commentary & travel Sara on 07 Jun 2008 04:52 am
Airpame!
My kids are relatively well-behaved on planes. They don’t so much as drop a raisin without picking it up. They don’t spill their juice. They don’t scream and cry. They basically sit and either color in coloring books or watch Diego on the portable dvd player. So why do I have to listen to assholes complain about kids on planes every time I fly? That includes at least 2 flight attendants on the last flight. Are people generally misanthropes? Because I agree, people do suck.
Some people just don’t like children, or, more specifically, don’t like sitting near them on planes. They like to complain about them loudly so that the poor parent has to hear their pathetic muttering. If you are one of those, I have news for you, you suck worse.
A parent, having just had to deal with transporting luggage for three persons with no extra hands but needing to hold the hands of two small ones, ticketing counters, security checkpoints (all staffed by seeming misanthropes) where backpacks are rifled through, dvd players taken out, tiny shoes taken off and put back on, hurrying through crowded terminals with slow walkers (or carrying one, 3 backpacks and holding the hand of the other), much less trying to take a bathroom pit stop with two kids running in different directions (including unlocking the stall door and running out through the terminal), does not need to hear you snort loudly or glare over your newspaper every time the kids gets excited at the sight of a blue airplane (wook mama, bue airpame!) on the tarmac or the fact that the seat belt sign just lit up. God forbid something happens to make the kid CRY.
Just because I have two of them doesn’t mean I enjoy the sound of small kids whining, crying and screaming either. But your snide remarks and evil glares don’t encourage me to do anything about it. You are more insufferable than they are because you, presumably, can control your behavior. Kids are people too, last I checked, and if you don’t like people, stay off airplanes. Jerk.
on 07 Jun 2008 at 8:30 pm 1.Mark Dionne said …
OK. But I really don’t get it when people bring kids to Starbucks for a treat.
on 09 Jun 2008 at 1:47 am 2.jen said …
amen sista! well said.
on 18 Jun 2008 at 12:25 am 3.shannonpatrick17 said …
Ragedump!
Wow, you really speak the truth though.
You are not the only one who has noticed that society is becoming more rude,misanthropic,intolerance. I have children also and have experienced the same thing etc.
We recently abandoned big city life and moved to a small farming community to live in a village of 100 people. Stress levels are way lower here for me anyhow.
To some degree it seems clear that the future will of society and peoples attitudes will only become worse… Is there anything we can do to stop this??
on 18 Jun 2008 at 2:37 am 4.Don said …
Wow! What a bad trip. Most people LIKE kids, and blue Airpames too! Jerks, like those you met, miss a lot of life.
Saludos!
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