In Flight Entertainment

Dear Parents,
Please, if your kid can stand, buy a seat for them. Think about what you are doing to the pour soul in the window seat in a row of 3 when your family of 3 moves in. REALLY think about it if your kid's a screamer - you know who you are. However, even the "oh but my kid is fine" routine is still just plain rude, so buy the extra seat, get the row to yourselves, and do the right thing for the unsuspecting woulda-been-stuck-with-you-in-a-perpetual-nightmare single person.
Thank you,
Unsuspecting Single Person

There's an OK ending to this story - I ended up moving to the center section where I got 1.5 seats to myself. I was still across from the little terror, however, who proceeded to scream and squirm for the first...oh, 6 hours of a 10 hour flight. It passed out eventually and laid sprawled across an entire seat. I ask, what would it have been like had the flight been completely full??!!

PS - The movie "Contagion" was surprisingly good, although not recommended subject matter for a commercial air flight.