This empathetic airline passenger isn’t worried about compounding the mile i cry the club.
Children throwing tantrums on planes can cause a stir among passengers, but a female flyer is being praised for her empathetic response to a tyke who screamed non-stop for hours.
“Let’s normalize being good people while traveling,” wrote witness Samantha Rae in the caption of a TikTok video with more than 1.4 million views.
Rae, who is a mother herself according to her TikTok page, explained in the video’s caption that the baby “has been crying nonstop for about two hours.”
However, instead of reacting with a needle, as in many reaction videos of the crying baby, the TikTokker sympathized with the parents, who she admitted were the most affected by the baby’s in-flight meltdown.
“She sounds so uncomfortable and her parents are working so hard to calm her down,” Rae complained. “They are probably feeling so much anxiety and pressure right now. The people behind them are talking about the screaming baby.”
At that point, the flyer said she tried to calm the baby by “playing peekaboo,” but it “only helped for a minute.”
The passenger then slapped on some weird headphones and watched her in-flight entertainment, which she said successfully blocked out the wailing.
“It’s so easy,” declared Rae, who is seen wearing sports headphones in the video.
Commenters were quick to praise the content creator for her mature and understanding response to the ordeal.
“Thank you for not adding to the chaos and making the parents feel bad! said another mother. “As a mother of two teenagers, I am always worried on flights about upsetting my seatmates!”
“Those poor parents, thank you for treating her like adults,” admired another.
“I have never been upset by a child in my life. Are you bored of adults? Almost every day,” wrote a third.
Another commenter chimed in, saying: “I always say that as adults we get to wear headphones, the child and parents are suffering more than anyone else on the plane!”
Unfortunately, not every passenger is as empathetic when a toddler throws a tantrum at 30,000 feet.
In August, a man on a Southwest Airlines flight to Orlando was ridiculed after responding to a screaming baby by paradoxically causing a tantrum of his own.
“I paid for a ticket to have a comfortable flight,” the passenger raged. “That baby has been crying for 40 minutes!”
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