Entitled Mom Allows Her Four Kids to Blare Loud iPads on Airplane, Flight Attendant Saves The Day With Headphones

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Oct 15, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

Nobody likes it when someone blares their music publicly for everybody to listen to. Even if you have your noise-canceling headphones, it's annoying and attention-seeking behavior that gets on most people's nerves. I believe some people do it for attention, but the vast majority do it because they don't care about how other people perceive them. They're just in their little world and don't care if their choices annoy people for however long. 

Parents especially are guilty of allowing this to happen with their children's iPads. Many parents tend to tune the noise out in their homes because it's constant, and if they listen to Bluey intently for hours, they'll go insane. But when they're in public, I believe parents should be smart enough to turn off the sound of their kid's games or not allow them to watch loud television in public places. One mom tried to let her kids blast their iPads on a crowded plane, and a thoughtful mom and flight attendant were not about to let that happen. 

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    Font - r/mildlyinfuriating u/CatFaceMcGeezer • 12h Join Mom thinks a crowded plane is her living room
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    Font - We just got off a cross-country night flight. When we boarded (2 adults, 1 child) we noticed that there was a woman with four kids behind us. She was in a row with the two youngest and the two (slightly older), who were maybe 5 and 7, were directly behind us. Almost immediately she hands them tablets and they start blaring kids TV shows. I decide to get ahead of it so I asked if she had headphones for the kids. She said no with a "what are you going to do?" shrug. My partner calls the fli
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    Font - kind of plug he needs and he lets her know it's for the kids behind us. Then the mom gets all huffy saying "We don't need headphones! They are just complaining about my kids!" No lady. We are not complaining about your kids. We are complaining about YOU and the fact that you are letting your kids watch TV like they are in their living room, not on a packed plane full of other humans.
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    Smile - The flight Clarification/edit/what-have-you: attendant gave them complimentary headphones (Alaska Air) and after being told that the kids had to use the headphones or turn the sound off she did begrudgingly make them put headphones in
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    Font - mrcoffeeforever • 9h In general, people who play their content in public places without headphones are a bane on modern society. Thank you, OP, for taking a stand. Reply 44.5k
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    Font - Porkthepie 6h ● The most baffling thing is people having conversations on speakerphone in public, but still holding the phone to their ear/mouth. Like, why? 4 768 ....
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    Human body - Constant_Cultural • 11h Did they put on headphones in the end? Reply ... 4 4k ↓
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    Rectangle - CatFace McGeezer OP 11h They did, after the flight attendant told them that they needed to either use the headphones or turn the sound off. ... 8k
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    Rectangle - thatlukeguy. 11h Flight attendants are the unsung heroes of air travel. Reply 5.8k ...
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    Font - 1 tfriedlich 8h ● One time I was on a flight from Boston to LGA and they were holding us at the gate while they repaired the toilet. I was joking around with one of the FAs that it might be quicker to just hold it until we land in NY. It was a nothing comment that she chuckled at and agreed with. 3 minutes later a senior flight attendant came over to me and started yelling at me that I have no right to speak to flight attendants like that and if I didn't stop they would escort me off the
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    Rectangle - aberforce 9h I don't get this. Not even from having manners perspective but how does it not drive the parent insane to listen to 4 different tablets at once? Reply ... 285
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    Font - Skippitini 9h Selective hearing. They're used to it. They don't even think it's an issue. ... 168
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    Font - All_fancy_n_stuff. 10h The amount of people who play games, watch videos, and do not use headphones is shocking. On planes, busses, public places, it drives me crazy. I was on a plane last week, there were 3 people with the volume so high and the crew did nothing. It is people of all ages, there is not one specific age group, the only ones I slightly forgive are toddlers, their parents are the AH.
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    Font - The issue we have these days is that you cannot ask to please put an earset on is because you will: get screamed at to not mess with the children (little Kaiddenn needs to watch Peppa or he'll get upset), told to mind your own business, or get punched in the mouth. I choose to suffer quietly. I will not end up on a TikTok as the crazy woman complaining about noise. I don't know. I'm reaching the get off my lawn stage in life. Reply 4 676 ...
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    Font - stubborny 11h ● I only want one superpower, not flying, not super strenght, not reading minds, just the ability to break devices with my mind in these situations. Reply 770
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