In-flight movie

We flew to Philadelphia on Monday, then back yesterday. We flew with a toddler, though, so I wasn't committed enough to either in-flight movie to give what I'd call a review, so let me just say this:
"Pirates of the Caribbean 2" -- sucked
"You, Me and Dupree" -- sucked

Pirates had some fun scenes to watch, and it never seemed to necessitate listening to the dialogue. Actually, when I did have the earphones on, nothing worth hearing was said, but some of the effects scenes were fun.

Dupree I completely didn't listen to. But it looked formulaic and dull.

We didn't get a ticket for the boy. Why? Because he's under 2 and until 2, he doesn't need one. We took a chance that there'd be empty seats. On the way out, there were extra rows, so it was no problem. On the way back, it was a full flight. Though it wasn't actually full. It was sold out, but I counted at least 4 empty seats in our area of the plane.

The US Airways people were, in general, snobby and rude about us flying with the boy. I called last week to ask about how we should check his car seat, and they were unhelpful and condescending. The ticket agent in SF was nice enough to move us to an open row on the way out, but the ticket agent in PHL was snappy and unpleasant. Actually, the curbside check-in guy questioned whether the boy could fly w/o a ticket, saying he was too old. I had his birth certificate to point out that he's not even 16 months yet, which shut him up.

Look, those tickets were expensive. It was over $300 each. We spent 12 hours on 2 planes. They didn't give us any food. They asked for $5 for cheap headphones or $5 for the food they couldn't give away before. Why would we pay $300 when there's almost always an open seat?

On the flight back, the full flight, we had a creepy weird guy next to us. He wasn't awful, but there was an open seat in both of the rows behind us. He could have easily moved to one of those. But the boy fell asleep early in that flight, so it wasn't too bad. But as we were landing, he was reading Men's Health. Apparently, every men's magazine is now based in soft-core porn. He seemed ashamed to be reading an article on sex next to us, so he was folding over the pages. Maybe the magazine designers who keep putting scantily-clad (I just like the word 'scantily') women all over their pages should think about people too embarassed to read their mags in public.

I did, fortunately, get to read about 4 Alice Munro stories, finishing a fifth on the train in this morning. So far, I'm thoroughly enjoying her writing. I've only bailed on one story. I'm going to try to review a block of stories this weekend b/c it's a big book and I think by the time I finish I'll have forgotten about the early ones.