Why people make me hate them
Posted by Ryan on July 13th, 2007.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/13664685/detail.html
A Gwinnett County mother says she wants answers and action after she and her baby were kicked off a plane. [...] Penland thinks her 19-month-old son, Garren, has a bubbly personality. But Penland said when they were aboard a Continental Express plane, a flight attendant became annoyed by Garren’s personality when he kept saying three words.
“As we started taxiing, he started saying ‘Bye, bye plane,’ ” said Penland. “At the end of her speech, she leaned over the gentleman beside me and said, ‘It’s not funny anymore. You need to shut your baby up.’ [...] She then said, “You know, it’s called baby Benadryl.’ “
I’m sorry, but anyone that tells a mother, father, guardian…any person looking after a child…that they should drug the child, even with something legal such as Benadryl, deserves to be hated. Especially when they work in a situation such as this. What if something had happened during the flight, but the child wasn’t able to communicate with his mother because of the Benadryl?
There was no reason for the child needing to be quieted. He was saying nothing any child only a year and a half old says. I could see if he was saying “Plane go boom” or something like that, but “Plane go bye bye”? Come on, he isn’t some terrorist, he’s a baby with a limited vocabulary (as all are at his age). He wasn’t bothering any of the other passengers; some even went to talk to the flight attendant on the mother’s behalf.
I’m against lawsuit abuse, but I think that any suit filed in this instance is warrented, and I hope the flight attendant pays. This was not even close to being handled the right way by her. I seriously hope she is fired, there is no excuse for her lying to the pilot to make him turn the plane around.