Over the past 4 years, I never had any problems with the girls (now 10 and 9) in the back… until yesterday in fact.
The difference? I rented my first ever plane with headset connections in the back, and thought they would enjoy the flight more if they could talk to me and Mrs KCDW.
What a nightmare. Screams, giggling, endless comments like “chocks away”, and “tally ho”, and “this is Pink airlines, and we are your hostesses today”, just as we are taking off and landing. Pointless questions, like: “are we in France yet?” (we were off to Duxford).
I lost count of the number of times I almost said “shut the f**k up”.
Mrs KCDW summed it up perfectly. “Children should be seen and not heard, and we’ve got it the other way round”!