mind...
Lunasis 14
slap that child and her >.
vbmg152 19
What a selfish lazy B! She should've taken care of her kid, maybe he's afraid of flying or something! Not that she'd know cause she never bothered to find out. There's usually a reason kids act out. Could be fear or maybe he needs some attention from Mom (I'm using that term loosely here)! Anyway, you don't foist your problems on some poor unsuspecting traveler just so you don't have to deal with him! Definitely FML
asherm 15
Put some sleepy time med in his juice? No seriously, mom needs to take responsibility for her spawn
jeragonm 15
What a Fing bitch
jellenwood 35
Lots of parents do not take responsibility for their kids. Idiots keep producing idiots. Lazy adults breed lazy kids.