A few years ago, I was on a long transcontinental flight stuck next to a kid who would not stop crying during what seemed like the entirety of the 12-hour trip and a parent who was clearly apathetic didn’t give a shit. But now I feel like I got off lucky compared to what this particular kid is doing on his flight:
If you can’t tell from the image, the kid is squatting down in the middle of the aisle and literally pooping while his mother looks “calmly on.” Talk about not giving a shit.
Allegedly, once the boy was done, his mother nonchalantly wiped his ass and helped him back to his seat. All this took place on a packed Chinese plane full of passengers traveling home from their Lunar New Year’s celebrations and apparently there weren’t any issues with the plane’s three restrooms at the time of this incident. So are these people just ignorant or did they think–why walk the six extra steps to the bathroom when you can just kneel beside your seat and let it out?
No word on what happened to the boy and the steaming pile of shit he left on the aisle but next time I’m on a plane with a crying/screaming child, I guess I’ll consider myself lucky since it obviously could be much worse.
Or as Mr. Samuel L. Jackson might say: “I have had it with these motherfucking feces on this motherfucking plane!”
This past year I traveled to visit family members in Dongguan China and while walking around it was not that uncommon to see chinese toddlers wear onesies that exposed their buttocks. Disposable diapers are very expensive in contrast to what the average worker in China makes and hence this becomes a cheap way to not have to buy diapers.
Sure enough, I did see later during my walk a toddler with such a onesie literally stop in the middle of a pedestrian sidewalk in the city and literally drop their load. The mother came by, tidied up her toddler and continued on their merry way.
I was surprised and disgusted at the same time with my western eyes. But if you made as little as the average citizen in China does you’d do what you have to to get by.
But I’m pretty amazed that they even did this on the plane – it’s not like you can do that in their buses or trains.