Mother Doesn’t Care That Her Kid Is Bothering Other Plane Passengers, Regrets It Later

Demand for air travel is increasing as pandemic lockdowns lift and restrictions ease, and airlines are having difficulties keeping up.

This year, many commercial airlines in the US are regularly reporting flight delays and cancellations are becoming more commonplace.

However, there’s one problem that travelers have been consistently complaining about no matter the situation in the industry.

Recently, Reddit user mngirl2465 submitted a post to the platform’s ‘Am I the [Jerk]?’ community, detailing a particularly annoying experience. During a 15-hour flight, she had to endure a little girl kicking her seat and pulling her hair.

However, the woman was actually the one who the child’s mother blamed for ruining the trip. Continue scrolling to read why.

This woman had to sit next to a young child during a fifteen-hour flight

Mother Doesn't Care That Her Kid Is Bothering Other Plane Passengers, Regrets It Later

Image credits: AndrewLozovyi (not the actual photo)

And eventually got into a confrontation with the kid’s mother

Mother Doesn't Care That Her Kid Is Bothering Other Plane Passengers, Regrets It Later

Image credits: Paul Hanaoka (not the actual photo)

We managed to get in touch with mngirl2465 and she agreed to tell us more about the whole ordeal. “The father attempted to calm the girl down at the beginning of the flight, but once he realized it wasn’t working (about 30 minutes to 1 hour into the flight), he stopped,” she told Bored Panda. “The mother never said anything to stop it.”

“After I didn’t recline my seat, the mother seemed visibly annoyed, made a groan, and made a few comments to her husband about it. It didn’t go much beyond that because she ended up falling asleep herself a while later,” mngirl2465 recalled.

Now that she has read what other people think of what happened, the Redditor is fine with the way she handled the situation.

“I hadn’t been aware of the undisclosed protocol on not reclining on shorter flights, but given it was a 14-hour flight and at midnight, I feel it was OK!

The woman provided more details as people reacted to her story

Mother Doesn't Care That Her Kid Is Bothering Other Plane Passengers, Regrets It Later

And most of them thought she didn’t do anything wrong

Mother Doesn't Care That Her Kid Is Bothering Other Plane Passengers, Regrets It Later

But some said believed ESH (everyone sucked here)

Mother Doesn't Care That Her Kid Is Bothering Other Plane Passengers, Regrets It Later

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Libstak 2 years ago

A fifteen hour flight sounds like it crossed international borders. The parents would not have been able to fake the child's age as it would have been on one of their passports. So that puts to bed the Ops claim about the lap sitting. Having said that, kids do need to be controlled and if they are on your lap, how hard can it be? Hold their legs down with one arm and put the othervaround their chest to keep them in place as an example. Not sure I would have reclined myself but I can see why she would decide not to care after a couple of hours of being annoyed by the child.

25points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

International or even cross-continental (in some places) can be 8-14 hours of flight time, so this is a nightmare o fmine ---- especially since I'm tall! ---- but a little kid just wants their routine, and a plane sure as heck ain't it. And I never recline fully. In economy, tall people are already living knees-to-chins as is. I'm not gonna be the tall person who makes it bad for someone behind me. In fact, I usually choose the last row if I can or any other row where there's some "gap" behind the row or ahead of it. All that said, this is why I think there should be place sin airports where parents can take younger kids especially to just exhaust themselves running and shouting to get it all over with before they're on the plane!

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Mama Penguin 2 years ago

NTA. Sorry not sorry. She was gracious enough to let the kid's behaviors slide for four hours, especially as she herself was exhausted. As someone commented, when on a 15 hour flight, passengers will recline their seats to try and get some sleep, even those in economy class. Apparently someone else claimed those who sit in economy class do not deserve to recline their seats and must suffer. When on a long haul flight, I assume the aircraft was a jumbo jet, thus the seats will have larger seat pitch. That being said, the mother could've reclined her seat to give herself some space.

21points

Monday 2 years ago

It's an automatic NTA anyway since the seats are designed to recline. If the aircraft allows it then you're not an a*****e for using it.

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Denise Melek 2 years ago

If you have to bring your sperm pet, it's not other people's problem, don't let it become their problem

17points

Unknown 2 years ago (edited)

Upvoting you, because I'm adding that term to my repertoire, and doing my best to get rid of the angry parent below, mad at everyone without kids, for choosing to have kids

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Libstak 2 years ago

25points

Leo Domitrix 2 years ago

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Mama Penguin 2 years ago

21points

Monday 2 years ago

It's an automatic NTA anyway since the seats are designed to recline. If the aircraft allows it then you're not an a*****e for using it.

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Denise Melek 2 years ago

If you have to bring your sperm pet, it's not other people's problem, don't let it become their problem

17points

Unknown 2 years ago (edited)

Upvoting you, because I'm adding that term to my repertoire, and doing my best to get rid of the angry parent below, mad at everyone without kids, for choosing to have kids

10points

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Mother Doesn’t Care That Her Kid Is Bothering Other Plane Passengers, Regrets It Later

This woman had to sit next to a young child during a fifteen-hour flight

And eventually got into a confrontation with the kid’s mother

The woman provided more details as people reacted to her story

And most of them thought she didn’t do anything wrong

But some said believed ESH (everyone sucked here)

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