AS MANY PARENTS will tell you, flying with a baby is hard work.
After all, flying with a human who could at many moment start screaming for no reason and/or pooing isn’t exactly a walk in the park.
Over the weekend, The New York Times published an article encouraging parents flying with babies to prepare a goody bag for the other passengers on the flight. You know, to apologise for any disruptions your child might cause.
A number of people, particularly on so-called mommy blogs, are giving specific recommendations of goody bags containing items like gum, a candy bar and earplugs to mollify seat neighbors on a flight.
Certainly the goody bag is essentially worthless — a few candies and a set of earplugs make up the typical lagniappe. But you, the harried parent, use it to do what economists call signaling. You are letting the recipients know you care about their happiness, whether you really do or not.
You hear that, parents? In addition to looking after a screaming bald human, you better pack some bags of jellies and earplugs for your fellow passengers.
Pretty much everyone was like, “Mate, come on.”
And some parents took the opportunity to share their experiences of flying with a baby.
Not much time for giving out Haribo, is there?
If new parents have to give out goody bags, then so do all these people.
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Instead of demanding a goody bag, how about just being sound?
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Buy your own sweets.
