Mandate for Corporal Punishment on Transit Systems

I take public transportation to work every day. Cutting through the many neighborhoods between my place and the city center, you cross-section a wide range of people from several demographics, many of whom share some of the same decorum for riding public transportation. As a behaved passenger, as about 95% of us are, you come to know some of the rules of the road/rail:

• Give up your seat for an elderly or differently abled person or mother with a kid(s);


• If a panhandler comes down the aisle, bury your nose in your paper and he will avoid you; and


• No matter how crowded the train may be, when it comes to a stop and you are in the way of the doors for people to get on or off, move your ass a bit to make it easy for everyone to get around you.

This morning on the train I witnessed an infraction which happens all too often and shouldn't need to be listed for anyone.

A lady boarded the train with her four-year-old daughter. The girl took the seat next to a guy minding his business and burying his nose in The Washington Post. Being the active little psycho she was, she spun in her seat and kept bumping into the guy, all while her mother stood in front of her and did not do a thing. The boiling point for me was watching her pull down the top of his paper while he tried to mind his own business. The guy looked up at the mother, who just stared ahead. Nothing done.

As a parent, there is no way in Hell my kid would do this without getting reprimanded. So since some parents are just flat-out idiots, I am calling for a bill to be sponsored on the House floor to institute Corporal Punishment Officers on all public transportation and in grocery stores, malls or other places where parents let their kids go wild. Since some parents still won't learn, if their child is punished, they should be fined or jailed. Doesn't it suck that we have to institute programs to punish parents to raise their kids right? Well, as the blog goes, some people just suck. That's right! They suck!

As a basis for the staffing of these positions, we can start with the overpaid, under-worked brain-starved boobs who man stations four at a time like construction crews at our airport TSA checkpoints.

Alright!

Judge Smails