Tried to write haiku, failed when couldn’t count syllables. Is there a damn trick to this? The poem started with “the freaking kid”. Is “kid” two syllables or one? Can’t tell.
The kid behind me keeps kicking the seat. Freaking kid. He used to kick my neighbor’s seat, but then the neighbor said a few words to the parents. And now I get to put up with this nonsense. Such is life?
Started reading “Cryptonomicon” just now… What the feck? Did the kid just drop one? Certainly smells like it. I hate flying.
Anyway, started “Cryptonomicon”. Got to the part where Lawrence is having that strange dream while Turing gets an umlaut. Decided to pause. Don’t really care for the strange-dream portion of the book. Can’t wait for Randy’s introduction.
Tried to code a bit, but small lunch tray and the relative proximity of others’ elbows made this a “fail”. So now I get to plan what features my GPS logger app will have instead of actually coding it.
Coding’s more fun.
Listening to Bon Jovi right now. Will switch to Pink Floyd soon enough. Forrest was right, “Wish You Were Here” is a better album than “Dark Side of the Moon”. Though only in the “if I listen to a million and one albums, 500 thousand will be DSotM, 500 thousand and one will be WYWH” sense. Still.
Q:What’s worse than a kid kciking your seat?
A: A smelly kid kicking your seat.
Q: What’s worse than a smelly kid kicking your seat?
A: A smelly, crying kid kicking your seat.
Should be in Chicago in twenty minutes. Rather “should have been”. Or “should have be”? What the hell is the tense form for a late flight?
December 19, 2009 at 4:10 pm
How can kid be two syllables???!?!? where’s the second one? It’s clearly one.
sorry about the annoying flight. I really think kids should be banned from flights, except at double the price, in a separate sound proof section (not the free ride they get now).
“should have been” is correct.
December 19, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Well, see, that’s why I couldn’t fulfill my life-long dream of becoming a professional Haiku poet.
Thanks. What makes the whole thing worse is that the kid wasn’t that young (I don’t know, 3 or 4?) but didn’t have his own seat. His parents held him the entire flight. So they’re sitting there, he’s kicking the seat in front, and they don’t do anything. Except when my neighbor spoke up. Then he just moved from his dad’s seat to his mom’s, but kept up the kicking. Yeesh.
You know, that soundproof idea sounds wonderful. Or have flights that are clearly (and in large letters!) marked as “no children”. That’ll appeal to the business crowd and the easily-annoyed assholes like myself.
See, the trouble comes in because I wrote this at 2:10, and the original landing time was 2:30. If I was writing this at 2:50, then “should have been in Chicago 20 minutes ago” is right. But “should have been in Chicago in 20 minutes”? That can be read differently, like I was expecting the travel to take only 20 minutes. IMO.
December 19, 2009 at 6:00 pm
and it’s a sad day for humanity…
why couldn’t you complain as well? I had a kid like that on a train once. I think I ended up moving.
wouldn’t you pay an extra $100 for no kids? especially on red eyes?
hmm I see. I would have written “should have been arriving in 20 mins”?