Back from California...

So, I'm on the plane, heading back to Minnepolis. I arrived early to the airport and checked in, asking the ticketing agent for a window seat, and apparently because I'm some kind of 28 year old miser, i also asked to be in a row by myself with a window seat. I figure if I'm going to spend a couple hundred bucks on the flight, I may as well be picky about my seating. Plus, the flight was a red-eye, so I'm thinking I can lean back agains the window and catch some shut eye.

I'm reading my book (Moneyball, fucking awesome...) quietly in my seat after being one of the first ones on the plane. Here comes, crashing down the isle, a family of two parents, a grandparent, and like 5 kids all under the age of 14 (or therabouts, who can tell how old kids are these days? Thanks to Miley, we got 11 year olds taking self pictures in their underwear and posting them online...I'm getting sidetracked). One of the kids sits down in the row, one seat over from me. Everyone gets settled, and I'm still plugging away on my book. So, the kid starts saying to his father that he wants a window seat so he can look out the window (never mind it's 7:30 PM and cloudy--what the hell are you really going to see after the first 30 seconds). Rather than the dad giving up his wondow seat in the next row, or even asking me to give it up, he tells the kid to "ask the guy next to you, I am sure he would give up his seat". I don't say a thing. I am reading my book and hoping the kid doesn't ask me the question. Because, I unlike most people, am not affraid to tell a kid to shut the fuck up about a window seat. That shit wasn't in the cards for him. Then the grandma looks at me and says "maybe he won't give up his seat because he seems to be ignoring us". And in my head I am thinking smart grandma, how come she had such a stupid fucking son?

Now, usually I don't mind kids, I may even want to have some one day. But just because YOU have kids does not mean the I have to take care of them for you...

I slept like a baby on the flight, I even got to see some lights as we landed. Suckers...