It’s not only children who are badly behaved in lounges. Sitting in the D.C. Hilton lounge, my 13 year old and I quietly lambasted the rude behavior of a bunch of adults who decided that the shrimp appetizers were really their dinners, and so they proceeded to pile their plates to the top every time a new serving dish of shrimp appeared. Boorishness is not restricted to children, and if my travel schedule takes me from home enough to get lounge privileges, then my kids deserve the fruit of my (absent-from-home) labors. Besides, I make it clear to my kids that when in a lounge they need to attend to proper decorum, how else do you make kids into adults who don’t make a meal out of a snack in hotel lounges?