[DanaC]

So. I get my 24A window seat and I buckle in and everything is fine. Then is 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 just hold it in."

Umm.....I'm not a parent, but that sounded like she was being considerate to me. Rather than having to ask her to remove baby and seat and all the resultant kerfuffle, she suggested a change in seating arrangements to alow you easy access and her to still use the baby seat.

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

usually they're child-centred fuckwads .....and that's their job. Inconvenient as that is the for those of us without any small people to look after and annoying as it can often be (particularly the inconsiderate sounding woman in the second example) it really is part of what makes us survive as a species.