A mum has come under fire after sharing her experience at an airport recently.
The woman, who chose to remain anonymous took to a popular parenting forum to ask if she was being unreasonable for jumping a queue at the airport. She explained that she had been told she could skip the line by staff but found herself on the other end of raging passengers who shouted at her.
She took to Mumsnet to ask if she was in the wrong. Fellow Mumsnet users replied quickly and the comments were divided.
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The mum wrote: "DH [Dear husband], DC [dear child] (three months) and I were flying for the first time today to see family, long expected break! We had booked priority, lounges and everything we could to relieve a bit of the stress.
"Priority queue was quite long to check in luggage and we started queuing nicely. Another mum came along and told us we could jump the queue which we did gladly as baby started stirring a little bit.
"However it enraged some of the people in the queue, literally shouting that it was very out of order and that was no such thing as baby class, and what is wrong with you people etc.
"Interestingly, every other step in the airport (security, customs, boarding) we were invited nicely by the staff to jump the queue."
Later the mum added: "The other mum (also with an infant) told us the staff said it is ok to jump the queue and so told us to follow her. Then the shouting happened, but in the end an airline lady at the check in counter invited us to jump the queue. I was just a little bit taken aback it would trigger some proper shouting from other travellers."
Giving fellow Mumsnet users the option to vote, she asked: "So YANBU [You are not being unreasonable], of course you can jump the queue when with an infant.
One quickly replied: "YABU [You are being unreasonable] no, you should queue like everyone else."
A second said: "If offered by the person in front of you, fine. But only to take their place. I’d be very p***** off if you went to the front of the queue just because you had a baby."
A third slammed: "Some rando suggested you jump the queue and you're feeling shocked at the reaction. Do you get out much? Yes of course move to the front when staff invite you. Feel free to ask those in front if you have a baby or toddler-related emergency. Otherwise, wait."
But another argued: "It's not jumping the queue if the staff invite you to the front. It's not like you elbowed people out of the way! Frankly when I travel child free I'm so happy not to have to look after kids that I'd not give a hoot if I was last to board."
"Usually they invite people with young children up first. I wouldn’t have jumped the queue unless invited personally but I wouldn’t have an issue with you doing it. The people shouting at you were unreasonable too though", someone else interjected.
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