Is it normal for a young adult to take a teddy and a comfort blanket on a plane?

[YourAmplePlumPoster]

Seen this a few times while travelling. The staff just stick the fluffy toys and blankets in the overhead locker so defeats the object. Maybe just try biting the seat in front of you to calm your nerves or take some valium. I'm a nervous flyer so just havd a couple of drinks.

I'm 38 and still sleep with my favourite cuddly toy (not a teddy.)

I've taken him on planes in the past - not for comfort on the aeroplane but so I can continue to sleep with him while I'm overseas.

What soothing words is your alcoholic crutch whispering into your ear?

My young adult ND child always travel with a teddy. She is well educated and travels for work and holidays. It has never been put in a locker. Nobody really cares.

It's infantile behaviour. Soon they will take a teddy to work to protect them from the bad manager or anyone telling them what to do.

Not usual but who cares.

Why does it matter to you? As pp said an adult with a teddy is much more pleasant to be around than one who's been drinking on a flight.

That has never happened to me or any co-passengers and I always have a blanket on. Crew usually just move it slightly to check or simply ask if I am wearing it.

Better than anything an imaginary friend called Paddington can tell me.

A teddy and a comfort blanket would be far from the oddest things I've seen people do or carry on flights. I saw someone fly with a carrier bag of caviar once which she insisted on keeping on her lap throughout.

The last flight I was on was a daytime flight of less than 5 hours - DH and I had the window and middle seats. The woman on the aisle proceeded to put on hooded cloak-blanket, a full-head eye mask that looked like a balaclava but with a hole only for the mouth, taped the middle of her mouth shut, and then velcroed her whole head to the seat back with a massive velcro strap. It was like sitting next to the bloody invisible man. If she'd just asked us we would have given her the window seat but in all my years of flying I've never seen anyone velcro their head to the seat back!

The other annoying one is when people cover their heads with their blankets like a tent and then lean forward onto the seat in front to sleep, or once I sat next to a little old lady who tried to lie down on two seats with her feet in my lap and her head in the aisle. That didn't last long.

Well - or drink alcohol or self-medicate.

There is actually a thread about that. From about 2 weeks ago.

Such a nice person you are.

If the plane crashes, half a dozen cabin crew will struggle to get 300+ passengers out! It will be every man for himself.

I also struggle to see how someone taking a teddy and blanket for comfort and warmth would then leave them blocking the aisle.

Unless it is a six foot teddy why would it be blocking the aisle

Also didn’t they used to hand out blankets on long haul overnight flights

About ten years ago there was a photo that did the rounds of Michelle Keenan?Is it, who played some glamour puss in Coronation Street, cuddled up on a plane with a fluffy blanket.

The last flight I was on they did ask that everything be stowed or held for take off and landing, but were happy for my daughter to keep holding her cuddly toy. I personally don’t want one, but can’t say I’d care if another adult had a cuddly toy. I have been tempted to take my own blanket as airplanes ones are quite thin, but usually don’t have room after packing all the kids stuff,

I think they probably have a duty to try. But it's not guaranteed that they will succeed so it's best if you're not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and can look out for yourself.

So you think you, an onflight drinker, would be easier to handle and escort from a plane in the event of a crash, than someone with a soft blanket or bear? You don't think alcohol serves as an imaginary friend to people who can't seem to go without it for the duration of a flight?

@YourAmplePlumPoster

Do you think it's infantile of me to still sleep with my cuddly toy?

I don't take him on the aeropane for comfort - I'm comfortable flying. But I do take him with me (packed away in my carry-on luggage) so that I can still sleep with him while I'm overseas.

I wouldn't want to see a 24 year old in front of me on a plane punching a teddy.

Don't look, then. Occupy yourself with something else other than being pointlessly and spitefully judgemental about your fellow passengers.

Is it? I don't need either but I know I'd rather be sat next to the sober passenger.

Probably also distracts them from punching the slightly inebriated OP sat behind them.

Well if you've seen it a few times I guess it is normal. My young adult would although they are also autistic.

As a 'nervous flyer' yourself maybe try empathising.

Who cares what other people do, as long as they aren't harming others?

@YourAmplePlumPoster

You are bonkers. Person who admits to drinking to alter their brain state for a flight is bitching about a blanket.

If I plan to sleep, I tuck my comfort blanket under the seatbelt, so the belt is visible. Easy.

I saw the crew putting things away for takeoff and landing when someone sits at the emergency exit row, sometimes they are pretty strict about it, and I think I saw something similar applied on the wider scale when landing in a bad weather, just as an additional pre-caution, so I suppose you might have seen something like that, it can happen.
I'm pretty sure they would put your drinks away as well if they could.

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What's with all the supposedly adult and mature people being so insecure when seeing someone who deals with their nerves in a haptic way as opposed to chemical?