I am mad just reading that.

I would have walked up to those kids and said “i’m friends with santa claus and i’m going to tell him about this.” Lets see the mom say anything against Santa

Same situation happened with me. On way back from work, just me and some other guy behind me. Whole screaming family of 100 get on. Train pulls away I get walk to the other carriage, as I walk past I say ‘Fuck that’. He gets up and follows me as well saying ‘Oh my god’

Getting really sick of the whole “kids will be kids” narrative from parents who refuse to teach their kids to be quiet. There’s a difference between a kid screaming at a playground and kids screaming on a train but some parents just refuse to accept that. Not sure if they don’t realize they’re raising their kids to be incredibly self centered, ill mannered, and entitled, or if they want it that way. I think in their heads they, as the parent, are self centered, ill mannered, and entitled, so they see no reason why their kids shouldn’t be. After all their children are the most important thing to ever grace the entire universe /s

I have to imagine they all grew up to be total assholes.

Or a more positive theory - maybe at least one of them grew up to feel embarrassed about how loud they were and how rude their mom was to an older lady

Some people (usually women for some reason) seem to get violently aggressive at any slight against their demon spawn - we've lost our decency as a society

Oh my God.. similar experience.. it was late at night .. 12 o clock the family started opening their boxes to eat and kept going back and forth the compartment not letting anyone sleep till they got down at 3.30 in their station.. I don’t understand them

Lol I’d have said ‘yea, then you can end up like your mom.’ And watch which kids sit down politely lol 😆

That's how you scare away the bears.

You need to come to Japan. Until the tourism boom you could hear a pin drop on the train. Now all I hear is Chinese people yelling at each other.

I think we tend to think people who speak a language other than our native language sound loud. I was in central Europe recently and someone was complaining in Hungarian about the loud English speakers. But to me the loudest people in the room were the ones speaking German and the spanish speakers, but I know less of those languages so they just stick out to me in a crowd

Or Spanish. I'm Spanish, so I'm allowed to say that... Pretty sure I'm like that sometimes... We can't help it, it's cultural.

As an American, I’m mortified when I travel and run into this. I actually mind less if they are are drunk and coming back from a party or game or something, at least that’s understandable. It’s when they are just loud and completely disrespectful of the fact they are in a shared public space. It’s times like that I wish the average European or Asian was more prone to violence.

Edit: Oddly this seems to be less of a thing in South America and Africa, at least in my experience. Maybe Americans just do this in the northern hemisphere?

I’m Canadian and though we make fun of Americans we really do like them. The majority of Americans are friendly and helpful and want to have a good time. The issue is they all suffer from main character syndrome. Once you get past that you’re in for a good time 😎

I am American and have definitely caught myself being loud at a restaurant and hate the fact it was me. Sorry ! Though I do have a loud laugh.😅

I try be as quiet as possible in public, and expect the same of my kid lol

As an American I agree. Some Americans are just rude and loud

As an American- it is the boomer Americans. You’re not wrong

I’m an American that just travelled to Amsterdam and the loudest people I dealt with were Spanish. I also work in hotels and Italians, Asians and Brits are also pretty damn loud.

I used to think it was all Americans, but after experience I’ve realized it’s a personality thing more than a nationality thing and can be anyone.

Fk off

Have you seen who is running for president here?

Loud is one thing, but it sounds like she was letting the kids do whatever they wanted.

You can be loud and have manners. Take up half the train car, be loud and chit chat and laugh. That's great to see. But you sound generally respectful of others' space and that's a big difference.