F*ck 'Snakes on a Plane'; Kids on a Plane are Worse

Miss me? Sorry I've been MIA for over a year. It's not that I didn't have anything to rant about...I just didn't have time.

Anyways, been traveling a lot this past year, and while I have a variety of rants about plane travel (see future posts), my biggest gripe has to be unruly children on aircraft.

Seriously - if airlines would offer 'adult-only' flights, I think they'd make a HUGE profit. I'd easily pay $50+ for a round-trip flight if I knew I wasn't going to have to listen to screaming children for four hours.

"Well, what about ear plugs?" you might ask. Well, here's my answer to that:

On my flight back from San Francisco a few months ago, I had a 10-year-old girl yelling and kicking the back of my chair. After about 45 minutes, I finally stood up and turned around and asked the mother to please get her kid to stop kicking my seat. She looked at me helplessly and shrugged - she obviously had no control over her children. A few minutes later, the kid's dad (sitting in another row) came over and threatened the kid to sit still and shut up - which worked...too well. The girl was so terrified that she failed to inform her mother that she really needed to use the restroom.

It's not like you can open a window on an airplane. So you can imagine the stench we had to endure the remaining three hours of that flight.

Screaming kids are bad enough...but think twice if you believe it can't get any worse than that.