Ugh. This nightmare is still fresh in my mind.

Wednesday I walked into the AF lounge in BCN ahead of my DL flight to SEA. Within moments, a family came in with two small children, maybe 5 and 7 years old (this is in addition to the large american family in sweats and flip-flops, including one teenage boy with his shoes off asleep on the floor in front of the magazines). These kids were well-educated (perfect English and Catalan) obviously from a private school. But they were LOUD. They SHOUTED everything. For 25 minutes we sat and listened, from the other end of the lounge, to these little ****s carried on talking, squealing, laughing. I realize they're kids, but take it outside.

It was a relief to hear the flight called. When I arrived at my seat, who was right next to me in a completely full C cabin but those same little twits. Throughout the flight the mother kept refilling them with Coke and sweets and they kept up the racket the entire flight.

When we got to the lounge in ATL, they were there, at the next bloody table.

When we got on the flight to SEA, they were there, in the two seats next to me. And they never shut up, not once.

When I run an airline, the kids are going into cages in the hold.