Greytop, I agree that the problem is with the parents. I always bring my walkman and have been glad for it so many times, and as an added benefit I can also save the $4 charge for the inflight-movie headphones since I just plug my own in. Anyway, I was on CO LAX-LGA, about a 5 hour flight, last month. The plane was really packed. I should mention I was in coach, as always ...

One of the two available restrooms was broken and there was a huge line forming and growing longer, about 10 people. While I waited, and waited, in line the FA opened the door to the broken restroom and told us that the problem was that some woman in First Class had come back to *OUR* bathroom and tried to flush a diaper down, which of course clogged the toilet!!!! Then she scampered back to First Class, unaware and probably unconcerned with the problem she caused us peons. The FA had to reach into the toilet and try to get the wadded up diaper out. She said that she wanted to take the diaper up and dump it on this woman's lap. I used to think that being an FA was such a glamorous job and didn't really appreciate everything that they do until that day.