That Funny Moment

When you’re sitting on the plane and it’s just taken off and you finally, after about an hour of sitting and waiting, decide to shut your eyes to try to get some sleep and at that VERY MOMENT, down to the fucking frame your eyelids meet, the loudest baby of all time screams THROUGH your expensive Bose Noise Canceling Headphones and reminds you that you’re not really in control of anything in life at all.

The baby won’t stop wailing and I can’t stop laughing. My laughter intensifies in proportion to the worsening cries emanating from this demonic little creature and its poor mother, who is doing her very best to silence him. Strangers think I’m nuts but I don’t even care. They’re right.

After a while, I’m not even laughing about the irony of my sleeping situation any more, I’m laughing about the fact that the baby’s crying, like, generally. Like Ha Ha, you stupid fucking baby. You’ve been through nothing in life and it’s already too much.