Of Drinks, Potato chips, and Parents!

During a recent flight trip, my copassenger in the flight hadnt switched off his iphone during landing.When the airhostess questioned him, he smartly said he didnt know how to turn it off!! Such gall.

Everyone blindly takes whatever drink is offerred to them on the flight. i mean they choose...but not quite.

and the airhostess fills the glass half with ice - guess another directive to cut costs.

I asked for coke without ice.

Another observation: everyone is sipping their drink relaxedly. but when the steward comes to collect the trash, everyone gulps down the drink to hand over the glass back to the trash bag!

The trash can wait people!

And I set an example.

I didnt gulp down my coke when the steward came.

He came. He saw. But I conquered.

Finally I threw in the glass when he came around the 4th time.

But the best was this:

While waiting for my next flight, I was eating a pack of potato chips.

An Indian couple with two tiny kids was also waiting opposite me.

One of the kids was about 4-5 years.

The other was in a stroller..so about less than a year perhaps.

When I was eating the chips, the little kid in the pram,started looking at me.

He was watching intently as i took each wafer.

Wafer after wafer, he kept watching the wafer and me eating it.

I think he was feeling hungry now, and perhaps wanted chips.

Now wat do I do?

I was feeling awkward and I cudn't think of offering the kid the potato chips....it wud look odd, considering that I didn't even bother to look at his parents!

Thankfully, his dad saw the kid looking at my wafers.

Realising the awkwardeness, he immediately got the milk bottle from their bag.

And popped in the baby's mouth.

Now the baby was forced to take his eyes off my chips, and look upwards, as his dad kept feeding him the milk.

Well for all practical reasons, this was just to avoid the awkwardness that was being caused to me. Thank you Uncle. The dad was now happy and was talking to his wife even as the baby continued to be force-fed the milk.

Force-fed?

Exactly!

Why dont parents get it!!

The baby wanted something exciting and junky like chips. Thats wats fun! Probably he wasnt even hungry!!

Instead they thought he was hungry and gave him milk.

Boring!

Coz after 10 minutes of massive feeding of bottle milk to the baby kid, the dad removed the bottle and let the kid be as he was supposed to be.

And the kid turned back to my chips.

And started looking again!

This time the dad carried the baby on his shoulders and just moved away.