Monday, April 2, 2012

Why don't trains have special soundproof compartments for children?

And why don't parents force their children to wear headphones when they are playing iPhone games with unbelievably irritating sound effects?  Why don't the seat back controls have some kind of child lock to keep horrible eight-year-olds from deciding that it is a game to drive the person behind them to distraction?  When did it suddenly become acceptable for a child to give everyone within fifteen feet an inaccurate résumé of the monuments of our nation's capital, which are, incidentally, distinctive and easily recognized?

If you're not going to put your child in a cage, at least give it a book and tell it to shut up.

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