Posted on 10/31/2025 8:50:47 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
Exactly so!
Would be interesting to see a picture of the cheapskate who tried to palm her kid for free...
No one is entitled to a seat you paid for. If it is needed for safety reasons a stewardess can move you. It’s ok to ask to swap seat and nice to give but don’t be too mad if they say no
“Sure - no problem at all . Here is what I paid for the seat. Reimburse me what I paid and you can have the seat.”
No, reimburse me what the cost is of the seat is when you ‘buy it at the absolute last moment’.
I find it funny that the airlines can absolutely price gouge you for last minute seats but, everyone wants this woman to get shafted both in money and comfort by a woman who tried to not spend money on her kids.
The airline itself could have given up a seat or offered someone to fly later for a rebate but, they didn’t.
Only if she’s compensated properly
Dear Luny Luna
Was the mother prepared to pay for buy the seat from the lady ???
Did she even offer ???
Wondering in TN
The mother had the option to buy the child her own seat when she brought her own
Slightly related, but when we were traveling in Germany with the fam, you could not purchase a seat on the train for the wee ones. It was expected that they sit on your laps.
Don't ask me why
I'd say that that's edging into "gray" territory: The bulkheads are specifically designed for and equipped with hooking mechanisms for bassinets.
This is comparable to the areas of many commuter trains which are furnished with mini flip-down seats AND bicycle racks. The idea is that, if there is no crowding of passengers, bikes can be stowed there - or, conversely, if there are no bikes, passengers who might otherwise have to stand can be seated there. But what if both circumstances arise? Who has priority? You might say: Actual flesh-and-blood human passengers - who, incidentally, also paid full fare - should have priority over mere metal-and-rubber contraptions for which no separate tickets were purchased. But what if the bikes were there first? Isn't it "First come, first served?" And what are the bike-owners supposed to do if passengers board and demand seating? Throw their bikes onto the tracks? Stand with them in the aisles, blocking everything?
By providing an "either-or" option, the train designers obviously created the possibility of a dilemma.
Regards,
Good Lord, I had the exact same thing happen with me !
Never again !!!
This happens every day - somewhere in the world.
Given the fact that millions fly every day, it stands to reason that, statistically, practically any situation - no matter how absurd or improbable - occurs every day.
Regards,
That must have been a lo-ong time ago. Did you pay for your tickets in Reichsmark?!
Seriously: I can well imagine that having been the case - in view of the plethora of sub-contractors running some train networks, and the unusual conditions and restrictions of many "special offers."
Regards,
NOT ONE STINKING INCH SHOULD SHE GIVE UP! NONE!
I’ve flown with my children. Even at 2 and 3 years old, I paid for their seats. I had one on each side of me. My husband was separate from us. The kids were so well behaved, the man behind me complimented me on them. He said he dreaded sitting near two kids, but they were quiet and stayed seated the entire time.
He didn’t know I bribed them with new toys, snacks, and baby bottles of juice (TSA didn’t make me dump out baby bottles, even though my kids had stopped using them a long time ago). The kids thought it was funny.
That reminds me of my last flight to Italy. On the first leg of the trip, we flew from Texas to England. The guy sitting next to me wasn’t obese, but he stank like soap was a foreign concept. Worse yet, he took off his shoes. The stench of his bare feet had me gagging. I immediately turned my whole body away and buried my nose in my husband’s shirt.
Thank God stink boy got off the plane in England.
GOOD FOR HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She paid for that extra seat at her own expense in a great display of courtesy towards other passengers, and for her own comfort.
The mother brought the kid on board as a *lap infant* (and 3 is NOT an infant) and should have held her.
The mom was being a cheapskate and expecting to get a free seat for her daughter, presuming on the generosity or courtesy of others.
Tough beans, mom.
Pay for your daughter’s seat next time.
“I’ve occasionally wondered how it would feel to sit the whole plane ride with two seat edges up my butt crack.”
With the amount of extra padding required to take up two seats, I’m sure she did not feel the extra crack under her crack.
Kid was 3, mom should have coughed up for another ticket. End or story, or should have been.
Fat lady has good intentions and didn't want to bother another traveler with her 'rind'.
The spineless, principleless, soulless, airline company and its wimply stewardess are cheeseball chiselers too, because they lied to, then, gypped the fatbody lady out of a second fare, then, put her in a position to be embarrassed and cheated out of her second fare. BTW they OVERSELL every flight according to expected value calculations; they have no problem cheating several passengers per flight, on average, out of their contracts.
What is the answer?
All of the above is true, it goes back to Aesop and his Fable of the Grasshopper and the Ant. Some people are just chiseling cheeseballs who get through life doing low-grade cheating to everyone around them. They make life disagreeable.
Airline company makes contracts that it knows it can break anytime it wants; plus it hates the travelling public A LOT. They need to take an integrity transfusion. Plus they need to raise their prices so that they don't have the Third World flying on airplanes. They simply don't belong on subsidized airplane rides.
Fat Lady: Opportunity to rise above here, making note of all of the above.
Some times you have to have some things in the "I didn't press the issue" column. For the Day of Wrath.
A lot of the problems of the world are from people thinking luxuries like air travel are rights. People are just spoiled.
Had a guy sitting near me on a Chunnel Train ride from London to Brussels. This guy smelled so bad that my nose burned and my eyes watered. It was far worse than any farm manure pit I have been around.
Everyone in that train car moved to another car. No air freshener would have covered that smell.
The story is probably from Canada. Their Thanksgiving is on our Columbus Day.
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