Air travel has to rate as one of the most traumatic experiences for parents ( and baby too). It is a surefire recipe for disaster - enclosed space, no distractions, same scenery = wild cranky baby! At such times, it is so nice to actually meet co-passengers who are not shooting you arrows of disgust.
Today it was this youngish man, travelling to Seattle for work - N was howling her head off, but the guy was actually smiling at her - wow! I said to myself, either this guy has kids, or he is a really really nice guy. Then there was the good looking chap who was sitting next to us on our flight to Phoenix - this guy even played with N while she was sitting on my lap! Last, but not the least, the elderly Korean lady ( grandmom really) who came over and hummed lullabies to N on the flight back from India. She kept calling N "Harmoniga" - I can only assume it means something ( baby?) in Korean. But I was so touched by her kindness - walking over to talk and soothe somebody else's cranky baby? Not everybody will do it - but Hey! Nice people do exist.
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And it feels so good when others also adore your kids!
Niceness does exist even if scarcely! :)
Had very similiar experience during my last air travel :)
Happy birthday!
You are right - nice people do exist.
And then there are the likes of me who get equally cranky around cranky babies :-)
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