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Originally Posted by warrrreagl
*warrrreagl just walks by this thread whistling*
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Haha, as I was reading down I was waiting for your response :-p
Anyways, I also think turning the plane around is a bit of an overreaction. Let's view the situation differently. What if, instead of a child, it was an adult with a severe mental impairment? What if a teenager with Downs was repeating a sentence over and over? It's still public transportation. They still have just as much right to a seat on the plane as the guy in the suit who just snores his way through the flight. What if it WAS a guy snoring? That's annoying too! What about the fat dude who damned near takes up two seats? What about a bitchy adult that is very demanding of her stewardess? I don't think I've EVER flown and had a flight that didn't have some annoying aspect to it. But it's public friggin' transportation. One doesn't generally expect more in a bus or a subway.
At any rate, I think people are becoming more ignorant and more intolerant all at the same time, and both are bad on their own, let along in unison. A kid kicking your seat? Sure, that might be a bit more of an issue. A kid talking, or as warrrreagl had been upset about in another child-related thread, a kid staring at you? Didn't your parents ever give you the "sticks and stones" speech? *sigh*