Funny People at the Airport

On the way to Cleveland earlier this week, I saw two very funny situations.

#1 - The New Age of Parenting - A woman was with her son and daughter, waiting for their flight to take off. The son (who is about 3) kept acting up, as kids do, running around and bothering people. While most mother's would merely yell at their child and put them in time out, this parenting prodigy used phrases like "You need to be responsible for your reprehensible actions". Maybe treating your kid like an adult is a great way to develop a mature individual, but when the kid needs to ask for a definition of half the words you use, its probably not that effective. She seemed like the kind of mother who liked to use big words in public to sound like she knew what was going on, but it seemed just to go over his head.

#2 - Overzealous Honeymooners - A couple was coming back from a trip to Hawaii and were going through all of their pictures on a computer. The wife was then writing down captions in a little notebook as the husband scanned through pictures, adding such interesting captions as "Mike in front of waterfall ... Mike in front of waterfall 2 ... ". Its kind of absurd to see one person doing this on their own, but even weirder to see two people actively doing it together. Match made in heaven, perhaps