A dad has kicked off a debate on Twitter after posting that a flight attendant told his wife to clean up a mess that their kids made on the flight. “The flight attendant @united just made my 22 weeks pregnant wife traveling with a 5 year old and 2 year old get on her hands and knees to pick up the popcorn mess made by my youngest daughter,” Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass tweets. “Are you kidding me?!?!”
His tweet has gone viral, racking up nearly 13-thousand replies and while he might have expected some sympathy, Bass didn’t get support from everyone.
- “Genuinely curious who should clean up the mess your 2 year old made,” one user writes. “As a parent of three kids I am the one responsible for them.”
- “UMMMM 22 weeks? Get over yourself,” another tweets. “Pregnant women lift weights, run corporations, work in fields and take care of a lot of things. That small mess shouldn’t be an issue. Takes like 2 mins. Unless of course we’re raising our kids to be entitled and we expect everyone to wait on us.”
- Some Twitter users also took the side of the flight attendant. “Won’t lie, the fact that the flight attendant had the guts to make the passenger clean up their own MESS kinda makes me wanna fly United more,” comments another.
While Twitter debates who should be cleaning up after kids on a flight, etiquette expert and former flight attendant Jacqueline Whitmore weighs in to say that asking a passenger to get on their hands and knees to pick up popcorn, or any other debris, is unprofessional. Especially, she says, because a tweet reply from Bass reveals that the airline provided the popcorn. In a follow-up tweet, Bass thanks followers for their support and shares that United is “taking care of matters with the flight attendant internally.”
Source: Today
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