FLIGHT ATTENDANT TELLS MOM THERE’S A RULE AGAINST CRYING BABIES

A new mom named Krupa Patel Bala, her husband and their 8-month-old son were flying United business class from Sydney to San Francisco last Tuesday – a 14 hour flight – when her baby began to cry in his bassinet at the beginning of the flight. An attendant came over and told her a crying baby was “absolutely unacceptable”. The attendant scolded her to pick the baby up and soothe it, and then warned that some airlines don’t even let babies fly business class. The attendant said it’s part of the rule book that the babies are not allowed to cry for more than 5 minutes. There is no such rule. (* But, boy, there should be.) Bala was taken aback and wrote about the experience on Facebook. She said that later on, the plane’s captain came over to defuse the situation and was apologetic. Bala accepted a refund for the flight, and wrote that her family “will never fly on United again.”
* Book me on United, quick, before she changes her mind!
* It would make flying interesting if every plane made up its own rules.
* It’s called Business Class, as in, “You have no business bringing an 8-month-old baby on a 14-hour flight.”
* The only business going on was the baby doing its business in its diaper.
* “Krupa Patel Bala”. Aren’t those the three words you say to Gort in “The Day the Earth Stood Still”? (Actually, it’s Klaatu Barada Nikto. But you knew that.)