Richard, I agree with you (and your restaurant analogy) that people with crying babies shouldn't be in Business Class.

Unfortunately, there are so many anti-child people out there, that complaints with merit, such as yours, are drowned out by the stupid complaints from everyone else. The parents you ran into may have been *****ed out in coach on a prior flight, so they figured, "**** it, if we're going to get *****ed out anyway, might as well be in comfortable seats".

I have three children myself, and I never take the kids to a nice restaurant or sit in Business Class on a plane. Yet I have gotten *****ed out by mean old farts at places such as McDonald's and the playground! I'm not kidding! In fact, the old farts at McDonald's are so irritating, I don't even go there anymore (and I love McDonald's food).

Attn child-haters: if you would shut your trap when it's not needed, genuine complaints such as screaming babies in Business or First Class on a 14 hour flight, or crying kids in a nice restaurant, would get the attention they deserve. But when I see 85-year-old Mr. & Mrs. *****alot at McDonald's for crying out loud, I throw up my hands in disgust and pray for a special place in hell for them!