On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 16:46:37 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 6:14:47 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>>
>> I had one of those (kids) on a flight to the UK. She was about 3, her
>> parents had never said no to her and suddenly they had to when they
>> were told to keep her in her seat (behind me) and not let her run all
>> over the 'plane getting in the way. She screamed herself to sleep and
>> started screaming all over again as we were heading to Heathrow. There
>> was a young student next to me heading to Cambridge. When we were
>> queued to deplane, he remarked to me how awful the kid had been and I
>> said to him 'always remember this night and wear a condom' - we parted
>> on a good laugh, the parents behind us were 'not amused'.
>>
>Excellent advice! And I wouldn't care if the parents were amused or not because
>you certainly wasn't amused at her screaming. I'd been attempted to pour a
>shot of whiskey down the tikes throat.
>
>Many years ago I made a trip to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. There were
>small buses that would pick up hikers and take them back to parking lot.
>
>I'm pooped as I'd walked as about as far as was open on the rim and caught one
>of the buses. It was absolutely jammed packed; standing room only. What's
>on the bus, too? A foreign couple with their 5 or 6 year old hellion scream-
>ing "I HATE IT, I HATE IT, I HATE IT" at the top of his lungs. The bus
>driver tried in vain to point out a few local facts but nobody could hear a
>word he was saying. Did she parents try to soothe or shush him one single
>time?? Of course not, they acted he wasn't even on the bus.
>
>Everybody on the bus was annoyed as hell at the kid and his nonchalant,
>nothing's wrong, this is perfectly acceptable behavior, parents.

That's the thing that gets me - they do not consider other people,
I've raised mine and I don't want to go through that again! I feel it
is bad for a child to be raised not considering other people and what
they would like, it's teaching them to be introverts.