Another weird story set on a plane... this is becoming very common.
Traveling can be a nightmare at the best of times, but I imagine trying to carry infants around at the same time makes things 100 times harder.
On the flip side of that, whenever I get on a plane and I see a kid that looks like they're about to scream the place down, I sit back and praise the inventor of noise-canceling headphones.
Another thing that kids are more than capable of doing is getting fidgety on a flight and kicking the back of your chair...
As you can probably tell, I've experienced this.
But one mom has found a way to ensure her baby stays still while sitting on a plane, and while it's pretty inventive, some people aren't pleased.
Taking to TikTok, Lisa Flom (@ljflommom) shared her hack with viewers, which involves velcro.
Lisa attaches two velcro strips to the chair, and then two more to the underside of her baby and then just places them together.
It's as simple as that, and as the video demonstrates, the child is unable to get off of the seat which is probably great news for the parents and those sitting around them.
After Lisa is done with her invention, she removes the strips from her child and the seat and it appears to leave no marks behind.
Some people supported her inventiveness, as one person said: "Simply genius," while a second added: "I love it. [Work] smarter not harder people!"
That being said, others weren't so complimentary as one person wrote: "Until 5 seconds later with my child would use their vocal chords to express their frustration."
A second person said: "This looks like something that’d work at first till the kid gets frustrated."
A flight attendant wrote: "Please don’t do this it is not safe please buy a faa car seat for the aircraft."
A car seat would be safer, and would reduce the risk of damaging the seat too, I suppose...
In other plane-related news, a flight attendant revealed the "punishment" she gives passengers who refuse to swap seats with a child.
In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mitra Amirzadeh revealed that requests for seat swaps are a common occurrence.
While she typically refrains from intervening when couples seek to exchange seats to sit together, she adopts a different stance when children are involved.
"The next time you feel yourself getting angry or getting frustrated that you’re not getting the seat you want," Amirzadeh shared with the outlet, "You need to remind yourself that you didn’t pay to pick your seat. Otherwise, you’d be in it."
However, when faced with passengers unwilling to accommodate families with young children, Amirzadeh doesn't hesitate to employ a more assertive approach.
She assigns the reluctant passenger the role of the babysitter.
That would get me to swap in a heartbeat!
