Still a crap policy

Post #274,437 by bepatient 11/30/06 9:03:09 AM Reply	Still a crap policy its a basic assumption that every male on the flight is a child molester. But even after having all of my "child molester friends"...its still a stupid policy. The policy SHOULD be to seat all children with their parents...not to move men away from kids stuck in a middle seat. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #274,441 by jbrabeck 11/30/06 10:37:54 AM Reply	Concur with that policy - kids sit w/parents A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
Post #274,444 by lincoln 11/30/06 11:38:12 AM Reply	My story Years ago, when my children were 4 & 2, we took a family vacation. I had booked all 4 seats together for each leg. On the return flight, I asked at the gate to confirm that we we all seated together and was told "Yes". Once on the plane we got to our row only to find that 2 of the seats were already occupied, and these people had boarding passes showing them assigned to our seats. The people acted like jerks and refused to budge so we appealed to the stewardess, who told us she would try to find available seats for my son and I. She returned and said that she couldn't keep us together - the flight was overbooked; the best she could offer was my wife & daughter to be seated in their original seats, I was to be several rows away, and my son was to be several rows farther away from me. My wife and I vehemently said that that was unacceptable, to put our 2 year old over 12 rows away from his mother and 6 rows away from me. The stewardess said that that was the best that she could do. We kept protesting, but got the "ultimatum" speech: either accept these seats or leave the plane since we were holding up their schedule. My wife came up with a solution: she instructed our son that after he got seated to start crying, kicking the seats, yelling and screaming for his mommy, and don't stop until either he was sitting next to a parent or the plane landed several hours later. The stewardess just stood there, steam coming out of her years. She went and got the captain. My wife told him the situation and gave our son the same instructions in front of him. Pilot looked at the stewardess and said, "either get this kid next to his mother or find 2 seats togeter so he can sit next to his dad - NOW!". She asked around and finally got 2 seats together for my son & I. And we don't fly that airline anymore. lincoln "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem. I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *Citizen* of the United States. [link\|mailto:golf_lover44@yahoo.com\|contact me]
Post #274,446 by bepatient 11/30/06 11:48:42 AM Reply	I've had similar situations though the creativity of your solution is to be admired :-) Fortunately I generally don't have these issues anymore but see them often...and often accept middle seats on flights where I am alone when parents are separated from kids. I still believe the policy should be to piss off others in order to seat families together. Families readily accept middle seat and rear cabin...where most singles will not...Ive never seen a situation where the airline, with a bit of creativity and nicety, haven't been able to solve these issues. (problem is the attendants generally lack both) Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #274,451 by boxley 11/30/06 12:05:15 PM Reply	did they make up that policy out of mid air? Or did they make it up after having to pay out some settlements? I suspect the latter. thanx, bill Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 50 years. meep
Post #274,452 by bepatient 11/30/06 12:16:56 PM Reply	Doesn't matter, its still a stupid policy It may be a fabulous idea...but the implementation is crap. There shouldn't be a situation where a child is seated away from parents. And unaccompanied minors are seated in the front directly in view of the galley. Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}
Post #274,482 by Ashton 11/30/06 3:57:19 PM Reply	I'm worried about your psyche, Beep Complete agreement on successive posts ?!? Hmmm we might also agree that there is as wide variance in the cuth of stewardii as.. elsewhere. (Some of us may 'attract', evoke? the Worst in any one of them; one has to be There to discern which occurred.) I once earned a (later, furtive) Big Smile.. when an asshole in front of me, in-his-Cups\ufffd, was being nasty with one. Just after his predictable announcement/demand for ID so he could... I piped up, in the silence following ~~ "Umm, please give me that info too: I'd like to give my version of events." Etc. Muricans are not alone in their too-frequent public boorishness, of course but IME much more likely to push waaay beyond the pall - the present Adminstration proves that this tendency is not ameliorated by 'higher' de-ja-Kay-shun. I think we'll find that Puritan gene's exact placement, sometime soon.
Post #274,483 by bepatient 11/30/06 4:26:46 PM Reply	I'm sure we'll find something to disagree about in short order :-) Too much of today's music is fashionable crap dressed as artistry._{Adrian Belew}

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