This week, as the reality and panic that Thanksgiving is officially measurable in hours away, all the
well-meaning
and authoratatively-written "insider" articles and posts start popping
up in an attempt to quell the fears and franticness of flying on the
busiest travel day of the year. I'm a sucker for these tips -- as a
parent who has hauled my kid, a carseat, a diaper bag, a breast pump, a
purse and tickets clutched in a fisthold down the unbearably narrow
aisles of many airplanes on many cross-country trips during the holiday
season -- and I will search them for a bit of new information like
millions of other travelers in search of ways to informatively beat the
effed up airline system. Mostly, though, I just laugh. Why?
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