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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
There is a difference between respecting others, and changing your life to suit them. Boblobla's earlier story is a good example of this. It is one thing for the school to say "don't eat PBJ sammiches at school because of allergies." School's property, their right to enforce such a rule and I'll respect it. It is quite another to be told "don't eat PBJ at home." My response to that is "go to hell." If you are so allergic that what I eat at home might harm you at school, then home study.
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Fair enough then. Your answer explains things a lot better and in this case i would agree with you.
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In so far as this case goes, AA's stated policies are that they don't sell peanuts, but that they will not guarantee that their planes are peanut free. So, frankly, this mother and her kid should have been SOL. Their planes, their rules. You decide if you want to take that risk, or driive.
Now, the problem in this case appears to be that people who did not understand the policies were making promises that ran against policy. I also believe it was mentioned earlier that AA offers nuts still, but not peanuts. I don't wonder if the mother saw nuts being handed out, and made an assumption here. Seems kind of odd that if the kid was as allergic as is claimed that nothing actually happened. Miracle, or assumption? Tough call without having been there.
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For sure the parents must share some responsibility for thier ignorance and relying to much on what was repeated to them when the bought the ticket to the time they had to deal with the agent.
I also read where the parents said peanuts were served during the flight. To me it was pure luck the kid didn't have a reaction.