Speaker 1: Tuesday.
Speaker 2: Here on the pickup, Britt, Laura and Mitch. Hello, heading
Speaker 2: to chemist ware house today. You'll get great savings every day. Now,
Speaker 2: you've heard of snakes on a plane, but get ready
Speaker 2: for arguably far scarier Laura, burn on a plane.
Speaker 1: It's way worse.
Speaker 3: No, it is not worse than a snake. I think
Speaker 3: I'd take a snake. But look, I went on a
Speaker 3: holiday without my kids recently. I went away for seven
Speaker 3: days on a child free trip. She came back, Laura,
Speaker 3: I know, no, I missed my kids so much, but
Speaker 3: this was big for me. I've never been on an
Speaker 3: international trip without my children. I've never been away from
Speaker 3: my children for that long. It was my first time
Speaker 3: getting on an international flight without my kids, and it
Speaker 3: made me realize how much I don't like other people's kids.
Speaker 2: Oh, and you're the first person on this show to
Speaker 2: rab it on about how your kids get scolded on
Speaker 2: planes and how it's not nice judge with your kids.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, I have never said that
Speaker 3: my kids get scolded on planes. My kids behave because
Speaker 3: do you know why it's so hard to parent your
Speaker 3: children on a plane, because you have to try and
Speaker 3: control them and that's what didn't happen in this situation.
Speaker 4: So hear me out. I'm sitting there with my sister.
Speaker 3: It's also she's also got two kids the same age
Speaker 3: as mine, so it's a big deal for us. We're
Speaker 3: on this little trip together, and sitting directly behind me
Speaker 3: is a five I'd say he was about five five.
Speaker 4: Year old kid.
Speaker 3: I was next to the window, then next to him
Speaker 3: was his dad, and then next to his dad was
Speaker 3: another kid. Right.
Speaker 4: Dad was traveling with the kids all by himself.
Speaker 3: Hero yeah right, yeah, bra so beautiful, so beautiful. Dad
Speaker 3: decided that he actually didn't care what the kids did,
Speaker 3: so long as they didn't bother him. Dad was having
Speaker 3: a sleep while his five year old son had pulled
Speaker 3: out some plato, had pulled down his tray table and
Speaker 3: was mashing that plato into the tray table like it
Speaker 3: was his job, like he was trying to roll a
Speaker 3: pizza dough out. So all I was getting for a
Speaker 3: good twenty minutes was bang, bang, bang bang bang.
Speaker 1: That bank was behind the.
Speaker 3: Tray table attached to my chair because those trays are
Speaker 3: so flimsy, So I was trying to rest, I couldn't
Speaker 3: because all I was getting was this bang on the back.
Speaker 1: Of the seat.
Speaker 3: So I turned around and I went into my full
Speaker 3: blown Karen mode. Now I've spoken about being a Karen
Speaker 3: on this show before. In fact, recently I talked about
Speaker 3: how much I enjoy.
Speaker 4: Being a Karen.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 4: I think if there is a Karen in this room,
Speaker 4: it's me.
Speaker 1: I love a letter.
Speaker 4: I love complaining.
Speaker 3: I can't tell you the amount of times where people
Speaker 3: in our street are having parties and I'll say to
Speaker 3: my husband Matt, and I'll go, is it too early
Speaker 3: to call the police yet? It was like seven pm,
Speaker 3: but the son still up. No, So I didn't call
Speaker 3: the police in this incident. I wasn't like, oh, look,
Speaker 3: is there any flight? What are they called the plane police?
Speaker 4: Marshall?
Speaker 1: What I did.
Speaker 3: What I did is I turned around and the dad
Speaker 3: was sleeping, So I put my arm through the little
Speaker 3: hole and I tapped him on the knee and I said,
Speaker 3: a sleeping father, excuse me, could you please ask your
Speaker 3: son to stop banging my seat? And you could tell
Speaker 3: he was a bit startled, and he was like, oh, oh,
Speaker 3: can you stop stop banging the seat? And then he
Speaker 3: goes back to sleep. Five minutes later, bang bang, but
Speaker 3: it was horrible, and like, I am not leaving my
Speaker 3: kids at home to deal with somebody else's kids on
Speaker 3: this plane.
Speaker 4: So I turned back around and I was like, excuse.
Speaker 3: Me again, wake come yeah, could you maybe just maybe
Speaker 3: the trade table's a bad idea for the Plato?
Speaker 4: Like could you please? Could you please?
Speaker 3: Anyway, the dad took it and he was like once again.
Speaker 3: He was like I stop, and then okay, I'm at
Speaker 3: this point, come on, like, ask your kid to actually stop.
Speaker 3: I agree, and he was not. He was just the
Speaker 3: dad did not care because the kid was occupied, so
Speaker 3: he didn't have to deal it with his own child
Speaker 3: being annoying. I'm a single, brave, beautiful father on a
Speaker 3: plane by himself, doting dad. He's a doting dad anyway.
Speaker 3: So the dad once again checked out, and then it continued,
Speaker 3: and it continued for a good twenty five minutes, and
Speaker 3: I was like, I actually can't wear an hour and
Speaker 3: a half into this six hour flight and I need
Speaker 3: this to stop. And I turned around to the child
Speaker 3: and I was like, excuse me, you need to stop
Speaker 3: banging my seat right now.
Speaker 1: I spoke to the child directly.
Speaker 4: You dis planned, disciplined.
Speaker 1: I put on your child.
Speaker 4: I put on my ten out of ten mum voice,
Speaker 4: and the little.
Speaker 3: Kid went like this okay, and he just put the
Speaker 3: trade table away, not one single bang from there on in.
Speaker 1: I won.
Speaker 4: My god, I won the war against the five year old.
Speaker 2: And we've spoken to the dad. The child a non verbal,
Speaker 2: and the holiday has been ruined.
Speaker 4: The kid was fine.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but like, there comes a point where it's
Speaker 3: okay to step in and pair it someone else's child.
Speaker 4: There is such a one an hour, one hour into
Speaker 4: a flight. If they can't stop it, then someone else care.
Speaker 1: You were the most thirty seven year old I've ever known.
Speaker 4: You as in this moment, so young.
Speaker 1: You're so thirty. You can't talk, Britt, you cannot talk
Speaker 1: to another child.
Speaker 4: On a plane as a thirty six year old. You're
Speaker 4: very thirty seven right now. I cannot relate to you
Speaker 4: right now, Laura, I'm.
Speaker 1: In Mitch's generation.
Speaker 4: Sorry about that. Guys. Look, I think it's fine.
Speaker 1: Well, the kids joining us on the phone now, he's
Speaker 1: not speaking. He's traumatized, all right.
Speaker 2: Next on the show, listen, how would you feel right
Speaker 2: if if your partner you got a new partner? However,
Speaker 2: they were still full time care for their ex. I
Speaker 2: was still living and looking after their ex.
Speaker 4: Why are they taking care of them?
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you why. I'll tell you all about
Speaker 1: it next on the pickup