You know how most places nowadays have smoking and non-smoking sections? Well, I was thinking that there should be a children and non-children section. God, I can't go anywhere without some kid squealing its freaking head off.

As you may have guessed I'm not a kid friendly person. I do not go gushing over babies. I do not pretend to like the antics of toddlers. I do not indulge the babble of grade-schoolers. I do not like children. Sure I'm not out and out mean. But it will be a cold day in hell before I volunteer to take care of a little one, especially one that is not my own.

I'm not quite sure how this adverse attitude of mine towards the newborn kind developed. It's just that one day I noticed that everywhere I go there's a crying kid. And I do mean everywhere. And this was just in one day. Subsequently after that I kept on noticing it. If it isn't a crying kid, it would be a bratty kid that keeps on running around, not caring if they bumped into people. There was even this one time that the bratty kid was bumping into people on purpose.

Malls, fast food joints, high end restaurants, cinemas, etc. In my mind it's like there's no place they cannot infiltrate. No place for people to be in where they can just relax and not be frazzled by someone else's child. And it's not like you can deny them entry to these places. They have rights, I know that. But why can't they just stick to certain areas. Areas that are sound proofed.

To me it's like smoking. A smoker willingly smokes even though it inconveniences and even harms the general public with whom they can come into contact with when not in the privacy of their own property. However you cannot deny them their right to smoke either. So in order to achieve balance, most places have designated smoking and non-smoking areas.

It's the same with people who bring children with them. They do this willingly even though some of the actions of their little one inconvenience and may even harm others. Suing parents over such misfortunes are costly and even more inconvenient for the general public. But as I said before, we cannot deny them access to places such as restaurants, malls, etc. So in order to have balance they should have children and non-children areas.

But alas this seems to be a pipe dream, and I may forever be eating to the sound of enraged sobs of some child whose parent doesn't even bother to calm it down. The best I can hope for is that the parents of these children have enough common sense to be considerate enough to try to calm down their offspring. The thing that bothers me more than kids acting up are parents who do nothing about it. I especially hate parents who continue to stay inside the cinema despite the fact that their kid is bawling its eyes out and ruining the whole movie experience for everyone.