Even though I did not much like that movie.
Do you remember in the film when Kevin Spacey’s character says to the much younger guy, “I think you just became my personal hero.”? I had a moment a lot like that at work recently. One of the girls I work with and I know I shouldn’t say girl because she’s a woman, but she’s in her twenties and looks so very young to me, and wow! I don’t remember feeling as young as she seems to me now back when I was in my twenties; I thought I was a full on respectable adult type person, just out of graduate school and everything and WHERE is this sentence going?
Oh yes. Personal hero. My co-worker went away for the Memorial Day weekend and there was a very loud and undisciplined, demanding child on her flight. The kind of loud annoying child who bothers everyone within earshot, which on a plane is pretty much everyone. And the parents of said loud child did nothing to restrain him. Or tone it down.
When they deplaned the people greeting the family with the annoying child said to the small terror, “Well, Billy! Did you enjoy your flight?” And my co-worker said to them, “If so, he’s the only one on the plane who did.” Which is something I would think, but would never say out loud. At least not to them! I might mutter it to a travelling companion.
Would you say something? Would you have said it on the plane? I would have mentioned to the parents that the child was constantly kicking my seat, but I think that’s as far as I would go.
