On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 10:22:08 AM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:

> I accept that. I had chronic ear infections when I was a kid. Painful!
> Then again, I wasn't flying all over the place as an infant. It
> simply wouldn't have been the first thing I thought of. Pardon moi

It's really a different world. Airfare is so much cheaper, families
are so much more spread out, and children are included in adult
activities so much more.

Bringing this back to the original topic:
eating in restaurants used to be a very special thing, once or
twice a year when I was a child. I wasn't taken to restaurants
until I could sit still and be quiet; we got dressed up and
I was on my best behavior. (I was a cute, precocious little girl,
and I made a perfect excuses for men to come over to the table to
chat up my mother. Win-win for everybody.)

Cindy Hamilton