Bozosozo on Nostr: #[4] Wen Antarctica?

quoting nevent1q…tedz

My daughter was 8 months old when she started flying internationally with me. A dad and a baby flying alone together was apparently a rare thing. Besides all the normal hassles from airlines about needing a signed letter from the mother "giving me permission to travel across international boarders with her", TSA BS about milk etc... The funniest part was the looks from people.

Grossly Oversimplified Observations:
Men between 20-35 years of age showed visible shock but were also the most helpful (a bro code I was not aware of?)

Women between 20-35 generally were just shocked but friendly. About half of the mothers of all ages were both shocked and seemed to be in a nervous standby to assistant mode.

Middle aged to older men tended to ignore and probably just hoped the baby stayed quiet, but if contact was made it was always friendly.

Examples: Multiple mid 20's dudes went out of the way to ask if they could help with bags or overhead bins, or ask the kind of questions that were polite but really ment "bro you OK?"

Mom's gave nervous but friendly looks, only one ever said anything which was an offer to help out and was very sweet.

Flight attendants were all over the place but mostly extremely nice or extremely not.

A couple middle aged men asked friendly but probing questions to try and wrap their head around the concept. One time in business class, a 50ish year old suit after an 8 hr flight (infant on my lap the entire time) said "I am really impressed, she is such a good flyer". My reply was, yes she is, and her father is pretty great too.

In her 7 years she lived in four different countries (3 in northern hemisphere and 1 in southern hemisphere) and visited 20 countries on 5 continents. She is currently fluent in two languages and has vocabulary in 3 others.
#GlobalNomad #Daughter #Father #GrowNostr

Wen Antarctica?