Zed3. People are self absorbed regardless of location
We dragged our young one round the world....and still do, albeit he is now in his teens. He only let us down once, as a 15 month old on a TAP flight from Oporto to Heathrow, screaming his nuts off from the moment of boarding....I dunno why, sometimes they just do!. Some 30-45 minutes into the flight a group of elderly Portuguese ladies sat behind us suggested we pass the boy to them. Within 5 minutes he was sorted and soon fell asleep in one of their arms.
You see Zed 3, sometimes people are not quite so self absorbed.