Fasten your seatbelt!

[AirHostess]

I had a woman flying with us yesterday, back from Venice. Now I can understand that travelling with a baby is stressful but she did not fasten the infant exetension as 'she didn't want to wake her little boy.'

Now, all children under two years old travelling on a parent's lap need to be secured into an infant extension seatbelt for take off and landing. She refused to do it so I had to explain that it was CAA regulation and that we couldn't land the plane until she had done so.

You would think common sense would indicate to her that we hit the runway at a very high speed and that any sudden stops by the pilot could cause her child to he thrown around the cabin. But no. Sigh.

[XCashier]

I feel sorry for children in the care of self-centered idiots.

[rvdammit]

*ponders*

Practical demonstrtaion. Water balloon.

"Ma'am imagine this is your baby's head. Next we add an unexpected jolt". Splat balloon on passenger's head. "Now imagine that everywhere wet is covered in baby brains."

[blas]

Don't bother with that fantasy, rvdammit....

The lady would only reply, "But this plane would NEVER experience turbulance or a hard landing as long as I am on it! I have a CHILD, the pilot should know better than to fly in rough air or land the plane hard!"

There's no getting through to some idiots.

That poor infant. I would have snatched it and given it to another passenger who would be more than willing to safely strap the little tyke in.

[BookstoreEscapee]

let's see...wake the baby and possibly make it cry.......have baby thrown around cabin and possibly make it brain-dead.....hmmmm...oh, yeah let it sleep

[rvdammit]

Don't bother with that fantasy, rvdammit....

Did i forget the sneaky bit? The thump to the the nose caused by turbulance encountered during the demonstration. And there'll be a waiver in the contract nobody reads making this the customer's fault.

[skeptic53]

Re: breaking the seatbelt rules

Landing at O'Hare last month, I heard a good one:

As we taxied to the gate, one of the senior flight attendants got on the PA system and said "Ladies and Gentlemen, our seat belt sensors indicate that some of you have unbuckled your seat belts. It is an FAA regulation that belts remain fastened until we are at the gate and the seatbelt sign has been turned off. Please refasten your seatbelts".

All around the plane: CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK!

As we disembarked, I grinned at the attendant who was doing the thank-you task at the exit door and said "Seat belt sensors.... that's a good one!" She grinned back and said "Yeah, I haven't heard her use that one before!"

[BookstoreEscapee]

Landing at O'Hare last month, I heard a good one:

As we taxied to the gate, one of the senior flight attendants got on the PA system and said "Ladies and Gentlemen, our seat belt sensors indicate that some of you have unbuckled your seat belts. It is an FAA regulation that belts remain fastened until we are at the gate and the seatbelt sign has been turned off. Please refasten your seatbelts".
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That's not a bad idea...hell, my car knows if I'm not wearing my seatbelt...

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I think I would be a bit more devious.

"Okay, fine, one's never too young to take up skydiving! Those windows aren't exactly shatterproof, and wouldn't you know it, your kid's just small enough to fit through!"

[skeptic53]

That's not a bad idea...hell, my car knows if I'm not wearing my seatbelt...

Yeah, that's why the ruse worked so well, it's very plausible.

[AirHostess]

She unbuckled her seatbelt as soon as the plane touched down. She was sat right at the back so I could see her from my jumpseat so I went on the PA and reminded ALL passengers to stay seated with their seatbelts fastened.

At least as a flight attendant you have authority onboard and they HAVE to do as you request

[Sliceanddice]

Why do people think my irrational hatered of women customers is.... irrational....
Look at the evidence!!!

[Andara Bledin]

Landing at O'Hare last month, I heard a good one:

As we taxied to the gate, one of the senior flight attendants got on the PA system and said "Ladies and Gentlemen, our seat belt sensors indicate that some of you have unbuckled your seat belts. It is an FAA regulation that belts remain fastened until we are at the gate and the seatbelt sign has been turned off. Please refasten your seatbelts".

Ooooh. That's brilliant.

^-.-^

[Seshat]

I can tell that few of your passengers watch Air Crash Investigation. Or that if they do, they're not very bright.

Quite a few times on that show, I've seen cases where there was a problem before the plane 'came to a complete stop', but after landing. But I guess it'll never happen when they are on the plane, will it?

[MadMike]

As a parent of a former baby who wasn't always easy to get to sleep, I can understand not wanting to wake the kid once he's finally asleep. Hell, once he fell asleep in my arms, and I was afraid to try to put him in his crib, for fear he'd wake up. Hell, I was afraid to move at all!

But once the plane landed, the baby most likely would wake up anyway once she picked him up to get off the plane.

Plus, the obvious choice of waking the baby, or risk him getting hurt of killed. Well, obvious to those of us with more than a single-digit IQ anyway.