Certain things bother me. Crunchy toothpaste on the tip of the tube. Stepping on a piece of a wet cold, mushy grape one of my darlings has so kindly thrown onto the tile floor. Dull eyeliner pencil. Red lights. Being late. Complete effing strangers caressing my kid's face and rubbing their filthy dirty hands all over them. Ok. When you visit a newborn you wash your hands before touchy touchy time, right? The same goes people, for touchy touchy time with ANY one's face no matter their age. The stewardess on our return flight didn't think she had to follow this unspoken rule. She was friendly and that's dandy, but you can interact with a child without rubbing your hands all over their face and fingers. I'm all for peeps who love kids and try to make them laugh, but please have discretion and realize that you work ON AN AIRPLANE. As a stewardess you touch a bazillion different things during the course of your day. All of which are TOUCHED BY A BAZILLION OTHER PEOPLE FOR GOD'S SAKE. We had the best seats on the flight, the ones in the very last row, you know the ones with the seat backs that don't recline and the two large jets that muffle every single noise you make. The ones 3 inches from the lavatory door that won't stay closed and the smell of airborne poo lingers all up in your personal space. Those seats. The stewardess was kind enough to clean out the lavatory trashcan inches from our faces while in flight and tell us "I always hold a napkin when handling the trash, some people are dirty." OK LADY: Just because you hold a napkin in your hand to assure your pretty little fingers don't touch the trashcan, doesn't mean your hands are finger lickin' clean afterwards. You just touched all the damned overhead compartments to assure they are closed, you touch the skin flake ridden blankets and pillows and sticky tray tables and filthy luggage and OMG I can go on and on.
Mahogany, you were a sweet stewardess, but please, the next time you find a pair of pudgy baby cheeks to pinch - wash your hands girlfriend!!
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My wife and I butt heads about this. She agrees with you.
I think we are raising a generation of underexposed, allergy prone kids,who have no chance to develop immunities - and at the same time flooding our sewer systems and landfills with diluted antibacterial soaps - we might as well be raising resistant strains of bacteria in petri dishes. Do your kids a favor and get them to tongue kiss a stranger at least once per day.
-Jeremy
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