Improving the Flying Experience

I have been very neglectful in the blogging department recently due to the fact that I had to travel to Florida. Of course, that meant that I had to experience the horror otherwise known as our domestic aviation industry. Actually, it wasn't really that bad. My flights were on time and I made it through security without being publicly humiliated to an excessive degree. My main objection was to the public menace your basic GOM traveler dreads every time he sets foot in an aircraft - the screaming baby! Fortunately, I wasn't stuck sitting next to one of these heathens but there were two of them pretty close. And these kids were LOUD. I think the best adjective I can use to describe the wailing would be "bloodcurdling".

So my solution to the problem is as follows. There used to be a smoking section on planes. So why can't they have a screaming section that would take the place of the old smoking section? There would need to be a soundproof partition between the screaming section and the rest of the cabin but I would think that would be very feasible from a technologic standpoint. That way, you could confine all sorts of objectionable activities to that part of the plane, including but not limited to diaper changing, breastfeeding, infant burping and regurgitation, food fighting between toddlers, etc, etc. It's an idea whose time has come.