Are you kidding me?

[Pangloss62]

First of all, don't assume I have the same disdain for cellerite parents and their kids that I do for the ones I call out below, but this past trip of mine presented some real "winners."

1. So. I get my 24A window seat and I buckle in and everything is fine. Then this really chirpy blondie woman and her lantern-jawed generic husband thrust this HUGE baby carrier seat toward me. I couldn't tell if they thought the kid would survive a crash in it or what, but as soon as they came close to me, the woman says: : "Do you want to change your seat, because if I strap this in here, you won't be able to get out?"

So I say to myself: "Oh, so you're saying that if that there is a crash, you and your little kid will take off and I won't be able to get out? So because YOU bring your kid, pay for an extra seat for the same, and put a humongous baby carrier in the middle seat, I have to choose between keeping my window seat or moving to accomodate you and your fucking kid?" WTF!! Most parents I've seen travelling with infants carry their kid with them; they don't create a little throne in the middle seat. And then she said she was telling me this because if I had to get up to use the bathroom "You wouldn't be able to get out." Then I said to myself: "Oh really? You can put the seat in but once you connect it to the strap it has to stay there until we land? Gosh, I wouldn't want to inconvienience you; I'll just hold it in."

2. I enter the subway car at Harvard Square when I see this woman with a HUGE, two-kid-wide "baby carrier" enter into the car and esentially take up the entire aisle. But she wasn't even carrying babies; these kids were about five years old!! They were twin sisters who immediately got out of the thing and took their places standing on the seats to look out the window. And there stood this woman, with this big empty kid-carrier blocking egress to all that were on the other side. At each stop people had to strain and walk on others' toes to get around the thing. WTF!!!

I'm sorry, but parents can be really self-centered fuckwads.