Reply #27: I'm down with that.

[Nailzberg]

I just posted that I'd love to kick babies off planes bit as a single guy's joke. But as someone who flies 100,000 miles a year minimum, air travel has gotten annoying. I have my chair kicked and headrest poked way too many times over the last decade. My grandfather was the foreman for maintenance for a major airline, so I flew quite a bit as a kid. And my parents never would have stood for that behavior.

To be fair to the kiddos, its easy to single out kids, but adults have gotten just as annoying. Last year, along with a French guy two rows ahead of me, I had to help a flight crew take down a drunk Englishman who drank half a bottle of scotch in flight and started cursing out the Indian couple across the aisle from me. We ended up wrestling in the aisles, and luckily didn't end up diverting to Reykjavik.

I'm not against kids flying, but to keep sane, I gotta have a snide comment toward parents that don't teach their kids to respect the other travelers.