A kid kicked off the plane!!!

I like kids and one day (soon) I want to have kids, my boyfriend has two kids, and LOTS of my friends have kids (I'm at that age). I don’t think there is anything wrong with taking your kid on a flight. BUT you have to understand that there are 180-200+ other people on that flight that paid just like you did and you need to respect that. So I was watching the news and I heard the story about a mother and her baby getting kicked off a Southwest plan because the baby wouldn’t stop talking. They asked the mother to keep her child quite because there were 180+ other people on the plane who paid for their tickets as well, but apparently the comfort of herself and her baby was more important and it didn’t matter how much other people had spent for their ticket or how much work they had to complete before the plane landed. ALL that mattered where HER and HER BABY!

So when I heard that FINALLY a woman was asked to take her 19-month old baby boy off the plane, I wanted to clap! I have been on so many flights that I PAY GOOD MONEY FOR. GOOD HARD EARNED MONEY that I worked for too get onto a flight. I save penny by penny to be able to fly home ONCE a year to visit my mum, and when I go, I usually have to take time off of work and I HAVE TO work on the flight, and so many times I have had to sit in front, behind, or next to some noise ass kid who kicks, cries and screams the entire flight!! Do their parents not know how to control them? It makes it impossible to get the work done that I need, thus I DON’T get paid. I am already counting pennies (like so many people out there). I need that money. I get to go grocery shopping once every 2 months if I am lucky and then I can only spend $60-70. So when their screaming kid making it impossible for me to get my work done it directly affect how long it is before I get to go to the store again (regardless of how empty my cupboards are). We are all struggling right now, some more than me, other less than me, but if your kid makes it impossible for me to work, which means I don’t get paid, which means I will be late on my bills and not have money to EAT….we have a problem.

You may say, well why are you flying if you are that broke, you are right, I use to drive home, but now it is more expensive and more time off than to just fly. I live 22hrs away from my mum by car. So I fly, I want to see my family, I know that must be selfish of me, but I only do it once a year and I save (I take money from my grocery bill to pay for it, so I justify it by sacrificing because I love my mum). Why doesn’t your mum come to see you, good question, well she is retired, living on a fixed income and after the market crashed…well let’s just say, if I did have any extra money ever, it would go to her. So I sacrifice so that I can see my mum, maybe you can tell me I need to not go, but I don’t have much family and I love the family I do have. I spend 360 day a year alone, I want 5 days a year to not be alone. And if that offends you then I don’t care, I love my mum, maybe I am stupid for doing so but whatever.

So back to my original issues, as I mentioned I use to drive place, so there are other ways to travel. If you have a kid who you can’t control out of respect for those around you who chose not to have kids or can control their kids, then I think the airlines have every right out of the respect of the other 180-200 people on the flight to ask you to leave. TUFF LUCK… the world doesn’t revolve around you just like it doesn’t revolve around me…SURPISE. Plus, I only buy one ticket when I fly $230 a year; you buy at least 2 for you and your kid that is almost $500, that will cover you driving! So I think, if your kid doesn’t know how to be quite…help it out. The other 180 people on the flight have the right to ask you to leave or ask you to shut your kid up! SO BRAVO SOUTHWEST!! You shouldn’t have to apologize for anything! You respected the majority! Don’t apologize and you SO didn’t need to give them a refund and money for another flight! I wish more companies did that! HECK I wish there was an airline that wouldn’t allow kids at all! I know that business people, flying for work would take it, college students, people like me and my friends! Only people that wouldn’t take it would be people traveling with their little kids, let them fly together and have to listen to each other’s screaming kids! That would solve everyone’s problems