<p>I didn’t know they even served peanuts on planes anymore. I don’t think I have been offered anything other than pretzels for years (and I don’t care much for pretzels except the Auntie Annie type).</p>
<p>oldfort - that’s awful, but really funny. Now I feel guilty for laughing out loud.</p>
<p>It was the best laugh I have had all day!!!</p>
<p>Everyone always says that there should a section just for people traveling with babies. I would gladly fly in that section. I find a crying baby much easier to tolerate than the man who has to push his seat back, or the woman who has to have a window seat and then goes to the bathroom every five minutes, or worst of all, the person who has to ***** about everything. Shut up, i want to read my book. At least a crying baby is blameless.</p>
<p>Is that a true story , oldfort? LOL!!! I needed a good laugh. Thanks</p>
<p>I had peanuts recently on a flight…nice honey roasted one.</p>
<p>I can’t tell you for sure if it was a true story, but the guy who told the story worked for me, and he used it as an excuse why he was late (dog ate my paper?).</p>
<p>The official person should have said “it’s a miracle!!!”</p>
<p>When I was in HS we had a contest to see who could give the most ludicrous story about why they were late that the lady in the front office would believe. The winner was a guy who told her the transmission broke in his car and he had to drive to school backwards!! LOL! He got his signed late pass to class as proof.</p>
<p>OK…we should really start a new thread…the best I had.</p>
<p>Day after senior cut day in high school.</p>
<p>Me (to the guy in front of me in line): Jay…ha ha…I was at the eye doctor…ha ha…what’s YOUR excuse?</p>
<p>Him: My grandmother died.</p>
<p>Me: Oh gee…I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to offend you.</p>
<p>Him: No offense taken…this is the third time she’s died this year.</p>
<p>My dog is a horrible traveler so I would never even consider flying with him. My oldest son was the same way when he was little.</p>
<p>Imagine my surprise when my younger son, normally so low key, began screaming as loud as he could when we got on a train ride at the Dallas zoo. I swear the ride felt three hours long and we had innocent victims confined on the LONG ride with a screaming two year old. By the time the ride was over, people couldn’t get to the exit fast enough–me included. Of course right at that moment his sunny disposition returned.</p>
<p>I try to remember the feeling when a child is crying and the parents are trying to calm him.</p>
<p>And although it has been 20 years, I haven’t had the nerve to return.</p>
<p>The live pet substituted for a dead one is a classic urban legend (the most common version involves a rabbit). I’ve read it several places. Of course, it could have really happened, and more than once.</p>
<p>Air filtration on planes: [Myth:</a> Airplane Air Makes You Sick - ABC News](<a href=“Myth: Airplane Air Makes You Sick - ABC News”>Myth: Airplane Air Makes You Sick - ABC News)</p>
<p>As for babies crying, I’ve sat near more annoying adult passengers, talking and/or complaining non-stop. I’ll take the babies over those. Years ago, the family across the aisle cringed when they saw my toddler, who was quiet the entire trip, while they did not stop their yapping the whole time. I was really annoyed at the irony.</p>
<p>The +/- 3 rows rule is not a silly one. Anyone who says it is stupid because the air is recirculated anyway most likely does not have a realtive with allergies. For most people who suffer from allergies it is the concentration of the allergen in their immidiate proximity that matters, i.e. the allergen has to reach a certain threshold to trigger a reaction. For most people who are alergic to, for example, cats, the act of walking into a pet store that sells kittens will not trigger any adverse reactions, but holding one of those kittens for a minute will lead to runny and itchy nose and eyes, scratchy throat, etc. Again, we are talking about people with the typical, garden-variety allergies, not “bubble boy” kind of allergies.</p>
<p>iPod.
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<p>A battery-powered ultrasonic anti-bark noise maker. Place in your carryon that goes under the seat next to the yapper. :)</p>
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<p>That person was, as someone else said, a moron. (I am a huge dog lover.)</p>
<p>I once flew across the Atlantic with a young boy behind me who rhythmically kicked the back of my seat, landing blows in the vicinity of my kidneys for well over an hour. When I finally turned around as asked his mother to make him stop, for fear that this would continue for another 5 hours, she said, “There is nothing I can do.” I felt like offering to come back and SHOW her what she could do! 
I finally complained to the flight attendant, something that I have never done before or since.</p>
<p>My son was a good traveler as a baby/toddler. I used to bribe him with peanuts, doled out one at a time. That kept him from becoming too restless.</p>
<p>All I can say with regard to flying is thank doG that people are no longer allowed to smoke. I used to emerge from every flight with a splitting sinus headache.</p>
<p>I was blissfully unaware of how serious allergies and asthma can be until my toddler ended up on oxygen in the hospital… repeatedly. And even though we traveled with a portable nebulizer, we still had to rush to an emergency room during a lay-over. There have been hardly any hospitalizations during the teen and young adult years, thank goodness. I love cats. But my child, as a toddler or now grown, really couldn’t sit next to one on a plane without health risks, and definitely not in a seat one had been in, without immediately using an inhaler. That might or might not avert an attack. It doesn’t seem to me a necessary risk.</p>
<p>I understand people may need to travel with pets. But it is an issue I think has to be addressed.</p>
<p>I guess I can’t think of too many circumstances where people HAVE to travel with pets. I’ve had pets (dogs and cats) my whole life and have never NEEDED to take them on an airplane. When we go on vacation, they stay in a kennel or at home with a pet sitter. Occasionally we take them with us in the car. When we’ve moved, they have come in the car with us. It might have been more convenient to ship the car and take the pets on the plane, but I didn’t think that was a good solution. </p>
<p>I love my pets (2 dogs currently, but have had many other dogs and cats), but they are animals. I would feel terrible if they caused allergic reactions – or even annoyed – other people. </p>
<p>Crying babies are in no way analogous to yapping dogs. Babies are human beings, and they have every right to travel on airplanes with their families! All passengers have been babies once, and most passengers have been or will be parents, so we need to be compassionate towards children and their weary parents. (However, I’d still complain about a child kicking my seat – no reason that can’t be stopped!!!) </p>
<p>Also, babies wear diapers – what happens on a long flight when a pet needs to go? Seems incredibly unkind to keep a pet cooped up with no bathroom area.</p>
<p>I think the bottom line is that airlines are charging $100 for passengers to bring pets aboard, and it doesn’t cause any extra work for the airline, so of course they’re going to continue to allow it. Just seems like another way that airlines show their lack of concern towards the comfort of their passengers.</p>