10 passengers we love to hate: Day 6 - Crybabies and restless kids

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I must admit that I'm guilty of scanning the lounge for any children under the age of 6 when settling in to wait for my flight. Though I like kids well enough, it's often the parents who fail to calm their fragile little beasties during the course of long-and short-hauls taking the bon out of our voyage. So, under most circumstances, it's the parents I want to swat not the poor kids. On a flight from Honolulu to LA to NYC to Frankfurt, a woman with two children, one a newborn, was unable to keep both from crying and whining for much of our 18 hrs aloof. That's too long for either disgruntled kids and the increasingly disgruntled passengers to take with a grain of salt. I learned my lesson after that appalling aural torutre- we can't kick them off, can we? - I invested in some primo earplugs and now caress myself with soothing ipod tunes: I consider these essential travel companions.

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