Question For The Ladies...Milk Cannons On Airlines.

[Bwana]

Ok ladies, help me out here.

So I'm flying back from Kalamazoo, Michigan today. I make it to Detroit and got delayed because "the choosen one, Barry" was in the area with Air Force One. I make it onto the Detroit to Minneapolis flight after Barry decided to move his ass.

I end up in the back row, I'm talking the last seat on the jet back row, on the right side. Off to my right, there is a gal with an 8 month old sitting on her lap next to me, by the window. Across the way on my left, there is what looks to be about a seven year old girl by the window, and another mother with an eight month old sitting on her lap. I grab "Deb" the fight attendent and told her, I must have really done something to piss someone off. She smiled and told me she would hook me up with some free beers and laughed.

About 10 minutes after we take off, I was talking to the lady off to my right and glanced over and noticed she had whipped out one of her milk cannons. I'm taking zero cover. I look over and jr. is going to town on this bad boy. I was like, alriiiiiiiiiiiiiiighty then. After About 15 minutes I look over to my left and mother #2 is doing the same thing. Neither one of them went to any trouble to cover up the milk cannons. I'm sitting there trying not to laugh. Seriously, WTF are the odds of one doing this, much less two.

Deb come by again and I told her to skip the beer, just bring me some whisky and make it a double. She looks around and sees the same thing. Her mough about hit the floor and she comes back with three little bottles of whisky and I smile.

So girls, is this the freaking norm these days or what?

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by H5N1

crazy idea, have one of the grandparents or, gasp, a sitter watch the kid if you insist on going out. having kids is a sacrifice, as you already know. part of that is sacrificing a normal social life.

You don't have to tell me about sacrificing a normal social life, I have three children. I was a considerate parent that tried scheduling things around feedings and naps. I hate to hear a child scream, it makes me want to scream, so why would I subject others to it?

But, I will be damned if I am going to completely put my life on hold because someone has an issue with me feeding my child in public, that is a ridiculous request.

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

They could've shipped you back via UPS.

Yeah, there is a grand idea!!

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

I'm going to start scratching my balls in public all the time, and hey, if it makes people uncomfortable they can just not look.

I think there is a huge difference between breast feeding and scratching your balls. With breast feeding everyone knows it is normal and needs to be done. If you go around scratching your balls, they will just think you have the clap!!

[teedubya]

Originally Posted by RedNFeisty

You don't have to tell me about sacrificing a normal social life, I have three children. I was a considerate parent that tried scheduling things around feedings and naps. I hate to hear a child scream, it makes me want to scream, so why would I subject others to it?

But, I will be damned if I am going to completely put my life on hold because someone has an issue with me feeding my child in public, that is a ridiculous request.

Hey, you can pull out your milk cannons in my presence ANYTIME you want. Kid feeding or not.

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by RedNFeisty

You don't have to tell me about sacrificing a normal social life, I have three children. I was a considerate parent that tried scheduling things around feedings and naps. I hate to hear a child scream, it makes me want to scream, so why would I subject others to it?

But, I will be damned if I am going to completely put my life on hold because someone has an issue with me feeding my child in public, that is a ridiculous request.

it appears that you actually went out of your way to be a decent parent and not a shit-head. the older I get, the more I realize that the latter is much more common.

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by H5N1

it appears that you actually went out of your way to be a decent parent and not a shit-head. the older I get, the more I realize that the latter is much more common.

Common courtesy doesn't really exist anymore, which drives me bat shit crazy. One of my biggest pet peeves, lack of common courtesy; next to not using the god damn turn signal!!

[teedubya]

Originally Posted by RedNFeisty

Common curtsy doesn't really exist anymore, which drives me bat shit crazy. One of my biggest pet peeves, lack of common curtsy; next to not using the god damn turn signal!!

you are right.

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by teedubya

Hey, you can pull out your milk cannons in my presence ANYTIME you want. Kid feeding or not.

You just want a taste!!

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by teedubya

you are right.

Leave my spelling alone!!!



I already gave you rep, I knew I should have waited!!

[Pioli Zombie]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

I'm going to start scratching my balls in public all the time, and hey, if it makes people uncomfortable they can just not look.

You'd actually need to have balls to do that. You don't qualify.

[Ebolapox]

Originally Posted by RedNFeisty

Common curtsy doesn't really exist anymore, which drives me bat shit crazy. One of my biggest pet peeves, lack of common curtsy; next to not using the god damn turn signal!!

and that's kinda the crux of the issue here... if you know your kid is fussy and likely to ruin everybody's evening, don't take the damned kid to the nice restaurant. take him or her to freaking pizza hut. if you have a brain, don't take your goddamned three year old to the new (hard R) freddy vs. jason movie. for ****'s sake, don't set you and your kid up for failure... know your limitations and don't go about breaking them.

now, as to the airline situation, not sure what the correct answer is. should everybody be subject to flopping titties? we should be so lucky. but common courtesy would say bring a damned blanket. prepare for the situation and everybody's pain will be diminished.

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by H5N1

and that's kinda the crux of the issue here... if you know your kid is fussy and likely to ruin everybody's evening, don't take the damned kid to the nice restaurant. take him or her to freaking pizza hut. if you have a brain, don't take your goddamned three year old to the new (hard R) freddy vs. jason movie. for ****'s sake, don't set you and your kid up for failure... know your limitations and don't go about breaking them.

now, as to the airline situation, not sure what the correct answer is. should everybody be subject to flopping titties? we should be so lucky. but common courtesy would say bring a damned blanket. prepare for the situation and everybody's pain will be diminished.

I certainly get what you are saying. I never took my children to a four star restaurant, or a movie theater, nor did I feed without a blanket or something to cover up with. I wasn't thinking about the parents when I covered up, I was thinking about the other little kids that would ask, "Mommy, what is that lady doing?"

The subject is a touchy issue. People argue they don't want the embarrassment of seeing a woman breast feeding, the mother argues that it healthier and natural. I have had a few women comment, "Why don't you feed your child in the bathroom?" I asked them, "Why don't you eat in the bathroom?" It really pissed me off, but remember, I was covered, no pink skin showing at all.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by RedNFeisty

Common courtesy doesn't really exist anymore, which drives me bat shit crazy.

And you don't think your "if you're offended, don't look" comment is any different? It's the same "it's all about me and **** everyone else" attitude that is so prevalent in today's society.

[RedNFeisty]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

And you don't think your "if you're offended, don't look" comment is any different? It's the same "it's all about me and **** everyone else" attitude that is so prevalent in today's society.

I disagree when it comes to breast feeding. Women use to do nothing but breast feed. It was society that made it taboo.

I do think woman need to cover up, but I don't get why you would be so upset if she were covered. You seem to think a mother should not be seen outside of her home feeding her child.

The only thing the women on the plane did wrong, in my opinion, was not cover up.

[Pioli Zombie]

Originally Posted by RedNFeisty

I disagree when it comes to breast feeding. Women use to do nothing but breast feed. It was society that made it taboo.

I do think woman need to cover up, but I don't get why you would be so upset if she were covered. You seem to think a mother should not be seen outside of her home feeding her child.

The only thing the women on the plane did wrong, in my opinion, was not cover up.

What do you expect from a cementhead like this? He's probably pissed the babies weren't aborted. You've got to be totally effed up sexually in this day and age to be freaked out by a woman breastfeeding.