This is a copy and paste of a review of a woman who went to an air museum that has some of the rarest aircraft in the world. Just her tone makes it seem like she thinks the museum was the issue and not her grandkids. I’ve been to the museum many times, and they’ve always had the rules of don’t touch the aircraft or anything to help preserve them.
“Unfortunately, this is not a kid-friendly place to go. Although our grand-kids, ages 3 and 6, are well behaved, the mere presence of them in the museum seemed to cause anxiety amongst the staff.
When the six year old touched the wing of a plane, we had to endure a lecture from a staff member regarding the damage skin oils can do to the paint finish of the plane. I apologized for my grandson's behaviour. The tour guide asked if I had any more questions? I did. I asked him to explain to me how the plane made it through the war if it could not sustain a simple child's touch? I'm still waiting for an answer.
Lecture number two: The kids could sit in the cockpit of the plane, but were not allowed to touch anything. Needless to say, we skipped this part and headed to admissions for a refund.”
This could have been a teaching moment for those children but unfortunately their grandmother's bad behavior and unwillingness to teach them is what they're likely to remember.
Fr!! She really missed the chance to teach them something cool instead of throwing shade at the staff lol. Bet those kids are gonna think museums suck now just ‘cause grandma got salty.
Bahahahahaha...I would have loved to see this lady try this shit at the National Air and Space Museum in DC.
Except it's free, so she couldn't even pull the "I'm asking for a refund!" card. 😛
Okay if it’s anything like the one in our area (we’re in Canada so it might even be the same one), it’s actually pretty kid friendly, at least for reasonably average kids. That tell me this was more than a “touch” (but that’s a stupid point anyhow because those planes are now 80+ years old and historic monuments you fool, that’s how they “made it through a war” but your poorly behaved 6 years old old grandkid can’t treat them like a play structure)
CWHM? Hamilton?
It’s funny how common those people are -museum worker
It only takes one entitled motherfucker to ruin a priceless artifact. It's a wonder we have anything preserved worth looking at.
So a grown person doesn’t know the difference between active duty and museum display.
Their poor grandchildren won’t know either.
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No. This was in Canada.
If you have the review, may I suggest a subreddit for you, r/EntitledReviews . They, along with yours truly, love to disect every one ⭐ reviews to the T.
Who brings toddlers to a aircraft museum??
Some of my happiest memories as a toddler (1.5-4) was going to our local tank museum but it was pretty easy to not touch anything.
I remember being little, and being asked, “Kitsune, do you want to go inside the tank?”
Why yes, yes I do. So, I got to get inside, with the instructions, “Okay, just remember, don’t touch anything unless we say you can.”
But, that’s also how I ended up being allowed to “co-pilot” a backhoe in the church parking lot when I was little, too. I could follow directions.
My dad worked construction on heavy machinery ., was always fun going to work with him ...
I'm 35 and you'd have to chain me to keep me from leaning in close with a magnifying glass and a chisel to try to take the tank apart to understand how it works.
You're an adult and are liable for your own actions, however I would be standing on the sidelines, probably yelling guidance and support while you do so.
I mean, I was told that most tanks (old tanks, mind you) were essentially just armored tractors able to run on anything, even liquor.
The same could be said of any basic combustion engine with the right tweaking. There's people making bio diesel out of used motor oil, plastic, sugar cane, ect, at home, and there was apparently a gentleman who hooked his fuel intake to his carby that created a vapour running engine accidentally. Big oil just doesn't want it to be known its possible.
Oh. So the gyrocopters in Warhammer that run on liquor aren't that far fetched?!
If you can make moonshine that burns, you could probably modify an engine to burn it with a suitable lubricant
I mean, in Warhammer, dwarf ale is compared to "manling" liquor, so dwarf fuel would likely melt the bottom of the barrel or ignite any wood it touches.
I'm Australian and we can't get anything over 50% legally, so I liken that to say, Smirnoff to Everclear (40% vs 80% I think) Our beer usually sits between 4-10%. It's not hard to have stronger ale than that in a mythical setting. Though it was only a few years ago that beer was no longer classed as a soft drink in Russia.
You just know those kids were holy terrors the whole visit. I'm sure they did cause anxiety amongst the staff, running around touching everything and grandma letting them while snarcking the staff when they told the kids to stop.
I don't understand why touching something they shouldn't have touched elicited a lecture and not being kicked immediately out.
Because the kid was six and the staff thought there was a chance the kid would understand and learn. Not possible with that grandma, unfortunately.
Quite sure the kids were a nightmare.
I suspect the paint issue is that, while the paint might have been readily avaliable during active duty, I doubt it is still as available now. That makes any damage a big issue to repair.
Sounds like you shouldn’t have bought them in the first place, besides the fact that kids wouldn’t enjoy that anyway
Had to be Hamilton. And im not surprised some people think their kids/grandkids can do no wrong
I would think there would be no where you should go, not that that would stop her, that a young child could be able to get that close to anything.
Well... ma'am... during the war, how many children do you think touched it at 35,000 feet?
Cool, because I have one. Ahem: because the military didn't give a fuck about preserving the paint on planes during a war.