Parowan Contest

Probably everyone that responded to this has kids. Many, like mine,
are probably grown and gone off on their own. My kids weren't always
angels, but they were pretty good kids. Disruptive at times? You bet.
The fact is, at a sailplane contest, or just our at the glider club,
they get bored. If they're inventive, they'll figure out a way to work
through that, sometimes loudly. That's just kids being kids. If you
don't like that - and by the way, your kids did it too if you were
lucky enough to have kids - then tactfully find their parent and ask
them to corral their children. The closest I ever came to kicking the
crap out of anyone at the airport was over an adult being totally rude
to one of my kids, who was doing nothing wrong at the time, and wasn't
being loud or disruptive. It's a shame I didn't go ahead.

I started going to the gliderport 45 years ago. I was 10. I remember
names and faces of some really nice people. I remember the jerks, too.
I came back to soaring in spite of the cross, whiney old grandmas that
were around in those days. I wonder if these kids will... And... yes,
most of the people around soaring are really nice, whether some of you
think so or not. But like the original poster, I have no built in crew
because of one ot two self-serving jerks that were rude at the
gliderport.

Jack Womack