I was referring to both this thread and previous posts, where you include value judgments on other posters’ opinions. Just leave off the judgmental tone and we’ll get along just fine.
By the way, FOX reported that the child was repeatedly interrupting the stewardess’ safety speech. It sounds as though the mother thought it was cute. The stewardess disagreed. I think that the fact that the kid was big for his age and may have been perceived as older than he really is, may have contributed to the disagreement.
The fact that the other passengers may not have been bothered by the fact that the child was interrupting the stewardess’ safety speech is irrelevant. They probably weren’t interested in listening, anyway.
Hadn’t heard Fox was reporting that—but that’s what I pieced together from last night’s reports. See my previous post.
By the way, FOX reported that the child was repeatedly interrupting the stewardess’ safety speech. It sounds as though the mother thought it was cute. The stewardess disagreed. I think that the fact that the kid was big for his age and may have been perceived as older than he really is, may have contributed to the disagreement.
Now, this is the problem. On small Express Jets, there are no screens so the FA has to announce all of the safety instructions herself including the oxygen masks and pointing to the exits. He had to have been loud enough to interrrupt her safety speech. Let’s remember that they were in ROW 3 and the lady who said he wasn’t loud was in the LAST row.
I wonder how mom will feel if her son doesn’t want to be quiet when he is in school or during a fire drill. After all, if she thinks it’s cute to do it during a safety speech on the plane, she shouldn’t act shocked if he will not behave when there is a fire. He’s going to be really confused and wonder why he has to follow directions and shut his mouth. I hope he never goes into the airline or medical fields.
As far as kids with disabilities, most parents are smart and do not impose their children on the rest of us if they’re having a tough day.
Since both of us have been posting on the forum for nine years and I can't ever remember posts to or from you before, it won't make any difference to me whether you and I get along just fine or not. If you perceive the tone of my posts as judgmental there's not much I can do about that. You started in with comments about my tone and about some alleged tendency of mine to not just disagree but to denigrate anyone who expressed a different opinion after I had made three posts on this thread (other than two joke posts that surely couldn't have been setting you off). Compared to a lot of posts on this thread -- both by defenders of the flight attendant and defenders of the mom -- my comments have been pretty diplomatic even when expressing disagreement.
If you are in fact referring to other threads where I have previously included value judgements on the other person's opinions (of course technically if you express an opinion about another opinion aren't you making a value judgement about that opinion by definition?) perhaps you could cite an example.