SNM139: Flying on Planes with Babies

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I wrote down in my notebook just after I landed in America, that I wanted to talk about baby etiquette and airplanes because the person behind me on a 16 hour flight from China to America had a baby and the way they acted was savage. They acted like animals. Just yesterday I was flying back from the big city to my island with my wife and son, and we had the baby, and I discovered that what else is acting like savages. So travel is a very big part of what I do having Children big part of my life. And so this is a travel episode. We need to talk about the proper etiquette on both sides of the situation. Now let's talk about bad parents First. The woman behind me on the plane I would describe as a horrible or possibly monster parents. She did a lot of British, everything you could do wrong in the middle of a plane flight for 16 hours, where everyone's sleeping. At a certain point, her baby woke up and started screaming. He's dead, He's dead. He's dead over and over again, and her child continued to scream that someone was dead For the next 12 hours on a flight where everyone was suddenly sleeping, she woke up everyone. Now I watched a couple of interesting things happen. I fortunately had my sweet beef studio version two headphones on, and I fired them up and was able to block out most of the noise. Now, this reminds me that maybe I need to get a pair of active noise canceling those ones that make like a humming noise and block out the background because these don't do that for these. Blocked about 90% of the noise out. But what I watched this mother do blew my mind. The first thing is that she didn't do anything. We're sitting in the middle row in the middle of a plane, surrounded by hundreds of people there now awoken by her child. And she did not give the child a passive. Give the child a drink. Any of those things she's like all let her scream it out. Turns out eight hours is how long it took to make the screen. Eventually she got tired. Eight hours later, the second thing I noticed and I found this baffling was that the stewardesses took no action. So the story is just does not get involved in. Maybe that's my policy. I don't know, but they didn't walk over and say, Hey, how can we help put your job? What can we do? Happen? We fix this problem. The stewardess has retreated to the front, back of the plane against far away from this noise as they could. And at one point after five or six hours, once Tortoise did talk to the mom and say, Is there anything we could do? The Mongols know this is what you're supposed to do. So this savage, this animal let her child scream and disturb hundreds of people. She decided that she didn't care about other people. And maybe this is a Chinese cultural thing. I don't know. I don't want to jump to that conclusion. That it's a the entire nation is terrible parents. But at least this one Lady Waas So she's doing nothing or child screaming, and there's so many things you could do. What should she have done in this situation? First things. You have to understand why Children company planes and has to do with air pressure their ears. If you have an infant or baby, you have to give them a pacify our bottle, and when they're sucking on it, it will cause their ears to pop. You could also try and force your child the Iand. If you forgot to bring those people equipment and once your child's three years older and give them a piece of gum. Or give them some acetaminophen or something for pain killing about 30 minutes before the flight, and you could find out this information. If you Google, why do babies cry on planes? I'm not a baby wizard. I googled it myself before I flew with my son to make sure we're ready for those types of situations. The second thing is to have courtesy respect for other people. What this lady should have done was taking a child into one of the bathroom, so at least some of the noise was muffled. That was my first thought. I said, Why do you make everyone else suffer? Take the child to wear at least some of the sounds muffled if you don't have a passive fire, if you don't have any way of muffling the noise in, sit too in your seat. Take your child to where it can't annoy everyone, and I think it does. Don't it was a boy or girl was just howling. May was a girl. Second day she so this little girl was howling and howling and screaming. He's dead! He's dead. He's dead. Who wants to hear that. So not elicit a baby crying. It's saying something haunting. Now it sounds like I'm in the middle of a horror movie. No, thanks. I don't appreciate that. I didn't appreciate it at all. So please, if you're traveling with a child and the parent who does this, your etiquette and the way behave is absolutely critical. The other thing you should do. And this is exactly did. When my son flew back with me yesterday, we had our long flight. Not a 16 hour flights, a little easier. Managed. I kept him awake extra long. He was in the taxi trying to fall asleep. I was like, No, you don't, Buddy. Try to fall asleep in the airport. I said, no, you don't. But you're staying awake because the second we got on the plane, he was out like a light. He doesn't remember any of the flight He slept from the second we sat down to the second we got off. But what I noticed at the airport with some other etiquette problems, they make that announcement and I normally don't do this. They make the announcement. Hey, if you've got small Children, come first. If I'm with my daughter. We started flying my daughter when she was two years old. I never did that part. I don't need that at two. She's a manageable enough that she could walk herself. We could get on the plane like everyone else so I don't cut the line. Would have a two year old. We were there with a one year old who still has to write the hardest in the front of my wife. And there was someone else there with an infant who was probably six months older, younger and all these savages shoved to the front of line and try to get on the plane anyways. Now here, where I live in this country, they don't enforce it. Now, in America, at the airport, you try that you're gonna get a real kick in the teeth. So we had to I'm going to say elbow your way onto the plane now to get on the plan where we live. First you go through this little ticket thing, you give your ticket a chair in half. Then they put you on a bus service gets on the bus, then you waiting to go to the plane. that everyone walked up the ladder to the staircase of plain, so it's not one of those ones where you walk right down the jetway onto the plane. So all of these savages, these disgusting animals we're pushing and trying to push my wife and son of the way so they could get on the bus first. They're not even getting on the plane. And finally, as my wife pushed away to the front of the line and I push, I finally who had security. I said, Stop these crappy people and security had to block someone. So my wife, with an infant strapped her chest, could walk on without this person shoving her. Now, I'll tell you right now, Okay? Very few things set me often in this situation. I didn't get fully set off, but if someone had accidentally elbowed my son, it would've been a whole different world. Okay, call me old fashioned, but I'm against baby punching. And I didn't like the way that shoot this other person as well. This is presenting the younger child of mine more fragile than mine. My probably take a hit now is more than a year old, but you take a baby that's like six weeks older, three months old. They can't really hit them too small. And all these people were shoving their way on board. It was everyone. None of them had kids. None of them were old and they all were shoving their way. It's a one hour flight. What are you doing? We're acting like animals. So we get there, we get off the bus and then what? I can only describe it was a big, fat old German lady tried to shove her way onto the plane in front of my wife. My wife was walking there. Of course, the people work for the airline or helping her walk to the front. She's got a baby strapped to the front of her. We have all of our bags. I only go with her to help her go up the elevator, hoping up the stairs. I'm not trying to rush my way up. She's got my son shop to her. So I walked out with my hand on her back to help her. Because I know my son's heavy now. I would carry my son, have him right with me, but you should know he does not prefer that he had been crying and howling files one carry him. So I had to. I'm going to say Come very close to pushing this fat German lady out of the way and she her rump, like, eight or nine times, and it's like you don't need it on the plane first. Just because your big fat and mean doesn't mean you should get on. They announced Children only. They didn't make any other announcements. They didn't say V I P patrons or any of that crap. They just said parents with Children only. So this lady already violated the social contract once, and she tried to violate a second time. And it turns out this person is consistently a garbage person, because guess what? At the end of the flight, me and my wife, we said, Let's wait for everyone to get off. I don't want to interact with any of these people because they obviously have no respect of one of them will push you down the stairs or something, cause they have to get off the plane so fast. And this lady forgot her bag and she went back in. There's still people plan she shoved her way past everyone to get back to her back. So rather than wait for other people, show any sense of public decorum. At least her behavior's consistent. She was consistently garbage person when you're on a plane and I can't believe I have to teach this. But this happened so many times and they announced the baby's just wait, man, just show a little bit of touch of class. Now, when my son is two years old, I will stop doing this stuff. I will stop needing to go with that group of people once. He could walk for himself once his little okay, I don't need to fight my way under the plane. But I observed this and I observed something else. Actually, when we were at the mall shopping reason, I was a big sea of my wife. We took my son to a mall. We never get. Take him shopping. You need to buy him a couple of things. It was an opportunity on my way home for my big trip to America, for us to meet in an urban environment. My wife had it been shopping in two years, and person we do our shopping online. There's certainly no real stores on island on the neighbouring island was an opportunity for us to take care of some chores that we just can't do where we live. And in the mall, they have two elevators. This is what these men have ever been in. Have to elevators, and if you have a child, you rent one of those carts. Push cart in this case that the taxi not allowed on the escalator and it won't fit on the escalator. You have to take the elevators. And so every time we go to the elevator that already we shoot full again with what I can only describe his garbage people. It's right next to the escalator. It's little two extra steps. There's no reason to take the elevator unless you have a child or a wheelchair. Have no choice. And I watched people run and shoved their way in front of people in wheelchairs and people in strollers because they have to take the elevator and they're literally on the elevator, right next to watching the escalator. That could be onto the same time. This letter is just his little effort. It's just a lazy I love the escalator and in fact people are so busy shoving their way. And when I finally was able to get my wife and son onto the elevator, we often have to take the El. They're going the wrong way just to get on it. We got on at one point in all of these people like a bunch of exercise and weight lifter. People got on and blocked it to the point of My son is shoved against the back of the elevator, and we can't even see him to make sure he's okay now. He reached out pinch someone in the leg, and I was very proud of him for that. Honestly, if I could have handed a hammer because hitting people, I would have been okay with it because these people don't realize that something's air just for people that need them. Guess what? I don't park in handicapped spaces. That's the same thing you're filing in the social contract. And unfortunately, on these elevators in the mall, there's actually guy there who works, all pushing the buttons up, a doubt it doesn't enforce anything. It's ridiculous. Part of the things that people think, Oh, what in an Asian country. I can act like garbage. Unfortunately, had all of these incidents that I'm not used to encounter because of where I live because they live in a small island. We very rarely leave Reilly, but we very rarely get to encounter people that have no respect for other people. So this is something I'd forgotten about the way people treat each other. And if you listen to yesterday's episode, this ties in together. This isn't just me on a rant. The reason I have a good life is because I put as much goodness into the universe as I can when I'm near old person on a plane and I need help lifting something. I tried help them, not all the time. I'm not perfect, but I tried to default to that try to be that type of person would try to. If someone has a baby, I make room for them. If people are trying to shut the water planet, so what else has the baby? I made sure that other lady with the baby was also able to get on the plane again, shoved over by people that for some reason, think if you get on the plane first you leave first. I'll tell you this. They're all wrong. These people are all morons because I know how the plane works. Your once the plane lands, they you have to wait for the luggage to come out. So all these would shove there when the plane. We're waiting for luggage. But we had a friend at the airport who grabbed our luggage. First we left before anyone else. Even we got off the plane. Last. People were not only being rude, they were being stupid because they raced in the wrong part of the race. They were the first people to wait for their luggage. That's not winning. We were the first people to leave because we got our bags first. That's winning. Being a little bit smarter is how you get ahead of the game. Now, why are we friends with this person? The airport? Because guess what? We treat people who work at the airport with kindness and we over tip everyone because we're fortunate to have a really good living my family's fortune of to have enough money to go to treat people right? And I try to pass that down into the local economy. So I always over tip. I probably tipped him five times what you're supposed to, but we could afford it, and I'd rather give it to people that deserve it. So turns out, when you treat people right, you get a much better experience. And this is why, what I mean. Celebrities like me and my celebrity, my hero for blue collar backers, which I talked about in the previous episode. I treated him right. I treat him the way I want to be treated. He treated me back the same way. It was really great. When you treat people with kindness, respect when you act like a normal person instead of a savage, when you resist your temptation to be selfish when you don't shove babies out of your way, more good things come into your life because I watch people very much observed way people live and all the people who shoved the way on the airplane to make sure they could be I mean, my wife and my infant son onto the plane in their race to the top. They're only gonna be in my island for a week or two. They're all the really short vacation people. They get to have a little taste of paradise. But guess what? In a year I'll still be here surfing every day, two years, same thing. I get the real adventure. I live here and I'm gonna be here for a long time. And part of the reason my life is so awesome is that I treat other people well. So as much as this is a lesson reminding you to have a little bit of courtesy, whether you have the baby or don't if your baby's crying, please do something about it. It's very un cool to have your baby cry in a movie or in an elevator or in a airplane. But it's just as important to treat people, have a baby and give them a little bit of space with him. Get on the plane. First, we have to do a lot more logistics. We had to wait until the entire plane loaded for me to get into the overhead compartment, to grab the snack for my son because people were shoving so much these air dumb things. These are things that shouldn't be a problem. It takes five seconds extra for me to get his bag upstairs to grab a snack for him, and then you get into my chair, kind of get everything situated. But people don't have the courtesy to let you do that because they're fighting for position. And when you're fighting for those things, you're putting out negative energy into the universe. And just like when you do good things, good things come to you. When you act like an animal, bad things come back your way. So the reward for all of these people who acted like savages on this airplane is that they get to have a taste of paradise and find out they're not allowed to stay and have to go back to their brutish, boring lives and jobs that they obviously don't love. And they'll probably never get a chance of this island again. But when you do good things, if you get to stay forever on Paradise Island, so think about the way you treat people in the big things on the small things. Think about the way you should act when you're surrounded. My baby's on a place. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Serve No Master Make sure you subscribe, so you never miss another episode. We'll be back tomorrow with more tips and tactics on how to escape that rat race. 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