Why sit in the kids section if you don’t want to be around kids

[Meatballsandmash]

Sat having lunch in Ikea with my Dd, very quiet, not many people and lots of free tables inside and out. We’re sat in the kids area, Dd is playing.
Oldsr couple chooses to come and sit on a table nearby.
Couple starts tutting and complaining under their breath about the kids making some noise (not excessive) whilst they play

Why would you sit in a kids area, if you didn’t want the noise of kids 🤷🏻‍♀️

Annoying.

Thank you. 😁

Nobody has a right to be annoyed about sitting next to children on a flight and that includes disabled people.

Being forced to do something (like sit with children, something most people avoid) because theres no other options available to you due to being disabled is absoloutly something you can be annoyed at.

Disabled people are allowed to not like or want to put up with your precious child just as much as anyone else is.

They did not CHOOSE to sit with a child, they had no other option because the child is in the disabled section.

No one chooses to sit next to a child; it’s just the luck of the draw. I wouldn’t choose to sit next to someone with BO or someone who stinks of whisky or perfume or who listens to their music so everyone can hear it but all of these things have happened. A plane has all types of human on it (and shock horror, children are human). No one has any right to choose who they sit next to and therefore no right to be annoyed. That goes for everyone, disabled included.

Oh and it’s also not a disabled section - it is for the disabled and infants- equally- because it is the only place large enough to accommodate a bassinet and a wheelchair.

Are you intentionally obtuse?

PP said 'its the same people who book the bulk heads' and that that was some kind of luxury choice. No they did not CHOOSE to sit there when its the baby section... because the disabled people DON'T HAVE A FUCKING CHOICE because its the disabled section. It is really not a hard concept.

Just because you are stuck with children does NOT mean you have to be happy about it. Also its not remotely the same as random chance of sitting next to someone with BO. Imagine if you ALWAYS are FORCED to sit next to people with BO in the 'BO section' purely because you have a disability (which is nothing to do with BO) so can't choose anywhere else. You would get irritated too.

Also the person didn't actually 'do' anything, PP felt they 'stared at her the whole flight' while also being asleep the whole flight which makes zero fucking sense.

Unless it was an entirely disabled family group then no, they did have a choice.

They were attempting to sleep as I previously stated but clearly my very young child was annoying Mr Huffy.

Flying is always a choice. It’s a luxury. If you hate kids that much, stay home, no one is going to miss you.

I would’ve asked why she wasn’t in a home but I’m a bitch lol.

My MIL will go to a mums and babies film screening at her local cinema then complain to staff that the children were very distracting! I could understand going by mistake but she’s done it a few times!

Tell me this isn’t true😭

The flight crew can attach cots to the wall in front of those seats so that parents can put their baby down for a sleep. Much easier for them than holding them for the whole flight. I think they've been on all the long haul flights I've been on.

To be honest I was more annoyed at all the folk on their laptops hogging all the comfy chairs and the booths with tables and curtains so you could breastfeed, than I was with the older lady, I don't think she realised where she was!

Maybe work on your reading comprehension.

and there was me thinking it was weird and annoying when someone asked why my husband and I were wearing each others sunglasses when we were at a car boot, because his were pink Wayfarer style ones, and mine are some rather delicate (I need to tighten the screws very often) secondhand valentinos with the side visors, that ARE actually a womens design, even though they're best known for being the style worn by David Tennant in Good Omens)

oh, and there was an occasion we were in B&M and some old woman challenged me "are you okay with him wearing a pink t shirt?"
I told her, it's his favourite colour (it is) and he can wear whatever he likes, and there's no reason he shouldn't wear his favourite colour, it's not up to me to choose his clothing for him.

They have never blocked off those seats for me- I have booked them if I wanted extra legroom. You just have to be quick -and lucky. You don't need "flight status" either.

Maybe they didn't realise they were in kiddies area.

Yes, I’ve had this as well. A woman sitting in the dog section of the beach complaining about my dog and saying that she is allergic to them 🙄. Dog was nowhere near her.

Simple take no notice or move tables. Really... find something with worrying about... thats not.

I've just come back from a holiday abroad, nice hotel with 3 swimming pools. One of which had a kids area and slides etc. A couple of women would plonk themselves on sunbeds near this pool every day and complain about the noise and being splashed. Idiots.

Your vet has a separate area for cats! Have literally never attended a practice that had this. So I do get peed off with dog owners who allow their bloody mutts to hassle my pussy cat!

No, it’s odd. It’s like people sitting in designated smoking areas, and then moaning about people smoking.

Best ignored. 🙂

I meet a friend for coffee about once a month and she always wants to go to a particular cafe, where the front few tables are clearly labelled as dog friendly. Dogs are not allowed in other parts of the cafe, and there are many other cafes in town serving very similar drinks and food. My friend, who really does not like dogs and is very vocal about her views on people taking their pets everywhere they go, always insists on sitting at one of the front tables. If possible she will chose a table with no dogs nearby but if later on one sits near her she will make a huge fuss about wanting me to switch seats etc and will act scared of it. I have suggested numerous times that we should sit somewhere that there will be no dogs but she will not do that because she wants to sit in the window and has every right to sit where she likes. I like dogs and quite like sitting near them so I can't be bothered to insist that we go elsewhere but I find it extremely odd.

This. No one gets to pick and choose who sits next to them unless they’ve booked/paid for all of those seats.

But you end up with children near you on most flights (or at least I seem to) whether you are disabled or not. Never had an issue with any of them. I don’t agree that most people avoid children - I never have (even before I had my own).

Reminds me of a friend of mine who is quite bossy and controlling but good company in small doses. Years ago if we met up with friends for a drink, she'd always insist on sitting at a certain table in the pub, it was in a corridor leading to the toilets so people were bumping and knocking into us as they walked past. Every time, she moaned about them, until one day I insisted on sitting at another more comfortable table and she sulked all night. I just don't understand some people!

Do you both know you can buy the meatballs in the frozen foods part of Ikea. Near the exit (at least in the Edinburgh store?) also the Lyngon berry jam and the packets of sauce to take home and cook whenever you fancy them??