Morning Commute

So this morning I'm on the subway, going to work and this woman and her little girl get on the train. I say 'her little girl' loosely, of course, I don't know if she's her own child or not. But along the way, the child begins crying nd it turns out that she's crying because she wants to sit on the woman's lap. At least that is what she's saying while crying. And the woman sits there, apparently reading her book as the child tries to climb on her.

This made me irrationally angry. Of course, it's none of my business. But once the child is crying in the subway, it sort of becomes everyone's business. The whole car was sort of looking at this woman and wondering why she wasn't doing anything to quell the crying of this little girl. I know sometimes kids have tantrums in public places and people look at the mother like she's a horrible person...but I don't know that htis was the case. The woman sat in her seat on the subway and tries to ignore the little girl, who stood in front of her. I wanted to go over and give the girl a hug and tell her she could sit with me.

Some people should just not be around kids, or have kids or whatever. If it's such a chore to have the kid around, that you make them cry and don't try to make them feel better, then what are you doing with a child? Seriously.