On August 12, Ali Cleek and her husband and two children wanted to fly from Orlando to Norfolk within the USA.Air trips with the whole family - this is usually one way or something stressful.In the case of the American, however, the whole thing ended in a real drama.
The couple's two -year -old daughter, Drew, was quenching and cried persistently, accordingly she had no desire to wear the mask prescribed on the plane.After the badly tuned girl had fought out loudly and successfully against the putting on of mouth-nose protection for a while, the flight attendants finally became aware of the crying child and his already powerful mother.
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Ali Cleek suspected what the problem of her little daughter was: she was afraid of flying and wanted to calm down in the only way that worked for her - with a thumbs."Drew is a thumb sucker, that is the only way she knows instinctively to calm down herself. And that is quite impossible if she wears a mask," the "independent" quotes the frustrated mother.Nevertheless, Drew's parents knew that the mask on the plane was mandatory, which is why she and her husband tried to hold the little girl somewhat and put on her.
The mother says that two flight attendants have stood and watched.When the mask project failed even after a while due to the resistance of the little Drew, one of them seemed to lose their nerves.After Ali Cleek had described the problem with Drew's need to suck your thumb and was obviously the helplessness of the parents, the woman said in deeply sarcastic tone that there were two options: cutting a hole into the mask through thatGet thumbs up or stick the mouth protection on the girl's face - she would have adhesive.
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Obviously, both statements were tasteless jokes, which should be due to the stressful situation.But the already desperate mother hit the biting words of the flight attendant hard."I actually lack the words ... I'm still trembling," she wrote in a post on Instagram."To wear a mask is a regulation, I understand that, and I respect that. But from a certain point you have to be compassion and human decency."
In the meantime, Ali Cleek has received a call from Southwest Airlines customer service and had been apologized to her.Nevertheless, a bad feeling remains with the mother: "I really don't want other parents to believe that they have to hold their child with violence in order to put on the mask.Children cannot be on the plane. "
