Reply #21: I have been in a similar situation and the FA was a dick

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

Flying between DEN and SNA I sat next to a woman and her young son, the kid was being as well behaved as one might expect an excited toddler to be. He was going to Disneyland with his mom who said she was an army nurse just home from Germany and had missed his birthday that year. The kid spent most of the flight silently flipping through the pictures in a book about Disneyland. But for whatever reason one of the flight attendants was basically harassing the woman the entire flight and this guy must have asked me half a dozen times if the child was disturbing me and if I wanted to be moved, which he absolutely was not.

What did the woman do to upset the guy so much?

She took her son to the bathroom while they were serving drinks, but after the cart had passed our row. This visit to the bathroom in no way obstructed the flight attendants serving the drinks. The clown kept badgering the woman asking her if she understood the consequences of "obstructing the flight crew" eventually another passenger who showed his ID and identified himself as a pilot for the airline and told the guy to drop it or he would make a report to some woman he named directly.

Frankly, all I saw was a bad stereotype with an attitude problem who thought he was "kicking breeder ass" by tormenting this woman and her kid.

And for all people complain about flying with kids, most of the bad behavior I see on planes is by adults who think their two flights a year means they are entitled to the presidential treatment.