I was an Air Force wife. Many years ago I had to fly to Guam on a military flight, with my 5 month old son. We'd been driven to Los Angeles from Tucson, Arizona. Which is a long drive. The flight was going to take 17 hours to get to Guam. Stopping on every Micronesian Island on the way. My son had the seat next to me and was in a carrier. He wouldn't stop crying unless I held him. I was exhausted when suddenly the biggest pair of hands I've ever seen came over my head and scooped up my son. The biggest man I have ever seen started walking up and down the plane calming my son. I was so grateful.
@@Hakitosama Nobody said she was. That's what being a decent human being entails: doing things for people which they're *not* entitled to, just out of the goodness of your heart. It's called ALTRUISM, and the more we have of it, the better.
A buddy of mine couldn't wear his ring at work for safety reasons, so he put it on a chain he wore around his neck. One day the chain broke and the ring tumbled out of his coveralls and landed in front fo a cav scout. The dude had watched my friend shake it out and picked it up and tried to leave with it. My buddy threatened to beat him with a rod if he didn't give it back.😂
My husband was sleeping,and he was working overseas,and someone,we think one of his friends, broke into his apartment when he was sleeping and only stole his engagement/marriage ring..oh and his bright red winter jacket, as it was a great brand and expensive.. We've been so broken about it, but it happened 20yrs ago.. now we both have new rings, just not gold, now they're white gold..one of his coworker in the contractor business, tried to steal his wallet from his locker.. so yeah, those closest to you, can often be the most sneakiest!
@@minnarosenqvistmr Was his Co-worker caught and fired? I remember an episode of Law & Order: SVU where someone was using the Credit Card of a deceased SVU Detective and Det. Stabler had tracked it down, it was a new recruit, he stated after he got caught "they can't use it anymore". Needless to say, he got fired and arrested.
@JadenYukifan28 This was also the storyline on an episode of "CSI: Miami". Except in THIS case,it was a forensic tech that was using the credit card of the deceased tech because..." he wasn't going to use it anymore".
Story 1 - What an AH. Pocketing a ring when OP was clearly trying to reclaim it and then saying that it’s his because he found it. The only good thing is that he gave it back because one of the workers saw the whole thing and threatened to call the cops
I lost my class ring at a dance club in 95 and someone found it 25 years later in a bad neighborhood behind a grocery store and since my last name is very rare, everyone in America with my last name are family, they called my parents number as theirs was listed and actually gave my ring back, of course I gave them some money even though they didn't ask. I just want to know the story where it was all those years and how it got where it was.
I had my class ring stolen out of my purse along with a diamond and emerald ring and some gold earrings by a guy I had casually just started hanging out with. He took them out of my purse when I wasnt looking, I never got them back either, it still makes me sad.
Had my class ring and some credit cards stolen out of my jacket at a daycamp I worked at. The credit cards pinged at a Game Stop a couple blocks away. Honestly don't know whether it was one of the kids or one of the other staff that stole them. Never saw my class ring again, but was able to get the credit cards to cancel the charges to Game Stop.
I had my class ring stolen by a relative I was staying with. I always wore multiple rings back then so they were all in a dish on a dresser. For some reason that was the only ring that went missing from the dish, maybe because the others were made of mystery metal. The class ring was only 10k gold so she couldn't have gotten that much for it. I distanced myself from her after that.
I am a father of five, grandfather of seven, so I am used to having noisy little kids around and usually they don't bother me too much. However, the worst flight I was ever on in my life was about 12 years ago when I was seated next to a little girl of about five years old. The flight was from Melbourne Australia to Dubai, a 14 hr flight. This little brat screamed and shouted, kicked the seat in front of her and even laid back and kicked me , she jumped up and down on the seat and didn't cease her screaming and yelling for around 10 hours. I asked the mother to control her little crotch goblin but all she did was to say 'stop it' to her and ignored the way her little spawn from hell was annoying everyone around. The people in the seats around us even complained to the mother, but to no avail. Several complaints were made to the stewards from me and several other people. The stewards asked the mother to control her little horror, but still no joy. I asked the steward to move me to another seat, but that didn't happen either. After 10 hours this little monster finally fell asleep. What followed was 4 hours of blissful silence. I love kids, but everyone has a limit of what they can put up with and that child tested my patience to the very limits. I honestly think that, for the only time in my life, I could have quite cheerfully strangled a little child. This is why I sympathise with passengers who are seated next to unruly and noisy little kids.
I got no kids, but up to 2 years if the parents try to calm them I have no problem. It's when their older or the parents never makes any effort to calm them I got a problem.
Last story about the screaming baby: When we had to fly with a 5 wk. old infant, we were told to give her baby sudafed before take-off, and also make sure to keep either a pacifier or bottle in her mouth, if possible, as inner ear pressure changes can be very painful for infants - so they cry constantly. On a different note, my favorite baby on a plane story happened on a flight to Minneapolis. A group of women were bringing 6 or 7 babies from Korea to their new families in Minneapolis. I got to hold and change one into his new onesie for his new parents, and also got to witness all the waiting families meet their new babies once we landed. It was something I'll never forget.
That is lovely, but I admit I'm still glad it wasn't me! I have no experience with babies and no desire to hold one. Still, I hope all of those kids are happy and loved in their new homes.
I carry a "grandma" kit in my purse when flying. It's saved many flights for passengers. Colored pen, post it notes,small stuffed toys, and a baggie of cheerios. I was a fave when traveling up and down the Pacific Coast.
Psh. Sounds like MY family! I'm the baby of 13. My closest sister once took my credit card to a convenience store and got all the booze and cash she could. I didn't hesitate to call the police. If she had tried to deny it, I would have kicked her out of my house, too.
@@TheWidowStewartwait, you DIDN'T kick her out of your house after she stole your cc and ran it up? Wow, she needed her a** kicked AND charges pressed against her.
@@TheWidowStewartDamn, she's lucky you calling the cops on her was all that happened! I think a good ass-whoopin' wouldn't have been uncalled-for in the slightest! And I think the cops would agree! What a greedy bitch!
@@lordjohnwharfin5397 no, not knowing if someone is sick is exactly why it’s an asshole move for all they know, OP was going to pawn that off to pay rent or utilities
The last story: NTA. I totally agree with the op. Thank goodness that each time I’ve flown, I was lucky to have been on planes without young children. Plus flying first or business class is one way to avoid situations like that. I couldn’t imagine sitting next to someone with a toddler and an infant that cried during an entire 8 hr trip.
Same here as well. I have a problem with hearing certain sound frequencies that they cause auditory overload. Think about if you’re hearing a prolonged sound that you are not used to the you start feeling like fainting. That’s what sensory overload is.
One of the 1st things they did with us upon our arrival at the intake center for Ft. Jackson, where I was going to do my Basic Training for the Army, was march us all over to get a pay advance of about $60. Then we went directly to the PX (shop) to buy various supplies. (For example, bras and panties as the Army had rules even about the underwear we could wear.) Most of the toiletries I'd brought with me were fine by Army standards, so I still had $40 and change leftover. They had not let me keep my wallet or purse or anything of that sort, but I had found a nice change purse I'd planned to put the money in and keep in my pocket (it was buttoned shut, BTW). The Sgt. Seeing me putting my money in this in my change purse threw a real snit fit. He insisted I had to tuck that money into my bra as, in his words, that was the safest place for it. I was 21 years old at this point, and was a rather generously sized B to C cup in my bra. When I'd march or run, my boobs bounced all over as that's what happens. (Also why I didn't care for the bra they insisted I buy, as it didn't give me the proper support.) I tried to argue with the Sgt. about the "safety" of things tucked into my bra, but ended up doing it as I didn't see the sense of further argument. Needless to say, none of the money was still in my bra by the time we got back to the barracks. A few days later I got to my actual Basic Training unit, with a female drill Sgt. One of the first things she did with us was have us throw out those useless bras and go back to wearing the better-quality bras we'd brought with us. The few girls who didn't have that good quality of bras she took over to the main PX and helped them pick out nicer ones, using money from a fund the Captain had setup as most of us - like me - had lost their advance money because they'd been forced to store their money in their bras. We all got permission too, to keep our money in change purses we kept in that buttoned up pocket. Which, as she explained it, was why it was built into our uniforms.
Most male drill sergeants are jerks, especially when it comes to women they have control over. There are a few who are real gems ofc, but a lot of people who yell for a living are very rarely kind.
Wow, the fact that the female drill sergeant already had an action plan in place for that specific situation speaks volumes to the willful ignorance of the male drill sergeants. . .
@@nonbinarypickle The fatigue uniforms we were wearing at the time had been designed specifically for women, as I understood it, as they were nothing like the mens fatigues. Sadly, they were not made from permanent press fabric, so they had to be heavily startched and ironed to the point the pants - for example - would stand on their own. Thankfully, they never made a fuss over the startch/iron routine while we were in Basic. I also quickly learned the local dry cleaning shop on base offered a clean/startch/press service on those for around $2 to $3 per uniform, so - for the morning inspections - they passed muster. By the later 70's, however, the Army had started insisting we wear the same fatigue types as the guys so they all were the same. Thankfully, at least during my last time in service, we also got permission to modify this one pocket that had a flap on it to add a buttonhole and button under that flap, so we could secure our change purses inside. Key to avoiding dings during inspections was to never stuff any of those pockets too full to where they buldge out too much. I don't remember what the regs were, but some seargents would actually whip out this tiny little 6 inch ruler during inspections to start checking you over.
@@Irene-KrausKreations that's interesting about the different uniforms. So much has changed over the years. I'm a former Marine, early 2000's so not too long ago, and I remember those inspections. Our butterbar NCO would do our inspections and he'd also pull out that ruler from his pocket 😂
Last story, I’m the mother of 3 children. OP is NOT the A-hole. I’ve even had to travel internationally with my children with my worst flight being when I adopted my youngest at 11 months. I tried to knock her out with Benadryl but she still screamed the whole flight. I tried to offer the gentleman in the aisle to trade places with me so I wouldn’t have to climb over him every time I had to stand up with her, and while it did annoy me that I had to keep climbing over him, as someone who prefers the aisle, I totally get his preference. I felt bad not only for myself as the mother of the screaming child, but for the poor child who’s ears had probably popped and she was with these strange people she’d known only a week and I also felt bad for all of the people around us, including the poor gentleman I had to keep climbing over as I would try to stand in the aisle with my daughter.
If I were him, I'd have switched seats with you. I'd have found the climbing over to be almost as annoying as the screaming, and that's something I would've had control over by simply moving seats.
I have a bit of a Karen next door neighbor, for contacts our neighbor across the street comes from money and has a lot of things but he's a bit eccentric. His yard doesn't really look like somebody of that status place would. So one day my next door neighbor who knows perfectly well that the neighbor across the street owns all his vehicles, she called the cops reporting that all his vehicles were stolen. Claiming that he had a bunch of stolen vehicles over there, then the cops came out and in just a couple minutes he produced all the documentation showing they were all his. After that she started calling the police making false reports on him and every other neighbor. It got to a point where the police finally told her they won't come out for her anymore.
My sister flew from Alberta to Nova Scotia with her baby daughter this summer and said her daughter was not the least bit bothered by flying. She was either asleep or smiling at everybody. There's a running joke she's too cheerful to have come from our family XD
I traveled with my 2 years old and 3 years old. When traveling with 2 year old, it took a while to settle her, but year people did got annoyed. No one likes crying baby. But with my three years old, she was very smart for her age, she would communicate if she had any trouble. Passengers around us told me that that they thought my kids would annoy them the whole ride. My thing is.. moms and dads should know how to settle their kids. If they cannot, they should not bring the kids in the flights
One thing that doesn't help is a lot of parent think because their kid is young enough not need to book a seat they shouldn't book one. Turns out calming a baby when you can barely move is very difficult and airlines don't particularly care if the baby cries the whole time as long as they still sell a booked out flight.
There are many reasons why a child might cry on a plane that have nothing to do with a parent not knowing how to settle a child. They could be wonderful parents, that won't stop things such as a child being scared if it's their 1st time flying or being a cramped space with a bunch of strangers, their ears could be bothering them bc of the flight which happens to tons of ppl not just children, they could all of a sudden get sick which happens often with small children where one minute they're fine less than an hr later they're running a temp & don't feel good which causes crankiness, they could develop air sickness which again if it's the child's 1st time flying the parents aren't going to know that this would happen some ppl aren't aware that air sickness is even a thing & it could also be due to the fact that they're stuck in someone's lap or a seat for however many hrs which may seem like a lifetime to a small child that no amount of cuddling, soothing etc. is going to make a difference. Also not everyone has the option of leaving their kids behind when they get on a flight, more often than not they don't have a choice when it comes to taking their kid. Also why would they if they're going on a family vacation. Don't get me wrong this woman was ridiculous expecting help, reassuring smiles & that no one would get annoyed, it would've been nice for any passenger to do those things, but they're not obligated to. You got lucky on ur flight, u got the offered assistance & reassuring smiles that she didn't receive. As for the annoyance part, I have a hard time believing nobody got annoyed at ur child's crying. Just because u didn't notice & nobody came right out & said anything about it doesn't mean they weren't feeling that way
Also the reason many parents don't book a seat for a baby is because most of the time the baby is too small to use the seat & even if a toddler could technically sit in the seat they won't let them put them down thru pretty much the entire flight due to be scared or not feeling good, so why spend hundreds of dollars for a seat that may get a total of 10min usage total round-trip. Especially if it's an extra unneeded expense they can't really afford even if they technically have the money. Especially if it's an unexpected last minute trip like a family emergency or death in the family. Now if u have excess funds, it's some family vacation planned way in advance & u know for a fact ur little angel will sit in that seat the entire time or most of the time & u can afford it then yea get the seat, but there's a reason u don't have to pay for a seat for a child up to a certain age
Okay in happier stuff regarding the third story... I was recently on a plane to new jersey: an eight hour flight from the UK, and there was a baby with her parents in the row in front of me. Normally this would be a cause for frustration, but she was the most adorable little 6-7 month old and, according to the cabin crew, the best behaved child they had EVER had on a flight. Did she sleep at all during the flight even when they put her in a crib (did you know flights have those for babies?) - nope! She did not! But neither did she cry. She sat there, smiling at everyone who passed her to go to the loo, playing quietly with toys, occasionally nomming on a cheese stick or her bottle. Every now and then I'd look up from my seat just behind her, and she'd be just... looking at me. And when I waved she'd SMILE 😭. The only time she cried was when we were landing, by which point it was like, 11 pm and the plane was making loud banging noises due to turbulence. I think most of us were kinda close to tears at that point.
Last Story - OP is NTA. OP just explained it as it is. Also I hate it when people use the ‘I’m a struggling single parent’ card as a means to gain sympathy or in this case a possible free babysitter.
As for the people working for free, it blows me away that people Don't block harassing and or damaging people. Just block them and live your life. How hard is that?
Many, many years ago, I moved back in with my mom after leaving my then- husband. A local store, similar to Walmart (Giant Tiger, if anyone remember them!) Was closing, so I bought a few things for the time I would eventually move out, including a box of nested stock pots. Fast forward to the time I moved in with my now husband (30 years later, don't judge!), I finally opened that box. I heard rattling in the bottom of my box and, to my shock, found a man's gold and diamond 4ing in the bottom! The box came from Indonesia, and it had been 30 years, so I felt pretty safe just keeping the ring, which I still wear on my right hand.
I found a beautiful diamond ring in the women’s bathroom at work. It was Monday so we were not open to members or the public that day. I put it on to “visit” the membership manager. Asked her if she was missing anything. 🤣 Took her a few minutes.
Story 3 - Had a neighbour at my very first apartment who never caused any trouble, they just always seemed to have a scowl on their face. I made a point of non-obtrusively smiling, waving, or saying hi any time we crossed paths at the apartment building. Soon enough, they started smiling and greeting me back. One evening we had a massive snow storm, and some time in the night the snow plows came by and blocked off the entrances and exits to our parking lot with MASSIVE snow banks (WTAF?). I had promised my best friend I would come help her pack her moving truck that afternoon, so while the hours ticked closer to our agreed time, NO ONE was coming to fix this weird problem. So I said "Screw it" suited up, and headed out with our little "un-bury the car" shovel and started digging out the end of the parking lot. I got about halfway through snow mountain when who came out with their own shovel? That same neighbour! we got that mountain dug out together, smiled to one another, and went our ways for the day.
When we took our 5 month old on the plane we made sure to feed her right before getting on so she would sleep most of the way granted it was only an hour and a half flight and not 8 hours but there are ways to guarantee a much better flight and this mom is just not doing it
Last story: If the sister can’t control her kids on a plane and expect everyone else to stop what they’re doing to cater to her brats then she is the terrible person. Her kids her responsibility! End of discussion. I remember being on a train heading home from work and this lady came on the train with her daughter that was a toddler. The child was having a full on temper tantrum and the mother did nothing to stop her daughter from acting out. After three minutes of the shouting I got up and moved to a different part of the train. The mother got annoyed with me and calling me an asshole for changing seats and stated I should be able deal with kids. I just said “and some people should be proper parents that love their kids instead of using them to get government payments” and I left when the lady started mouthing off when she stormed off back to her seat.
I had a grumpy neighbor just like you fluff, I will always say hi to her cause it's how we do here with neighbors and she will never answer, but I never give up I said to my self "you will say back one day". I did that for 2 or 3 years, till one day she started to answer, but she moved away 2 months later. Maybe it was a scare she had, not sure exactly what, but she was taken by ambulance one day and it was around that time she started to answer.
I used to wear an ear ring (male) and it would usually be a diamond stud. I also wore a lot of normal silver rings, bangles etc. Even though I'm straight, I like to sparkle...lol..... One day I decided to wear all gold, so I chose to wear my very large gold hoop earing, think pirate. I went down the street to walk the dog and get my coffee when I was stopped by a group of about 6 young men (18, perhaps 20 years old). One of them yelled at his mate, 'Look, he's wearing your ear ring, giver it back'. I didn't faulter and simply stated, 'this is mine, I've had it for 20 years and oh, how the fuck I am supposed to have stolen it from your friend?'. They just stood looking stupidly at each other as I walked around them.
My wife worked for the local PD. The motel in town turned in two diamond rings that had been left in a room and were unable to contact the guests. My wife tried calling the contact information phone number. As soon as she mentioned rings they hung up and blocked the PD number. Every couple of years the PD auctions off unclaimed property. My wife bought the rings and they were worth thousands. We are in a resort area with lots of people drink and can't find their bikes. There are over a hundred bikes at the auction that they sell in lots I bought six mountain bikes for the grandkids for fifty bucks.
The finders keepers rule not legally applies if the owner of the item intentionally abandoned it. That was not the cause with the dropped wedding ring. Refusing to return an accidentally dropped item upon request is still theft regardless of thief’s (incorrect) justification of “finders keepers.”
I once read a Facebook post that said one parent of a newborn was passing out bags containing some candy and earplugs with a note from the newborns perspective. It said something like "Hi I'm (name) in seat this one. I am X-months old and am flying home. I'm sorry if I cry the whole way home but I don't know what is happening, it's loud, my ears are popping, and my tummy is upset. Hopefully these earplugs and candy will make it a little bit better. Have a good day."
Story 1 - This happened about 5 years ago and was the best lost & found serendipity day! I was trying on clothes at Macy's when I noticed a pink friendship bracelet on the floor. It was a very unusual and beautiful design. Went back and forth whether I should leave it there in case the owner came back or take it to the register in case the next person who saw it would take it for themselves. I chose to take it to the register. I got in a very long line, the clothes I was buying were draped over my arm and covered the bracelet I was holding on my hand. The line was taking forever and my arm was getting tired so I shifted the clothes I was holding which exposed the bracelet. I noticed the woman in line behind me kept staring at me. After a while, she asked me if that was my bracelet. Turns out it was hers, given to her by her mom. She was so overjoyed. What are the chances that she would get in line behind me? That I was in the same dressing room as her? That I chose to take it to the register? That I shifted the clothes I was buying exposing the bracelet in my hand. I felt so good that she got back a very special & treasured bracelet that she didn't even know she had lost. Yes, it was a great day!
Story 1 is why thieves love to "just hold" things. If it is in their possession, and requires a physical assault and/or proof of ownership to get back, it's much easier to get away with it. Especially if it takes ungodly long for the police to get there.
Found a wallet one time while I was in a cubicle in drift store. It a simple looking one and thought it belong to the store. So check if it have a price tag or something and found it contains a student ID and a credit card. So I turn it to the registered. The owner came back asking for it and was able to get it back. I remember being a student and losing a couple college ID. It pain to replace it. Glad glad she got it back.
I went to a boarding school, we always ended up with girls who were trouble and their parents thought the school would straighten them out. I had a gold plated pen with my name engraved on the clip. One day I put it in the pencil/pen holder on my desk and one of the trouble girls walked by and quickly grabbed it, I asked for it back and at first she acted confused and said she didn't have a pen I could borrow so I should ask the teacher for one. One of my friends took the pen out of her hand, the girl screamed that her grandmother gave it to her, I pointed to my name and she doubled down that was her nickname. The girl got expelled for stealing and her parents sent me a long winded letter about how it was my fault because if I had let her have the pen she would have been able to turn her life around at the school. Thanks to the letter the administration started reading out mail to make sure it wasn't someone harassing us.
When I was in my late teens, early twenties I was working in a bank. I was washing my hands in the ladies room and had removed my rings. I had just received a beautiful opal ring from my aunt and uncle and didn't want the rings to slip off my fingers while washing my hands. Needless to say, being careless, I forget the rings and had left the ladies room. i was gone maybe 1 minute when I realized I had forgotten my rings. I ran back to the ladies room and just that quick they were gone. I didn't see anyone on my way back to the ladies room and no one was in a stall. I was so upset with my self for being so careless. I told my supervisor what happened and she really couldn't have care less. The rest of the day was ruined. I would check every female employees hand(s) for my rings but never saw them again. I quit that job because I didn't want to work among thieves.
19:50 The sister with the crying babies on the plane should know that flying anywhere from Australia is going to be long. Apart from New Zealand, which is only about 3 hours, Singapore and Jakarta are the next closest at 7-8 hours, Tokyo, Manila and Bangkok are 9-10 hours, Los Angeles is 14 hours, Johannesburg is 18 hours and London is 23 hours. What does she expect? There are things you can give your kids these days to help settle them down on flights. Clearly, she was unprepared and entitled for expecting everybody else to help.
On one flight there was a mother with her baby. The mother handed out little bags with cookies and earplugs, just in case. This little gesture got her loads of goodwill. Another passenger did offer to hold the baby for a while to help the mother.
Story 2 - What on earth has it got to do with the guy complaining about the truck? He could get by fine. Not his business. If a lady with a stroller can’t get by, then OP can take it up with them.
I'm 50, have MS, and use a wheelchair most of the time and I live very quietly. My neighbours don't. They're noisy, have visitors constantly, their kids run around yelling and shouting, and their dog barks. And what do I do about it? NOTHING. Because they have the right to live their lives! It's not my business, it's not my place to dictate how they live. And because I'm a normal person I'm perfectly fine with that.
Story 4: Gotta love the irony of how Karen claims that the environment is toxic because everyone is fed up with her toxic BS and getting mad that OP is calling out her refusal to pay. And yeah, you HAVE to pay people for their work UNLESS they agreed to doing it for free, and F clearly didn't. Also, responding with threats and basically a childish tantrum when OP only responded with JUST ONE email is proof of how immature Karen is
Most people genuinely leaving a toxic situation usually just run far and put it behind them. The toxic elements are often the ones who yell from the roof about how toxic everything was for them
And when she said that everyone there don't want her to leave, I laughed out loud.. yeah, right.. they were waiting for her to leave with joy! They should've have had a huge party, like leaving away party, but not when she was there! And post it everywhere!😂😂😂
0:29, Someone I know went to a public bathroom while on a trip in Vegas, from what I remember him mentioning, he forgot his phone inside, went back in to get it, and someone had already taken it. While the same model as his stolen one, his replacement is a "POS," as he described it. 3:00, Equivalent to a customer putting a 1 star review with "They harassed me and took away my license!" with the car dealer responding "We told you to put the seatbelt on. You then ranted about your rights before recklessly speeding through the residential area." as an example. 7:43, Brings to mind a family we know who has recently had to deal with property damage, harassment, and threats of physical harm from a neighbor who has complained about the mother having guests over on multiple occasions. For context, my family and others we know go there for New Years each year. She called the police while he stayed inside, only for him to complain about the officer being black, even claiming that "those people" ruin the property values after the officer had left. This is just the most recent example. I recommended she press charges, if not publicly shaming him by name. 19:45, Reminds me of a mother with two young kids while we're in Kohl's for shoes. We're looking around while her kids are wandering around and she's borderline insulting the kids while being quite audible for those nearby to hear, including us. At one point, even saying to them "Don't embarrass me."
There's more on what happen to the aunt who got arrested after story 4. After the police captured the aunt, they found the aunt having drugs in her possession and she got charged with possession of drugs as well as the other charges relating to trespassing and attempted theft on op's house. When op's aunt went on trial, her defense lawyer tried to blame her fear of failing college as the reason why she was caught red handed on trespassing and attempting to steal from op's house, only for the court to found her guilty of all charges and was sentenced to 3 years in prison as as getting caught in possession of drugs carries heavier sentence than what she did at op's house and as well owing op 8200 dollars for destroying his properties. One last thing, op mentioned in his first post before in his second post you're hearing in this video that he, his aunt, and his family live in a European country where the incident of his aunt took place.
Story 1: when I was in like, third of fourth grade I had a matching butterfly necklace and ring and one day lost the ring. My biggest bully in the class (who was the twin sister of my best friend at the time) found my ring and claimed it as her own, when I told her it was mine and to give it back she told the teacher I had taken her necklace and was trying to take her ring. The teacher got mad and told me to give her MY necklace and I remember freaking out and saying they were my birthday gifts and that she had taken them from me and all that shit We were both sent to the office and it took my mom coming in and confirming that they were mine with the receipts of where they got them The worst part is that girl never got in trouble for what she tried to do
My dad owned a business that was closed on the weekends in an area with little traffic. The parking lot was a favorite hook up spot. He found all kinds of very nice jewelry left behind, and no one would ever claim it for obvious reasons.
I left my ring in a Kmart bathroom Realized hours later went back checked with lost and found nothing.. two years later found it in a pawn shop And bought it,I believe it's the exact same one!😊
Sidewalk parking story: I was in the Navy when my wife and I were first married (got married between duty stations) and was assigned to a ship in the Philidelphia Naval Shipyard while it was in drydock. We found a TINY apartment in the city not too far from the main gate. The only parking was on-street parking, but with a twist. The street was so narrow you had to park half on the sidewalk for traffic to get thru. Yes, it was a one-way street. Birthday party Karen story: I'd say it was misuse of police resources. Breaking and entering story: You can ASK for money for college. That being said, no one owes you a single cent to help you out, especially when you have a track record of not paying it back. So when they say "NO", take it for what it is and back off. Kids on flight story: NTA! Admittedly, some kids just don't travel well. I have 4 (all adults now). But while there's only so much you can do with a 6 month old, there are things you can do with a 22 month old to keep them entertained and distracted. Snacks, a tablet with cartoons/kids movies, books and so on. You have to PLAN, not rely on other people.
I flew back beginning of this year from Manchester UK to Durban South Africa via Dubai. On the second leg of the journey we had 2 crying babies who just wouldn't settle at all. I was also as sick as a dog with full blown bronchitis and laryngitis and coughed uncontrollably the whole 8 hours of the flight. The mom of the one baby was also sick as well, so between the 4 of us, everyone was wavering between annoyance and sympathy. It was the worst flight i have ever been on in my life. And yes i was tested for COVID and was clear, before anyone judges me. I was on my way home from visiting my elderly parents in the UK and picked up one of their European bugs. It took me 7 weeks before I coukd talk without coughing my lungs out and speak without croaking. And we have also flown with young kids, and people always look at you when you have a baby and hope that you are nowhere near them. We flew with a 3yr old and an 8mth old, so i know what it's like. Fortunately it was fairly short flight, like an hour but was still quite stressful. But i certainly didn't expect anyone else to look after or help with my kids. They are my problem not anyone else's.
I remember taking a flight once, and there was this child who, I kid you not, had to have a screaming fit every 10 minutes like clockwork (yes, I timed it.) It was a miserable flight. I get that kids don't like sitting in a small chair and not moving for 3 hours, and parents have to travel with children, but that doesn't make it fun or easy for the rest of us. I would invest in noise cancelling headphones, but seeing as I don't travel much, I see little point.
@@wmdkittyI live in South Africa and I had to be back at work on the 11 January so I really had no choice. I couldn't exactly contact my boss and say that I wasn't going to be there. Doesn't work that way. Also my ticket was already paid for, so no. I had to get home
if someone keeps making too many false reports to the police, they can get arrested for harassing the police, because they are wasting their time someone who really needs police assistance can't get it while they are dealing with the false reports
Here's my opinion of young kids on airplanes, I don't mind them, as long the parents make an effort to keep their kids calm and quiet during the flight. OP' in that story isn't the ahole, her sister is, because no one guys plane tickets to sit next to a screaming child all flight, no one buys tickets to be stuck on a flight with kids being wild and causing problems. I get if the kid is being fussy, but I draw the line at the parent blaming everyone else. Do I have kids? No, if I did, I'd do everything I can to keep them calm during the flight, and do what I can to keep the peace, and never blame other people. Why!? Because it's not their fault, and unless I'm forced to move somewhere that a flight is the ONLY option, it's only my fault that my kid is causing problems.
Absolutely agree. I was never of the opinion that anyone besides me and my husband should think my children were wonderful or tolerate their misbehavior. It was on me to make sure they weren't being pests.
I work at a restaurant and a coworker had a table were the lady took off her ring put it with the trashed napkins and it got thrown out then she called asking for us to go through the trash one of the hostesses found it and this things was big like how do you miss that on your hand???
That first story reminded me of this :- I need to VENT!!!!!!! Because I’m bloody fuming!!! 🤬😡🤬 I’ve just got back from Asda, where I don't usually do my shopping, and to pick up a few things. I'm waiting in line and I dropped £20 note (yep that's me trying to hold everything because I didn't want a trolley). The lady in front of me picked it up. I thanked her and held my hand out, and she said, "The things found on earth are kept by the collector," and walks away. 😡I was like “You’re fucking joking” and I looked at the people behind me standing in line, they couldn't believe it either.... this can't be real life right now, right?! So I took a deep breath and I turned back towards the lady/thief/or whatever you wanna call her and as I approached her I said, "Do I look like I'm in the mood?! Let's not play games. Go ahead and give me back my money." She had the nerve to ignore me completely and tried to walk away from me so of course, I left everything and followed her to the car park as I was about to call the police (because of course somebody's about to go to prison not sure who at this point though, her or me). She was almost running at this point to get away from me, which was the first sign of real intelligence 💡 this lady had shown. 😂 When she got to her car she put her bags on the ground trying to quickly get her boot open. I was boiling at this point! I decided that her “finders keepers" rule just presented the perfect opportunity for a teachable moment, so, I ran full speed (probably not that fast), and grabbed her shopping bags, and dashed quickly to the main road yelling, "The things found on earth are kept by the collector!" I managed to flag a passing taxi whilst ignoring her every attempt to get my attention. I was outta line I'll admit, but she was too. I was fucking fuming 😡 but I had a sense of satisfaction at the same time. Anyone who knows me knows that I've never stolen anything so this is completely out of character for me. But anyway I get home and open the bags and what did I find? 3 packs of fillet steak 3 kgs of wild caught salmon 2 kgs of potatoes 4 Thornton’s boxes of Continental chocolates and the latest Now That’s What I Call Music CD Hmm I can't help but think to myself... WOW! Not bad for £20😂😂😂. And then I woke up ! Hopefully, I just put a smile on your face 😘 I’m from the U.K. - Asda is like Walmart (they used to own Asda years ago)
where I use to live the people next door to me got mad at me and the man from next door came to my yard and chose to pee on my tree to well, I could see his junk and all then he threw paint on my trailer. So, I know people can be odd and mean and gross all in one.
if i'm on a flight with kids present, i have a mantra: it's only 2 hours, it's only 2 hours (or however long it is). can't eliminate the screeching, but the time seems to go faster.
For everyone who ever took off their rings to wash their hands in a public bathroom, DON’T! My late husband cut gemstones as a hobby, so, of course, I learned a lot about them. It does NOT hurt gold, platinum, or any gemstones to leave them on while washing your hands, as a matter of fact, if your hands are dirty, your rings are also. Even bar soap won’t harm them in any way, much less the liquid soaps that are in places now. Hand sanitizers would not hurt them. In fact, some gems, like opal, do much better wet than dry. If you take opals off to put away, you should keep them in distilled water so they don’t dry out and crack. If they get cloudy because of bar soap film, use a bit of windex type cleaner, or a vinegar based cleaner or a half cup water, 2 Tbs white vinegar and a drop of grease cutting dish soap like Dawn. As for silver, it will over time, tarnish. But is easily cleaned with tarnex liquid. And it’s going to tarnish just being against your skin. Never use an abrasive cleaner or cloth on your jewelry. Edit to add; I know it’s easy for rings to come off while washing hands, but if you just keep your fingers tipped slightly up, or keep the ring finger curled, they won’t come off. And NEVER, NEVER, flip the water off your hands, that’s a sure fire way to lose rings.
If I were in the NN's situation I'd ask the police officer that if they arrive a third time, am I allowed to press charges for harassment against my neighbor who making these frivolous calls
Hold a stranger's baby for them? Is she kidding?! There are times I don't even feel comfortable holding babies I'm related to. My mom had a somewhat similar argument with one of my aunt's and my mom bluntly told my aunt "when you have kids, you don't get to travel".
Airplanes + children = why god made Benadryl lol! Only joking a little! I’ll bet whoever had Benadryl or Xanax could have made a FORTUNE on that plane ride, not that I’d in any way suggest or support such a thing lol!
Third story: "How long you got..." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Stealing of my business idea: If I need to 'prove' anything to you then I evidently don't need you. Aunt entitled to college: If these family members thought she was so wronged for him not paying for her college, then why aren't YOU PAYING FOR IT? Unless you feel that because she burned you in the oast, he should also endure it as well. Whining about being a parent: And you were forced to have children or having them back to back, why? And other's are obligated to 'help ' you with the kids because they won't settle. How about doing a few things to assist them in getting settled.
When you choose to be a parent, you are no longer the protagonist of your own life but a side character in your child’s life. This means you have to deal with the shit you created, no matter how tired you are. You chose this, so stop complaining and deal with it silently.
And the better you deal with it, the more likely you are to have other adults offer to help you! I used to do rent a teenager when my kids were small when I took them on trips! Generally they were teenagers of my friends!
Story 2) Hater of trucks parked legally but inconvently. This reminded me of a old school friend. He wasn't a AH, but he was a self appointed citizen community watchdog. As a teenager during the summer he'd ride his bicycle all over the county to observe county road crews at work or if they were just standing around doing jack. If he felt they were doing nothing but putting in time and no work to benefit the county, he would write letters to the editor of our local newspaper The _____ Daily Times. I had a flash of a thought in my head, that what if, the Internet and Facebook had existed back then. I'm pretty sure he'd of had an open FB group where he could post photos of those road crews standing around and doing nothing or how many weren't doing anything while 2 or 3 actually did work, it would have been hilarious, with some probably pretty PO'd county employees seeing themselves at a job with 5 or more guys just hanging out on some back country road or 1 or 2 working while the extras just stood around or relaxed in the shade. Sadly Tony a short skinny nerd, who actually served in the U.S. Marine Corp and ended up gone too soon due to cancer. Tony you'd have had a field day with the Internet and Facebook. Rest in Peace Tony Lewis my friend, I'm sure you'd have served our home county in some way, working to make things better for it's citizens.
My sister found like 2000+ & got to keep it. She bought a baby layette box set for a baby boy a family member was having. The baby was a girl, so she saved it for the next baby, which was a few yrs later. She pulled them out of the package before & found a baby sock w/money. Store she bought it from had closed, as did the co that made the set. She reported it, & was eventually allowed to keep it, thought to have been where an employee was hiding stolen money. There's no way someone can see the person drop it, & think it's ok to take it. No matter what it's worth, the sentimental meaning can be huge, & is why I almost rarely wear my special belongings, never wanting them lost.
Last story: My babies/toddlers always cry on flights and never settle. It's super hard being a mom and no one offers to help me or gives me sympathy, but I keep taking them on flights because they fly for free.
With the last story: a parent should always buy a seat for the little one. It gives the parent more room to take care of the kid and allows for the kid to not be held ( they don’t always want to be).
My sister took her son on a plane when he was under a year. She planned for everything spent months in advance researching how to keep him calm incase he hates the plane. Surprise, he was fine the whole time and she needed nothing she prepared except the movie and player she got him because he liked a specific movie at the time. He even was all smiles for the flight attendant when usually he don't even wanna look at me and he lives with me. He really hates my glasses. I have to take them off to hold him.
Truck Parking Story: When the Police car drove by, OP should have flagged them down and asked them to get this bicyclist to stop Harassing them... I would have... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
That did happen to me, only in reverse. I was walking home one day several years ago, when I saw a dollar bill (either $10 or 20 - I don't remember) laying on the sidewalk. I looked around, picked it up, put it in my purse, continued walking and asked my Facebook friends what they would do in that situation.
I'll defend this opinion to the day I die: Babies do NOT belong on planes. If they absolutely have to, they need to be in their own compartment along with the parents so no one else has to suffer.
I'm a ham radio operator. Yeah, yeah, total nerd, I get it. One ham radio activity I really like is operating from local parks. There's even an organization that turns out into a recognition thing. You say you'll be at a qualifying park (State or National, sometimes municipal is a special case, when, what frequencies, etc.) and you try to get a minimum of ten good radio contacts for it to count in your favor. It's a Charlie Brown sport of thing, as in the Peanuts comic that compared doing a good deed as being like peeing yourself in a dark suit: you get a warm feeling, but nobody notices. It's just a fun thing to do, and if you get a really long distance contact, or one that's special for some reason, you get bragging rights. It's often done with very small, low-power radios with homebrewed antennas, just for the fun of it. I loved taking my radios to a huge municipal park that's built in and throughout a huge working farm. My favorite spot was along a roadside, at a picnic table in a small gazebo. There was a long stretch of grass that was kept mowed neatly that was perfect for a long wire antenna, held up with a 20-foot telescoping fiberglass mast at the far end. It was a lot of fun, and it was right next to a small parking lot with handicapped parking spaces (I'm disabled) and a couple of porta-potties. I'd had fun doing this for a couple of years, until the Coof hit, and lockdowns started. This park was huge, and the place I liked to operate was about 25 feet from the walking path and parking lot. So it was very thoroughly socially distanced. Once in a while someone would walk over, curious about what i was doing, but we stayed a proper distance from one another. And it was outside, in the warm sun. The chance of transmission was about as low as you could get without talking to one another on the phone. Even with all this, there was this nosy busybody all the way across the 4 lanes of street from where i was operating, perhaps 100 feet. But that didn't stop this Karen from stepping onto her porch to yell at me to go home. "Don't you understand there's a _pandemic?_ You need to go home! _You're killing grandmothers!"_ I'd reply "Karen, I *am* a grandmother! Several times over! Why don't you mind your own business?" She was relentless. She even called the cops on me. I showed them what i was doing, and wound up giving one of the cops information on how he could get his ham radio license. They said i was fine, and until or if they officially closed the park down, I could keep on doing it. It was good to have an active outdoor hobby, very healthy to be out in the sun and fresh air. Karen continued to kvetch at me and try to get me in trouble until the town decided to close the park for the duration. So i started going to the parking lot behind the police department, on the edge of a gorgeous park of their own. I asked if i could operate there, and after explaining, they said i could do so as long as I was properly distanced, and had a mask i could put on if someone else showed up and got close. I did have to use photographers' sandbags to run the wires from my antenna instead of using thin tent pegs, as they didn't want me punching holes, but I had them for that purpose and it didn't bother me. When bad weather started, I stayed inside, but all in all, i didn't let Karen stop me from enjoying my hobby. Now, though, my disability has gotten worse, so it's a lot harder for me, but I still experiment and operate from my yard, is from someplace convenient that doesn't take much walking to get to my operating position. I recommend amateur radio to anyone who likes a mental challenge and a bit of fun. Until my disability got so bad, i used to build my own radios, from kits. And i always built most of my own antennas!
Hi I'm not a radio ham but have always been curious about it. I do get the impression that it's mostly men ( I'm female too) and wondered how long you've been doing this? What got you started? Thanks
The first guy. If that happened to me I would make it my personal duty to follow this guy around until he drops something and then immediately pick it up and say “haha! Finders keepers losers weepers!”
The problem in the last story starts with the decision the parents made to take such young children on have decided to go on an arduous plane journey FOR FUN. I have done this Australia to Europe trip multiple times and it is difficult as an adult. The fact that they deliberately chose to take such an infant and young toddler on a holiday that they will be too young to remember shows either a lack of commonsense or the fact that they are not really interested in their children's comfort. I also find that people are less upset about crying children when the parents are putting an effort into comforting said children.
A few years ago I found a really pretty necklace with a pink jewel. Last year I learned that although it's not worth much, the necklace was made with real gold and a real rose quartz.
I work retail omg the stories. I was once working frozen and I had to put gloves on as told by manager. As I was trying to put them on I dropped one and had to grab before a little bit did. He through a fit and told him mom in stealing his gloves. These were specialty gloves given by my boss. She demanded I give him he gloves. I said no these belong to the workers of frozen. She kept screaming and demanded to talk to my boss. I called on yhe radio which the which the same and tried to jump and grab my walkie. I kept backing away as the kid cried how he wanted it. Mom demanded to hand over that too. Supervisor came by and mom told them I stole from her child. I told the supervisor I dropped my glove and kid now wants it. Manager said why dony I just hand it over then. I said because these belong to frozen. We each only get one. As per code we have to wear them so if I and them over not o ly will you have to order another set but I won't be helping frozen anymore. This upset the manager and he told Karen I'm sorry but that's grocery store property. Mom was mad and demanded then to compensate to hand over my equipment. Manager tried to explain she can't do that either. And this lead to them two arguing and I went to the back which the kid tried to follow but i shut the doors so he couldn't he kept screaming and crying and pounding on the doors.
Story 6: I fly for business, and I do hate it when I'm next to a crying baby. That being said, I have a lot of sympathy for the parents, especially when they are trying their best to calm the child. It's exhausting to fly with an infant, and I think we should offer these parents a little bit of empathy and grace. I do NOT have sympathy when parents are not adequately supervising their older children who are running around, kicking/banging seats, yelling, or using devices without headphones. It's also beyond ridiculous that OP's sister got angry that she wasn't getting childcare help from random strangers, or sympathy and verbal reassurance that "it's ok if your child disrupts this flight.". That's a very immature attitude that suggests that her world revolves around her. She's mad the *she* wasn't getting any enough attention on her, when the most distressed parties were probably the baby and the other passengers.
Story 2: Honestly, I don't know what he was trying to do when constantly yelling "I'll call the cops!" when not calling the cops at all. A scare tactic? To push someone into getting into a fight? Well, it didn't get the reaction he wanted if either was the case, and the end result was just him wasting his own time.
I actually started out on the side of the mother in the crying baby story. People are crazy to get angry about it on a plane. It's not a restaurant or and theatre. It's public transportation, no different than a bus or train. People got to get where they are going. That said, the mother is crazy if she expecting support from strangers on public transportation.🤣
I had a gold bracelet with charms on it that my mother would add to every Christmas and birthday. It would have been very expensive to replace. I stayed at a friend's place and left it on the bedside table. Her sister had a friend come over. She stole it from my bedside table. We confronted her at her parent's house. The mother and father were flabbergasted and it destroyed them. I couldn't get it back because the girl swapped with someone at her school for something else. The parents told me to find out how much it was and they would reimburse me. I couldn't tell them because of it being added to every year. My mother and I were devastated to lose it. I never let my jewellery out of my sight after that. I'm pretty sure things got hot at the girl's place after we left.
I've gotten my 3 kids'charm/bracelets. They Love looking at the new charms I get to add to all of them. I know we would all be so sad if they were lost but even more if someone they knew stole them. That really sucks, I am so sorry!
I was an Air Force wife. Many years ago I had to fly to Guam on a military flight, with my 5 month old son.
We'd been driven to Los Angeles from Tucson, Arizona. Which is a long drive.
The flight was going to take 17 hours to get to Guam. Stopping on every Micronesian Island on the way.
My son had the seat next to me and was in a carrier. He wouldn't stop crying unless I held him.
I was exhausted when suddenly the biggest pair of hands I've ever seen came over my head and scooped up my son.
The biggest man I have ever seen started walking up and down the plane calming my son. I was so grateful.
"I can get my steps in AND get this child to be quiet. Win win."
As an ex-nanny, I'm always inclined to offer help in situations such as this.
it was nice of him but you were not entitled to his help
@@Hakitosama Nobody said she was. That's what being a decent human being entails: doing things for people which they're *not* entitled to, just out of the goodness of your heart. It's called ALTRUISM, and the more we have of it, the better.
@@annalieff-saxby568 I know. I was just pointed out why her example was not relevant in this case
A buddy of mine couldn't wear his ring at work for safety reasons, so he put it on a chain he wore around his neck. One day the chain broke and the ring tumbled out of his coveralls and landed in front fo a cav scout. The dude had watched my friend shake it out and picked it up and tried to leave with it. My buddy threatened to beat him with a rod if he didn't give it back.😂
I'd believe it, Entitled People can be so rude and stupid.
My husband was sleeping,and he was working overseas,and someone,we think one of his friends, broke into his apartment when he was sleeping and only stole his engagement/marriage ring..oh and his bright red winter jacket, as it was a great brand and expensive.. We've been so broken about it, but it happened 20yrs ago.. now we both have new rings, just not gold, now they're white gold..one of his coworker in the contractor business, tried to steal his wallet from his locker.. so yeah, those closest to you, can often be the most sneakiest!
@@minnarosenqvistmr Was his Co-worker caught and fired? I remember an episode of Law & Order: SVU where someone was using the Credit Card of a deceased SVU Detective and Det. Stabler had tracked it down, it was a new recruit, he stated after he got caught "they can't use it anymore". Needless to say, he got fired and arrested.
@JadenYukifan28 This was also the storyline on an episode of "CSI: Miami". Except in THIS case,it was a forensic tech that was using the credit card of the deceased tech because..." he wasn't going to use it anymore".
@@mbjaso8177 oh yeah, I was wrong.
The nephew that wouldn't give money to the aunt owes her an education. Pressing charges will teach her that entitlement has consequences.
Story 1 - What an AH. Pocketing a ring when OP was clearly trying to reclaim it and then saying that it’s his because he found it. The only good thing is that he gave it back because one of the workers saw the whole thing and threatened to call the cops
Is he Library Jim from last week?
I lost my class ring at a dance club in 95 and someone found it 25 years later in a bad neighborhood behind a grocery store and since my last name is very rare, everyone in America with my last name are family, they called my parents number as theirs was listed and actually gave my ring back, of course I gave them some money even though they didn't ask. I just want to know the story where it was all those years and how it got where it was.
I had my class ring stolen out of my purse along with a diamond and emerald ring and some gold earrings by a guy I had casually just started hanging out with. He took them out of my purse when I wasnt looking, I never got them back either, it still makes me sad.
Had my class ring and some credit cards stolen out of my jacket at a daycamp I worked at. The credit cards pinged at a Game Stop a couple blocks away. Honestly don't know whether it was one of the kids or one of the other staff that stole them. Never saw my class ring again, but was able to get the credit cards to cancel the charges to Game Stop.
That’s amazing that someone could be that kind. There’s so few of those people.
I had my class ring stolen by a relative I was staying with. I always wore multiple rings back then so they were all in a dish on a dresser. For some reason that was the only ring that went missing from the dish, maybe because the others were made of mystery metal. The class ring was only 10k gold so she couldn't have gotten that much for it. I distanced myself from her after that.
I am a father of five, grandfather of seven, so I am used to having noisy little kids around and usually they don't bother me too much. However, the worst flight I was ever on in my life was about 12 years ago when I was seated next to a little girl of about five years old. The flight was from Melbourne Australia to Dubai, a 14 hr flight.
This little brat screamed and shouted, kicked the seat in front of her and even laid back and kicked me , she jumped up and down on the seat and didn't cease her screaming and yelling for around 10 hours. I asked the mother to control her little crotch goblin but all she did was to say 'stop it' to her and ignored the way her little spawn from hell was annoying everyone around. The people in the seats around us even complained to the mother, but to no avail. Several complaints were made to the stewards from me and several other people. The stewards asked the mother to control her little horror, but still no joy. I asked the steward to move me to another seat, but that didn't happen either.
After 10 hours this little monster finally fell asleep. What followed was 4 hours of blissful silence.
I love kids, but everyone has a limit of what they can put up with and that child tested my patience to the very limits. I honestly think that, for the only time in my life, I could have quite cheerfully strangled a little child.
This is why I sympathise with passengers who are seated next to unruly and noisy little kids.
I got no kids, but up to 2 years if the parents try to calm them I have no problem. It's when their older or the parents never makes any effort to calm them I got a problem.
If the little girl was still asleep when the plane landed, you should have yelled to her, HEY! WE’RE HERE!
Last story about the screaming baby: When we had to fly with a 5 wk. old infant, we were told to give her baby sudafed before take-off, and also make sure to keep either a pacifier or bottle in her mouth, if possible, as inner ear pressure changes can be very painful for infants - so they cry constantly.
On a different note, my favorite baby on a plane story happened on a flight to Minneapolis. A group of women were bringing 6 or 7 babies from Korea to their new families in Minneapolis. I got to hold and change one into his new onesie for his new parents, and also got to witness all the waiting families meet their new babies once we landed. It was something I'll never forget.
That is lovely, but I admit I'm still glad it wasn't me! I have no experience with babies and no desire to hold one. Still, I hope all of those kids are happy and loved in their new homes.
I carry a "grandma" kit in my purse when flying. It's saved many flights for passengers. Colored pen, post it notes,small stuffed toys, and a baggie of cheerios. I was a fave when traveling up and down the Pacific Coast.
"Family members breaking into houses to trash them" don't sound like family to me
They sure wouldn't be "family" anymore after doing that. They'd be totally disowned. 🤨
Psh. Sounds like MY family! I'm the baby of 13. My closest sister once took my credit card to a convenience store and got all the booze and cash she could. I didn't hesitate to call the police. If she had tried to deny it, I would have kicked her out of my house, too.
@@TheWidowStewartwait, you DIDN'T kick her out of your house after she stole your cc and ran it up? Wow, she needed her a** kicked AND charges pressed against her.
Doesn’t sound like family to me either.
@@TheWidowStewartDamn, she's lucky you calling the cops on her was all that happened! I think a good ass-whoopin' wouldn't have been uncalled-for in the slightest! And I think the cops would agree! What a greedy bitch!
Don't judge me but I love being called "Wonderful and Beautiful" each day lol 😆 Thanks DarkFluff
We are a small and grateful army.
Me too
Story 1: OP is terminally ill then she has to encounter an a-hole just trying to blatantly rob her. I have no faith in humanity.
He had no way of knowing the OP was terminal or even sick. That only makes him slightly less of an asshole, so not much of a defense.
@@lordjohnwharfin5397 Agree. I just wonder if he was Library Jim from last week. 😅
I guess her start up was a real "pipe dream."😏
@@lordjohnwharfin5397 no, not knowing if someone is sick is exactly why it’s an asshole move
for all they know, OP was going to pawn that off to pay rent or utilities
The last story: NTA. I totally agree with the op.
Thank goodness that each time I’ve flown, I was lucky to have been on planes without young children.
Plus flying first or business class is one way to avoid situations like that.
I couldn’t imagine sitting next to someone with a toddler and an infant that cried during an entire 8 hr trip.
Same here.
Same here as well. I have a problem with hearing certain sound frequencies that they cause auditory overload. Think about if you’re hearing a prolonged sound that you are not used to the you start feeling like fainting. That’s what sensory overload is.
One of the 1st things they did with us upon our arrival at the intake center for Ft. Jackson, where I was going to do my Basic Training for the Army, was march us all over to get a pay advance of about $60. Then we went directly to the PX (shop) to buy various supplies. (For example, bras and panties as the Army had rules even about the underwear we could wear.) Most of the toiletries I'd brought with me were fine by Army standards, so I still had $40 and change leftover. They had not let me keep my wallet or purse or anything of that sort, but I had found a nice change purse I'd planned to put the money in and keep in my pocket (it was buttoned shut, BTW). The Sgt. Seeing me putting my money in this in my change purse threw a real snit fit. He insisted I had to tuck that money into my bra as, in his words, that was the safest place for it. I was 21 years old at this point, and was a rather generously sized B to C cup in my bra. When I'd march or run, my boobs bounced all over as that's what happens. (Also why I didn't care for the bra they insisted I buy, as it didn't give me the proper support.) I tried to argue with the Sgt. about the "safety" of things tucked into my bra, but ended up doing it as I didn't see the sense of further argument. Needless to say, none of the money was still in my bra by the time we got back to the barracks. A few days later I got to my actual Basic Training unit, with a female drill Sgt. One of the first things she did with us was have us throw out those useless bras and go back to wearing the better-quality bras we'd brought with us. The few girls who didn't have that good quality of bras she took over to the main PX and helped them pick out nicer ones, using money from a fund the Captain had setup as most of us - like me - had lost their advance money because they'd been forced to store their money in their bras. We all got permission too, to keep our money in change purses we kept in that buttoned up pocket. Which, as she explained it, was why it was built into our uniforms.
Most male drill sergeants are jerks, especially when it comes to women they have control over. There are a few who are real gems ofc, but a lot of people who yell for a living are very rarely kind.
Wow, the fact that the female drill sergeant already had an action plan in place for that specific situation speaks volumes to the willful ignorance of the male drill sergeants. . .
@@nonbinarypickle The fatigue uniforms we were wearing at the time had been designed specifically for women, as I understood it, as they were nothing like the mens fatigues. Sadly, they were not made from permanent press fabric, so they had to be heavily startched and ironed to the point the pants - for example - would stand on their own. Thankfully, they never made a fuss over the startch/iron routine while we were in Basic. I also quickly learned the local dry cleaning shop on base offered a clean/startch/press service on those for around $2 to $3 per uniform, so - for the morning inspections - they passed muster. By the later 70's, however, the Army had started insisting we wear the same fatigue types as the guys so they all were the same. Thankfully, at least during my last time in service, we also got permission to modify this one pocket that had a flap on it to add a buttonhole and button under that flap, so we could secure our change purses inside. Key to avoiding dings during inspections was to never stuff any of those pockets too full to where they buldge out too much. I don't remember what the regs were, but some seargents would actually whip out this tiny little 6 inch ruler during inspections to start checking you over.
@@Irene-KrausKreations that's interesting about the different uniforms. So much has changed over the years. I'm a former Marine, early 2000's so not too long ago, and I remember those inspections. Our butterbar NCO would do our inspections and he'd also pull out that ruler from his pocket 😂
Last story, I’m the mother of 3 children. OP is NOT the A-hole. I’ve even had to travel internationally with my children with my worst flight being when I adopted my youngest at 11 months. I tried to knock her out with Benadryl but she still screamed the whole flight. I tried to offer the gentleman in the aisle to trade places with me so I wouldn’t have to climb over him every time I had to stand up with her, and while it did annoy me that I had to keep climbing over him, as someone who prefers the aisle, I totally get his preference. I felt bad not only for myself as the mother of the screaming child, but for the poor child who’s ears had probably popped and she was with these strange people she’d known only a week and I also felt bad for all of the people around us, including the poor gentleman I had to keep climbing over as I would try to stand in the aisle with my daughter.
If I were him, I'd have switched seats with you. I'd have found the climbing over to be almost as annoying as the screaming, and that's something I would've had control over by simply moving seats.
I have a bit of a Karen next door neighbor, for contacts our neighbor across the street comes from money and has a lot of things but he's a bit eccentric. His yard doesn't really look like somebody of that status place would. So one day my next door neighbor who knows perfectly well that the neighbor across the street owns all his vehicles, she called the cops reporting that all his vehicles were stolen. Claiming that he had a bunch of stolen vehicles over there, then the cops came out and in just a couple minutes he produced all the documentation showing they were all his. After that she started calling the police making false reports on him and every other neighbor. It got to a point where the police finally told her they won't come out for her anymore.
My sister flew from Alberta to Nova Scotia with her baby daughter this summer and said her daughter was not the least bit bothered by flying. She was either asleep or smiling at everybody. There's a running joke she's too cheerful to have come from our family XD
I traveled with my 2 years old and 3 years old. When traveling with 2 year old, it took a while to settle her, but year people did got annoyed. No one likes crying baby.
But with my three years old, she was very smart for her age, she would communicate if she had any trouble. Passengers around us told me that that they thought my kids would annoy them the whole ride.
My thing is.. moms and dads should know how to settle their kids. If they cannot, they should not bring the kids in the flights
One thing that doesn't help is a lot of parent think because their kid is young enough not need to book a seat they shouldn't book one.
Turns out calming a baby when you can barely move is very difficult and airlines don't particularly care if the baby cries the whole time as long as they still sell a booked out flight.
There are many reasons why a child might cry on a plane that have nothing to do with a parent not knowing how to settle a child. They could be wonderful parents, that won't stop things such as a child being scared if it's their 1st time flying or being a cramped space with a bunch of strangers, their ears could be bothering them bc of the flight which happens to tons of ppl not just children, they could all of a sudden get sick which happens often with small children where one minute they're fine less than an hr later they're running a temp & don't feel good which causes crankiness, they could develop air sickness which again if it's the child's 1st time flying the parents aren't going to know that this would happen some ppl aren't aware that air sickness is even a thing & it could also be due to the fact that they're stuck in someone's lap or a seat for however many hrs which may seem like a lifetime to a small child that no amount of cuddling, soothing etc. is going to make a difference. Also not everyone has the option of leaving their kids behind when they get on a flight, more often than not they don't have a choice when it comes to taking their kid. Also why would they if they're going on a family vacation. Don't get me wrong this woman was ridiculous expecting help, reassuring smiles & that no one would get annoyed, it would've been nice for any passenger to do those things, but they're not obligated to. You got lucky on ur flight, u got the offered assistance & reassuring smiles that she didn't receive. As for the annoyance part, I have a hard time believing nobody got annoyed at ur child's crying. Just because u didn't notice & nobody came right out & said anything about it doesn't mean they weren't feeling that way
Also the reason many parents don't book a seat for a baby is because most of the time the baby is too small to use the seat & even if a toddler could technically sit in the seat they won't let them put them down thru pretty much the entire flight due to be scared or not feeling good, so why spend hundreds of dollars for a seat that may get a total of 10min usage total round-trip. Especially if it's an extra unneeded expense they can't really afford even if they technically have the money. Especially if it's an unexpected last minute trip like a family emergency or death in the family. Now if u have excess funds, it's some family vacation planned way in advance & u know for a fact ur little angel will sit in that seat the entire time or most of the time & u can afford it then yea get the seat, but there's a reason u don't have to pay for a seat for a child up to a certain age
Okay in happier stuff regarding the third story...
I was recently on a plane to new jersey: an eight hour flight from the UK, and there was a baby with her parents in the row in front of me. Normally this would be a cause for frustration, but she was the most adorable little 6-7 month old and, according to the cabin crew, the best behaved child they had EVER had on a flight. Did she sleep at all during the flight even when they put her in a crib (did you know flights have those for babies?) - nope! She did not! But neither did she cry. She sat there, smiling at everyone who passed her to go to the loo, playing quietly with toys, occasionally nomming on a cheese stick or her bottle. Every now and then I'd look up from my seat just behind her, and she'd be just... looking at me. And when I waved she'd SMILE 😭. The only time she cried was when we were landing, by which point it was like, 11 pm and the plane was making loud banging noises due to turbulence. I think most of us were kinda close to tears at that point.
Last Story - OP is NTA. OP just explained it as it is. Also I hate it when people use the ‘I’m a struggling single parent’ card as a means to gain sympathy or in this case a possible free babysitter.
My punishment for them is to sit them down and binge all three seasons of Bluey on repeat until the lessons sink in.
As for the people working for free, it blows me away that people Don't block harassing and or damaging people. Just block them and live your life. How hard is that?
Many, many years ago, I moved back in with my mom after leaving my then- husband. A local store, similar to Walmart (Giant Tiger, if anyone remember them!) Was closing, so I bought a few things for the time I would eventually move out, including a box of nested stock pots. Fast forward to the time I moved in with my now husband (30 years later, don't judge!), I finally opened that box.
I heard rattling in the bottom of my box and, to my shock, found a man's gold and diamond 4ing in the bottom!
The box came from Indonesia, and it had been 30 years, so I felt pretty safe just keeping the ring, which I still wear on my right hand.
I found a beautiful diamond ring in the women’s bathroom at work. It was Monday so we were not open to members or the public that day. I put it on to “visit” the membership manager. Asked her if she was missing anything. 🤣 Took her a few minutes.
Story 3 - Had a neighbour at my very first apartment who never caused any trouble, they just always seemed to have a scowl on their face. I made a point of non-obtrusively smiling, waving, or saying hi any time we crossed paths at the apartment building. Soon enough, they started smiling and greeting me back. One evening we had a massive snow storm, and some time in the night the snow plows came by and blocked off the entrances and exits to our parking lot with MASSIVE snow banks (WTAF?). I had promised my best friend I would come help her pack her moving truck that afternoon, so while the hours ticked closer to our agreed time, NO ONE was coming to fix this weird problem. So I said "Screw it" suited up, and headed out with our little "un-bury the car" shovel and started digging out the end of the parking lot. I got about halfway through snow mountain when who came out with their own shovel? That same neighbour! we got that mountain dug out together, smiled to one another, and went our ways for the day.
When we took our 5 month old on the plane we made sure to feed her right before getting on so she would sleep most of the way granted it was only an hour and a half flight and not 8 hours but there are ways to guarantee a much better flight and this mom is just not doing it
Story 1 yeah thats not entitled. Thats just theft. So its an theiving attitude.
Last story: If the sister can’t control her kids on a plane and expect everyone else to stop what they’re doing to cater to her brats then she is the terrible person. Her kids her responsibility! End of discussion.
I remember being on a train heading home from work and this lady came on the train with her daughter that was a toddler. The child was having a full on temper tantrum and the mother did nothing to stop her daughter from acting out. After three minutes of the shouting I got up and moved to a different part of the train. The mother got annoyed with me and calling me an asshole for changing seats and stated I should be able deal with kids. I just said “and some people should be proper parents that love their kids instead of using them to get government payments” and I left when the lady started mouthing off when she stormed off back to her seat.
Ring story.... I'd tell him quietly.... " Give me MY ring, and you get to walk away alive." 😡
Yes. We back.
I had a grumpy neighbor just like you fluff, I will always say hi to her cause it's how we do here with neighbors and she will never answer, but I never give up I said to my self "you will say back one day". I did that for 2 or 3 years, till one day she started to answer, but she moved away 2 months later. Maybe it was a scare she had, not sure exactly what, but she was taken by ambulance one day and it was around that time she started to answer.
I used to wear an ear ring (male) and it would usually be a diamond stud. I also wore a lot of normal silver rings, bangles etc. Even though I'm straight, I like to sparkle...lol..... One day I decided to wear all gold, so I chose to wear my very large gold hoop earing, think pirate. I went down the street to walk the dog and get my coffee when I was stopped by a group of about 6 young men (18, perhaps 20 years old). One of them yelled at his mate, 'Look, he's wearing your ear ring, giver it back'. I didn't faulter and simply stated, 'this is mine, I've had it for 20 years and oh, how the fuck I am supposed to have stolen it from your friend?'. They just stood looking stupidly at each other as I walked around them.
My wife worked for the local PD. The motel in town turned in two diamond rings that had been left in a room and were unable to contact the guests. My wife tried calling the contact information phone number. As soon as she mentioned rings they hung up and blocked the PD number. Every couple of years the PD auctions off unclaimed property. My wife bought the rings and they were worth thousands. We are in a resort area with lots of people drink and can't find their bikes. There are over a hundred bikes at the auction that they sell in lots I bought six mountain bikes for the grandkids for fifty bucks.
Story 1 not surprised. I literally had someone steal my gloves from right in front of me
The finders keepers rule not legally applies if the owner of the item intentionally abandoned it. That was not the cause with the dropped wedding ring. Refusing to return an accidentally dropped item upon request is still theft regardless of thief’s (incorrect) justification of “finders keepers.”
I once read a Facebook post that said one parent of a newborn was passing out bags containing some candy and earplugs with a note from the newborns perspective. It said something like "Hi I'm (name) in seat this one. I am X-months old and am flying home. I'm sorry if I cry the whole way home but I don't know what is happening, it's loud, my ears are popping, and my tummy is upset. Hopefully these earplugs and candy will make it a little bit better. Have a good day."
Story 1 - This happened about 5 years ago and was the best lost & found serendipity day! I was trying on clothes at Macy's when I noticed a pink friendship bracelet on the floor. It was a very unusual and beautiful design. Went back and forth whether I should leave it there in case the owner came back or take it to the register in case the next person who saw it would take it for themselves. I chose to take it to the register. I got in a very long line, the clothes I was buying were draped over my arm and covered the bracelet I was holding on my hand. The line was taking forever and my arm was getting tired so I shifted the clothes I was holding which exposed the bracelet. I noticed the woman in line behind me kept staring at me. After a while, she asked me if that was my bracelet. Turns out it was hers, given to her by her mom. She was so overjoyed. What are the chances that she would get in line behind me? That I was in the same dressing room as her? That I chose to take it to the register? That I shifted the clothes I was buying exposing the bracelet in my hand. I felt so good that she got back a very special & treasured bracelet that she didn't even know she had lost. Yes, it was a great day!
This is what punters call a superfecta and what normies call a perfect storm.
On the story about the aunt breaking into ops house, Press full charges on her.
Story 1 is why thieves love to "just hold" things. If it is in their possession, and requires a physical assault and/or proof of ownership to get back, it's much easier to get away with it. Especially if it takes ungodly long for the police to get there.
Found a wallet one time while I was in a cubicle in drift store. It a simple looking one and thought it belong to the store. So check if it have a price tag or something and found it contains a student ID and a credit card. So I turn it to the registered. The owner came back asking for it and was able to get it back. I remember being a student and losing a couple college ID. It pain to replace it. Glad glad she got it back.
I learned to keep a close watch on my jewelry when staying at relative's houses after losing a ring to my cousin and a necklace to my great aunt.
The story about aunt that harassing op for college fund: if the family is so adamant about the college fund, then why dont they pay for it.
I went to a boarding school, we always ended up with girls who were trouble and their parents thought the school would straighten them out. I had a gold plated pen with my name engraved on the clip. One day I put it in the pencil/pen holder on my desk and one of the trouble girls walked by and quickly grabbed it, I asked for it back and at first she acted confused and said she didn't have a pen I could borrow so I should ask the teacher for one. One of my friends took the pen out of her hand, the girl screamed that her grandmother gave it to her, I pointed to my name and she doubled down that was her nickname. The girl got expelled for stealing and her parents sent me a long winded letter about how it was my fault because if I had let her have the pen she would have been able to turn her life around at the school. Thanks to the letter the administration started reading out mail to make sure it wasn't someone harassing us.
When I was in my late teens, early twenties I was working in a bank. I was washing my hands in the ladies room and had removed my rings. I had just received a beautiful opal ring from my aunt and uncle and didn't want the rings to slip off my fingers while washing my hands. Needless to say, being careless, I forget the rings and had left the ladies room. i was gone
maybe 1 minute when I realized I had forgotten my rings. I ran back to the ladies room and just that quick they were gone. I didn't see anyone on my way back to the ladies room and no one was in a stall. I was so upset with my self for being so careless. I told my supervisor what happened and she really couldn't have care less. The rest of the day was ruined. I would check every female employees hand(s) for my rings but never saw them again. I quit that job because I didn't want to work among thieves.
19:50 The sister with the crying babies on the plane should know that flying anywhere from Australia is going to be long. Apart from New Zealand, which is only about 3 hours, Singapore and Jakarta are the next closest at 7-8 hours, Tokyo, Manila and Bangkok are 9-10 hours, Los Angeles is 14 hours, Johannesburg is 18 hours and London is 23 hours. What does she expect? There are things you can give your kids these days to help settle them down on flights. Clearly, she was unprepared and entitled for expecting everybody else to help.
Just can't get enough of that DarkFluffy Stuff!!!
On one flight there was a mother with her baby. The mother handed out little bags with cookies and earplugs, just in case. This little gesture got her loads of goodwill. Another passenger did offer to hold the baby for a while to help the mother.
Story 2 - What on earth has it got to do with the guy complaining about the truck? He could get by fine. Not his business. If a lady with a stroller can’t get by, then OP can take it up with them.
Story 4: I’d tell the people who were trash talking him “I’ll listen to you when you give her the money.”
Those who live in the US and find items should be aware of the "Theft by Finding" laws in their States and be very wary of them
I'm 50, have MS, and use a wheelchair most of the time and I live very quietly. My neighbours don't. They're noisy, have visitors constantly, their kids run around yelling and shouting, and their dog barks. And what do I do about it? NOTHING. Because they have the right to live their lives! It's not my business, it's not my place to dictate how they live. And because I'm a normal person I'm perfectly fine with that.
Story 4: Gotta love the irony of how Karen claims that the environment is toxic because everyone is fed up with her toxic BS and getting mad that OP is calling out her refusal to pay.
And yeah, you HAVE to pay people for their work UNLESS they agreed to doing it for free, and F clearly didn't.
Also, responding with threats and basically a childish tantrum when OP only responded with JUST ONE email is proof of how immature Karen is
Most people genuinely leaving a toxic situation usually just run far and put it behind them. The toxic elements are often the ones who yell from the roof about how toxic everything was for them
And when she said that everyone there don't want her to leave, I laughed out loud.. yeah, right.. they were waiting for her to leave with joy! They should've have had a huge party, like leaving away party, but not when she was there! And post it everywhere!😂😂😂
@@minnarosenqvistmr Much like Cartman's "going away" party in the _South Park_ episode _Smug Alert._
0:29, Someone I know went to a public bathroom while on a trip in Vegas, from what I remember him mentioning, he forgot his phone inside, went back in to get it, and someone had already taken it. While the same model as his stolen one, his replacement is a "POS," as he described it.
3:00, Equivalent to a customer putting a 1 star review with "They harassed me and took away my license!" with the car dealer responding "We told you to put the seatbelt on. You then ranted about your rights before recklessly speeding through the residential area." as an example.
7:43, Brings to mind a family we know who has recently had to deal with property damage, harassment, and threats of physical harm from a neighbor who has complained about the mother having guests over on multiple occasions. For context, my family and others we know go there for New Years each year. She called the police while he stayed inside, only for him to complain about the officer being black, even claiming that "those people" ruin the property values after the officer had left. This is just the most recent example. I recommended she press charges, if not publicly shaming him by name.
19:45, Reminds me of a mother with two young kids while we're in Kohl's for shoes. We're looking around while her kids are wandering around and she's borderline insulting the kids while being quite audible for those nearby to hear, including us. At one point, even saying to them "Don't embarrass me."
There's more on what happen to the aunt who got arrested after story 4. After the police captured the aunt, they found the aunt having drugs in her possession and she got charged with possession of drugs as well as the other charges relating to trespassing and attempted theft on op's house. When op's aunt went on trial, her defense lawyer tried to blame her fear of failing college as the reason why she was caught red handed on trespassing and attempting to steal from op's house, only for the court to found her guilty of all charges and was sentenced to 3 years in prison as as getting caught in possession of drugs carries heavier sentence than what she did at op's house and as well owing op 8200 dollars for destroying his properties. One last thing, op mentioned in his first post before in his second post you're hearing in this video that he, his aunt, and his family live in a European country where the incident of his aunt took place.
The mother in the last story, taking her kids on a plane is entitled to 2 things. Jack and Shit. And Jack left town.
Story 1: security camera's Kevin you thief.
Hey, Dark Fluff! I really appreciate that you get the commercials to play between the stories, unlike some (most!) on this network.😍😀😀😀
Story 1: when I was in like, third of fourth grade I had a matching butterfly necklace and ring and one day lost the ring. My biggest bully in the class (who was the twin sister of my best friend at the time) found my ring and claimed it as her own, when I told her it was mine and to give it back she told the teacher I had taken her necklace and was trying to take her ring. The teacher got mad and told me to give her MY necklace and I remember freaking out and saying they were my birthday gifts and that she had taken them from me and all that shit
We were both sent to the office and it took my mom coming in and confirming that they were mine with the receipts of where they got them
The worst part is that girl never got in trouble for what she tried to do
My dad owned a business that was closed on the weekends in an area with little traffic. The parking lot was a favorite hook up spot. He found all kinds of very nice jewelry left behind, and no one would ever claim it for obvious reasons.
Story 2: Hello? Is this the old man's bluff? I'm calling to ask why you haven't already called the police the first few times you threatened to do so.
I stopped shaking my head a long time ago. I have headaches and neck pain, so I moved to eye rolling.
Karen didn't want OP to stop contacting her. She wanted OP to take her verbal abuse.
A 2,400$ bracelet fell off my wrist and I don't notice until 30 minutes later. Luckily someone had turned it in. I had the clasp fixed after that.
I left my ring in a Kmart bathroom
Realized hours later went back checked with lost and found nothing.. two years later found it in a pawn shop
And bought it,I believe it's the exact same one!😊
Sidewalk parking story: I was in the Navy when my wife and I were first married (got married between duty stations) and was assigned to a ship in the Philidelphia Naval Shipyard while it was in drydock. We found a TINY apartment in the city not too far from the main gate. The only parking was on-street parking, but with a twist. The street was so narrow you had to park half on the sidewalk for traffic to get thru. Yes, it was a one-way street.
Birthday party Karen story: I'd say it was misuse of police resources.
Breaking and entering story: You can ASK for money for college. That being said, no one owes you a single cent to help you out, especially when you have a track record of not paying it back. So when they say "NO", take it for what it is and back off.
Kids on flight story: NTA! Admittedly, some kids just don't travel well. I have 4 (all adults now). But while there's only so much you can do with a 6 month old, there are things you can do with a 22 month old to keep them entertained and distracted. Snacks, a tablet with cartoons/kids movies, books and so on. You have to PLAN, not rely on other people.
I flew back beginning of this year from Manchester UK to Durban South Africa via Dubai. On the second leg of the journey we had 2 crying babies who just wouldn't settle at all. I was also as sick as a dog with full blown bronchitis and laryngitis and coughed uncontrollably the whole 8 hours of the flight. The mom of the one baby was also sick as well, so between the 4 of us, everyone was wavering between annoyance and sympathy. It was the worst flight i have ever been on in my life. And yes i was tested for COVID and was clear, before anyone judges me. I was on my way home from visiting my elderly parents in the UK and picked up one of their European bugs. It took me 7 weeks before I coukd talk without coughing my lungs out and speak without croaking. And we have also flown with young kids, and people always look at you when you have a baby and hope that you are nowhere near them. We flew with a 3yr old and an 8mth old, so i know what it's like. Fortunately it was fairly short flight, like an hour but was still quite stressful. But i certainly didn't expect anyone else to look after or help with my kids. They are my problem not anyone else's.
Doesn't matter if it wasn't Covid, you had no business flying while ill.
I remember taking a flight once, and there was this child who, I kid you not, had to have a screaming fit every 10 minutes like clockwork (yes, I timed it.) It was a miserable flight. I get that kids don't like sitting in a small chair and not moving for 3 hours, and parents have to travel with children, but that doesn't make it fun or easy for the rest of us. I would invest in noise cancelling headphones, but seeing as I don't travel much, I see little point.
@@wmdkittyI live in South Africa and I had to be back at work on the 11 January so I really had no choice. I couldn't exactly contact my boss and say that I wasn't going to be there. Doesn't work that way. Also my ticket was already paid for, so no. I had to get home
if someone keeps making too many false reports to the police, they can get arrested for harassing the police, because they are wasting their time someone who really needs police assistance can't get it while they are dealing with the false reports
Last I heard, a false report in itself is a crime.
Here's my opinion of young kids on airplanes, I don't mind them, as long the parents make an effort to keep their kids calm and quiet during the flight. OP' in that story isn't the ahole, her sister is, because no one guys plane tickets to sit next to a screaming child all flight, no one buys tickets to be stuck on a flight with kids being wild and causing problems. I get if the kid is being fussy, but I draw the line at the parent blaming everyone else. Do I have kids? No, if I did, I'd do everything I can to keep them calm during the flight, and do what I can to keep the peace, and never blame other people. Why!? Because it's not their fault, and unless I'm forced to move somewhere that a flight is the ONLY option, it's only my fault that my kid is causing problems.
Absolutely agree. I was never of the opinion that anyone besides me and my husband should think my children were wonderful or tolerate their misbehavior. It was on me to make sure they weren't being pests.
I work at a restaurant and a coworker had a table were the lady took off her ring put it with the trashed napkins and it got thrown out then she called asking for us to go through the trash one of the hostesses found it and this things was big like how do you miss that on your hand???
I hope the guy who didn't give the aunt money for college also sues her for the ruined vacation.
That first story reminded me of this :-
I need to VENT!!!!!!! Because I’m bloody fuming!!! 🤬😡🤬
I’ve just got back from Asda, where I don't usually do my shopping, and to pick up a few things. I'm waiting in line and I dropped £20 note (yep that's me trying to hold everything because I didn't want a trolley).
The lady in front of me picked it up. I thanked her and held my hand out, and she said, "The things found on earth are kept by the collector," and walks away.
😡I was like “You’re fucking joking” and I looked at the people behind me standing in line, they couldn't believe it either.... this can't be real life right now, right?!
So I took a deep breath and I turned back towards the lady/thief/or whatever you wanna call her and as I approached her I said, "Do I look like I'm in the mood?! Let's not play games. Go ahead and give me back my money."
She had the nerve to ignore me completely and tried to walk away from me so of course, I left everything and followed her to the car park as I was about to call the police (because of course somebody's about to go to prison not sure who at this point though, her or me). She was almost running at this point to get away from me, which was the first sign of real intelligence 💡 this lady had shown. 😂 When she got to her car she put her bags on the ground trying to quickly get her boot open.
I was boiling at this point! I decided that her “finders keepers" rule just presented the perfect opportunity for a teachable moment, so, I ran full speed (probably not that fast), and grabbed her shopping bags, and dashed quickly to the main road yelling, "The things found on earth are kept by the collector!"
I managed to flag a passing taxi whilst ignoring her every attempt to get my attention.
I was outta line I'll admit, but she was too. I was fucking fuming 😡 but I had a sense of satisfaction at the same time. Anyone who knows me knows that I've never stolen anything so this is completely out of character for me. But anyway I get home and open the bags and what did I find?
3 packs of fillet steak
3 kgs of wild caught salmon
2 kgs of potatoes
4 Thornton’s boxes of Continental chocolates
and the latest Now That’s What I Call Music CD
Hmm I can't help but think to myself... WOW! Not bad for £20😂😂😂.
And then I woke up !
Hopefully, I just put a smile on your face 😘
I’m from the U.K. - Asda is like Walmart (they used to own Asda years ago)
where I use to live the people next door to me got mad at me and the man from next door came to my yard and chose to pee on my tree to well, I could see his junk and all then he threw paint on my trailer. So, I know people can be odd and mean and gross all in one.
if i'm on a flight with kids present, i have a mantra: it's only 2 hours, it's only 2 hours (or however long it is). can't eliminate the screeching, but the time seems to go faster.
For everyone who ever took off their rings to wash their hands in a public bathroom, DON’T! My late husband cut gemstones as a hobby, so, of course, I learned a lot about them. It does NOT hurt gold, platinum, or any gemstones to leave them on while washing your hands, as a matter of fact, if your hands are dirty, your rings are also. Even bar soap won’t harm them in any way, much less the liquid soaps that are in places now. Hand sanitizers would not hurt them. In fact, some gems, like opal, do much better wet than dry. If you take opals off to put away, you should keep them in distilled water so they don’t dry out and crack. If they get cloudy because of bar soap film, use a bit of windex type cleaner, or a vinegar based cleaner or a half cup water, 2 Tbs white vinegar and a drop of grease cutting dish soap like Dawn. As for silver, it will over time, tarnish. But is easily cleaned with tarnex liquid. And it’s going to tarnish just being against your skin. Never use an abrasive cleaner or cloth on your jewelry. Edit to add; I know it’s easy for rings to come off while washing hands, but if you just keep your fingers tipped slightly up, or keep the ring finger curled, they won’t come off. And NEVER, NEVER, flip the water off your hands, that’s a sure fire way to lose rings.
Finder keeper laws actually require that you make some attempt to finding the original owner. He knew who the owner was he cannot pretend
If I were in the NN's situation I'd ask the police officer that if they arrive a third time, am I allowed to press charges for harassment against my neighbor who making these frivolous calls
Hold a stranger's baby for them? Is she kidding?! There are times I don't even feel comfortable holding babies I'm related to. My mom had a somewhat similar argument with one of my aunt's and my mom bluntly told my aunt "when you have kids, you don't get to travel".
Airplanes + children = why god made Benadryl lol!
Only joking a little!
I’ll bet whoever had Benadryl or Xanax could have made a FORTUNE on that plane ride, not that I’d in any way suggest or support such a thing lol!
S3: OP needs to remind the kids that screaming is for emergencies only, and THIS IS WHY.
Third story: "How long you got..." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Stealing of my business idea: If I need to 'prove' anything to you then I evidently don't need you.
Aunt entitled to college: If these family members thought she was so wronged for him not paying for her college, then why aren't YOU PAYING FOR IT? Unless you feel that because she burned you in the oast, he should also endure it as well.
Whining about being a parent: And you were forced to have children or having them back to back, why? And other's are obligated to 'help ' you with the kids because they won't settle. How about doing a few things to assist them in getting settled.
When you choose to be a parent, you are no longer the protagonist of your own life but a side character in your child’s life. This means you have to deal with the shit you created, no matter how tired you are. You chose this, so stop complaining and deal with it silently.
And the better you deal with it, the more likely you are to have other adults offer to help you!
I used to do rent a teenager when my kids were small when I took them on trips! Generally they were teenagers of my friends!
Story 2) Hater of trucks parked legally but inconvently.
This reminded me of a old school friend. He wasn't a AH, but he was a self appointed citizen community watchdog. As a teenager during the summer he'd ride his bicycle all over the county to observe county road crews at work or if they were just standing around doing jack. If he felt they were doing nothing but putting in time and no work to benefit the county, he would write letters to the editor of our local newspaper The _____ Daily Times. I had a flash of a thought in my head, that what if, the Internet and Facebook had existed back then. I'm pretty sure he'd of had an open FB group where he could post photos of those road crews standing around and doing nothing or how many weren't doing anything while 2 or 3 actually did work, it would have been hilarious, with some probably pretty PO'd county employees seeing themselves at a job with 5 or more guys just hanging out on some back country road or 1 or 2 working while the extras just stood around or relaxed in the shade.
Sadly Tony a short skinny nerd, who actually served in the U.S. Marine Corp and ended up gone too soon due to cancer. Tony you'd have had a field day with the Internet and Facebook. Rest in Peace Tony Lewis my friend, I'm sure you'd have served our home county in some way, working to make things better for it's citizens.
My sister found like 2000+ & got to keep it. She bought a baby layette box set for a baby boy a family member was having. The baby was a girl, so she saved it for the next baby, which was a few yrs later. She pulled them out of the package before & found a baby sock w/money. Store she bought it from had closed, as did the co that made the set. She reported it, & was eventually allowed to keep it, thought to have been where an employee was hiding stolen money. There's no way someone can see the person drop it, & think it's ok to take it. No matter what it's worth, the sentimental meaning can be huge, & is why I almost rarely wear my special belongings, never wanting them lost.
9:37 It's possible the Karen made an anonymous report.
I hate that Finder Keepers, Losers Weepers crap. They're just filthy thieves with no morals.
Agreed.
How is it theft if you just... found it on the sidewalk?
Same here.
@@wmdkitty At least make an attempt to reunite the owner with their property by handing it in to the police or a store nearby.
Last story: My babies/toddlers always cry on flights and never settle. It's super hard being a mom and no one offers to help me or gives me sympathy, but I keep taking them on flights because they fly for free.
With the last story: a parent should always buy a seat for the little one. It gives the parent more room to take care of the kid and allows for the kid to not be held ( they don’t always want to be).
My sister took her son on a plane when he was under a year. She planned for everything spent months in advance researching how to keep him calm incase he hates the plane. Surprise, he was fine the whole time and she needed nothing she prepared except the movie and player she got him because he liked a specific movie at the time. He even was all smiles for the flight attendant when usually he don't even wanna look at me and he lives with me. He really hates my glasses. I have to take them off to hold him.
Truck Parking Story: When the Police car drove by, OP should have flagged them down and asked them to get this bicyclist to stop Harassing them...
I would have...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
That did happen to me, only in reverse. I was walking home one day several years ago, when I saw a dollar bill (either $10 or 20 - I don't remember) laying on the sidewalk. I looked around, picked it up, put it in my purse, continued walking and asked my Facebook friends what they would do in that situation.
I'll defend this opinion to the day I die: Babies do NOT belong on planes. If they absolutely have to, they need to be in their own compartment along with the parents so no one else has to suffer.
Good luck with that.
I'm a ham radio operator. Yeah, yeah, total nerd, I get it.
One ham radio activity I really like is operating from local parks. There's even an organization that turns out into a recognition thing. You say you'll be at a qualifying park (State or National, sometimes municipal is a special case, when, what frequencies, etc.) and you try to get a minimum of ten good radio contacts for it to count in your favor. It's a Charlie Brown sport of thing, as in the Peanuts comic that compared doing a good deed as being like peeing yourself in a dark suit: you get a warm feeling, but nobody notices. It's just a fun thing to do, and if you get a really long distance contact, or one that's special for some reason, you get bragging rights. It's often done with very small, low-power radios with homebrewed antennas, just for the fun of it.
I loved taking my radios to a huge municipal park that's built in and throughout a huge working farm. My favorite spot was along a roadside, at a picnic table in a small gazebo. There was a long stretch of grass that was kept mowed neatly that was perfect for a long wire antenna, held up with a 20-foot telescoping fiberglass mast at the far end. It was a lot of fun, and it was right next to a small parking lot with handicapped parking spaces (I'm disabled) and a couple of porta-potties.
I'd had fun doing this for a couple of years, until the Coof hit, and lockdowns started. This park was huge, and the place I liked to operate was about 25 feet from the walking path and parking lot. So it was very thoroughly socially distanced. Once in a while someone would walk over, curious about what i was doing, but we stayed a proper distance from one another. And it was outside, in the warm sun. The chance of transmission was about as low as you could get without talking to one another on the phone.
Even with all this, there was this nosy busybody all the way across the 4 lanes of street from where i was operating, perhaps 100 feet. But that didn't stop this Karen from stepping onto her porch to yell at me to go home. "Don't you understand there's a _pandemic?_ You need to go home! _You're killing grandmothers!"_
I'd reply "Karen, I *am* a grandmother! Several times over! Why don't you mind your own business?"
She was relentless. She even called the cops on me. I showed them what i was doing, and wound up giving one of the cops information on how he could get his ham radio license. They said i was fine, and until or if they officially closed the park down, I could keep on doing it. It was good to have an active outdoor hobby, very healthy to be out in the sun and fresh air.
Karen continued to kvetch at me and try to get me in trouble until the town decided to close the park for the duration. So i started going to the parking lot behind the police department, on the edge of a gorgeous park of their own. I asked if i could operate there, and after explaining, they said i could do so as long as I was properly distanced, and had a mask i could put on if someone else showed up and got close.
I did have to use photographers' sandbags to run the wires from my antenna instead of using thin tent pegs, as they didn't want me punching holes, but I had them for that purpose and it didn't bother me.
When bad weather started, I stayed inside, but all in all, i didn't let Karen stop me from enjoying my hobby. Now, though, my disability has gotten worse, so it's a lot harder for me, but I still experiment and operate from my yard, is from someplace convenient that doesn't take much walking to get to my operating position. I recommend amateur radio to anyone who likes a mental challenge and a bit of fun. Until my disability got so bad, i used to build my own radios, from kits. And i always built most of my own antennas!
Hi
I'm not a radio ham but have always been curious about it.
I do get the impression that it's mostly men ( I'm female too) and wondered how long you've been doing this? What got you started?
Thanks
The first guy. If that happened to me I would make it my personal duty to follow this guy around until he drops something and then immediately pick it up and say “haha! Finders keepers losers weepers!”
The problem in the last story starts with the decision the parents made to take such young children on have decided to go on an arduous plane journey FOR FUN. I have done this Australia to Europe trip multiple times and it is difficult as an adult. The fact that they deliberately chose to take such an infant and young toddler on a holiday that they will be too young to remember shows either a lack of commonsense or the fact that they are not really interested in their children's comfort.
I also find that people are less upset about crying children when the parents are putting an effort into comforting said children.
A few years ago I found a really pretty necklace with a pink jewel. Last year I learned that although it's not worth much, the necklace was made with real gold and a real rose quartz.
I work retail omg the stories. I was once working frozen and I had to put gloves on as told by manager. As I was trying to put them on I dropped one and had to grab before a little bit did. He through a fit and told him mom in stealing his gloves. These were specialty gloves given by my boss. She demanded I give him he gloves. I said no these belong to the workers of frozen. She kept screaming and demanded to talk to my boss. I called on yhe radio which the which the same and tried to jump and grab my walkie. I kept backing away as the kid cried how he wanted it. Mom demanded to hand over that too. Supervisor came by and mom told them I stole from her child. I told the supervisor I dropped my glove and kid now wants it. Manager said why dony I just hand it over then. I said because these belong to frozen. We each only get one. As per code we have to wear them so if I and them over not o ly will you have to order another set but I won't be helping frozen anymore. This upset the manager and he told Karen I'm sorry but that's grocery store property. Mom was mad and demanded then to compensate to hand over my equipment. Manager tried to explain she can't do that either. And this lead to them two arguing and I went to the back which the kid tried to follow but i shut the doors so he couldn't he kept screaming and crying and pounding on the doors.
Last story: hahaha I wonder where your kids learned to whine all the time!!
Story 6: I fly for business, and I do hate it when I'm next to a crying baby. That being said, I have a lot of sympathy for the parents, especially when they are trying their best to calm the child. It's exhausting to fly with an infant, and I think we should offer these parents a little bit of empathy and grace. I do NOT have sympathy when parents are not adequately supervising their older children who are running around, kicking/banging seats, yelling, or using devices without headphones. It's also beyond ridiculous that OP's sister got angry that she wasn't getting childcare help from random strangers, or sympathy and verbal reassurance that "it's ok if your child disrupts this flight.". That's a very immature attitude that suggests that her world revolves around her. She's mad the *she* wasn't getting any enough attention on her, when the most distressed parties were probably the baby and the other passengers.
RE: Story 5... This is why my bat shit crazy sister doesn't know where I live.
Story 2: Honestly, I don't know what he was trying to do when constantly yelling "I'll call the cops!" when not calling the cops at all. A scare tactic? To push someone into getting into a fight?
Well, it didn't get the reaction he wanted if either was the case, and the end result was just him wasting his own time.
I actually started out on the side of the mother in the crying baby story. People are crazy to get angry about it on a plane. It's not a restaurant or and theatre. It's public transportation, no different than a bus or train. People got to get where they are going. That said, the mother is crazy if she expecting support from strangers on public transportation.🤣
I had a gold bracelet with charms on it that my mother would add to every Christmas and birthday. It would have been very expensive to replace. I stayed at a friend's place and left it on the bedside table. Her sister had a friend come over. She stole it from my bedside table. We confronted her at her parent's house. The mother and father were flabbergasted and it destroyed them. I couldn't get it back because the girl swapped with someone at her school for something else. The parents told me to find out how much it was and they would reimburse me. I couldn't tell them because of it being added to every year. My mother and I were devastated to lose it. I never let my jewellery out of my sight after that. I'm pretty sure things got hot at the girl's place after we left.
I've gotten my 3 kids'charm/bracelets. They Love looking at the new charms I get to add to all of them. I know we would all be so sad if they were lost but even more if someone they knew stole them. That really sucks, I am so sorry!
@@lianabaddley8217 Thank you.