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Nov 27, 2010
Snots on a Plane
There was an article the other day about an uprising occuring on the internet about trying to get childless flights to happen. When I read this, my first reaction was, "Finally! Some sense in the world!" But as it turns out, the article was.. get this... CRITICIZING the idea! It amazes me the level of arrogance that exists with parents nowadays. It doesn't matter where I go, there is a parent shooting ME dirty looks because I don't appreciate the "gift" she squirted out of her vagina. Listen, YOU chose to have a kid, so YOU chose to have your life inconvenienced. I did not. I am not saying you don't have the same rights as anyone else because you are a parent. I am saying that you don't get EXTRA rights and you don't get to impede MY rights. How is having flights without screaming kids going to affect YOUR life? Oh, because your plane will be filled with OTHER parents and OTHER screaming kids? Will that irritate you? Will that inconvenience you? No. The article in fact goes on to say that if people want to fly without the inconvenience of children, then they should buy a first class ticket. What? How dare you! What if someone was to suggest that if you wanted to fly with a child you had to pay three times the cost of your ticket for that privilege. Ridiculous! I already have to deal with going to a restaurant and being surrounded by romper room. There once was a time when you COULD go to a bar, or a restaurant, or a rated R movie without a child running up and down the aisles, without hearing a baby crying, without being distracted. So, when NONparents ask for their rights, people are going to protest?!? What the fuck? I think there should be a childless option for EVERYTHING. Childless section of restaurants, airplanes, the bus, the DMV, grocery stores, video stores, post office, etc. If you want to limit those options, such as happy hour from 5-7 (and ironically, you don't even have to change the name!) when you can't bring your kid into a place, then cool. Or, how about, all kids have to leave after 9? I will happily only fly after 9 if it would mean I don't have to have my seatback kicked, or hear the same shit repeated over and over and over again. For goodness sake, you've already taken my sanity. Can we have some sense put back in this world?!?